How much did you spend before you made profit?

lukeellul92 · Feb 10, 2015

Heya everyone!
kinda interested to see the variety in players here, and just curious as to how much everyone spent before they turned their losses into profit?

I think I've been fairly lucky, I started with $500 and have turned that into $2k, but I lost $500 today so i'm down to $1500 and this seems to be my cycle at the moment, I'll win enough to go back to 2k, then down 500-1k then up to 2k again aha, lots of practice needed but it feels good playing solely with profits rather then my own cash, hopefully this current $1500 can turn into alot more!

Just wondering how much other people have spent before they turned a profit? Had a chat with a few lads at the casino and a few of them said they went through close to 40-50k over a few years before seeing profit.

alexis8888 · Feb 10, 2015

I started with $10 and have turned it into $1,100 in 2010 on MPN poker network. To be more exact I spend nothing cause I went into the tourny via freeroll. But it was my first and thus far last big sucсess.

veronica · Feb 10, 2015

yet I have no income and lost track of how much you spend, I hope to get to add my bank someday .

21sam · Feb 11, 2015

I started with $0 and now I got the whole $2.80 )

12551255 · Feb 11, 2015

I just grind the micro stakes and made around $300 per year for about 6 years. Never lost but can't say I'm a big winner either. Free entertainment.

motorcity1957 · Feb 11, 2015

0$

10 years now of online poker. never cost a cent. I have cashed about 3 thousand dollars worth of poker-site withdraw checks over the 10 year span. sad to say i have not made a withdraw in about 3 years, i guess my game is slipping:afraid: . In the early day's there were many freerolls to play and the players were less experienced. hundreds of forum sponsered & site sponsered freerolls made it easy to build a bankroll to play the cash games and if you were good & lucky enough, hit a lick at some site and then try to get some money. most of the times i made withdraw, i had to jump through a lotta hoop's. No poker-site wants to send a check to a non depositor. But after sending enough documentation, and some arm twisting , i was able to get about 6 to 8 checks over the years, some just a couple hundred, i think the largest was 600$ . I did make a 25$ minimum deposit at a poker-site, but that was when i already had a couple hundred i wanted to withdraw and no matter how much i twisted their arm i couldn't get them to give, so i made the deposit and then cashed out a couple weeks later.
I probably never will make a deposit at any on-line poker-site. The truth is I play for enjoyment, if i am not playing online poker, i am playing online Spade's, Euchre, Pinochle or Gin.

horizon12 · Feb 11, 2015

For poker no answer for this question.... Because even a good player loses money when have downstrike.. It is impossible to always win...

cogath · Feb 11, 2015

In my first year I lost a couple of 20 dollar deposits but thanks to free bankrolls I still managed to end ahead the first year. Other than that I've been in profit each year but not by any serious amounts!

freestocks · Feb 11, 2015

I started by playing freerolls and bonuses. My first transaction was a withdraw.

I have yet to make real money, like a living.

strokin07 · Feb 11, 2015

My first deposit was $ 10 I lost him without profit second deposit was $ 20 but it turns out only to play until the game Spin & Go and Cash games with small buy ins.

euchreob · Feb 12, 2015

I started with $100 about 2 years ago. Grew it over 3 grand. made $1700 in withdrawals. That was online. My life stats aren't as good. lost between 1-2 grand. not really sure how much my computer crashed at the time and I lost my records. Funny though everyone says that it is easier to win live than online.

strokin07 · Feb 12, 2015

Totally agree with you on the air a lot easier to play poker there you know what the dealer distributes cards and the Internet one hell knows who's there distributes and what card comes out.

guicor30 · Feb 12, 2015

at the moment I'm not playing full time.

but it soon be back to the tables.

now I have my banking $0.00 but I have thought enter $ 100 and publishes a soon as I transform

John A · Feb 12, 2015

I made one $50 deposit and turned it into several hundred thousand. The game and the industry in general isn't what it used to be though. Poker was making great headway as a legit industry, and now it just seems like it's a constant slide backwards into shady business practices, and thievery. Sigh.... sad to watch.

shomy21 · Feb 12, 2015

I started from freerolls at Merge network, but I had a lot of begginers luck. I won 10 USD from several 50 USD tournaments and played satelite for Sunday I think 20k gtd. I won ticket worth 60 USD and finished 7th on Sunday and won 700 USD. That was begginer luck but you need that for good poker carrer.
So you can start from 0 with some luck or you can spent a lot of money before you hit some big.

dsk1231 · Feb 12, 2015

I'm ashamed of my alcoholic gambling history but I'm sober now and this year I've turned a $1 freeroll win on full flush into $38 and a $0.70 freeroll win on blackchip into $32. Just a few cheeseburgers but I'm proud of it. I put a lot of work into my game.

DaveE · Feb 12, 2015

dsk1231 said:
I'm ashamed of my alcoholic gambling history but I'm sober now and this year I've turned a $1 freeroll win on full flush into $38 and a $0.70 freeroll win on blackchip into $32. Just a few cheeseburgers but I'm proud of it. I put a lot of work into my game.

As you should be:icon_thum

BigJamo · Feb 13, 2015

12551255 said:
Never lost but can't say I'm a big winner either. Free entertainment.

Im exactly the same.
I do it for fun & try & play daily.
.........................
Poker stars - Deposited $27 I think it was. Now have $187
Full Tilt - Made 2 min Deposits of AU$15. Now have $520

Both account have been fully verified & linked. So its all profit I suppose.
I don't intent withdrawning anytime soon & will just continue to each new level as my BR lets me.

BigJamo · Feb 13, 2015

dsk1231 said:
I'm ashamed of my alcoholic gambling history but I'm sober now and this year I've turned a $1 freeroll win on full flush into $38 and a $0.70 freeroll win on blackchip into $32. Just a few cheeseburgers but I'm proud of it. I put a lot of work into my game.

Awesome. Nice to hear you turned your life around for the best.

vinylspiros · Feb 13, 2015

John A said:
I made one $50 deposit and turned it into several hundred thousand. The game and the industry in general isn't what it used to be though. Poker was making great headway as a legit industry, and now it just seems like it's a constant slide backwards into shady business practices, and thievery. Sigh.... sad to watch.

^^^^^^what do you mean?

avner · Feb 13, 2015

when I started I lost the firs $100, then rised to $560 with the second $100

HymN · Feb 13, 2015

Started on $100, went to 2k in a weekend, lost it all by playing tourneys out of my limit and some FTOPS.
Now at like -100, grinding them freerolls son :3 ...

WeenieSVK · Feb 13, 2015

Thats easy question for me, cause I NEVER deposited my own money to any pokersite. I always played only with money which I won in freerolls

And I think I am close to 2000 Euros which I withdrawed from all pokersites since I started, so Poker is nice hobby for me, they pay me to have fun

rhombus · Feb 13, 2015

so wheres all the fish who keep the poker industry alive, not sure of true numbers but only a small percentage 5-10% may be less of people actually make money playing poker.

SO maybe all the ones who lose dont want to post here.

PS Im similar to most here started play money then freerolls then free $$$ for a hobby

PokerFunKid · Feb 13, 2015

horizon12 said:
For poker no answer for this question.... Because even a good player loses money when have downstrike.. It is impossible to always win...

Yes, but a pro starts making profit at a point. He can be on a $20K downswing, but be in profit overall for $100K. I think he means when did you start getting in the green overall.

How much did you spend before you made profit?

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