The Story So Far

I have been playing poker online not too long. Starting with a bank roll of $40 i wanted to build it, my target first of all being $1000. Not long after I had just put the $40 in, i had lost it. I had started by not really making any progress or any loss, i then suffered a few bad beats and went on tilt for a while.

Nearly blowing my whole bankroll in one day, the next day i was determined to make some of it back. I had played three sessions that day, each with a profit. This making my bankroll into $74.
This got hit yet again by some bad beats and just some really bad play on my part. This wiped my whole bankroll and i wasn't really feeling to pleased.

Spoke to a friend, 'bluescouse', the night after and he bought me in for a couple of $11 90 man SnG's. First one i entered i did really well, i played some good poker and managed to bag 4th prize of $76.80. $15 or so going back to bluescouse. 2nd SnG didnt really go well and i didn't manage to reach the money.

A confidence boost from there allowed me to play some really good poker and make some really good decisions, e.g:

I raise pre flop with QQ, there are two callers. one from SB and the other on the BB.
flop comes 8-9-2 rainbow
it checks to me and i bet just under pot
SB takes his time and raises me for about $3.90 (pot about $2)
BB folds, i take my time, here i put him on either large pockets (slow playing) or 8-8, 9-9
I fold it, was thinking about moving all in, but i thought i was beat,
the guy showed AA

made a great fold and was happy.

I did actually lose a bit and my bank roll was not too high.

I had entered a $2 300 man mtt. In this, i started off badly but gradually progressed until i reached the money. I then entered the final table with chip lead and was dominant with a large chip stack. I achieved to knock a majority of the people out on the final table and ended up with a 3:1 chip advantage. The final hand i managed to turn a lucky card on the river to give me a straight and i won the tournament. 1st prize was $123 which gave me a bankroll of around $147

after this, i had just been grinding some $6 9 seater turbo SnG's. I Played a few of these and reached the peak of my bank roll at $226. I continued to play a few more but didn't have as much success as before.

BR-$190.87

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