Hello LeggoPoker, do you know what? I think it's time that I started a blog on this site. So here I am.

Standard introductory entry / The story so far.

Several years ago I was watching my little brother playing online at Party on my parents' PC. My brother is surely a 'degenerate' and watching him gamble literally dollars on the internet merely confirmed this fact. However I found the whole dynamic fascinating and decided to take a punt myself, diving into $1/$2 and $2/$4 limit, where I remained for the best part of two years. Who knows or dares to dream how much profit I accumulated in those heady days? Looking back, probably not very much.

Around this time I found myself visiting casinos. They seemed like a good place to go given that I was in my late 20s and feeling too old for nightclubs but too young for dinner parties. In fact, I was hooked. So hooked that I lived out the cliché, lost my money, quit casinos, decided to play poker again.

Now this may sound like it's leading up to the tale of how I 'rediscovered' poker, got good, made loads and have never looked back since but unfortunately this is simply not the case. I am not a great poker player and I have very little interest in the teenaged egos this game attracts like drunk girls at a stag party. I am just a student, and it is only recently that I have begun playing with any kind of real intent; the start of the long road to becoming a Zen poker master.

Having flitted about in my giddy schoolgirl way between numerous limits and games I settled in November 2008 at 25NL with 1K in my Stars account. I learned how to 8-table and beat that game like a red-headed stepchild. Since last month I graduated to 50NL and due to extreme laziness and complete lack of work ethic I have played less than 10K hands there so far. But I also came 2nd in the Leggo Poker tourney and won membership to this site so I've decided to drag my arse to the computer a little more often and attempt to blog about my sublime experiences at the microstakes tables I play in a gesture of self-motivation. I realise that the internet is littered with well-meaning blogosphere casualties but I hope that my posting routine will not fall too flaccid.

I was keeping a journal at http://thapunkprincess.livejournal.com but most of my friends list there have zero interest in this beautiful game so this seems like a more appropriate dumping ground for my thoughts and lack thereof. If you want to trawl back through the entries there then feel free, take in the scenery, but what I intend to do now is a brief series of posts recapping my experiences at 25NL and subsequently my game at 50NL to bring things up to speed.

Here we go, thanks for reading.