Hello TPE!

I've been a member for a month now, guess it's time to introduce myself. My name is Michael and I'm from Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

I started playing poker in 2008, inspired by Chris Ferguson's bankroll building challenge. So I started playing the freerolls, signed up for a membership to Deucescracked and PXF, and read a ton of books and forum posts. However 1-tabling the microstakes on a netbook with no bankroll proved extremely frustrating and after a year I quit the game.

Lately I've been putting a lot of stuff on Craigslist, but nobody was interested in my poker books. So I started reading them again, and I thought: what the heck, why don't I make a deposit? I'm okay with playing for fun once in a while.

So I played my first $1 tourney and luckboxed my way to 3rd place out of more than 8000 entrants… 

Holy shit. I suddenly have a bankroll!

So I guess I'm back. I cashed some of the winnings out to help pay for Table Ninja, a 24″ monitor, and a TPE membership, leaving $500 in my Pokerstars account. I'm planning to play by the bankroll guidelines set out by RonFezBuddy.

The past few weeks I've been practicing 6-tabling the $0.25 90-man SNG's, the $0.55 90-man, and this week I started playing the $1.40 KO 90 man. Playing multiple tables has been such a revelation to me, it's actually really relaxing! The tilt issues I used to have are practically nonexistant now. 

So thank you TPE, the video's have been really helpful so far! I'm looking forward to playing poker regularly again.

See you later!

Michael

EDIT: I changed my name display status from Dolphin to Mikey Knight.