Starting with 100 bucks! I am back after 9 years

Hello everyone,

I will try to keep my introduction somewhat short:

I started playing poker around 2007 after Jamie Gold won the WSOP Main Event for 12 million in 2006. I played a sometimes excessive amount during the vast majority of my twenties, dabbling around in pretty much every micro-stakes format, from all sorts of SNGs to MTTs to 9-max / 6-max / HU cash games. My success was often small and sometimes nonexistent, as I struggled for a very long time with the mental side of the game, blowing several small bankrolls. And to be honest, I probably did not put enough study into my game, although I tried pretty hard at times to get better.

In hindsight, I wasted a ton of great opportunities over all those years. But like they say, hindsight is 20/20, right? Anyway, I quit playing for a few reasons in 2015 and thought I was done with poker forever.

Fast forward almost a decade later, and I felt a strong desire to get back into poker after a dream (no joke) so I opened an account at GGPoker and deposited 100 Euros. I got hooked on All in Fold pretty fast after playing some hands to complete one of their honeymoon missions. It also did not help that I hit the jackpot twice in my first few thousand hands haha. Anyway, I have a ton of time at the moment and realized very quickly that I could take a real shot at the German leaderboard for low stakes (runs from Wednesday to Wednesday). So I finished 3rd for C$100 after playing for only five days and now I finished 2nd for C$200. I thought that I could take 1st place (pays C$300) this time but the guy in front of me is just insane.

So yeah, that's pretty much where I am right now, grinding $1 (5c/10c) AoF, chasing a top spot on the leaderboard to build a decent bankroll while clearing my first deposit bonus, and accomplishing the honeymoon missions for some extra cash.

I finished the leaderboard week with 50.6k hands:

- roughly down $65 on the tables (including All-In Fortune payouts)
- won the jackpot three times (two times within a few hundred hands) for $84, $77, and $70 for a total of $231
- 2nd on the German leaderboard for C$200

for a total profit of $366 not counting any rakeback and first deposit bonus. I am not really pleased with my on-the-table results although the rake is obviously pretty insane. There is probably enough room for improvement left to bring that figure closer to breakeven at least. I am not quite sure how much longer I really want to grind AoF but right now it is decent enough money. And at some point, I will have to convert all that C$ into actual $.

Be that as it may, I will take another shot at 1st place on the leaderboard this week while also playing some GG World Festival tournaments, but more on that in another post. I really enjoyed the sense of camaraderie on 2+2 and especially in this section of the forum. And who knows, maybe some people from back in the day are still around here? If so, please say hi!

The daily AoF grind is not super interesting but I will probably give at least some short updates, especially to where I stand on the leaderboard.

Last but not least, after two weeks my bankroll sits at a total of $740:

- $420 in actual cash,
- another C$300 and
- about $20 in T$ and tickets.

I also have $68 deposit bonus left 14 days of honeymoon missions for some really nice payouts.

This post is already way too long, so thanks everyone for reading!

All the best