Rededication - The New Beginning

Well, it's been quite some time since I've updated obviously and there's much to get to. I stopped blogging a couple months back because I was involved in a poker training program with a player from the FCP forums. It was a 6 month program, during which the participants aren't to publicize their involvement in it, so it was hard to blog about my poker playing and not involve the training I'd been doing.

I've just recently become a "Steve7Stud" graduate, which puts me in the company of some pretty amazing poker players and will be a great resource to draw upon in the future. Since I was on the low end of bankroll as far as trainees went, tuition ate up a good chunk of my poker money, so I am pretty much am going to be starting from the ground up again, and I thought I'd reinstate the blog as a way to track the journey.

To start off, I have two separate paths I'll be taking. For cash game play, I'm starting right near the bottom of the 6max NL ladder, beginning at the $10 games. I plan to put in a good number of hands 4-tabling and get a good feel for the game. I'm starting with 50 buyins, and will only move up to the next level when I reach that number as well.

For tournaments, I will be playing 50 of the $22 180-player tourneys on Pokerstars in the next month or two. I was staked by someone that took a shot on me, and I hope to be able to turn that in to a worthwhile investment for him and make us both a bit of cash in the meantime. I've played two tourneys on the stake thus far, and actually ended up taking down 2nd place for $720 in the second one I played so that gets us off to an AWESOME start on the deal.

I won't be playing them very often, since if you final table them the tourneys are approx. 5 hours long so it's hard for me to find that block of uninterrupted free time - but I should be able to do the 50 tourneys inside of 2 months I figure.

Anyway, that's pretty much that for now. I played some $10nl last night, about 500 hands, and won 5 buyins. I don't expect things to be "that" easy going forward, but I definitely think the game is beatable for a good amount. Here we come, $1250...