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Hello!

Initially I created this to post my poker tracker stats and get advice from another small stakes grinder like me. But as it's created might as well let you all know a little about me and give updates on how it's going.


BACKGROUND:
I started playing online about two years ago, deposited on a small European site called Irish Eyes Poker. It took me a year to lose about 170 euro's, which is quite a lot to a 17 year old. I think I read super systems around this time, but not sure, and told myself to knuckle down, use good BR management, and concentrate.
I deposited another 50 and said to myself this is my last chance. Over the next year I switched to Pokerstars, got a lot of luck, and am now showing profit of over $17000. This I managed because of a few things:
1. Lucky tournament cashes -
first real break came in winning a 180 man $22 entry for $1080
Continued at these tourneys for a while and got a 2nd and a 3rd too for a combined $1148
Won a $11 tourney with over 1000 players for $2858


2. All this success went to my head and I turned to $100 heads up sit'n'gos. I went on a lucky streak and I think I won something in the region of $4000. A lot of this was luck. I don't think I'm a bad heads up player, I know it. The poker gods graced me for this time and I'm very thankful. I got out due to a bad run and turned to

3. 100nl full ring. Again got a lucky streak and made something in the region of $3000. Stopped that because of a bad run and moved to

4. Micro Sit'n'gos, $11-$22 on Full Tilt and Pokerstars. Made around $3000, but was making very little per hour so stopped and moved back to 100nl.

( this are rough estimates, I know for definite though that I am up between 16500 and 17500 overall)



Which brings me to October 08, start of college for me, and finally it happened, my good luck ran out. It had to happen sometime and it wasn't pretty. It came at a very bad time, just after going on holiday with a few friends, and starting college, meaning lots of stupid cashouts. My bankroll is now at just over $1200. This all makes me sound like a complete degen bum, but i'm up over $16500 since Sept 07 so I can't be unhappy.

Anyway this poor run came from a combination of bad luck, playing above my head (100nl), and tilt. I have since dropped down to 50nl, and then again to 25nl. I have definitely become a worse poker player in the past few months, I keep finding myself paying people off when I know that once upon a time I would have folded. And I also stupidly bluff a lot. So at the moment I am relearning a lot of the principles I once knew well, all while trying to make enough to keep me going through college. Good luck to me.

BR is at $1243 and I'm going for supernova before Jan. I am currently 18 tabling 25nl, and I make around 134 vpp's an hour, 3210 left to make supernova. meh.

So thats my background, I'll just keep updating I suppose.
Finn