Hello everyone, my name is Chill, I'd say a newbie to the Holdem Poker world, been playin 6 months now on-line. Below is my story on how I got hooked on On-line poker (for those who dare to read a long story ;().
In the past , me and the gang usually did play poker on Friday evenings for fun. We played the standard fun games like "follow the bitch", "midnight baseball" "stud" and the other hilarious games we invented as we drank more beers (imagine mixing UNO rules with poker! ?(). At one time another friend introduced us to Holdem and everyone seemed excited at first. However, playing tournament style with just 1 winner did not appeal to most of the guys, who would be when all you have to do when you're booted out is to just keep on chugging the beer and wait til the heads-up is over, no fun in that eh? So Holdem eventually went away.
Then about a year ago, I got introduced into what a Facebook is 
and eventually a friend mentions there is a Holdem apps over there, nice to play. Hesitantly, I tried, and what do you know, starting with 500 chips goes to 10K. Ok, keep on playing for couple of weeks... then 100k, this IS fun..... then.........bust start all over again. Slowly buildup from 100 then after several months into the millions wow! Imagine if this is real monies now hahaha. Maybe try the real one, hmmmm interesting idea. At this stage I was wondering why the players usually chat me the words, noob, fish, 
donk. I sometimes end up making a player very very angry :evil:.
So comes April of year 2011 and decided to open up a real account this time. Started looking for which sites can be accessed in the Philippines and found a couple, it says Pokerstars and Fulltilt. Now which one? Got to research some more.... and then come last week of April, boom! Black Friday! What the? Now I wanna play and this? Oh, wait a minute this site is still open, ah, got it, closed for US players only, goodie, I can still open. Ok let's open one at this cool site, it says FullTilt. ♦
At about the same time I also wanted to add a bit of strategy to my poker plays so typed Poker strategy at search engine and voila! A lot of articles at PokerStrategy.com Wow this is a good site, ok, ok, register as a member and keep on reading. Ah, so that's what those things are called Overpair hmmm many things to learn here. Unfortunately, read a little and played a lot, not too keen on BRM and after 3 weeks, you know how it goes, busto. Deposit again and read some more and be more carefull next time, go down one notch in limit. And now the BR steadily climbs 50% more, good, good! Here comes the next boom, FullTilt closed down by gaming commission. Grrrr! 
So deposit is tied up, what to do next? I know, this site which gives a $50 for passing a quiz, is it true? just try it. After 2 tries, yeey passed and yes it is true!. Onto another site, let's try ParytPoker this time. No BRM, no starting capital very quickly, sad. So starts a vicious cycle of Deposit-bust Deposit bust until today where I only am hanging again with an almost busted amount but still playable, but now applying BRM and playing it at NL2 for the first time..
An advice to new on-line players that have playmoney experience only and starting out like me. Try and learn from NL2, it's a cheaper tuition fee of learning the basics and finding out for example that your top pair 10 is beat by villain's overpair QQ hole cards. And in addition, learn from this awesome site Pokerstrategy.com ♠_thumbsup:
Have a nice day everyone! 
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), but moved to Dasmarinas Cavite about 12 yrs now due to work opportunities. I'm a Mechanical Engineer geared towards design works using Autocad mainly (one of the common design tools). I've been working with the Semiconductor industry ever since. How about you, which city are you in?
But I do like Angry Birds.
I'm putting a challenge on myself on not depositing immediately in such cases, that was my easy out which made me even more careless at this stage. 