Session 1

The year is 2007. It is a glorious year in that I have made the jump from a dedicated casual poker player to a semi-professional poker player. I am starting with a $1,000 bankroll and seeing what I can do with it.
Last year I was a profitable player, but I mainly played tournaments. Of the few cash games I played, about half were online, which is not my most profitable arena, and the other half were in brick-and-mortar casinos, which is one of my better games.
James and I will be making several trips to Choctaw this year and seeing what we can do with our ability and knowledge of the game. Who knows, maybe this will be my springboard to becoming a professional poker player; sleeping in until noon every day, working only the days I want to work, not answering to a boss, taking off for personal time if necessary, not paying taxes. It's nice work if you can get it.
My first session of 2007 was on January 1. It was a whip getting up to Choctaw, thanks to James sleeping in and his incessant need for plain and dry burgers, but we made it. I had to add-on another $160 from my initial $200 buy-in, but I ended the day with a $45 profit. After playing four hours that came out to be an $11.25 per hour session. Not great, but a good start to the year.
Nothing of great importance happened during the session. I got off to a rocky start and quickly found myself needing to double up or add-on. Once I was down to $36, after losing $30 to an all in player who caught a two outer on the river, I opted for the add-on.
Once I did reload I got some things moving. After about another hour I found myself to be second in chips at the table, right behind James. A rivered full house gave me the double-up I needed to get a big stack going and then a profitable A-K hand helped when I hit an ace on the flop and the guy followed me along down to the end, with me raising pre-flop and then betting the flop and turn. I decided to check the river because he was known to play some weak aces and he might have stumbled upon two pair and was praying for a check-raise on the end. I just flipped my hand over and he didn't show what he had. I am assuming either a weak ace (like mentioned before) that didn't pair the kicker or a second-best pair.
My bankroll now sits at $1,045 after two days of the year. If I retired now I could say I went out a winner, but that wouldn't be much fun. Stay tuned until the next session.