First blog ever

I know that the title is a little cliche, but I think it also clearly states what the blog is going to be about. I have never blogged anything, ever, before today so we'll see how this goes. A little about me I suppose. I am 22 years old and deal blackjack for my paychecks. I graduated high school in 2004 and did one year of college at St. Cloud State University here in Minnesota. My first experiances with poker are playing with friends in high school, never for more than $50, usually .5/.10 NLHE.



Once I started at SCSU it was Sng's only. At first we didn't play that much but by the end of the year we were playing $10 SNG's for 6 hours a night Sun-Thurs. Poker is probably the number one reason why I didn't study and eventually had to leave school. It was also in college when I first started playing online at Ultimate Bet and Party Poker. Only playing Sng's and MTT's on either site. I am one of those people that will deposit, start winning, then play out of my roll and lose it all. I have repeated that cycle many times and feel I am getting the hang of it pretty good. But it also the one thing I never want to do again.



During my time playing I have grown to love all forms of the game, either live or online, cash or tourny, hold 'em or omaha. Most of my hold 'em experiance is live LHE between 3/6 and 6/12 at Canterbury here in MN. I can still remember my first time there at 12:01 am on my 18th b-day, and being nervous as hell playing 2/4 LHE against the 'pros' I was facing. I won $11 after 3 hours of play and couldn't have felt better. Since then I played every limit they offer up to 15/30 and enjoyed just about all of my time there. For my NLHE after high school, I have only played 10 hours of cash game at St. Croix in WI, but many many MTT's at casino's and home games. I have never had a huge cash but have done pretty good in tournies, but usually blew it all being a degenerate playing to high or blackjack. My first time playing omaha was on UB and I would play play money O8 Sng's. My first time playing O8 for real money was the 4/8 O8 game at Canterbury in 2005. My first night I won $300 and was on top of the world. Since then I have being playing more PLO instead of O8.



Lately I haven't been playing much at all, just $50 here and there online, usually losing it within a few days. A few days ago I got onto my pokerstars account and had $1.50 left, so I started playing .01/.02 PLO 6max. 3 days later my roll is at $45 from that $1.50. This is usually the point where I will play too high and lose it all, but I am going to have to restrain myself and try to grind my way up. Right now my plan is to keep playing .01/.02 PLO with the occasional micro buy in MTT until I have a $200 roll, then move up to .02/.05. I know, big money right? Haha, I really do love this game and hope I can start being a winning player, as I know my biggest problem is bankroll managment. I hope this blog helps me with that, as i know I'll probably be the only one viewing this.