I can tell a lot about me in poker, so i will mention several points:
*I have learned to play poker in about half august 2013, but this were just some of the basic rules.
*After it i have tried to learn more and more about the rules until i understood the full game.
*In about a 1/2 - 1 year later i have played it a lot and became better at it.
*And now i am on replaypoker since 09-2015, but kept losing a lot on the site. Even when i got a nice stack (about 100k) i lost it after some time.
*But i keep getting better and better now, and my stack keeps getting higher now. On my best point until now (28-03-2016) i had more than 900000 chips, which placed me in the ranking on place +-4500. And with more than a half million players there are even less than 1% who are placed so high or higher.
*Today (06-04-2016) i even have reached more than a million chips.
*in ??-05-2016 i played my first live tournament called the ONKP (open nederlands kampioenschap poker) which translated means open dutch championship poker. it's a big tournament which contains many preliminary rounds spread all over the netherlands. when you reach the best 5% of one of them you can play the semifinals and when you win one you can immediately go to the finals. there are no money prizes but you can win a trophy if you win a preliminary round or the finals. however i didn't scored well and reached somewhere into the worst half.
*In the meantime i managed to reach the 2 million chips, but because of huge amount of bad luck, but also doing some stupid actions i screwed my entire bankroll. In the meantime i have worked very hard to get my bankroll back, and now today (15-01-2017) i have even reached the top 1000 of replay poker, and there are more then 900000 players till now. And i did reached this point with more then 8,4 million chips!
*Today (29-01-2017) i reached more then 20 million chips. And with that, i reached the top 500 of replay, which is almost the best 0,05% of replay!
*i have now (02-08-2017) played my very first real money live tournament. it had a buy-in of 90 euro's (of which 10 is rake). and 36 people played it. the first 6 were in the money. in this first real money tourney i ever played i managed to reach the first place! and i won 969,50 euro's. which is almost 11 times the buy-in.
i have also tried 2/2 cashgame twice afterwards. but both days i lost.
*today (25-09-2018) i played a preliminary of the pokeren.nl series, which is a similar tournament like the ONKP. i have played a few before. the main differences with the ONKP are that the best 10% will reach the semifinals and the chipleader of the top 10% will get the trophy instead of the actual winner. both of them will get an immediate spot for the finals. however after the top 10% are reached, the tourney get played in a bingo version where the blinds increase each hand.
the tourney i played today had 97 people, so the best 10 would get a seat in the semifinals, i reached the 6th place and got into the semifinals!
*today (03-11-2018) i finally started with real money online poker, on partypoker.
*today (06-11-2018) i started my first MTT on partypoker. it had 153 entrants, and i managed to conquer the 1st place! the BI was $1,10 and teh first place was $38,66
*today (16-03-2019) i played another preliminary from the ONKP, this one had 89 players. i made my best score ever from the ONKP because i reached the first place! not only did i instantly qualify for the finals, i also won a trophy by winning the tournament!
*today (06-05-2019) i reached 441M chips, which ranked me in the top 100 (out of about 1,5 million players) of replay
*today (06-07-2019) i played the finals of the ONKP and it did go incredibly well! there were 181 finalists, and the entire tournament had over 9300 players. in the end i managed to get the 4th place!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWH7BSGfLIc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC0YXm9DJWU
today (08-01-2020) i played another preliminary of the ONKP, this one had 52 players. i managed to win the 1st place again so i won another trophy and instantly qualified myself this year (2019/2020) again for the finals of the ONKP!
here 2 additional milestones without a specific date:
*i played the ONKP and pokeren.nl series several times again and got mixed results, however my results keep getting better.
*in the second half of the year there is always the NTKP which is the team version of the ONKP. there are a few differences like no direct place for the finals but the best 20% instead will go to the semifinals. i played 2 preliminary rounds and in one we reached the semifinals with a second place of 15 teams. the semifinals however we reached one of the lowest spots (somewhere about 27th of 30). edit: the onkp and ntkp are now both the whole year since now (2019/2020)
In short: i really love the game, and i keep getting better at it.
Reward good play and behavior