Halt in progress

Started back at uni today and have had a few issues with my account. Haven't played since Monday evening where i managed to win a few buy ins and bring the roll to around $133. Im busy tomorrow morning and afternoon as well but am looking forward to putting in a decent amount of hands tomorrow evening. I want to get to a toal of 10k hands by the weekend. This which allow to make a good assessment of how im going at nl5 & of my play in general.

Nice weekend

Played about 1400 hands this weekend and cotinud to run well. Got the roll as high as $127 however i decided to dabble in a few sng's & some tournaments which dropped it back to $120. This profit has basically all come from the cash games & im going to try very hard to reach nl10 sooner than the planned start of September. I will be taking shots when i have 20 buy ins ($200) and if i drop back to as low as $160 i will move back down to nl5. The plan is to be doing this by the middle of August. At the current rate (14bb/100) i should be able to get there even sooner but im really expecting some form of downswing to come. Definitely running a bit too well at the moment.

Anyway, here's the current graph.

Cruising ( at this point)

Going fairly well at the moment. After around 4000 hands at nl5 im currently running at a shade over 12bb. I figure i'll do this entry as a reference point, so i should include graphs etc. I feel im playing well however im also running fairly well and therefore poker is nice at the moment However im also aware how quickly things can change. This should be my last blog post till monday. Hopefully i can do another 1k hands by then and maintain this pace. Fingers crossed.

Tracker stats

Graph (scrappy start but it seems to be getting there)

steady.

Havne't been playing a great deal, but when i have its been fairly steady. My Poker tracker 2 was missing a lot of hands so i installed poker tracker 3. Seems to have no problems with reading all hands and its graph feature is awesome as well. Bankroll is now a bit above $75 so things are going well.

up and down, but mostly up!

Played about 900 hands now and have brought the roll upto around $70. Unfortunately my pokertracker is a bit buggy so it is only reporting a $10.25 profit. Hopefully i can try play about a 1000 more hands in the next 3 days.

On the bonus front i now have 88 out of the 400 required FPP's. At this level (NL5) the bonus cleares extremely slowly, given that few pots warrant a rake. However if i keep playing well hopefully i can reach my target figure of $200 quicker and start dabbling at NL10.

Fresh start

Had to take the money of tower to pay for a new passport. Pulled out $180 from there so i managed to make a small profit.

I've decided to make a fresh start on pokerstars. In general i plan to play ultra micro stakes (nl5) and just try refresh myself on the basics. Starting with $50, im challenging myself to try first get to $200 (which would give 20 buy ins for nl10). Obviously this may take a while. To help myself achieve this and to improve the overall learning process im limiting myself to an absolute maximum of 5 tables at a time.

I think one of my greatest problems in the past was trying to play too many tables at once. Even though i thought i was playing my A game, i was definitely missing out on a lot of opportunities caused by having to rush etc. I really want to focus on bet sizing and trying to get the maximum pay off from my hands based on what i expect my opponents range to be.

Long term goals:

1. Play 2k hands a week

2. run at atleast 8bb/100 hands

3. Reach $200 by start of September.

4. Quit if i lose greater than 3 buy ins or if im feeling tilty (one of my big problems!)

5. clear stars bonus (a whopping $20!) - need 350 more points.

I will give updates of my progress roughly weekly.

Here is my start:

dabbling

I am back on holidays and after a long break have decided to try my hand again at poker. I deposited $130 on wednesday and have been playing on Tower poker. At the moment the roll is $166. Early days but hopefully i can get something rolling.