Hello, Pokerstrategy! My name is Vadim (sounds strange in English, doesn't it? You can call me whatever you like), I'm a typical crazy Russian who drinks vodka and plays the balalaika with his bears all day long. When I'm not drinking vodka or crafting matryoshkas to sell to buy more vodka I enjoy trying myself at online poker. I started by playing with my bears. They took my money and vodka and matryoshkas and balalaika before I learned to play well. I'm 21, a lazy student on my 5th year and I play in my spare time (and I have plenty because my parents are providing enough for me to not get a job yet (I could, for the experience, but I'm lazy and I'll put it off until graduation)).
I guess I've been trying poker out for two or three years so far. I think I got interested after seeing some poker programme on TV, then I watched some stuff like High Stakes Poker on YouTube and decided I'd have to give it a try. I started by playing in some online play money poker to learn the rules. After a while I installed PKR and played there, got a bit of money from freerolls, increased it slightly, lost it back.
Playing at FullTilt
I installed FullTilt after that and immediately liked the simple 2D format over PKR's unnecessary 3D (like 2D and 3D chess on the computer - in the end, 2D rules, 3D only distracts). I played there under the screen name of Schizbeard (like a schizophrenic pirate), won a couple of bucks in a freeroll after a while, lost them, after another while I won a couple more, bought into some small sit-n-go, won it, and proceeded to increase my money in cash games. I played pretty randomly based on intuition then. I think I once got up as far as $50 there, but generally I stayed around $30, going up and down (that's a psychological phenomenon that still plagues my game - after a winning streak my level of play decreases and I lose until I reach a critical point when I have to get focused and start winning again - and this goes beyond streaks of bad and good luck). Then FullTilt closed down. So it goes. I hear I'll be getting my account back soon.
Playing at PokerStars
So I registered on Pokerstars under the (somewhat gay?) screen name of PiperAtDawn (taken from the Pink Floyd debut album "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn", I was really big on them at the time), and that's still where I primarily play. I started by making my first actual poker deposit: $10. I played for a couple of months like on FullTilt: went up, went down, circled around $10-20. Then I lost them. So I deposited another $10 and played them for a while too until I was down to $2 after a tilt ride. I decided that if I lost this deposit too I would quit. So I took a couple of days without poker, read some basics (I had not read anything on the subject before) and returned and turned $2 back into my $10. And my whole current bankroll was built from those $2. Right now I have $300 and around 10000 FPP, alough at some point I had around $500 and 20000 FPPs but went on a two or three week tilt marathon and ended up spending all my FPPs for cash and going down to around $200. I was trying deepstack nl10. So it goes. Mainly I'm a nl2/nl5 6max cash game player, recenly got into 6max pl2/pl5 PLO. I multitable generally 9-13 tables (since only 9 fit relatively comfortably at minimum size on my screen), but I have played up to 24 on nl2 at one point and have even had my table limit automatically increased by Pokerstars to 28 and played 26-28, but I can only pull that off at the weakest stakes and when my mind is very fresh and sharp. Also, all that big multitabling was part of the reason for my big tilt marathon. I've had some success (profitable sessions) at deepstack 6max nl10, but with my bankroll size any streak of tilt breaks me to a point when I have to go down in stakes, and I tilt fairly often when I sit down to play tired or angry. Getting into deepstack nl10, however, did increase my level of play considerably since there are more good or just plain agressive players there than at nl2/nl5, where a tight conservative style works all the way. I almost never play tournaments since every bad beat is so devastating and you can't just rebuy and take it back from the fish. Tourneys are pretty boring for me compared to cash.
In conclusion, in case you're not bored enough to quit reading yet!
I still haven't read much, a few articles online (you can figure out holdem without them, but PLO's a real bitch), a bit of Harrington's book on online cash games, got a 3month silver account here recently to read some stuff and see if it helps. I don't use any software. I've thought of holdem manager but I decided to only get it if I can push my bankroll back over $500. A somewhat counterlogical decision for a person who has decided to keep playing, I know, but I'm purely a recreational player - for me, incidentally, the fun is in beating my opponents and getting better, so recreational here doesn't mean throwing money to the wind and buying in to go allin every hand. I may work on my game, but I am also extremely lazy, too lazy to bother configuring HM and figuring out the stats when I'm doing fine without it. I probably will do it at some point though since I like to multitable.
Most recently out of boredom I've taken the $10 test here and thrown it into Partypoker to see if I can build a bankroll out of $10 again for fun. So far I've turned them into $25. Registered there under the screen name of BatChainPuller, another weird name and obscure musical reference.
So, thank you for your attention if you have stuck with me all the way so far, and... spare some change for vodka?
But thankfully, I've grinded it back after a few swingy days.
PLO is fun, you have options. 
A bit of icing on the cake of a good night.