February is in the books and what a month it was. To review, I deposited $50 on UltimateBet and set a goal of hitting a $500 roll by the end of the month. I 5-tabled NL10 and NL25 for a few days, before switching over to tournaments.

PokerDB seems to be a tad bit incomplete, but things started going well for me on the 7th when I finished 2nd in the $1 Rebuy $1000 Guaranteed for $180. That Saturday, I took 3rd in the $20 $10000 Guaranteed for $1050, my largest win ever as well as most profitable weekend. The latter didn't last long however, as the following weekend I finished 3rd in the $11 Bounty $4500 Guaranteed, 3rd in the 3rd in the $3 Rebuy $2500 Guaranteed, 4th in the $5 Rebuy $1500 Guaranteed and 2nd in the $25 $6000 Guaranteed.

I cooled off towards the end of the month, still making it deep and Final Tabling a handful of events, but not winning anything huge in my opinion. I grew really frustrated with making it deep and flaming out at the end, as well as never being able to take a tournament down. The entire month of February, I didn't win one event.

Ultimately however, I am mostly happy with my February. I shattered my goal of $500 and as of a week ago I had a 133% ROI for the month.

For March, I have the following goals.

- Play 0 hands of cash games. The idea of a quick buck is appetizing, but I need to realize that its rare to be both a great MTT player as well as cash game player.

- Win a tournament. My HU game is obviously in dire need of help. I don't know what it is. The pay difference between 2nd and 1st is sick, so I need to get better.

- Play HU SNGs to improve my HU game.

- Have another 4-digit score.

Also, I've expanded onto Full Tilt already and soon Poker Stars. The MTTs are sick there, wow.

Hey everyone,

I'm a 21 year old student, born and raised in Houston, TX, and attending college in my hometown. I went to the University of Alabama for two and a half years between 2005 and 2007 and had a fantastic time there.

I began playing online poker for real money in the Spring of 2006. I wasn't the most experienced player, but I was wrecking my home game with friends, had put in a lot of hands at play chip tables, and read a little bit about poker strategy through various websites. I deposited $50 on UltimateBet and looking back realize that I had no true goal. I guess in a way it was more of a test run than anything.

So... I dabbled in cheap $1 SNGs and NL10 tables at first. I learned about multi-tabling and remember I was so excited about it I'd do 9 at a time. I've no idea how I did it, haha, because now I think too much about hands to 9-table. It must've been that I just wasn't thinking back then, haha.

By the summer, I had ran deep in a few MTTs and was putting in thousands of hands per week. I was learning everyday and my bankroll slowly rose to about $2500. Sadly however, this wasn't meant to last. I was still immature and stubborn when it came to bankroll management. I'd heard about it having visited various strategy sites, but can you believe the concept of it bored me? Ha. I played NL200 on <$2k roll, ran well at first, and eventually went bust.

For the next 6 months or so, the same pattern continued. I'd build up my $50 into something meaningful, etc etc etc, and I'd lose it all again. I guess its just one of those lessons that you've got to pay to learn, and little by little it finally stuck.

I realized my problem were cash games. I'd just reload reload and reload and all of a sudden be stuck 8 buyins. MTTs were my bread and butter yet the idea of a quick buck appealed to me. Having matured a little bit more, I'm (almost) completely through with cash games and now solely focus on MTTs. I play on UltimateBet still... under the moniker "birds n bees."

I'm keeping up with this blog to document the ups and downs of poker, but more importantly to become a member of the community and hopefully make a few friends along the way.

Looking forward to writing more and thank you for reading.

-BnB