Ok so I would like to hear from those people that have went from rags to riches...tell me your success stories and where you started and where you are now....

meh not really rags from riches, but i only deposited $50 one time 2 years ago and built my br VERY slowly, now im rolled to play $110 heads up and 2/5 cash regularly. Sux having to withdraw 1500 a month, or id grow a lot quicker.

Always...and i mean always look at profit taking as a positive. If you don't, poker will drive you insane in the long run and it will not be as much fun as it used to be.

You are cashing out what you won.....thats a huge positive.

turned a 4 dollar satty into a 3rd place finish in the bodog 100k for $10,000 in less than 24 hours.....not a bad roi

Seriously...... I had 2 bucks in my account 2 weeks ago, i got 2nd in a $2 tournament for $300, i took that 300 and play 1-2 nl , made 150, played in the 100 rebuy, the nightly hundred grand, and the 50k guaranteed, cashed 6th in the 100 rebuy for $4,700 25th in the nightly 100k for about 600, and 27th in the 50k gurarantee, for about 200 ish, took that money and play the 25-50 NL. within a week, I made over $40,000 . I now have over 50k in my account.

Thats a lesson to people wanting to hit big, i had $2 in my account two weeks ago, now I have over $50,000

My guess is you will be back at $2 within 2 weeks...

well im not a god nor rich so I dunno if replying in here is right but I went from 88 dollars to about 100k in a 2 year time span.....basically started at 6 dollar sngs 2 summers ago with 88 left in my acct after some failed 1rebuy and 2rebuy attempts.....built it to prob 2k by august......ran ultra hot in mtts in august going up to 9000 or so.....dropped 2k the next 2 months in mtts then decided to grind 40 dollar sit and gos.....went from 7k-20kish by august - went to 100 dollar sit and gos/more mtts - had a 13k month + aruba seat - cashed aruba like 8k + some more good months and this brings me to today

PM Annette.

freeroll on bodog about 2 years ago for 3$. Took forever to hit 1000, two years later ive made about 30k profit maybe. Winning more each year it seems. In a bit of a dry spell lately though so who knows. Goal for this summer is 20k

All my winnings have come from a $0 investment. I first started playing on partypoker a few years ago using the instantbankroll.com website. So I got my $75 and grinded out .5/1 limit until I got to $300. I then played a $50 tourney after tennis practice (and I was a tourney noob for the most part, just watched tournaments on TV) and got 2nd for $1700. I then played a few more tournies on partypoker, didnt make that much more money but w/e. My dad didnt know about my poker and when he found out he made me cash out (this was when I was a junior in high school).

So senior year in high school I convinced my dad to let me put some money on bodog for the summer before freshman year college. I played a little bit, didnt make much, and cashed out before school started because he didnt want poker to disrupt my studies.

Come a random night in November I was really bored and logged into my bodog account and saw I had those poker player points. I played a 1000 point one and won it for 250 T$. My first real money tourney on bodog after that was the $44 30K and I got 11th which really sucked cause I was chip leader with 11 left, just lost 2 big hands where I were favorites on the flop.

So two days later I decided to play the 30K again and won it for $7500. This was huge for me and I was in total shock that I could win a tourney for this much money. Naturally I didnt tell my dad cause I wanted to keep playing, lol. So that next weekend, I go home for sunday football and I decided to show my dad my 10K bankroll (from cash game profits too) and he was stunned. He though poker was just a small thing for me but I showed him what I won. His reaction was mixed, he was happy I won 10K to help pay for college but he was upset that I was playing behind his back. We made a compromise that day that I had to cash out everything but $500. So I did and that Sunday I decided to play the 100K and I got 2nd for $14,000, playing right in front of my dad's eyes. Again, another shocker but he was starting to believe there was something good between me and poker. However, he made me cashout $13,700 leaving me with around an $800 bankroll. I decided to move this money to pokerstars and that is my story (and some winnings from pokerstars to full tilt). $0 to whatever cashes I currently have now.

Moral to the story: It's definitely possible to turn $0 into money. I learned tournament poker not only by watching TV but by watching tournaments such as the 100r. I would honestly just watch the 100r from 5 tables onward to learn poker from the best. Poker can come naturally to some people but for the most part, tournament poker can be learned. Just be receptive to learning and watching other player's games and make observations.

Gradually made small deposits ($50-100) late in 05 through early 07. I grinded $3 1 tables and $5 45 mans during that span and had some small sucess in MTT's and SnG's.Then in Mar. 07 won a $9 360max for about $810. @ this time I was relocating and in between school when I luckboxed a 3rd place finish in the $27 nightly tourney on stars for just over 2g. From there I decided i'd try to play for a living, I had a few years experience(watching good players, reading forums, and a love for the game), and lots of hands under my belt so I said what the hell. In early April 07 I had a 3g bankroll joined pokerxfactor and started a journey that has been downhill ever since. I must say I have been a super big bankroll nit but I feel the level of competition and swings are alot better grinding $50>. 100k in profit later and not 1 single losing month i'd say it wasn't a bad choice. Poker def. isn't for everyone but if you can control tilt, choose your games wisely, and know when to step away from the tables (factors you can control) you'll be miles ahead of most players out there. GL

CW

Sorry for the grammar I suck @ writing

I was extremely broke and depressed this past december, I won a $10 freezeout with only $48 dollars in my account that a friend had staked me. That cash was for around $1600 and was the huuuugest deal at the time. Anyways I turned that 1600 into 15k in my bank account and a 15k bankroll on full tilt, as well as a bracelet race seat, an Irish open seat, and a WSOP main event seat. I can't stress how depressed and broke I was man hahah, I am completely financially independent and my parents seem to love me more than ever. God bless poker, it can honestly save lives.

was a solid winning player for a while, then this feb turned my $1000 roll into a +24k month in mtts

I began playing $5 sngs on pacific in the middle of 2006 with $150 in my account. I switched to tournaments in December 2006/Jan 2007 with a bankroll now close to 6 figures...