Hey all,

Having deposit twice online before in the last 18 months ($100USD and $200USD) and going busto, I decided to deposit $87USD ($100AUD) on full-tilt and attempt to grind out some sort of a bankoll so I don't have work as much. The thing is, I am pretty sure I'm a winning player, since I basically tripled my BR over about a month on both occasions before I just made some stupid decisions and went broke. IThe factors that brought about my downfall were:
1. Lack of patience - I started out 2 tabling which produced decent results but was pretty boring, especaillywhen I was playing 0.05/0.10 NL. So I started playing up to 4 tables and making some loose calls even though I knew they were wrong at the time. I guess when you are only playing for $10-$20 at a time it's pretty tempting to gamble.
2. Playing too much - This just killed me in the end. I started out playing about 3 hours a day or so for the first two months, then once I started winning I figured that playing more and more would see me rise up the limits quicker. Huge mistake. Playing more than 5 hours a day was't a good idea becase my decisions started to suffer as a result.
3. Playing above my bankroll - This is a problem for a lot of people, but when my BR was $200 I shouldn't have been playing $0.1/0$0.25 I don't think. It probably didn't matter that much though since I would've gone bust anyhow.

So, having learnt from my prior mistakes Iam now attempting to become a winning online poker player. My knowledge is pretty good as I've done a fair amount of reading and have been playing for a while now. My brother is a winning 5/10 NL player who I have watched on occasion and he has taught me some things, so hopefully I can apply those concepts this time around. Also, I have decided that rather than playing cash games, to start out I will play $5 SNGs because I'm told that my tournament play is a lot etter than my cash play.

Feel free to write in any words of advice

Well my results so far are encouraging. I played 15 $5 + $0.50 SNGs last night and one-tabled $0.05/$0.10 NL for about 20 minutes.

Profit: $53.10
Hours: 4
Hourly profit: $13.28

I would post HHs but tournaments are hardly interesting viewing. I have thoroughly enjoyed the "log" posts above...(N). A littlle weird, even for me.

Well over the last day or so I'v played about 25 SNGs without too much success. I have lost $3 despite playing quite well, which is pretty frustrating. I'm now actually going into hands with a plan, which is working out for me. I haven'treally played any interesting hands except for the following.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1780622

I decided to check the flop there because there was an overcard and I thought he might CRAI and I'd be in a really bad spot. Please post comments.

If you check the flop I think you should check the turn too. Basically, by betting there, you are representing the king. Over-representing your hand isn't usually a good idea when your hand is also probably the best hand.

If the blinds were 50/100 I think shoving PF would be best - as it is, I think it's kind of close but your raise is probably better than a shove. Either way, it's close.

River is definitely correct.

Ok, well seeing as I have't updated this in a while, I figured that I'd make a small post now. I've decided I want to play poker forthe sole purpose of paying for travelling. I want to go to Canada at the end of next year and decided that if I keep working at Coles and earn even 1-2k from poker this year it'd take a lot of strain off that.

Let's just say I am running really bad, like horribly. I thought I was just playing bad until I discovered PokerEv software, which is pretty helpful, especially for tilt. See below. Keeping in mind that's just for cash games, in tournaments I am possibly running een worse, but since I have no quantitative proof to show you my SNG record, I won't bother discussing anything but cash. The period where I ran worst was from hand 1800 to hand 2300, which was just so brutal, not only on my BR but my confidence. A friend kindly let me $80 to get HUD and PT and I will repay him out of my rakeback on Pacific. PT and HUD are so ridiculously helpful, particularly when dealing with bluffs from loose players. My BR currently sit at $151.50 (meaning I am down a total of $15.50 since starting). I'm not worried, according to Sklansky I should be +$92 in cash games and I would estimate I should be +$50 from SNGs. I'm starting to run a little bit better over the last 500 hands, so lets hope for the best.