Hello,
I started playing poker because a friend of mine has been playing for almost a year now and insisted that I should give it a try... so I did.
I started with $50 on some software and somehow managed to get to $210 at nl4. After that I learned about rakeback, pokerstrategy, and some other pokerschools and really started to read articles and try to improve my game.
Getting to 210 took me about a month, the next month I didnt have much time to play due to exams and such, but my roll kept moving up slowly and now I am at about $300 which is pretty good given that I only started with 50 and never went broke.
Anyway, thats a little about my poker "career" and I really love this site, visit it every day!