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Poker, the story so far

posted Jan 28, 2010 3:29 AM by Ben Shin   [ updated Jan 28, 2010 4:20 AM ]
Cash Games

2005: The games are good, I'm learning fast and moving up stakes to 2/4NL....



2006: Still doing well at 2/4NL until the UIGEA hits and the games start to dry up....


2007: Start to struggle at 2/4NL but then go on nice little tear....



2008: No graph available (PT3 can't import my old hands), but I lose about $2,000 when the games continue to dry up and my game starts to slip from lack of practice....

2009: After continuing to struggle at 2/4NL I drop back down to 1/2NL on my main site.  For fun I also start a Ferguson challenge to see how fast I can build up my Pokerstars account from $0 playing freerolls and microstakes -- so far I'm at $94.74!  At 1/2NL I plug some leaks, and eventually get comfortable enough to revisit 2/4NL.  I start taking stabs at 3/6NL at the end of the year, but that doesn't turn out so well.  Not going to try that again for a while.  Incidentally, PT has this feature that lets you see how lucky you are in all-in pots.  In my case, not very....


Tournaments

2005 to present: I win a bunch early on, including a seat to the 2005 WSOP, where I got to play with James Woods for a while but busted out 10 hours into Day 1.


Since then, still looking for another big score....