The past 4 years of my life

The past 4 years of my life have been nothing short of amazing. I was always very fortunate, had a great family, great friends, and pretty much always did what I wanted. However, about 4 years ago my life would change forever. I was always big into baseball. I played from when I was 4 till I was 19. I was an all section catcher both years I started high school baseball, was amed to various allstar teams. This is what I thought I wated to do after highschool. I thought I'd go to college like everone else adf play baseball.

One day after a game my friend on ther team asked me if I ever played poker and I said no. He said it was a great game that everyone at school was playing. I said Id give it a shot. I remember him saying that it was a easy game and I remember him telling me how to play and my quote was, "Wow this is easy." Well I was very wrog. The first time I played I called 3 streets against him with a high because well I had an ace. The first time I played against him heads up I lost $400. $400!! I was 16 years old, had no job, ad now no money. All my lunch money was gone. Well I saved up again and played him ad lost another $250. I remember distinctively bitching because I lost with 3 aces to a flush. I was ur typical fish/donk crying about his bad beats or what I thought was a bad beat.

Summer came and every sigle night there was a poker game at someone's house. I remember rushing home from my baseball games to hurry to someones house so we could play. We woiuld play till 8 9 AM in the morning. The time flew and I loved the game. I made probably about $1000 bucks that summer. We were all so bad. I really wated to get better though, so we continued to play all the time until I went to college. My friend Jared and I were the biggest winners in the game. I probably made about $3000 in the 2 years playing with everybody.

Then came freshman year of college. My friend Tim came to my home game and was dumping money like it was nothing. He lost like 200 bucks which was just astounding to me. However, I found out yhe had made a lot of $ playing online. I had really no idea what online poker was. He came over first day of college and played me heads up andf I won like 50 bucks off of him. I told him just to give me the money online. I started to play underr his name on bodog. I lost that 50 bucks so quick. I remember the hand. I had Q10 in a .25 .50 cash gm. The flop was 10KA with a flush draw. I cr a guy on the flop, and remember saying please no flush on the turn the flush came and I went on to check call all my chips.

I decided to create a ame and deposited 50 bucks. Somehow over the course of the semester I had made 1500 bucks. Then second semester came ad I started playing 50 dollar hu SNGs as well as $35 six max SNG's. I ran my roll up to about 4000 bucks. I thought I was amazing. I had $4000 and was only 18. I decidied to play 5 10NL. I remember having QJ on a J high board on the river. I kept convincing mysdelf I was good but the guy shoved all in and I folded. He showed a bluff. Then I monkey tilted my stack aweay. Ill never forget playing I was so scared. Then I was playing against a regular. His ame was pinappls probably the best player on the site at the time. I flopped TP TK against his set then monkey tilted another buyin plus away. I had lost $2200 in a hour. I was sick. I called my mom distraught. Well it was back to the SNGS. Over the next 3 months I made 13k playing these SNGS which was amazing. However, I payed for a semester of school and bought other things and was dow to about $3000.

I went to a local 2 5 game where I got it all in vs k 10 on a J 10 4 board with AA and he spiked a 10 ad busted me. There went 500. I went home sat 2 4 and there went another 500. I almost puked. I was almost broke again. It was time for finals week. The day finals were over I went home had 1500 dollars to my name. I decided to open up a 2 4 table. I said whatever Im taking a shot here. If I go broke I still got school. Its not a big deal. WEll in 3 nights of playing 2 4 NL I had made $11,000. Then I never looked back. That summer I made 75k. I was just playing 2 4 and 3 6 NL. Then scvhool started and I made 55k the first month of school playing 3 6 and 5 10. Then I hit what today is my 3rd biggest dwonswing ever of 15k. My biggest is 20k which is not bad at all. i credit this to my good br management.

It has been pretty much all good since that 11k upswing tho. I really cat complain. 100k came then 200..300...etc...I really cant describe it. I mean I guess im just very fortunate.Poker without a dioubt is how u run at the beginning. If i didnt have that score then the way I live my life would be so much different today. This is pretty much of a brief synopsis of my poker career.

Poker has done so much for me. The best is the free time it has given me. I go on umerous vacations a year...Whether its Vegas every month, or golf in myrtle twice a summer, or even right now where I am typing this in Stuttgart Germany and have a plane to Rome in about 3 hours. Poker has given me the freedom to do what I want when I want and I am trul grateful. I dont know if this is what I want to do for the rest of my life. I mean I love it. I think the main reason I love it is because Im able to do whatever I want with any of m friends whenever they weant to do it. In 10 years I may not have that luxury because they will have moved and have a family and have to work. I just wat to take advantage of the situation I am in now by having as much fun as I can.

I wish everyone to be able to experience what I have the past 2 years of my life. It has really been great and I am truly grateful

just lost 4k...

Veyr pissed right now...heres some hands

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2586664
this was cute

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2586675
missed the deck...this dude was puttin any 2 pair in so i figd he had something like that and i had 17 outs and missed

There was another 1 outter in omaha that i did not have handgrabber running...then this hand in holdem

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2586692 cute here

That all led to me tilting and dumping about 1500-2k more

-4k day=me very pissed off

This is just a rant...I had to let off steam

Back from Vegas

I recently just got back from Vegas. It was sweet ass time as always and was sad to leave. I ended up losing about 1800 bucks. However, 2 nights, I was up 2k and 1k, got hammered and ended up losing 500 and 1700 bucks on those nights. I guess the moral of the story is dont drink and play.

Poker has been going pretty well overall lately. Since I got from Vegas on Saturday, I am up almost 12k. It should be soo much more. I wish bodog had poker ev because I have to be running well below expectation. Im just happy to finally be winning again. Since my losing month in February I am up about 24k overall and 28k playing poker. It isnt great but not bad for a little over 2 months.

Heres a lookat some of the big hands.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2579576
love bodog for this

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2579579
owned this dude

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2579583
picked good time to 3 bet

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2579584
this just happened and how i ended my night

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2579586
guess i butchered this?

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2579591
just coulnt give k 10 credit here...It was 3 handed he was sb i was bb...he limped sb then called raise then check called flop im sry i just couldnt give credit...Did I play this wrong

I really like baseball....Always been a passion of mine since I played my whole life...This was an intersting story that I read that brought a tear to my eyes.

http://www.postgazette.com/pg/08125/878966-85.stm

Gl,
Pete