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I've been playing for a while, and losing! I just wondered how long everyone else played poker and how much you lost until you got to grips with it all and became a winning player?

I know you hear these stories of people "only depositing once" and now they're millionaires, but I want the truth when you reply lol.

Regards,
Tom.

i played for a good while losing back in the day...probs like the first 2 yrs or so...probs due to playing as high as my credit card wud let me without any idea lol...which in those days on pacific poker 600nl was the biggest game around...i obv won now and then but must of spewed 50k off easyily...dont mind talking about it as i enjoyed it and play for a living now and have won it back + more

Can depend a lot on what stake you started at
I started at 2NL FR and started to win right after my 1st deposit when i finished my read of "Harrington on cash games vol 1".


What stake are you playing?

At full ring, I deposited once (and have never re-deposited)... but this requires depositing enough to make a bankroll at the stakes you will start at. I probably over-deposited.

When I started to learn 6max, I was playing full-ring at the same time and went on something like a -26 buy in swing... and continued to lose at 6max for a while until I finally turned it around and was winning. Off the top of my head, it had to have been something like 40 to 50k of 6max hands until I was really humming along and clearly winning (and erasing all those losses)

100 bucks

I was a losing player for about the first 3 years or so. Lost probably around 3K. I laugh at the player I was back then. Hell, I laugh at the player I was just before BF...and I was a winning player then.

Yeah think I was losing for about 3 years at cash bottomed out at about 4k I think.

I've been at it for 5 years. I've taken three six month or so vacations. Lost around 3K (couple of computers fried and all data lost) over an estimated 200,000 hands. I had won this 3K on party poker in a tournament before internet bank restrictions began. The losses were primarily at 25 or 50NL.

About a year ago, when I returned from my last 6month vacation I began to play only limit. Did this for 8 months or so until I was very confident with my ability to beat small stakes limit online and live.

For the last 4 months I've returned to 25NL. I play about 100 hands per day have 100,000 hands since my last return and a win rate of +.41 at 25NL. This of course has not won back the 3K but feels like I should keep on trucking.

I'm playing at 10nl at the moment, been playing on and off for quite some time, but overall a losing player the thing is, I can deposit my money and end up tripling my bankroll over a week or two... then end up losing it all in one day because of tilt

I just cant control the tilt! as soon as I take a bad beat I get back into another game to try and get the money back instead of taking the rest of the day off and coming back to it the next day when I have calmed down. They I end up losing it all.

I recommend buying this book! Or you can get it off I-Tunes as a digital book or audio book. This book is the shiz-wiz and will help your tilt big time.

The Mental Game of Poker by Jared Tendler

Or watch the Tommy Angelo series "The eightfold path to poker enlightment"

Hey Kobe,

Only just seen your reply, I have had a quick read up on this book and read the reviews and it seems like the solution for me! I have ordered it off amazon and it will hopefully solve the biggest leak in my game!

Thanks alot for the heads up on this!

Unfortunately I did not lose anything and directely won some small money since the beginning because I started playing STT very seriously.

And now I switched to ring games and I struggle a lot when I spend a long time without winning or losing... may be because I took bad habits always winning in my first months/years.

So losing at the beginning is not really a bad thing.

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Got interested in the game after playing a few 5 euro tourneys with my friends while drinking, seemed to be OK at it (or that was what I thought). Didn't want to loose my money to someone online, so I started grinding freerolls. The ones I played had like 500-1000 entrants I think, and about $500 prize pool. It was a pain, and oh so tilting. I borrowed Harrington on Holdem from the library and read while I played about one a week. After a while I ended up cashing, like $3 for 20th place, lol.. Started grinding $1 SNG's and moved up to $10 SNG's before eventually moving to cash. The only deposits I made were to create e-wallets and once since I didn't have time to transfer my roll of about $50 due to slow cashouts. That was like in 2007 I think, I now play small stakes cash and never been busto. I'm fairly nitty regarding bankroll management though.

I did pay for software, books etc from my other money while I was grinding the micros, but dunno if that counts.

Wait, what sort of libary has gambling books?

Wait, what sort of libary has gambling books?

The ones in Finland are well stocked:

http://haku.helmet.fi/iii/encore/search?formids=target&suite=def&reservedids=lang%2Csuite&submitmode=&submitname=&lang=fin&target=pokeri&target=Hae

If the link doesn't work go to http://www.helmet.fi/en-US and write "pokeri" in the search field. Came up with like 80 books and a few DVD's... (Some of the books are novels or unrelated, but there are a lot of good books there too). I mean how do you think the Finns and Swedes get so good Our libraries rock! Even reserved a book I haven't read since I happened to spot it while getting that link. Most of the Bluray movies I watch are also borrowed from there.