[hachkc]

Live
Poker has been in the family forever. Remember wandering around my grandfather's monthly poker game when I was like 3 or so. I've actually played regularly with some of the same folks that frequented his game. I currently have the poker table that my great grandfather built way back when (1920's). Been playing with the family forever. Started playing with a regular group in my earlier 20's like 1-2 times a month. It fell apart after a couple of years and poker was pretty much hit or miss (few times a year outside the family). Starting playing regularly again about 4-5yrs back and have been playing at least once a month ever since and rarely 3 times a month. Generally I don't do very well at live tournaments especially NLHE ones, I tend to get bored in them which ends up leading to bad decisions. I tend to do quite well at cash games though and play a mixture of limit (stud, he, omaha, others) and NL/PL games (he, omaha). I have only played poker in casinos a few times (a few times in MI, one trip to LV).

Online
Started in 2005 at UB, ran $50 upto $300 quickly and lost that just as quick. Put a few hundred more in and lost that over a few months. Got frustrated, put in $200 and focused on a single game (PLO8 ) and ran it up to almost $3k in 3mos. Kept jumping up limits whenever a I had like 4-5 buyins (BR mgmt? what's that?). Eventually ran into the other end of variance and lost about the remaining $1k (had cashed out $2k). Put in $500 near end of 2005, early 2006 and have never had to redeposit since though I've made numerous cashouts and some deposits for bonus purposes. On my 3rd cycle of playing microlimits to build my BR, getting BR up and playing higher limits, cashing out to buy a new toy, starting over at micros. Currently been hovering about break even for last 4months (up one month, down the next) after taking about 3mos off.