A bit of history: I would definitely call myself a beginner even tho I have been playing off and on for the last 2 years (online that is). I began like a lot of other fishies, where I saw some NL Holdem on tv and just had to play! I won some money in freerolls and as many do, I played way out of my BR and quickly lost it. Over the last 2 summers I had made deposits and lost probably ~ $400.

This May I was craving some more poker and I signed up for FTR (I had seen/known about it b4). I had never really had much luck in cash, so I turned to SNGs and read alot of the articles and went through alot of the material on the SNG forum. This time I was actually being successful and grinded my initial deposit up to about $680. Although I was winning with a decent ROI, always above 25%, I sort of found SNGs boring and I always hear that cash is where the money is at. Also, I am interested in MTTs, but don't have the time to make them my main game.

After my SNG success I fluxuated between $400 and $600 while dabbing in cash and playing some MTTs and SNGs when all else failed. Now I am playing 20NL on iPoker, with the occasional MTT and want to become a winning cash player and get to $1000 and begin 50NL.

I have PT and have already played 1500 of FR and am down about 3 buy-ins. My current BR stands at $350, but am going to continue at 20NL unless I drop below $280.

In this thread I hope to guide myself to success by forcing myself to analyze my own play through posting hands, and hopefully have others examine them too. I don't want to set a hard timeline for reaching 1k, but I would like to get there by next year, even tho that is very far away (sort of).

I know that the first thousand is the toughest thousand and I can't wait to get there!!