My journey to 1 million dollars
Hello guys this is my story of how I made a milly from poker 😉
I am a 29 yr old from Australia and my journey started in high school when I tried to download a movie on piratebay. An ad popped from 888 poker suggesting that if I make an account they will give me 8 dollars for free. Of course as the curious 17 yr old I was I signed up... and what do you know it was real money lol. I was instantly hooked and obviously busted my roll playing microstakes. I then proceeded to make an account on every single new device that was available to me as creating an account on the same device would not work. I used every school computer, public library computer, friends phones etc. I don't even remember how many accounts I made but for the story's sake I would say in the vicinity of 200-300 accounts were made. I grinded the nl holdem sit and goes like no tomorrow, I loved the prospect of making money and was inspired by all the pros on Highstakes poker on YouTube which became a massive pastime for me. I still have a vivid memory of the screename "Trueteller" holding down the high stakes which I thought was so awesome. Anyways I had many highs and lows early on and was so prone to tilt that I was busting my bankoll to regs holding down the 500 dollar sit and goes. I remember watching a video of omaha on youtube which peaked my interest and thus I started playing omaha sit n goes. After a lot of trial and errors trying to get better at the game I amassed a measly roll of 5k playing omaha sit n goes. I decided to withdraw this money and move to pokerstars which was the biggest site at the time.
My pokerstars journey started while I was at university, it started where I left off playing omaha sit n goes. I grinded the hypers as that was the most readily available to me. You might also be asking why I never tried cash. For some reason whenever I saw the cash denominations in my stack I got nervous when playing so I always felt more comfortable playing plo hypers. I think i started off playing the 3 dollar hypers but I eventually grinded my way up to become a 60 and 100 dollar hyper sit n go reg. I still remember one day I tilted so hard and busted my roll to kaju85 at the 500 plo hypers. After that I decided I cant control myself lol, so I self imposed a ban on myself preventing me from playing any sit n go stakes above 100. I came back and started crushing again but the money I was making was just nice pocket change, not enough to make a living. My pokerstars screename was ASabir and below is my sharkscope graph. https://www.sharkscope.com/#Player-Stati...
Eventually Pokerstars got banned and I thought I had to give up on poker. A year or so has passed and I came across a site named Ignition which apparently was available to Australians. I deposited 1000 dollars and realized playing sit n goes wasn't viable as there wasn't any hypers or traffic available on the site. Thus I was forced to play cash to make some money and so I did and busted my roll playing plo 200. I honestly thought I wasnt good enough so I didn't play for another year. Suddenly one day I had the urge to play poker again and deposited around 3-4k again and try my luck again. It went well... I became a winner of the bat and started making the most efficient and variance free money I ever could imagine playing plo200 for 4 years straight. I really had no ambition in moving up stakes as I was quite comfortable beating plo 200 for 15bb/100 and didnt want to leave my comfort zone. Eventually at the start of 2023 my mate convinced me to give plo500 a go. Luckily the action was so good and I didnt really need to have and "real" skillset to beat the game. Now at the start of 2024 I somehow found the courage to move up to plo 1000/2000. Again action was so good that I became a winner instantly again however after 2 months of playing in May I experienced my biggest downswing ever. I played poorly and ran incredibly below ev, I couldnt believe it and thought they must be card sharing... I was forced to move back down to plo500. It was such a let down playing plo 500 after experiencing the highs of plo2000. So after playing plo 500 to try and boost back my bankroll I took shots and plo 1000/2000 again and had one good day of 34k put me back on track to reach my goal of 1 million. After 4 months of playing I got out of my downswing and reach the goal woooooooo!
I never studied the game and only got better by putting in the volume playing, watching YouTube videos and rail birding highstakes pros. I did reach my goal but I still have a lot of regrets, I wish had more ambition in terms of playing the higher stakes. I had way too much bankroll management security and just needed to take a shot which is what poker is all about gambling! I'm eternally grateful for poker being able to purchase my own house and to live a comfortable life. If you reached this far thank you for reading my story, I hope my next milly will be a lot quicker!!
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Holy ****ing shitballs!!!
Umm, that's a real brag. What are you doing here?
Can you show the stake breakdown? Ridiculous graph, well done
DAMN!
WP OP
Yes PLEASE show your entire database broken down by stakes. Congrats!
dear lord... WPWP
What a nice story man congrats on reaching a million!
Golf clap, Little Steven nodding gif.
Well done, man.
It took you two thousand days (😮) to make one mirrion, how is this a brag and not a beat?
You will have to make your wishes come true when it comes to your ambition to make sure the next one don't take as long 😀
Ever since I posted this thread been getting crushed ev wise, on the plus side I started playing on coinpoker and have made 40k profit since.
wow, sick, well done sir!
bro is very lucky. that's a real brag
My lord! Good **** my man!
Thats the 1st real brag i've seen in here since I came back to the glorious BBV board!
there is a light. vwp sir