Poker can be so darn frustrating! I thought I had finally hit the point where I can be a consistently winning player, even if that just means my initial $50 bankroll moves up to $60 after a week. I'd be happy with that, because I enjoy playing the game, and staying even would allow me to play for as long as I want. Unfortunately, after I got my $50 up to a high of $106, I changed my playing style a bit, and played drunk twice, so now I'm down to $40!

Online poker really is a lot of fun, and there is such a variety of games and levels out there that you can play $1 buy-in NL hold'em tournaments, or $500-$1000 limit ring games and anything in between pretty much any time you want. I play on Full Tilt Poker, and typically stick to one table tournaments for a $5 buy-in with the winner getting $22.50. Sometimes I play multi-table tournaments, with my best finish being 6th (out of 180) for a $35 profit. If I'd just folded that last hand instead of trying to bet the other guy out of the pot, I'd probably have finished third for another $65. At any rate, poker is fun, and if I keep playing at a basically stay-even level, I'll be happy. But it would be nice to start winning all the time, maybe even get really good. I'm certainly trying, but I wish I had a big enough bankroll to play at a higher level where the competition will be stronger and I can learn to adjust to a better game.