Feb 22

So tonight at poker it was a $10 limit game, it seemed I couldn't win a hand.
because I am on a short bank roll and when I get short stacked I can feel the gamble go out of my play.
I got up off my second buy in of 60 to about 200, flushed that bought in ultimately for $240
I was down to my last $10 and i built it back up to 215 which is what I cashed out for.
I need to be more patient in the game, get back to playing premium hands and protecting the big stack.
Luckily tonight blade, who only comes about once a week, was chipped up and it got to heads up play where the card were in my favor.
I rebuilt my stack from about 120 to 215 after getting all his chips with only 30 minutes left to play.
I re downloaded WSOP academy video series and some poker books tonight and plan on getting back on my game.
I didn't tilt to bad tonight, and I'm trying not to use the excuse of its easy to tilt when your short stacked.

Ive been playing poker for quite a while. Thanks to my uncle Mark who is a insanely lucky gamble the passion has kind of built in me.
When I was in college I played play money all the time on line, before the big crack down on online gambling. I started out small at home games and small tournaments at the college I went to (CSUS go hornets!) and very slowly over about 3 years build a 2500 bank roll.
The bank roll I had built was blown in 1 weekend in Vegas. This is what I would say is a likely and common story. I was trying to be a pro poker player at this time tho, I was just messing around. While I was in Vegas with my uncle for my 21st birthday a met a guy, who I can see now, was an obvious pro. He told me to look up read and study a  book called Doyle Brunson's Super System. When I went back to school after spring break and my birthday in Vegas I had never really study poker. I didn't know about odd and poker math, and reading the board, all the money I had ever won was basically on luck.
My buddy Joe had won a little money online and he had the book. I read through it a little. I was already studying many courses in college and on a quest to get some tail so studying poker at this time wasn't a high priority.
Eventually I moved to San Francisco where I played here an there over the next year at Artichoke Joe's casino where I lost only a little money and never really came out a winner.
I was playing more regularly now usually with my Uncle Mark by my side. I would loss little at a time with very few wins. Uncle Mark would always tell me "tighten up" and I didn't really know what that meant at the time. I was out of college for a year and for my 22nd birthday my girlfriend at the time, who I am still on again off again with, bought me the Doyle Brunson's Super System. I started reading through the long read. It really was amazing how much there was to know about poker. I mostly read it on the john but i eventually got through it. I learned that i needed to play tight and aggressive. I learned to be patient because its job and money. Doyle told me story's of his experience and he said "there are no friends at the poker table" I took all these lessons to hear.
Basically immediate my game changed. I understood why you don't play 7 2 off suit and why suited connectors are important; and finally what playing tight meant.

Bank roll 2012

Date   start-stop       win/loss     +or-         hours    start/limit/cash  loans/prop
feb 21st  242-216        28           -              5.5          240

achive bank roll 2011

Here is the chart start october 17th till december 17th
started with 120 ended with a little over 2000
I copy and pasted the chart from micosoft works so it dosnt come out right but you can see how my roll was built.

Date start-stop win/loss +or- hours start/limit/cash loans/prop
Oct 17^th 120 - 200 95 +
Oct 18^th 200 - 375 186 +
Oct 19^th 370 - 150 220 -
Oct 20^th 150 - 421 271 +
Oct 21^st 421 - 181 240 -
Oct 22^nd 301 - 894 594 + add on
Oct 23^rd 894 - 1037 143 +
Oct 25^th 1037 - 768 269 - add on 140
Oct 26^th 768 - 1131 363 + 8-2 / 6
Oct 27^th 1131 - 820 311 - 8-1 / 5 300
Oct 28^th 820 - 1369 549 + 8-1:30 / 5.5 300 Steve 100 paid
Oct 29^th 1369 - 1198 171 - 8-2:30 / 6.5 400
Oct 30^th 1369 - 1046 320 - 8-11:30 / 3.5 400
Oct 31^st 1046 - 1018 28 - split 5 400 lent Jesse 20np
Nov 1-3^rd 1018 - 1050 38 + 15h 418 Jesse p drinks
Nov 4^th 1050 - 635 415 - 5.5 400 100 add,onloss
Nov 5^th 635 - 500 135 - 1.5 120
Nov 6-8^th 500 - 559 59 + 6 100
Nov 9-12 559 - 692 133 + 14 120/d borrow100Joe
Nov 13th off sick
Nov 14^th-15^th 692 - 864 272 + 6 120/d paid joe 100
Nov 16^th-19^th 864 - 1084 220 + 6 200 withdraw
Nov 20^th 1084 - 1096 12 + 4 80 paid for stake
Nov 21^st - 25^th 1096 - 630 466 - 12 120/e $60 phone bill
Nov 26^th 630 - 1450 820 + 5.25 120
Nov 27^th 1450 - 1574 114 + 1.5 180 29 on dinner
Nov 28^th 1574 - 1646 72 + 4 120 23 for dinner
Nov 29^th 1646 - 1360 286 - 1 120 protein/poker
Nov 30^th-2^nd 1360 - 920 440 - 10 240 425 for rent
Dec 3^rd 400 -1100 700 + 8 60 45 for groc
Dec 4^th off needed break / tired
Dec 5^th 1100 - 1237 137 + 6 120 3 for food
Dec 6^th 1237 - 1180 57 - 3 300 6 for food
Dec 7^th 1180 - 1348 168 + 5.33 180 5 for food
Dec 8^th 1348 - 1475 124 + 4 300 11 for food
Dec 9^th 1475 - 1595 120 + 8.5 280 15 for food
Dec 10^th 1595 - 1552 43 - 6 300 10 for food
Dec 11^th off
Dec 12^th 1552 - 1580 28 + 2 120 bigguy owes20
Dec 13^th 1580 - 1795 215 + 1.5 60
Dec 14^th 1795 - 1794 1 - 2 180 2 machine loss
Dec 15^th 1794 - 2155 361 + 3.5 400 free food Kes
Dec 16^th 2155 - 2383 228 + 8.5 400 100 from atm
Dec 17^th 2383 - 2080 303 - 8.5 800

Alright here we go, I work at gym making minimum wage for 16 hours a week,
I got $242 to my name. The rent is paid till the end of march, its mid February.
There is a poker game in a bar called the Oasis, They play Texas hold em and Omaha hi-lo dealers choice,
I usualy buyin for 60 bucks, so ive got 4 buyins in my pocket.
The game is a $1 blind and 10 limit max 3 raises.
So the chart for todays start date is $242 im just aa few hours from the game now.
I have wanted to be a pro poker player for a while but latly its been rough with bad games and me spending my money of stupid stuff.
Its my dream, i think I am about 6 months in terms of skills development and a solid bankroll away from turning pro.