So, this is my first shot at a blog. I've been thinking about starting a poker related blog for a long time, but it just hasn't happened. The reasons I want to start a blog are many, but to name a few. I just want to vent my thoughts on the game in general, Maybe some bragging and bad beat stories Even though I'm not much of a bad beat story-telling guy.

I guess I should start this by saying something about myself and my relationship to poker. So here goes.

I started playing poker online about 2 years ago, after playing some live at a party. I started without expectations, I just wanted to try it out.

After making the usual mistakes like playing to high for my bankroll, I decided to try to improve my game by looking at some general  guidelines like starting requirements and such.

Even though I made a few early mistakes I've never been much of a gambler, so I playd really low most of the time and quickly went from cash game to SNG, I managed to build a small bankroll playing $2 and $5 SNGs on the prima poker network.

After getting back what I lost early on, I decided to move on to some bigger sites and try some different games again. I playd some fixed limit to release some bonuses on different sites and had decent success.

Playd on party for a while but had a tough time beating the rake playing the $5+$1 single table and 5-table SNGs.

After playing for a while on party I decided to move to pokerstars since I'd read they had good tournaments and SNGs.I made a $60 deposit there and started playing the $5 regular 1-table SNGs.

I kept playing 1-3 table SNGs with the occasional MTT for most of 2006. The SNGs went well, but I was about break even for MTTs during 2006.

My first major downswing came after I'd playd the $30 sngs for a while, and I had to move down again. I aslo started to look into MTTs a bit more since I couldn't seem to beat the $30 sngs anymore.

For a few months (late 2006 to early 2007) I playd only MTTs and multi table SNGs. Mostly in the $5-$20 range. I showed a small profit again and kept improving my game by reading books and forums.

In early 2007 I did fairly well in the smaller MTTs on stars. Mostly in the 180 sngs. I decided to try to improve my game even further by joining a training site and shortly after ,went into a big downswing again. I was improving my game for sure, but I did overdo a lot of things. I had a few deep finishes in big low-stakes MTTs but no top 3. I probebly started playing a bit higher then I was ready for too, playing the $10 rebuy and $30 freezeouts. Things had gone well as long as I took move up to quickly so I decided to move down again and try to rebuild my game.

I started showing some success again during the summer of 2007 and right now I feel my game is ok, even though I've been running well, I think I've playd quite well too.

I also went back playing some NL cash for a while with ok results on the really low limits. So far I haven't been playing above .5/1 but I feel I can do ok at these levels, even thoug hI don't have a big enough sample size.


So that's it as far as my poker experiance goes

A week or so ago I started experementing with fixed limit cash again just for fun. I've been profitable at $2/$4 but the sample size is still very small. I want at least 10k hands before I decide wether I'm doing ok  or not

That's it for now I guess

Twizz76