be prepared for many i started with nothing and had 55k a week later stories. Ill start it, i started with nothing, after about a year and a half ive made about 10k just grinding 5-20$ tourneys. Nothing great, but im happy to be in the 10% of winning players.

I put $500 online. I have like $36 now. End of story.

" I was 16, just lost my V-card" Brag post obv <---.

I actually have a very nice success story that turned into a nightmare that i'd like to talk about and it involves bankroll management. I lost pretty much all my $100 i deposited on pstars and i only had $.55 left in my account. I joined a 50 cent tourney hoping i'd make the money so i could afford a $1 SNG. I did very well and managed to get up to about $2. Then i took that and did a SNG for $1.75 and i got up to $8. Then i did a $4/180 and WON IT. I was up to $216 when i then entered a $20/180 and finished 3rd for $400 or so...So i was up to $600. Then i cash gamed it and won a huge hand with 67 of clubs when the board came 8c,5c,As I had to get all my money in on the flop with an open ended straight flush draw when the blinds were $2/$4 the 9c came on the turn and i ended up winning $300 in that one hand. So from 55 cents in 5 days i was up to $1300.... THen here comes the nightmare.....

I buy in to a cash game $5/$10 for $1,000.. very poor bankroll management and i was playing wayyyy over my head. I thought i could own the players because i was playing like a machine the past 5 days. Thats what happens when i go on a big roll, i think i can power my way through eeveryone as if i was invisible. OH how i was wrong. I ended up getting in trouble with pocket jacks over commiting my stack with the board hitting 3 under cards. The other guy had a straight and re popped me on the river for my last 300 and i knew i was beat, but i called because the pot was too big. He showed the straight obv and my heart sank like a rock at the bottom of the ocean. I felt de-moralized as if i had just done something terrible. My hard work and determination was gone in 1 hand. Since then my bankroll has suffered and i regret the poor BR management. BUT i learned my lesson, and i follow proper BR management now. It was a hard pill to swallow.

Anyways back to the point. back in December i won a $15 tournament for $3,500 and i believe I cashed out too much. I cashed out $3,300 leaving me only $200 left. and of course i went broke, Do you think i should have left my account with $3,500 and grind for more? or do you think the cash out was right? I keep telling my friends, i could have had $10,000 in my cashier by now, but they keep saying i would have lost it all if i had't of cashed out.

Anyways, I appreciate your comments and posts. lets keep it up!

well played.

this isnt my story but its a pretty good read anyway. Not sure why but i read it every now and again for some sort of wierd inspiration

http://www.neverwinpoker.com/phpnuke...ic&t=14179

SnG's.

Started with 300 on absolute in october after losing a couple small rolls in the last summer (like 300 each) Started with low stakes sngs and mtts and wwithing two months had 12k after a few mtt wins of around 500. Then won 5k in two days winnnignthe 100 freezeout on absolute and 2nd in the 30 rebuy.

Now at just under 20k

my story:

started with a nodeposit of $75 in party poker 8 months ago,played limit for a month until one night in september, with $70 left, made 2 fts in a $1 and 500PP MTTs, ended up with $400.

donked some in sng at stars until end of year, changed to ftp, left some on stars to play mtts, built to $600 until march, made a 3rd place in $3 donkament for $300, then a 2nd in a 4.40 180 man, had like, $1000 by beginning of april, joined PXF, won $4000 in april, and here i am, breaking even this month.

so deposited $0, have now $5k using proper BR management, and im trying to build it more, only cashed out like $200 or so.

that is my short exp so far.

D-E-P-O-S-I-T!! Kat

My bankroll is were it is today due to tilting on cash games after a couple cocktails. nuff said

funguyrye

Maxed out 2 play money accounts (23 mil each) at pokerroom.com, sold all the play money for $10 per million. That gave me nearly $500. Created new accounts (one in my name and one in my wifes name) at all the sites for which Pokersourceonline was an affiliate. Cashed all my promotional points for gift certificates to the sites and 1 nice chipset. After a lot of bonus whoring, gift certificate money, and money won in the cash games while completing the promotions, I had a nice roll nearing $10,000. I cashed out more than half of this to buy a few things and continued to play low NL cash games that I had learned well enough to be consistently profitable.

After a little more than a year of cash games, I had cashed out and built my roll to more than I ever thought was possible online (for me). Then, when the sites starting closing their doors to Americans last year, I started worrying how secure my money was. So I withdrew all my money leaving only $1000 at each site I still played most stars, FT, Bodog, Doyles, & UB. I left only $300 at the each of the other sites I played rarely Absolute, P4E, Poker.com.

My plan is to try to rebuild back to where I was. Although the games have gotten tougher and its a slow climb, they are still profitable and Im slowly working my way back. Ive always practiced bankroll management to the extreme, so dropping back to micro limits has caused me to become burned out somewhat on cash games. Ive recently been giving tournies a try with some moderate success but I find myself gong back to cash games more and more.

started with a 100 dollars on FTP on january 15 grinded it uot in the 45 man 10 dollar sitngos built it up to a 1000 and had a couple of final tabel scores in the 26 dollar buy ins and now im just over 5k not bad..

12-18 deposits of $100 a piece over the course of about 18months. Lost it in a variety of ways. Bought PXF in early dec of last year. Won the 30k gtd on bodog jan1 of this year for 8k. Cashed out 6k. Took it easy for a couple of months, ran it down to about 1k and won the 5r on stars a couple weeks back for 6300. My role is now at about 7500 hoping to move up at rapid fire pace.

Pwning MTT's.