The Beginning

Why I decided to right my first ever blog, I don't know. Personally, I've always thought blogs were stupid as fuck and why bother writing things people don't care about. But I decided it might be nice to keep "journal of my journey" through poker and life.

The title you ask? 72o (seven two offsuit) is the the worst possible hand in Hold'em poker and it essentially means zero. This is where I'm starting from, in life as well as poker. I have never made a deposit and have never given out personal information to any poker sites. I essentially plan to keep it this way until I graduate college and find my own place. My parents think online poker is risky and don't want me to play, but they really can't stop me. I just promised them I would not submit any personal information to the sites.

To 54o

72o is not exactly where I'm at right now. More like 54o (better because the possibilities of flopping a straight). I started my epic journey with play money at Pokerstars before realizing that Full Tilt Poker (FTP) had a crap load of freerolls. Freerolls are free tournaments where you can win (usually small) amounts of money for free. I won $2.25 around the fourth freeroll I entered. These freerolls are literally full of Helen Kellers with down syndrome, but are still extremely hard because you have to place within the top 1% to get paid and that means playing at LEAST 5 hours in the tournament. I think I placed like 36 out of 7500. Anyways I was successful at play money, so I must be good at the 1c/2c tables right? WRONG!!! Although I wasn't terrible, it was difficult to play with most of my bankroll on the table. I was playing nitty ABC style postflop, while Limpy McLimperson preflop. Lost it all in a couple hours and destroyed my computer (just kidding, but I did scream and cry like a baby). I continued trying FTP freerolls again and lost heart. I almost had giving up after placing in the top 5% multiple times.

Then a shining star appeared. A shining Pokerstar email to be exact. Because I played a lot of play money, I was invited to the Juno Invitational Freeroll. Pokerstars normally has freerolls, but they are really gay because you have to place high in one freeroll before entering a weekly freeroll to win money. The Juno Invitational Freeroll was spectacular because it had a $500 prize pool (as opposed to $150 from FTP) and 20% payout(as opposed to 1% on FTP) and had only a couple hundred players (as opposed to 7500 players on FTP). On my first try as soon I hit the payout I got super excited and went WTF AGGRO DONKEY FISH HAPPY. I busted out soon after and won 65 cents. I went straight to the tables to find out at Pokerstars the minimum buyin was $1. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Luckily, they have quite a bit of these freerolls per week. I won $1.60 the very next one making my total bankroll at $2.25 (the exact same amount I started with at FTP).

This time I went to the 2plus2 poker forums first to make sure I had my game in tack. Learned what preflop raising and position was (which is all you really need to beat the 2 cent tables (also called 2NL). Got my bankroll to like $5 and then played a few more Juno Invitational the following week placing in one to win an additional $2.10. I planned to continue playing the freerolls as well as 2NL to increase my bankroll faster.

The following week, those Jews at Jokerstars stopped giving me tickets to the freerolls. >_<