Its been a good week so far. I finally made use of my FTP points on Full Tilt and played in the 2500FTP qualifier to the FTOPS ME. Top 72 get 535 T$. I think I played pretty good. Couple of key hands ->

1) Shoving A6 from the blinds against a MP steal. I had a read on the guy based on his pre-flop raise. He called with 78s (coz he had the right odds), and I doubled up.

2) Later I folded AKo when there were ~85 ppl left. The action was raise, 3 bet shove by mid stack. I was in 30th position or so at that point so folding I think was the right play. Now if the tournament had a regular pay structure I probably would have shoved. Anyway folding AK pre-flop is sooooo hard!!

As expected I didn't play the main event. Its too much $$$ especially given the current state of my bankroll. So I converted the T$ to USD and now I'm waiting for a nice $500 check from Full Tilt.

Also I started playing NL50!! YAY!!

Also here is my progress so far in NL50,

New rule for myself:
4 tables MAX!!! - I just realized, when I play 6-9 tables its hard to focus on player betting patterns! I think if I don't understand these patterns I'll never become a good enough player.

$2500 for NL50 looks a long way off now, but I think its better I get a solid bankroll now rather than struggle later. I want to be able to support myself with poker by the summer of 2010. And I think I would need to be @ NL200 with 60 BI's (~$12000) in order to do that.

This weekend, I'm going to play 8 180man $4.4 tourney on stars. 50% of my winnings are going to go towards a fund set up by some of my friends.

Lets hope I make some $$$ - after all its for a good cause :)

Quick change, after a high variance session on stars I've decided to make that 60BI's before moving up.

yay for bankroll nittiness (sp?) - it was about time!

Well I withdrew a big chunk of my roll for a medical emergency. I hate asking my parents for money!!

Although I'm still sufficiently rolled for NL100 (20BI's), I'm rebuilding from NL25. I will be 6-9 tabling.

The rules for moving up are:
- I should have 50 BI's of the level I wish to progress to. For example I should have $2500 before playing NL50, $5000 before playing NL100 etc.
- All tourney scores I can spend (since I'm a SENIOR!!! yay!!)

Well I started 6 tabling NL25 on Sunday, and today I 9 tabled. So far so good, I played approximately 2k hands in 6.5 hours. I was hitting the flops hard and was able to extract a lot of value from the fishies. Also it help when you win those flips!



I WILL UPDATE THIS BLOG AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK!!!! I NEED TO KEEP ON TRACK!

Anyway goal for Feb 2009 is to move up to NL50 with my new 50BI rule.