Day 140

Still havent found a job yet and its not looking too good for me. I am in the process of moving to the city so I can get something to do for a bit until I can get a job for salary, but whos know when that will be with this economy. Over the last month or so didnt play a whole lot. When I did play it was pretty much only Mtt's and went on a losing run of about $250 on them. I almost went broke but had some friends ship me some money and I won some money on a freeroll with my points. When I got that money I recently decided (about a week ago) I need to start playing a little more serious. I decided to go back to playing 9 man sngs for $10 buy ins. I have been doing really well in them. In a little less than a week I won the 250 back that I lost before and another $400 profit. This last week is the first time I started playing them serious in a long time and I feel like im playing the best I ever have. For the first time I feel like I know exactly what people have according to the bets they make and positioning they are in. I have also been able to pick out when people have been stealing very accurately mainly because I only play 3 tables at a time now and have really been studying the players. Its been a really good feeling. Basically, I have either been taking 1st or 2nd hardly any 3rd or 4ths, and the main ones I have been losing are with q's or better early allin in the toruney taking bad beats finishing in 7th, 8th and 9th. My plan now is to try and build a bankroll so I can move up stakes to $20 games. I have about $450 in my account so I figure I need about $800 to comfortable move up to $20's. Until then I am gonna try and grind these $10's out and limit my Mtt games to only a couple a day and try and play a min of 10 sng's but closer to 20 a day. Hopefully by Day 150 I have reached my goal of $800 bankroll and cashed out a bit more so I can play really serious.

Day 100

saBeen a long time since I posted. Been up and down on the site. I made the new account so I could get rakeback and strictly played cash games for a long time. From the last post on Dec. 16 till about Jan. 10 I only played 7 stud h/l cash games. Made alot of rake and was winning a moderate amount ( about 250 since last post), but also made nearly that much in rakeback so it seemed worth it. Then I went on a terrible stretch starting at the beginning of Jan. I lost about 500 in a week stretch. I that point I just wanted to give up all together. I only had about 350 left in my account at that point and decided to cash it out. However, when I gave them my information to cash out they found out that I had another account and closed my new account...... It took a bit but i got them to transfer the balance over to my old account where I can no longer get rake which is very gay. After some consideration I decided to play a few tournaments in my old account before i cashed out. I did pretty good in some 90 man sngs and got a decent amount in my account and cashed out 400. Over the next two weeks I went back to basics and played games I did a while ago. I want to keep my account low though now because I havent found a job yet and need the money. So my plan was to cash out small amounts and keep just enough to play in my account. I didnt even play any 9 man games just mtts and large 90 man sngs mostly for $10 buyins. I started doing well playing just a couple hours a day. I cashed out 200 and another 100 over the last week after winning a 90 man and taking a 2nd and a couple 3rds leaving myself with about 200 in my account. Then I went through a bad four or five day strech recently and today my account my all the way down to $40. Basically if I lost this I couldnt really afford to play for a while, and I was ok with that. I bought in for 3 mtts for about $30 total. I ended up taking 1st in the $6 buy in for $144 and 2nd in the $11 buy in for $160 while winning another $25 or so for knockouts. I didnt even really play that well in either, I was short stacked on both before the money and won alot of allins and sucked out numerous times to get heads up in both. Both of them I was short stacked when heads up. The $6 one we had pretty similar styles and just folded back and forth to each other for about 30 min. Then I bluffed a big pot from him to get even and then a couple hands later he called my reraise allin with a7 to my aq after A hit flop to win. The other one the guy was very aggressive he had me low and dominated twice but I sucked out twice to get back to even, one time it was A2 against qq, he was pissed. Then the blinds got ridiculous and he raised me like 4 times in a row to take the lead. I had 33 after he raised again and I pushed, he showed aj and hit A so I took second. But I am still very pleased with today and cashed out $180 more leaving myself with $160. Now I can play for a bit longer and maybe ship a big one.