Where do I start? Well I guess I could give a brief description of myself and tell you guys as to how I was introduced to poker. Let’s see here… I’m 20 years old… I’m Canadian and currently in college working on my Criminal Justice Degree. I am in my second year of the program and will be done next April … I possibly want to go into law enforcement if my career in poker doesn’t work out 
I was introduced to poker in my senior year in high school three years ago. We had a local cash game playing low blinds of like .5/. 10 cent blinds blinds. We always had a full table of 9 guys and usually there would be waiting list. Since I was one of the creators of the table I would always have a nice VIP spot.
I got my basic feel of poker and how the game worked on this table. Sometimes I would make big cash of 5 dollars telling the boys vending machine cokes on me.
Tourneys were always on the weekends with a ten-dollar buy in. It was a great environment to learn the game and make some cash. I started to get a great feel for the game and soared beyond my peers winning around 90% of the local tourney games we played. Currently none of my close friends play poker anymore thanks to me 
After I graduated from high school I started to play on various poker sites. I usually bought in for lower then $50 dollars since I was always pretty tight on cash for school. My first big tourney win I had was when I was playing on Royal Vegas poker. I made it down to the final table of +7600 entrants and came 8th winning $950 dollars in a 10-dollar buy in tourney. I still remember pushing all in with 9 :diamond:,9 
and getting a call from the same stack size as me with A :heart:, 9 
off suit. With the board going blank and the turn showing no help to my opponent his only chance to win the pot was an ace. Sure enough an ace came down. You never forget your life changing beats in poker; it will always stick with you. Though it’s funny you never remember the horrible suck outs you do on other opponents. Since then I have won over $3,000 dollars in poker from various tourney’s/cash games. I won a huge live tourney of $25 dollar buy in for $600 and had a three way split cash out in a $27.50 on p stars giving me another $1000.
I consider myself a well-disciplined poker player with great patience. However, my weakness in poker is that I’m highly competitive and hate loosing. When I loose a hand that I know I should of won I do sometimes loose my composure. I have been working on my anger recently and finding that I have been able to better control it.
When I heard about poker strategy I felt I was given an opportunity to prove myself as a poker player to see what I could turn $50 dollars into. The bar was set high; I needed 2,500 titan points in order to cash out my profit. One Titan poker point was equivalent to 1 dollar in rake. This a huge goal but I was confident I could get achieve it.
I started playing on the 0.10/0.20 cents no limit tables and in about a few hours I had turned the $50 into $125 dollars.
I decided to move up to 0.25/0.50 cents no limit. I knew this was against the SSS strategy but I was so confident that I was better then 90% of the players there. I’m not trying to come across as arrogant or foolish I knew exactly what I was doing.
Two days into no limit $50 dollars I was up to $250. I grinded my butt off this last week and finished with a total gross of $765 dollars. I promised myself once I had hit the 2,500 titan points no matter where my stack was I would cash it out. I had my stack up to $850 dollars at one point but took a terrible beat back down to $765.
This was just playing 0.25/0.50 cent cash. I could write several articles on this site as to how to win successful poker at this limit. You would not believe how bad the majority of the players are at this limit. It was honestly a gold mine to keep grinding my stack up. I’m not saying it was free money, I took terrible beats loosing with kings the last for times I had them. I was 3 outted on the river dozens of times but I kept my composure and that is how if you want to be a successful poker player you have to have it.
My best advice I can give you guys is scout out the players at the table when you sit down. Don’t try to give yourself a name too quickly when you sit down. Get a feel for the rhythm of the table and adapt to it. Find out who are the loose aggressive, tight conservative players and play them on it. I found that when I had great reads on certain players I was always paid out by them.
I just cashed out last night $765 dollars and I feel amazing. I know I had to play some unreal solid poker because for someone to achieve 2,500 titan poker points without loosing their stack needs to be seriously playing some kick ass poker.
I want to thank Pokerstrategy for giving me an opportunity to test myself and see what kind of poker player I have become. This money is going to go into my college tuition and going towards my degree. If you would like me to write articles or if you ever need advice on how to play no limit $50 don’t hesitate to ask me.
Thank you for your time.
Good luck at the poker tables guys.
Morryoda.
