Hi guys,

I thought I'd use these as a place to note down random thoughts and musings on poker and my journey with it, as I'm sure a lot of people here are way more experienced than me and could give me some guidance.

I started playing poker for real money in my first year at uni, two years ago now, playing mostly SnGs and MTTs to start with and have been a steady loser since, not really doing any off the table work and just playing microstakes until my bankroll bled dry and I redeposited. Fortunately I knew full well I was a recreational player and knew I was essentially paying for however many hours of entertainment, and I didn't have much of a chance of seriously grinding up a bankroll.

I've since dropped out of uni and got a job, apartment, car etc - bills to pay. I've start doing more off the table work, reviewing hand histories, watching some twitch streams, trying to think about the game more.

I was pretty excited for SCOOP this year and even remember telling a couple of my friends that I "had a good feeling about [it]". It's fun to play the low events and feel like part of something bigger, plus occasionally I got sat with a big name pro, which is exciting for a fish like me. I played a few lows and some satellites, and, long story short, I ended up sateliting in to the $215 6-max shoot out for $8.80, and then cashing for $26k.

So now I have an actual bankroll, which is exciting, but obviously tournaments are somewhat like lotteries anyway, I just got lucky. Looking at some of the names in the tournament, I am clearly not a winning player. But it has motivated me immensely to work on my game, which is part of the reason I recently signed up for RIO and plan on spending a lot more of my free time playing poker.

Given my bankroll basically just got 50x bigger, I'm planning on sticking to low stakes cash while I work on my game, and will probably look to play 100k hands at 10NL and 25NL until I feel like I have solid fundamentals, which I don't at the moment. From there, I'm going to see how fast I can improve, what my win rate is, and make some decisions about my future in the game.

See you on the felt!