What I've done

Hey everyone so to kick start this blog I thought I'd just give you my poker history and then later in the week shall tell you where I'm at right now and my aims :)

The Start
So i guess this is pretty typical really, I started playing poker when I was 17 on PKR, starting off in play money. I took to this game pretty quickly and figured out a few of the basics I'd already played a few home games with the family again for play money. So after practicing for a while I won my first play money tournament and then I decided to deposit at 18 and play on PKR For real money.

My game back then was mostly SNGS and occasionally MTTS, I did ok to begin with but as you would expect I had no idea of bankroll management or most strategy. I looked around on forums for advice on my game and how I can improve it I immediately found helpful members of the PKR community such as Destacker always willing to help and point me in the right direction.

So after reading a few strategy articles and playing a bit more I made a few final tables and then finally my first win on the 29th July 2010 I binked the $400 gtd which in todays terms is pretty much the low roller mtt. This was a pretty good win because it gave a boost in confidence and also was just after my birthday always good times :). For the rest of that year I just had some sporadic cashes and not any more real improvement.

2011


This year was a pretty good year as a whole, I'll only take you up as far as like November though as the rest is sort of connected to where I'm at right now!

So this year started off pretty standard again sporadic cashes best being a cash in the sunday open and a FT on the low roller again. Early on this year I started to take things seriously again and ended up reading a plethora of books about 10 different poker books in the end all of which helped my game hugely. But the most important move during that education period was when I joined Poker VT this really helped my game a lot I really recommend this site!

So that was about in may time and then soon after I got my biggest win to date! on the 5th of june when I won the Main event.

Main event win

I couldn't believe it when I won this MTT I was so happy I literally coulnd't sleep for hours after and as it was like 5 am when we finished I was very tierd! After this happened my confidence had boomed and a few results followed
Most note worthy being

• Tournament warmup  a few days after I won this for a more modest $58 a few days later a fun mtt though
• Wellbets home game - 10th
• Won Value town 
• 9th on sunday open

Then I went off to leeds for a pretty awesome weekend then in september I took part in a pokerstars promotional event at the EPT where I qualified for a winner take all SNG to a £300 turbo win the button event, unfortunately I only managed to come 2nd even after crushing most of the table failed HU- This is a part of my game im going to work on!  But hey It was a great day met and shook hands with Doyle Brunson

and got loads of PS goodies.

So thats me up until november, as mentioned earlier I'll try to get the part of where I'm at now and where I aim to go up later this week if not next week :)

Hope you all enjoy,

Peace.