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Message: [QUOTE="SavagePenguin, post: 1769276, member: 22087"] My first game was a $100 buy-in tournament. I went busto on hand #5 when I called a shove on the flop with my A/K when I failed to connect to the flop. He had pocket 8's FTW. I deposited $12.50 on Pokerstarts, brought it up to nearly $60 over the weekend, then lost it all. Then I deposited the remaining $12.50 on my gift card and it took a few weeks to lose (a gradual loss in the penny games). Then I read poker books, bought PokerTracker (to keep me honest), deposited $50, and played smart poker in September and had turned it into $1,000 by January. It's all about arming yourself with knowledge and having proper discipline. really, having PokerTracker putting every losing session in red on my permanent record was the biggest motivator. I quit making those "well it only costs me ten cents to call" plays, that really add up over time. [/QUOTE]