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There was still a year before I was going to uni so I had a fair bit of time to play, and I started at the 4nl and 8nl cash games. I don't think I was winning anything (but not really losing much either) but I was having a good enough time to continue. I remember using that hot-o-meter thing to decide what starting hands to play lol. I started watching the skypoker channel, and I saw Tikay talking about the DYM's so I thought I'd give them a go. So far a while I'd just play those - my sharkscope shows I played about a couple of hundred of those for a small loss. I think I was playing mainly the £11 DYM's which means by brm was pretty poor given that I only had about £150 in my account at the time. It was whilst playing the DYM's that I first tried multi-tabling. The first time I played 2 tables it was soooo hard lol, I kept timing out on one of the tables. I remember one time I folded a flopped full house and was pretty angry with myself because it cost me a cash in a DYM.
One day I was playing a DYM and someone asked if I was going to play in the ME that night. It sounded like a good idea so I bought in and got a decent way through the field before crashing out. In one of the first main events that I played I somehow luckboxed a 2nd place finish for about a grand, and after I did that I thought I knew everything there was to know about poker. I withdrew a decent chunk of it and with my remaining couple of hundred quid I jumped straight into 50nl cash, one-tabling and buying in for about £30. I won a bit the first couple of times I played it, but then I got absolutely crushed. I think scotty77 stacked me a couple of times in one session when I still obviously a huge whale. I lost the money I had remaining and had to re-deposit.
After that I stopped playing cash and went back to DYM's, by which time I was able to 4/5-table them because you can pretty much play them even if you're brain dead once your used to them. But again I wasn't winning anything really. I told myself I'd give cash one more go and started back down at 10nl with about 30 buy-ins. At the same time I started posted on the forum on here, and that's the overwhelming reason that my game started to improve. I learned so much from the good regs that posted on there. One time in particular I posted something like 'you should have raised to find out where you were' and then ladyfingers got me to question why this was a good thing to do and then I realised what I was saying didn't make much sense. Beaneh and lol_raise were two of the other posters that I really learned loads from. After that I slowly made my way up the limits, and meanwhile I won my first ever tournament for about £1700. That meant a lot to me because I had previously been heads up in tournaments about 3/4 times but had never won, so that was a major confidence boost. I made sure I sky-plused the highlights of the final table so I could live the moment again lol.
I think the 2 most important reasons for my game improving was the advice on the forums, and also the fact that I was able to bink some cashes so early into starting to play poker, because that gave me some money to be able to experiment with different things in cash games. Like when I was first started playing I used to be very passive but then after a while I experimented with being more laggy and found that worked for me. The best piece of advice that I ever got though was to always stop before you clck buttons, and think what you are trying to achieve, because when I first started playing the game I would do things without knowing why I was doing it, and so as a result I was making loadssss of bad decisions.
Anyway this had turned into a bit of an essay lol, hope it's an interesting read!
I first played poker in my local pub. Believe it or not I never gamble on horses, football or in casinos. All the guys in the pub had been watching the poker on television and decide to start a game. I was roped in because I drank with them. At the start I considered my £10 to be a donation to whichever one of them won.
After a couple of months of this, I started watching late night poker on the TV and gradually got a little better at the game, even winning on the odd occasion. The odd occasion got more frequent and we sarted to go to other pubs for their games, and found that I was cashing on a regular basis.
After a year or so I ventured into tournaments in our local casino and cashed in a chop for the final 3.
I started online poker after discovering channel 865 about 3 years ago. In that time I have had a winning ROI, but most of all have enjoyed the social side more than anything else.
I may be wrong, but I still don't consider myself a gambler!
.. We got married 3 months after this and I became "Mrs budgirl" or perhaps bud became "Mr yidette9". I'll let you decide that one ........
Posted by yidette9
Just came back to this thread and what a GREAT post Yidette!
Poker was inevatable as i,d gambled on just bout everything else. I ws living in Lanacster when i got my first computer about 10 years ago - wow - wheres the time gone - It was alao on dial up and used to crash a lot
Signed up for a cpl of bonuses and found I liked FL cash, so plyed that $1/$2 and hit a bit of success but lost overall. I then had break for a cpl of years when my girlfriend moved in and wasn,t to thrilled with me plying poker on a night , when I was working 12 hour days as well
i moved to Preston about 6 years ago and started playing recreationally again , mainly in sit and goes and in my local pub. still waasn,t that good
Started watching Sky 865 when i saw it at one of my m8,s and decided to join up. Lost again for acpl of years but had a cpl of results and started to learn more up until the last cpl of years where I,ve turned it into a small steady side income
One of the biggest things for me laerning was attending 3 SPT,s , the last been in Leeds. I learnt different stuff at each one and m tryting to keep on learning.
The best thing is that its taught me about Bankroll Management , which can be used in life as well as poker
I ply on 3 other sites occasionly, depending on the games but over 70% is on Sky and its a buzz trying to improve my sharkscope graphs and seeing them all in the black
I don,t make a lot but enjoy it and see it as the best hobby ever
Nice story _ You,ve certinly picked it up quickly as well - you can probably beat him now
I was taught Poker by my maths teacher at school. That was along time ago and I've dabbled in Poker ever since. In the 80's I played live at the Garstang Gentleman's Club. Most of the guys playing there were the local CID from Preston and Lancaster. That was a hard school believe me.
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My online adventures started about 10 years ago. I initially joined a site called Royal Vegas but soon moved across to UK Poker on the Tribeca skin. I later played a number of larger Tribeca skins and that's where I came across a certain Mr Tony Kendall.
A small group of players off the Tribeca skins started a closed group of players and called it the 1808 Gang. I was one of the initial members along with some names you might know. James Dempsy (aka RoyalFlush) and Chris Moorman (aka Moorman1) were members too. There were lots of very talented players some of whom are still around and successful and some who have disappeared now.
Another 1808 member who was just starting off but was obviously very talented was Paul 'Badpab' Foltyn. Paul has won 2 GUKPT titles and finished very high in the WSOP. James Dempsey of course has won a bracelet and Chris Moorman is in the top 10 online mtt players in the world, year after year.
There are a number of lesser known but very talented players still around from those days but sadly they have all strayed down different paths now. I still see old 1808 members from time to time when I venture onto other sites and it's always a pleasure to see some of the ''old gang'' still ripping up the baize. A lot of talent came from that select group, and believe it or not, I was one of the most proficient mtt winners in those days. Alas age has got the better of me and now it's a profitable pastime that I hope will continue for many more years to come.
In many ways Sky reminds me of the Tribeca/1808gang days. It's a relatively small community where everyone helps everyone else. Most players on any night I play will be known to me and I to them. Of all the memories of those early online days it's not the victories that make me smile, it's the memory of those players and the banter we all had that bring back the fondest memories.
I've been lucky, poker has been good to me on so many levels