i started playing poker around christmas 2004 in playmoney tournaments and sng's on
pokerstars. i quickly found a nack and beating most games. I amassed a few million play chips (i cant remember how many now since it was so long ago) in only a couple months. Then i found some people that actually bought my play money chips for real cash although i still dont understand why someone would buy playmoney chips to this day.. .. that money didn last long however (2-3 days max
). Next i found the
freerolls on many of the chat forums and starting playing those in many different
poker sites. I settled on Fulltilt and won a nice freeroll....and thats when things started to get rolling. Keep in mind i never put any of my actual money in. that summer in 2005 i slowly built my bank on 1 dollar MTT's- i should also note that i found omaha hilo and stud hilo extremely interesting games at this time with the competition weaker and considerably less bad beats than holdem, and almost exclusively played mixed games. By the end of the summer i had built my band to around 700$. i also played more 5$ MTT's at this time. I realixed though that even though the mixed games came easier to me there wasnt as much money in them as texas holdem. I began playing holdem MTT's to up the ante so to speak so i won an entry to a 100+10$ 60k garuntee tournament though a sattelite. lo and behold i finished 4th taking home 6600$. since then i have withdrawn in total ~15,000$ i havent played seriously in the past 3 months though