I found a flash drive in an old laptop bag for a computer that I had a few years ago. I dusted it off and stuck in the computer and it had two images on it:







These were my results for the first 174 days of 2007. I put this together when I was trying to buy my first house. The bank wanted a record of my payroll for the year. I told them I was a self-employed poker player and this was all I had to give them for 2007. Banks don't usually like things like that, so I ended up having my mom join in on the application and become a co-owner of the house.

So what were the games like 3.5 years ago? Well I can honestly say that the games were softer. I remember playing pretty darn nitty and just waiting for people to donate. If you look at my 5/10 results, obviously I ran really hot, but you can't see my 1/2 and 2/4 results which were somewhere in the 3-5 PTBB/100 range. And I only had 127k hands in 6 months? I've gotten close to doing that in a month lately.

So where does that leave me? Well, I've started playing fewer tables. I think that will make a big difference in my winrate. I also plan on moving up a bit more aggressively. I'm WAY overrolled right now, which is really nice. But I think I'm going to start setting some very attainable goals for moving up faster. This should make for some nice motivation for getting back in the swing of things.

-Brian

(To those asking, "What the hell happened?" --- I withdrew my roll near the end of 2007 and (almost entirely) stepped away from poker for about 2.5 years for a myriad of personal reasons.)