Hi,
I would like to tell you a little story about a bad night which later turned to be
a nice morning. 
I started to play poker in the middle of January and registered here on 2nd of
February. Since then I have played a lot and learnt even more.
I'm better at SNG tournaments than cash games, but still I need to learn a lot.
The articles here are great help and I read poker books too.
But here is the story. On Saturday I was playing in my first live cash game
- before this I never played live, just online.
The buy-in was 20 euro and we were playing pot-limit hold 'em.
I feel out after one hour because I made two mistake. The first mistake - when
I lost 90% of my chips - was when I fell in love with my two pair and I was
so blind that I didn't realize of the danger of a flush. Anyway, my opponent made the flush with the river card.
The second mistake less serious,but still it made my game over. I was almost
out of money and I had KK. I just raised when I should have gone all in.
My opponent won with three 7.
So I lost and I went home. I was so angry for myself because of my stupid mistakes that I thought I don't deserve going home by taxi so I went home on foot. It took 1 hour . I had time to think.
It was almost dawn when I arrived home.
I knew I can play much better and I wanted to prove.
So I sat down and registered to an online tournament - 500$GP.
There were 110 participant.
And the dark night turned into a shiny morning, because I think I was playing
really well and finally I placed on 3rd place. When I fell out I had straight
with 6-7 and my opponent had straight also but with 8-9. Bad luck.
So I lost 20 euro in the night on the live game and won 80 euro back online. And yes,it was good to won back my money but it was even better that
I proved that I can play much better. Yes,I know it wasn't a big tourney
but for me it's a great success.
So far it's my best place in a "big" tourney - I won a lot of SNG,but there are
only 6-10 participant.
I have a 13th place in a freeroll with 500 participant.
But I 'm learning constantly and want to improve - and prove.
