How I Built My Bankroll

Friday, September 4, 2009

I always enjoy reading the success stories of other poker players and it always inspires me. The biggest impression I had from reading Chris "Jesus" Fergunson's poker challenge "From zero to hero".
Somewhere in the middle of year 2006, Chris Ferguson, the famous professional poker player also known as Jesus, took an online poker challenge to transform $0 into $10 000 by playing online poker cash games, multi-table tournaments and Sit and Go tournaments. He turned his bankroll into $10 000 in September 2007. Cool huh?

My story began four years ago. I was introduced to poker by watching "World Series Of Poker" in the middle of 2005. I saw Phil Hellmuth, Greg Raymor, Mike Matusow, Allen Cunningham and Joe Hachem for the first time. By the way, Joe won the Main Event that year.

So, I was hooked.. Me and a couple of my friends decided to buy a poker chips to take a try. We went to the nearest board game shop and bought the cheapest chips on the market (Yea, I know, they look horrible :). Anyway, we started to play texas hold'em poker almost everywhere we could, six hours a day. The game was very addictive and fun. Among us we had a friend who already played high stakes poker on the internet. He was very successful, he was earning ~$15.000 per month.

Finally I gave myself a try too. I installed PokerStars client and asked him if he can transfer few bucks to my PokerStars account to try how online poker works.

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When I first entered to a real cash game (0.01/0.02ct No Limit Holdem), I felt the power of poker. A lot of the players were very tight, they played very aggressive, they bluffed, used a lot of tricks. I saw them folding their hands before the flop, raising preflop, even going ALL IN without seeing a flop. I was like "WTF are they doing"? I was really impressed when I saw how they play.

I watched them playing for a while, studied their hands and observed every move. After I felt ready, I limped in. At first it was hard to use to, but after a couple of hands, I slowly started to build my bankroll. Everything went fine, except the process was very slow (because of the micro stakes), so I decided to deposit my first $20 and play for a bigger stakes.

To become a high stakes poker player it took me four years of intense play. Honestly, to reach this level wasn't so easy. First, you need to play a lot of hands, find your playing style, read books, watch tournaments, be in the community. It takes a lot of time and practice. Trust me, online poker is a lot different from home game. It's because of the money involved. But it was worthed every second :)

So, that's my long story short. I started this project for the same reason - to give you guys the opportunity to feel what real poker is all about. Free no deposit poker cash is a great way to try poker room for free, learn how to play and of course to start building your bankroll. Good luck!

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