Well let me start of by saying hi, I’m Lloyd and I have a bit of a confession, I don’t usually write on forums, I’ve always been a bit of a lurker when it comes to this sort of thing reading what other people had to say, so if this isn’t the most pleasant/easiest thing to read then I apologize !  However I’v decided to share where I am at the minute and what my goals are, I guess its in the hope of focusing myself a little more and taking any useful advice from you guys here at TPE. I have used TPE before but had to cancel subscription as I wasn’t getting enough time to study properly.  I’ll give you a bit of a picture with regards to my situation at the minute.

So I’m 25, engaged and currently a Science teacher in high school.  I’ll be honest, I like teaching, however I can’t see myself doing it for the rest of my working life but I’m happy with it for the minute.  Me and my fiance got our first house together just recently. Poker for me is something that I have never stuck at due to other distractions in my life, however it is something that I would love to improve on. I play mostly online poker, however I have played live a few times at the local casino and with friends at home games.  I play mainly on Pokerstars as LAS911 and I originally started out playing sit and go’s.  I’ve never really had any big wins, just small cashes in MTT’s and the occasional win in 45/90/180 man SNG’s. I’ll add in a picture of my short history from sharkscope.

I am currently playing with around $135 bankroll on Pokerstars, I could add more but I would like to avoid it at all cost (mortgage, bills, food have to be paid first!)  I used to enter into the higher buy-in MTT’s like the big 5.50 etc, however I’v decided to step it down a notch first as I wasn’t having a whole lot of success there and it wouldn’t have been good long term when thinking about bankroll management.  I’m playing the MTT’s at the micro-stakes at the minute and I’m trying to start building a bankroll up from there.  The ones I have been recently involved in are the tournaments below $1, these usually ship for a couple of hundred so I figured binking one of these would be a good way to start building my roll.  So far the best iv managed to finish is around 200/2000 on a few occasions.  Never gone any deeper than that unfortunately.  

I guess my own personal target for now would be to win one of these tournaments, however I’m looking to get there in steps.  If I can make improvements on my current best finish in this field then that will be a good sign of progress towards winning an MTT.

I will update this post to let anyone who is interested know how I get on.  Just out of curiosity for anybody who is still reading this, what was your first major win in an MTT?

See ya guys

Lloyd