Won my First Tournament

#1 2nd July 2009, 4:38 AM

I am really glad that I decided to play poker today. I woke up at 11 AM and entered a $2 tournament on Pokerstars with 3000 people playing in it. After a lot of hard work and seven long hours of play, I ended up winning 1st place and $1000. Now my bankroll is up to $1,100 and I just had nothing in my account two weeks ago. I have never played for real money before, so I think $1,100 is a great start!

#2 2nd July 2009, 5:09 AM

I know the feeling of winning a large field multi table tournament, and it is glorious. Right now you are bankrolled to play 25NL (.10/25) comfortably, or 5-10 dollar sit n gos. Regardless of whether you feel you're going to spew the chips away or not, I'd withdraw up to half just in case you do (you won't feel too bad). Even if you don't, a thousand bucks is a decent roll to make some money with, given you don't fudge BR management.

#3 2nd July 2009, 5:19 AM

Great job and congrats. Now turn that 1.1k into 10k!

#4 2nd July 2009, 6:42 AM

wow nice job....have you been playing at another site or just live?

#5 2nd July 2009, 6:44 AM

Awesome,

How did you feel at the final table ?

Pushing for the win or just trying to keep creeping up in the money higher ?

#6 2nd July 2009, 7:11 AM

Nice win! More money more fun!

#7 2nd July 2009, 10:24 AM

go go go ....great job -congrats thats the best start...

#8 2nd July 2009, 12:22 PM

with 2 $ to win 1000$ wow great job ,I manage to make only 650 $ with 3.30 $ in a fulltilt tourney

congrats

#9 2nd July 2009, 12:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrmood6007

I am really glad that I decided to play poker today. I woke up at 11 AM and entered a $2 tournament on Pokerstars with 3000 people playing in it. After a lot of hard work and seven long hours of play, I ended up winning 1st place and $1000. Now my bankroll is up to $1,100 and I just had nothing in my account two weeks ago. I have never played for real money before, so I think $1,100 is a great start!

Great job, i see many more coming.

#10 2nd July 2009, 12:59 PM

Way to go! Continue playing one tournament at a time. The most common mistake is foe players to multi screen various tournys and end up either losing all or breaking under even. Besides, time is what you have. walk don't run into terrible habits, I speak from experience. I've just recently have been on a bit of a winning streak lately. My secret is restricting total buy in's to no more than five percent of my bankroll. Cash out twenty percent of your intial deposit, his way your walking away with some of your profit and little regret. Best of luck at the tables and your new part time career.

#11 2nd July 2009, 1:01 PM

That is a very nice win - congrats!

#12 2nd July 2009, 1:05 PM

well done good work congrats

#13 2nd July 2009, 3:57 PM

Good job and congrats to a great start! Just continue in your own pace and have fun

#14 2nd July 2009, 4:12 PM

Nice win, WTG sir, I'm not sure of the minimum ($1000 I think) but if you post the results I think you would be eligible to go into the Major wins thread.
Maybe someone who knows for sure like a MOD, would be able to correct me if I am wrong.

Conga-Rats mrmood6007.

#15 2nd July 2009, 4:45 PM

well i dont make a habit of doing this, but i had a free moment, so here be the results. nice win sir!

#16 2nd July 2009, 5:05 PM

$928, although great, I am sure it wont make the major wins thread.

#17 2nd July 2009, 5:13 PM

Yea, the cutoff is 1k, but great return on 2 dollars there. Congratulations on a great start.

#18 2nd July 2009, 5:20 PM

WTG OP! Now stick to proper BR management and you should steadily see it climb!

Congrats again.

Cheers.

#19 2nd July 2009, 6:40 PM

Congrats on a great win. Always nice to win but to with 3000 players is a great achievement. Well done.

#20 2nd July 2009, 11:45 PM

Congratulations on your win we all got to start somewhere. I hope your game continues to bring good results. 7 hr tournys are long .

#21 3rd July 2009, 12:48 AM

CONGRATS!! It feels great winning a tournament!! And especially with the amount that you won!! So awesome and i am happy for you!.. Dont spend it all in one place lol! Good luck in future tournaments!

#22 3rd July 2009, 12:49 AM

Great win!!!! Made a couple of final tables in these but never won it. Long, tough fight to take it down-great job!!!

#23 3rd July 2009, 1:22 AM

congrats man. But i have to say, i am jealous when i hear you say that because i am trying to build a legit bankroll and i got tenth in one dollar tourney only making me a couple of bucks. i should have finished much higher and im still mad at myself for not playong better, considering the position i was in

#24 3rd July 2009, 4:46 AM

Great win!!! Thats why I like the big MTTS. Little investment, Big reward.
Keep it up.

#25 3rd July 2009, 8:12 PM

it was a 1$ buyin at titan (rebuy,adon) ,it was a great feeling .There were about 600 players and ive won 190 $ only but i t was a victory

#26 3rd July 2009, 8:30 PM

I hope I can win a bit prize pool tourney soon. I have built my BR from $1-to over $30 and hope to get it over $100 soon. The other day I was playing in a $1.10 buyin tourney w/ over 4k people and made top 100. I was playing very tight and made one mistake that cost me the tourney.

BEST OF LUCK IN YOU FUTURE GAMES. If I where you I would withdraw atleast $500 and work on a $600 BR. Hope you do great, GL.

#27 4th July 2009, 7:49 PM

Good job! I have bad experiments in PS, but your results speak for themselves.

#28 4th July 2009, 8:04 PM

Hey that's fantastic.... great results there!! Woo Hoo!!!! Awesome feeling huh... (although I'm forgetting what that even remotely feels like).

Good Luck in future tourneys!!

#29 4th July 2009, 8:11 PM

Congrats, nice payday for you,, buck

#30 4th July 2009, 9:06 PM

Great way to start out winning such a nice amount. Congratulations!

#31 5th July 2009, 2:36 AM

Very Nice win, Im curious you going to aim higher keep all of your bankroll and keep to a strict bankroll managment scheme or withdraw all or a % of it ?

#32 5th July 2009, 8:18 AM

thanks for all of the positive comments. i have decided to withdraw $500 and work with a $600 bankroll so at least I have some of the profit right away. what games do u think i should be playing now?

#33 5th July 2009, 11:21 AM

great job on the win and the nice payout for only 2$ ... its tuff in those bigg mtt's on PS so i can imagine how long and impatient i would of got lol ..but i guess u must have great patience ..congrats

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