How much have you won or lost playing online poker?

mickyb · Oct 10, 2008

Deposited $140 in April, I would be up about $5000 but for the dollar strengthening against the pound - so a bit less in practice. Progress was slow and steady at first, then I had a massive couple of weeks (cashed for $1.2k and $1.5k in the same week) - not much progress lately, though.

Mortis · Oct 10, 2008

I'm up 15 cents right now! lol

I've won about $70 in freerolls, then another $42 in cash tourneys, not sure how much I've won in ring games, but I have lost nearly all it, now. I have yet to deposit.

TheseNutsWin · Oct 10, 2008

my tourney ROI is 250% my cash about %120. SNGs 130%... so much better then the STOCK MARKET...

Chemist26 · Oct 10, 2008

Never deposited my own cash. I won a $500 rakeback tourney, switched it from the crap site onto FTP and then eventually lost it there. So $500 is the most I've won and lost online.

blazin321 · Oct 10, 2008

Ive lost quite a bit actually only recently have i started taking it relatively seriously, the problem for me is when sites also host casinos as well as poker (im a sucker for the roulette) but till FT added UKASH as depositing option and i deposited there, im up for the first time

fcumred · Oct 10, 2008

This is a thread I started a few months ago on another forum.

It gives a pretty big insight into how my poker bankroll management has gone.

Since that time I now have $200 on Bodog, $40 on Pokerstars, $20 on Full Tilt with an additional $45 on Party Poker

Those who claim they dont need BRM should read it.

When I first took up poker I did what many people do, I threw money into my account, lost it, threw more in, lost it and so it went on. On an almost daily basis I was throwing money away hand over fist.

Please dont tell me how stupid that was. I know already. I have done the soul searching many times, I have looked at the bank statement in regret. I've told the lies to the other half about where the money went. I've done what most poker players do at some point in their lives.

There comes a point though where reality kicks in, and you realise you cant keep doing it. For me it was when I looked at my bank account and it was empty only three days after pay day. I'd blown the bloody lot on ring games, MTTs, you name it I played it. And there I was, not a brass farthing in the account, and with no chance whatsoever of getting it back, or so I thought.

Well things werent actually that bad, because in one of the games I had played I won a seat in a $10k tournament due three days later. It was a Saturday night and the wife was going out with friends so I would have the time to play and see if I could at least get something out of it.

I wont bore you with the details, but I managed to come second in the tournament, god knows how, but I did, and the pride I felt at seeing my Bwin account now looking a rather healthy $1500. Not as much as I'd lost but definitely a sizeable chunk of it.

WIth that I hastily withdrew the lot before temptation set in. I could have tried to make that figure grow but I had stumbled across something on a web site I found. The art of bankroll management. I read it, re-read it, read it again, and suddenly I realised that if I was ever to make myself profitable I had to stop pouring money into my account and earn it.

I vowed at that point never to deposit another dime. No way.. That was too close a call for me.
Since that time I have never deposited, EVER. I play freerolls. Loads of them. I can spend hours on the computer just trying to get into the money..

I cannot tell you how it feels to get into the money, even if its for a few cents. Just to see your account grow that little bit. Its one more step up the ladder.

We're all seen the Ferguson challenge on Full Tilt. Now please, I am not going to suggest for one minute that I can turn my account around and get myself up to $10k. I would need my head examining if I truly believed that. But i know that in time, with patience and with more study of the game I can build up that bankroll to a nice sum, a sum that I can look at and think "I earned that.. I truly earned that"

This afternoon I take part in a freeroll over on Party Poker. To get there I have had to battle through a 4000 field daily qualifier, then a 3000 field weekly qualifier, and now at the end of the month I am in the final 1000. Well 984 to be exact.

I cant say that I'll get into the money. Obviously I want to, and I will give my all trying. But even if I dont, I can honestly feel proud of myself because my bankroll on party poker has already grown to $14 through prize money through these tournaments, a bankroll that started at zero.

$14 doesnt sound alot, but its a months hard work and graft, of playing daily qualifiers, of battling it out and you know what. That $14 means more to me than the $1500 I won in the big tournament. WHY ? because I've earned every god damn cent of it..

I will keep going. I wont be using my bank card to play poker with. Nope, its freerolls for me from now on, and if by some stroke of luck I ever manage to get to that magical figure of $10k like Chris Ferguson did expect a blog on here from me telling you that I am taking myself down to the travel agents, booking a flight to Vegas and I am going to blow the bloody lot on a seat in the main event of the WSOP. Thats my dream..
I have $14 so far.. Well.. a man can dream cant he ?

Exit141RTe1 · Oct 13, 2008

I am up a grand total of $7.13 and counting. Did manage a 2nd in a FR once with a $30 dollar pay out. I like the MTT's the most if you got 4 or 5 hours to kill. Lots of fun, and maybe some day I hope to cash a small check.

Guenthi · Oct 13, 2008

I never spend a cent on poker. I started with freerolls appr. 15 months ago and have won about 1500 $ since then, ome of it I cashe. I continue to play freerolls and SnGs with low buy-in. I will not become rich this way, but I also will never lose money playing poker - and it's a great hobby to spend some time.

mickeyde · Oct 14, 2008

update!

well rather than give up.. I did what pops allways did... go back n get em!

So i put another 50$ in pokerstars (never did try cake fish too much work giving them $) but i found a cool odds calculator off google.. and i check every hand before i bet.. well i am up to
275$ off that 50$ so i am finally over!!! I am now playing .25/.50 or .10/.20 and find not only is my B.M. better, but i win more.. ALOT MORE!!!! good luck to everyone.. dont give up! See you in the finals

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