$57,238.82, I was a serious gambling degen for a while, I maxed out all of my credit cards, spent my life savings (approx. $826.87, unfortunately most of it was credit cards) and ended up working at a subway to rebuild my BR.

edit: JK, I actually caught a pretty sweet break early, I had been donking it up in the $1 frezeouts on like a $50 roll when I scored a sweet chop for like $200, I decided to throw caution to the wind and take my newfound Fortune to the big Sunday tourney hoping to parlay my 1$ into 100K the easy way, I didn't win but won a little over a grand. Insta-BR builder.

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR onmouseover="javascript: this.style.backgroundColor='F3F3F3';return true;" onclick="location.href='/thepokerdb/tournament.asp?tid=139596'" onmouseout="javascript: this.style.backgroundColor='E2E2E2';return true;" bgColor=#e2e2e2><TD class=tenpx height=16>7/3/2005</TD><TD class=tenpx align=right>$200 </TD><TD width=10></TD><TD class=tenpx width=400>NL Hold'em</TD><TD class=tenpx align=right>61</TD><TD class=tenpx align=right>2406</TD><TD class=tenpx align=right>$1,250.00 </TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#c2c2c2 colSpan=8></TD></TR><TR onmouseover="javascript: this.style.backgroundColor='F3F3F3';return true;" onclick="location.href='/thepokerdb/tournament.asp?tid=140232'" onmouseout="javascript: this.style.backgroundColor='D3D3D3';return true;" bgColor=#d3d3d3><TD class=tenpx height=16>7/1/2005</TD><TD class=tenpx align=right>$1 </TD><TD width=10></TD><TD class=tenpx width=400>NL Hold'em</TD><TD class=tenpx align=right>3</TD><TD class=tenpx align=right>873</TD><TD class=tenpx align=right>$79.00 </TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#c2c2c2 colSpan=8></TD></TR><TR onmouseover="javascript: this.style.backgroundColor='F3F3F3';return true;" onclick="location.href='/thepokerdb/tournament.asp?tid=140062'" onmouseout="javascript: this.style.backgroundColor='E2E2E2';return true;" bgColor=#e2e2e2><TD class=tenpx height=16>6/28/2005</TD><TD class=tenpx align=right>$1 </TD><TD width=10></TD><TD class=tenpx width=400>NL Hold'em</TD><TD class=tenpx align=right>75</TD><TD class=tenpx align=right>887</TD><TD class=tenpx align=right>$2.00 </TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#c2c2c2 colSpan=8></TD></TR><TR onmouseover="javascript: this.style.backgroundColor='F3F3F3';return true;" onclick="location.href='/thepokerdb/tournament.asp?tid=138477'" onmouseout="javascript: this.style.backgroundColor='D3D3D3';return true;" bgColor=#d3d3d3><TD class=tenpx height=16>5/28/2005</TD><TD class=tenpx align=right>$1 </TD><TD width=10></TD><TD class=tenpx width=400>NL Hold'em</TD><TD class=tenpx align=right>105</TD><TD class=tenpx align=right>1735</TD><TD class=tenpx align=right>$2.00 </TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#c2c2c2 colSpan=8></TD></TR><TR onmouseover="javascript: this.style.backgroundColor='F3F3F3';return true;" onclick="location.href='/thepokerdb/tournament.asp?tid=138001'" onmouseout="javascript: this.style.backgroundColor='E2E2E2';return true;" bgColor=#e2e2e2><TD class=tenpx height=16>5/19/2005</TD><TD class=tenpx align=right>$1 </TD><TD width=10></TD><TD class=tenpx width=400>NL Hold'em</TD><TD class=tenpx align=right>18</TD><TD class=tenpx align=right>815</TD><TD class=tenpx align=right>$8.00 </TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#c2c2c2 colSpan=8></TD></TR><TR onmouseover="javascript: this.style.backgroundColor='F3F3F3';return true;" onclick="location.href='/thepokerdb/tournament.asp?tid=137535'" onmouseout="javascript: this.style.backgroundColor='D3D3D3';return true;" bgColor=#d3d3d3><TD class=tenpx height=16>5/9/2005</TD><TD class=tenpx align=right>$1 </TD><TD width=10></TD><TD class=tenpx width=400>NL Hold'em</TD><TD class=tenpx align=right>135</TD><TD class=tenpx align=right>2151</TD><TD class=tenpx align=right>$2.00 </TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#c2c2c2 colSpan=8></TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=8></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD><TD width=12></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

I jumped into online poker as soon as I heard about it. My BR management was awesome when I first started out on stars. Then I turned into a retard and played way out of my limits, I've had my BR well over 5K several times and blown it on ridiculous tilt sessions.

Overall I'd say 15K in the negative. I would've given up a long time ago, but I refuse to quit, when I know I can be good at this game, as long as I remain patient and focused, something I work on everyday. What makes it easier? I work with an annoying bitch who doesn't stop talking, so she helps me practice staying away from tilt.

I have been playing poker longer than most of you kids have been alive. I started playing when I was a brakeman on the railroad - this was back when trains had cabooses. I'd usually play 5 card draw with one of the engineers, the conductor, and a passenger or two. The games were always very shady, and I got in many a fisticuffs in that time. The worst I ever saw was when the crew put the leather to this young drifter that tried to deal off of the bottom of the deck. They beat that kid within an inch of his life and then threw him off a trestle as we rumbled on into the night. Never knew if he lived or not.

One time, when we were running the old Union Pacific line through San Antonio, we stopped over for the night and I ended up at a barroom game in some backroads dive. I did OK, but one of the locals was just unbeatable. Doyle Brunson. Even back then he was a bit of a legend. Most people don't know that Doyle had a backer that paid for all of his early gambling. Apparently, he was roommate with Jerry Jones (owner of the Dallas Cowboys) when he played sports in college. He took Jones for so much money during his college years that Jones swore he would back Doyle if he wanted to play for a living. Fortunately, Jones' family had made a shit-ton of money smuggling Mexicans into the states, so he had the funds to bankroll Doyle. Anyway, after playing with me that night, Doyle offered to take me back to his hotel and talk poker. I gladly obliged and headed out with him at the end of the night. Needless to say, when we got back to the hotel, the last thing he wanted to do was talk about poker. He is a big guy, and I thought I was going to have to give in, but I saw an opportunity and was able to ninja kick him in the knee while he was trying to order up some Spankervision on the TV. I haven't seen him since, but I hear has still has a limp.

Ever since then, I only play in well lit senior citizen centers. I try to stick to PL Bingo and maybe some $10 cap Gin Rummy. It's safer that way.

See you at the tables.

It all started for me when I was in a stars $20/180 in the middle of 2006 and had GBMantis at my table. He put me all in on 2nd hand and he flipped over AA to my KK and I lost the hand. Haven't been the same player or person since....:).

lost 25k playing 30/60 then took 3 months off came back and won 85k

Took a shot at 50/100 limit when i usally never play bigger than 30/60 mainly 10/20 and 15/30. Anyway took a shot with 21k roll which isnt to bad, but dropped 6k in one night....Back down to 10/20.............good times

i won the lotterly for 31.2 million after taxes... i put it all onto pokerstars.com

i practice great bankroll management and never spend more than $4.40 on a tournament and no higher than .10/.25 NL cash. i know have 31.20143829 million dollars...

i'm not kidding