Always thought you need a huge capital and effort to even begin to make anything in poker, otherwise I would have looked into it WAY sooner. Then let's see... year 2007 summer randomly heard from an MSN contact (knew him through some forums for the game Age of Empires 2...) that he had run like $50 bucks up to $4K over the internet in a slow stable process... Instantly knew this was what I wanted to try out badly.
Read books and messed around with play money at first lol, thought you need to start with limit because nolimit is too complicated hahaha. Then half a year later deposited $60 at Party, started with limit, soon turned to nolimit obviously and slowly ran it up to a few hundred at 5NL and 10NL... Moved up to 25NL, went on a bit of a heater (8BI above EV over maybe 50K hands), withdrew a few hundos to shut up my family, and when my roll hit about $1300 early this summer, decided to take a shot at 50NL.
Instantly lost 8BI, moved back to 25NL, lost 8BI more (most of these below EV), moved down to 10NL and 5NL and was breakeven for over 50K hands... Got mentally crushed and pretty much haven't played since >_> Back in the day I used rakeback points for a bonus which expires in a few weeks, there's $150 left and I'm not even sure I'll be able to clear the next $50 increment even though half of it is filled...
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What was the single one thing that changed your game the most?
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Mass multitabling 5NL and 10NL. Before that, I had zero understanding of variance, and thus very flawed fundamentals.
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What is the hardest thing to deal with (ex. long periods of no cards, single day losses, etc..)?
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When I'm not able to say to my family that the time I spend on poker is making me a real profit. They ignore the expectation and future perspective and get really abrasive, and I can't shut myself off from that.
Next hardest thing is just having to concentrate and think hard. My mental stamina has always been pretty bad so I get tired quickly.