And the story begins

A little about me before I say the purpose of the blog (sorry for the length if it gets to long). I'm 19 years old from Raytown, Missouri. I graduated from Raytown High School in 2007. I was a 3 time lettermen in baseball and earned all-conference honors 2 times. I always was a memeber of the Syphonic band. I was all-state on clarinet (I also play saxophone, piano, and guitar). I have one brother, Ryan, who is 16 years old and also another brother, Chase, who is due in the middle of May. I'm transferring to the University of Missouri-Columbia in Columbia, Missouri this fall to study in prestigous Missouri Journalism School. So basically once I get down to COMO its going to be booze, girls, poker, and writing papers. YAY!!! I'm a die-hard sports fan. Royals are like the online Kansas City team I love. The Jacksonville Jaguars, and New Orleans Hornets are my other two passions in the sports field. Thats about all you need to know about me.

Ok, so I'm basically starting this blog as a way to track my poker playing over this coming summer. I currently have about 2 weeks left of the semester at college, so once that's over I'm basically going to be putting in a lot of volume in the online poker scene. I'm basically not going to be playing anything huge (inless I hit something big). $10-$30 mtt's and $1-$10 rebuys are about as big as I'm going to go starting out. I'm topping off my accounts on Full Tilt (Baseball Tim) and Poker Stars (BaseballTim1) at 2k and going to try and build my bankroll from there. If I don't get anything started and basically just fail then I will jsut go back to the casual playing that I am now. In the small sample size I have played I have had some success. Back in May 2007, I started playing the normal Full Tilt $100 freerolls and made a few dollars but I ended losing all the money I made from them. I then ran into these $200 freerolls run by railbirds.com and actually started to build my bankroll from those small winnings. In July 2007, I ran hot and actually finished first in the month railbirds freeroll rankings. I played a heads-up match against Swedish poker pro, William Thorson where i won $250 and there he offered to back me in the $215 Sunday Million that day. Somehow, I cashed in the tournament for around $500 which was huge for some who had never had their bankroll over $200. So by the end of August 2007, I built up my bankroll playing $1/$2 and $2/$4 limit cash games, sit n goes, etc. to almost $3k. I withdrew about $2k and left the rest in my account. I then went on to lose almost all the money in my account due to terrible bankroll management, varience, and to be frank terrible playing. I basically learned from this and have regretted my poor decisions from then.

Currently, I'm basically only playing railbirds real money games, some low limit cash games, and the occassional mid stakes mtt. That will change this summer obviously, but I will continue to play the railbirds tournaments as the winner of the real money rankings gets a $12k WSOP Package and I'm currently 4th in the rankings and have made almost $1k playing $1,$3,$5, and $10 tournaments. I'm not going to sugar coat it and say everyone is great on the site. There are tons of players who have huge leaks in their games and I think I should win the year rankings. The point system they have on the site is extremely flawed, the structure they have on their tournaments on PokerStars is horrendous, and the level pf play is not that great either. I'm sure to post a bunch of hands from the railbirds tournaments at the beginning of this blog as that will be the majority of the tournaments I will be playing for about the next month.

Along with my poker adventures I'll probably jsut through up some nonesense from my daily ventures through the horrible thing that is my life. That will be the blog where you look at the title and just roll your eyes and ignore it. I'll wrap this up and write something some time soon. (Sorry for all typos in future as I'm not going to edit posts as I'm lazy as fuck!).