This is just gonna be a thread to track my progress as I attempt to grind my way up through the micro stakes on Carbon poker. Just a place to put my thoughts, results, hands I have trouble with or was unsure of, brags, bad beats, etc. Feel free to post questions, comments, etc. Just please dont post here for the sake of posting and getting points, please do that somewhere else if you must.

So a little bit of a backstory...

I am currently 22 years old, and have been playing poker recreationally for about 5 years. It started with homegames with several friends, nothing too serious just something to do and have a few drinks. Really none of us knew what we were doing, out of the 10 or so people that would play.

I had never played online until I seen some ads either online or on the television for PartyPoker. I installed it and messed around with play money for a while. The game interested me from the start and I started looking online for strategies and other info on the game. I ran across a few forums in which I liked from the start and started reading as many posts as I could. Most of the things I read I had no idea what I was reading yet I kept reading. I tried to use some of the concepts I read while playing playmoney but still had no idea what I was doing.

I started getting better and spent many hours reading, I moved to full tilt after hearing that there was free entry into tournaments that paid out in real money. I played these nightly for a while but never made anything significant. I continued to play with playchips and started doing good. I made my way up to 100k and before I knew it I was at 20m or so. I felt like a pro and decided I should deposit some real money, well, $50 was real to a young kid making min. wage at a fast food joint.

I put the money on and within seconds I had $50 on my online poker account. It was time to make thousands... That was the idea at least. I jumped onto a 10NL table (the lowest stakes on FTP at the time) and started playing. I started doing good, made several buy-ins and felt great. Then all hell broke loose, before I knew it I was down half my roll in a day. So I turned back to studying as much as possible.

Eventually I found my way to $1 and $2 sit and go tables and found they were similar to my regular homegame tourneys. I read as much as I could about them and started playing a few of those every day for quite a while and slowly made it to about $80 or so. Then I had to move and lost access to the internet for about a year so I ended up cashing out most of my money.

Eventually I got the internet back and started the journey again. By then I had withdrew everything in my roll except around $4 or so and started just playing two tables of 2NL at Full Tilt. Slowly my bankroll grew until I was finally properly rolled for 2NL. I started at two tables and slowly made my way to comfortably grinding 10-12 tables.

Before Black Friday I was up to being rolled for 10NL and had only just started those stakes. So as of now all my poker funds are tied up in the whole Full Tilt mess so who knows when I will have that money, if ever.

So I have started freerolling on Carbon and joined this site to participate in the freerolls and become part of the forum. I have cashed in a few of the freerolls so far and started playing the lowest limit NL cash games on Carbon, 4NL. I'll continue to participate in the freerolls until I am properly rolled for 4NL with 20 buy-ins, or until FTP releases funds to US players but Im not holding my breath on that.

Um yeah, sorry for the the long post haha. So Im gonna wrap this up and go watch game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals. Will probably update this thread later tonight after the game with where I am currently at in terms of bankroll and stuff, maybe a couple hands, have to look through my database.

tl;dr cliffs:

- Just a thread to track my progress grinding through micro stakes NL holdem on Carbon
- Was grinding 10NL on FTP until Black Friday
- Found this site started freerolling and grinding my way up from scratch
- Feel free to post questions, comments, etc. Please dont spam though