By somewhat popular demand (pt 2 will be better obv):
As with most players these days I got started in poker shortly after Moneymaker won it all while I was in college. The first few times I deposited online I would donk off my money slowly but surely at low limits. Then one day I received some money from my Grandpa to the tune of $1k. It was the fall of 2003 and the time seemed right to start taking poker more seriously so I deposited on pokerroom and started to play $200 NL ring games. I didn’t realize how poorly this setup my bankroll but I didn’t know any different and the games were really good. Things went down at first but eventually I started to win after only a day or two. It wasn’t rocket science and the games were beyond easy to beat. Wait for the nuts, stack off some donks, wash rinse and repeat. Every time I would win a big pot I would go out and blow off some money or buy something I didn’t need.
After a week or two I figured myself to be the best, most winning player online so I decided to start taking shots at the 25/50 limit game which was a verifiable fish pond. Of course I only bought in for $250. The worst thing that could have happened really was that I would win, and win I did the first time to the tune of about $500 which seemed like the easiest money ever at that time. At this point poker started to take over my mind and my life. When I was winning all I could think about was winning more and when I lost I couldn’t stop. Very familiar story for many of you of course.
About this same time I was in the midst of being absolutely bloodbathed in the market due to inexperience and buying on margin (a deadly combination). My life savings was disappearing by the day and I could hardly figure out what to do to stem the hemorrhaging of money from my account. But things seemed ok because I was doing well at poker, or so I thought. However things started to take turns for the worse in my game selection and bankroll management. My burgeoning bankroll started to shrink from the 25/50 game and other leaks such as betting sports etc.
At this point (early '04) I was behind in my poker account to the tune of a couple $2k or so. My life savings was down to maybe $2k so I of course deposited this online and began my comeback. Call it desperation, semi-donk, vision, whatever. Things began to reverse course quickly and I was about back to even in no time. I began to play smarter and pick my spots better. One problem that plagued me was that every time I won I would splurge but I never did anything to compensate for the losses, this would be foreshadowing of my downfall in the future. It was about this time that I had ~$2.5k in my account that I moved my money to stars and of course started playing 30/60 where I did ok but was always 1 bad hour from going bust obv.
I got things up to about $5k when I left for a month long trip to Alaska in the summer of ’04. How would I play when I got back? Would I be able to plug my leaks and continue my winnings? Would Lee Jones let me into the 100 game?? Would my girlfriend dump me for someone better looking and better hung? Stay tuned…
12 Jul 2009 - 19:40
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