Day 1

I am starting this blog now because if I don't then I never will.  I get more interested in reading other people's blogs than in writing my own.  Which comes as no surprise, I have always loved to read but hated writing.

My main reason for keeping this blog is so that I can track my progress as I try to become a winning poker player.  I will also include anything that I find to be interesting along the way.  I plan to mimic a challenge that a pro poker player, Chris Ferguson, completed by turning $0 into $10,000.  He is one of the world's best players and it took him 16 months to accomplish this feat.  It took him 7 months just to get his bankroll stabalized around $6.50.  The hardest part is turning that $0 into real money by playing free tournaments with 2,700 entrants that only pay a couple dollars to the top 27 finishers.  Since I am a pure novice I am starting with $30 to give myself  a head start in hopes that I don't pull all of my hair out or go on a tri-state killing spree which would be horrible because I do have great hair.

I started by playing $5 Sit & Gos. The payout is:  1st - $22.50, 2nd - $13.50, 3rd - $9.  My first three SNGs I finished in 1st, 1st, and 2nd.  The last one that I played I went out 7th due to this hand early on:  Player under the gun min. raises to 60 with Q10.  I reraise to 120 with KK and the rest of the table folds around to player with Q10 who reraises to 180.  I push all in and he calls and the flop comes 89J making a straight for Q10 and I am out. Good game me.  Not a bad start still with 3 cashes.

 I decide to call it a night after that and watched the new episodes of Family Guy, The Cleveland Show and American Dad.  They were all hilarious and everybody should check it out if you get a chance.  Is it just me or does The Cleveland Show look exactly identical to Family Guy?  Don't they think they should have changed it up a little?

Started = $30.00
   
              + 21.32

Total     = $51.32