I don't really remember my previous post here. Its been months. I do think it was sometime when I ran semi-deep in the UB $200k and made $1100 and thought I was the shit. Continuing since then...

I moved my roll (I think like 6k ish) to Full Tilt. I got scammed for $200 in the process = tilt. So I used trusted 2+2er pmarrsouth and he took care of things for me.

I started playing NL100 on tilt and dabbling in tournaments. Things started well but ultimately I was losing money. I dropped, dropped, and dropped, as low as $3k at one point I believe. I stopped playing cash games and decided to focus solely on tournaments. I've been running pretty hot in the past week or so.

Last Sunday I took 3rd in MSOP Event #15 for the largest cash of my life, $4.5k. I outlasted over 5200 entrants and played for 8 fatiguing hours but it was completely worth it.

Yesterday started off poorly with me whiffing my first 7 tournaments or so. I played I think every Guarantee with buy-ins ranging from $24 to $69. I decided to play some later events while watching the NBA Finals on TV, including the 28k, the Daily Doubles, and the Fifty-Fifty.

I was running super deep in all 3 and there came a point in the night when I knew that it was gonna be a big night. Of all events, I had to hit one of them hard.

And I hit 'em hard.

I flamed out of the 28k in 20th place for a lame $100. At this point we were on the Final Table bubble of the Daily Double A and deep ITM of the Fifty-Fifty. I ended up winning both of those events, the Daily Double for about 1.9k and the Fifty-Fifty for around 10k.

I don't really have much time for playing because of summer work, but I do try to play free evenings when I'm not out with friends or whatever. Its been a good past few weeks. For now, I plan on playing between the $24s and the $150s pretty regularly.

Guess thats it.

- BnB

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