I did that because that's about the time I thought, "Hey, dude you could maybe just do this for a living". ![]() This time I finished 50th! Before that finish I had slowed my tourney play down, only playing a couple of tournaments a week. It took me another 5 weeks (mid Feb) before I cracked the Top 100 again. I was so glad to make the Top 100 that I didn't care. Then got careless and lost it all quickly. Took over 2 hours and I was hitting cards like never before. About a couple weeks (early Jan 2008) into the tourneys I finished an amazing 92 out of 3552 players. Played to many hands too early and got knocked out. At first my finishes usually were 1200 - 2000. I started playing almost every 8 and 11pm tourneys M-F and tried to get in 2-3 tourneys a day on the weekends. Generally anywhere from 2500-3500 players are entered in each tourney. The AOL no-limit Hold'em tournaments run 7 days a week and are held every three hours starting at 11 am through midnight. I loved the fact that everyone started even, with the same number of chips. This game simulated what I had been watching on TV in the WSOP. The first time I discovered and played AOL Hold'em no-limit Tournament poker, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. I guess "no risk, no reward" comes into play big time in no limit poker. I love watching the professionals pull it off on TV. However, it is a rush to play and there is so much more strategy involved as far as betting and checking. No feeling in the world like it but the money you could lose playing no-limit scares me. ![]() I prefer no-limit because you can make money by having no kind of hand. I am down to around $1300-1400 right now and beginning to question if I can do this for a living. Lately, I have not had much luck at limit poker. Jeez.$200 bets were nothing to them but significant for me so I have not been back to high stakes since then! Most had over several hundred thousand dollars and some had over a million. These high stakes guys had some huge bankrolls. enough to knock me out of high stakes qualifying. I jumped into my first high stakes table and couldn't catch a lick and ended up losing over $700 in about 30 minutes. I thought this would be a good way to win some bigger pots but it also was a good way to lose the $2600 quickly. I had it up to around $2600 last week so I thought, OK, let's play some high stakes! At first I observed a game and the bets were capped I think at around $200 or so. It was quite enjoyable the first week as I tried to build my bankroll up. If I just made $200/day that's 50k a year. Just got to know when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em. I thought, dude, this is too easy, like taking candy from a baby. ![]() My first couple of nights playing I was catching some pretty good cards and it was not unheard of to win $500 within 30 min to an hour. Even though the bets were 5/10, you could quickly lose money and it was hard to gain back. There seemed to be very little bluffing since someone always either had a high pair, a set (3 of a kind) or a straight. What I quickly found out playing limit poker was that you better have some kind of "hand" if you were going to take the pot, especially playing with a full ring of 9 players. Well since I was starting with literally nothing (I would always lose my entire bankroll playing no-limit, run out of money and get $100 bankroll instantly!), I was stuck with the "low" stakes game which was fine with me since the raises were capped at $50. Actually found out a week or so later that you have to have a certain bankroll (AOL play money) to play with the big boys.
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