Beginning my poker career

Ok I am now going to begin my poker career. I have played for about 4 years now and as of now I have no money on any sites. I do have points and deposit freerolls to play though so I will have to win some to begin.

I will post every tourn I play and let you know how Im doing and what I learn as I go

You might want to post threads like this in one of the regular poker sections like 'General Poker' or 'Learning Poker'.

Not a lot of the regular posters will read this in the 'Introductions' section, and posting in this section does NOT give you any post count credits. Posting in 'Introductions' does not give ANYONE any increase in their post count.

Good luck with your new 'career' ...

Tonight on ironduke nickname badace1973 I will be playing 3 bounty tournys with my points the first and 2nd are the 2 dollar boutys and the 3rd is the 3 dollar bounty all cost 50 points each and can be found on any merge site such as carbon or reefer or spin32 or wass or pdc or nordica or walker man i can't believe i have all these lol. Any way I will post how I do after each tournament or after all three. they are spread out an hour or two apart so hopefully at some point i will be playing more thank 1

ok i started out posting in the intro section now i will post here for now on about my poker career which I am beginning tonight without any money although i do have points on ironduke which i will use tonight to play 3 bounty tournys and i will post my results here so wish me luck. I have actually been playin for 4 years now but not seriously or not taking account and mostly live. So this is the start of my online career. I have won alot of tournys over the past 4 years but nothing really major. the most i have built up online was 2500 at jollyroger starting from 75 dollars but i ended up playing 3 6 with the money and lost the whole wad with pocket aces to 6 10 off suit when the flop came after the guy called my 4x raise was 789 and i thought he was trying to steal and went all in by the turn. Anyway I learned a valuable lesson. Never have all your money at one table. so we will see how I do in the coming days and weeks

Gonna move this to General Poker

From your post I would take Bankroll 101 before you start your career.... However good luck in your ventures!

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I've been there... my first experience of real money games was when pokerstars gave me $5 free and I blew it in less than an hour. BRM is a good thing... I've learnt that the hard way... 5 or 6 times already.

$2500 lost on 1 hand? Yeah I agree with the others "BRM 101". BRM is what will keep you from losing large chunks of your bankroll, and when following good BRM it keeps you from going on Tilt because you never lose much of your roll at all.

Look at Ferguson's BRM and others and make up your own rules for yourself. They shouldn't differ too much from the majority of what you see out there. I my self only changed my BRM rules for when Im playing a DON game. I figure with 50% of the people winning, and being able to make the money in those a large majority of the time, that a higher percentage of my BR can go into those than a normal SnG.

good luck and i feel your pain i had 35 dollars built it up to like 600 and thought this try my luck on a big table with 300 lost it all on the 2nd hand i played i had aa kq in my hand other guy had jj10q he hit quads coudent belive it felt so mad but thats the way poker goes you win some you lose some

Well I played in 3 bounty tournaments last night on ironduke and got knocked off all 3 pretty fast. Started off card dead so when i finally caught a couple hands and missed the flop I was short stacked quickly. I've been there before but I just couldnt get started. I guess there is nights like that maybe even weeks.

Today I played in a 500 dollar free roll and same thing couldnt get started. So I'm looking forward to tomorrow and the online forum challenge on UB

I hope I can get out of my funk tomorrow. I also have a 500 dollar free roll on ironduke. So I'll post tomorrow how I do later

How about keeping these updates in one thread please. Merged three or four threads into one...

I didnt cash in any tournys this weekend and I never even came close. Im not given up though. Ill start tomorrow and play what ever tournys I can get in and I will win one this week or at least cash in the top 5 thats my goal for the week. I will post what happens everyday.

I only made 3rd place so far this weekend,it seems I havnt been real interested and just donking around.One thing on my mind,I wish the OFC games were held at 9pm est at night,3pm is a very bad time for me to play cards.What time does everyone like to play cards?

well hopefully you were playin within your bankrolll

better luck man

well i have yet to win anything goin on 4 days now. I get to play another 500 dollar freeroll tonight on ironduke or bigbet witch ever i choose. so far ive lost about 6 tournaments with no cashes. maybe ill do better when i finally qualify for cardschat freerolls. anyway post back soon later

Well lost two more tournaments today. I also lost 15 dollars i had left on bigbetpoker anyway ill try again tomorrow. hopefully i do better

well played 500 dollar freeroll last night and today at 1 and finished in the bottom third. had a chance to triple up early with nut flush. started slow playing it from the turn when it hit there was 5 players in the hand but the card that made the flush also paired the board and when the bet got back to me their was a raise reraise and all in so i guessed their was a boat so i folded and there wasnt so i was crippled anyway and i was mad after seeing how bad they played. I still waited for a hand but got beat with a smaller hand as usual. I hope i can get out of this funk soon

Gl and may the force be with u, see u on the felts.