1st week in the books

The first week is in the books, and I'm ahead of pace. There's not a whole let else to say. I've been playing mainly a mix of 55s and 110s. I haven't put in a serious session yet where I've been multitabling over 3 games, but I'm sure I will soon. I'll need to start grinding a bit harder to reach 300k vpps, however.

7 day total: +$3,000

5 days in

$55's are making me love poker all over again. This is by far the easiest level at stars. The lobbies move quick, there's very few good regulars and so many fish. I've even been running solo 4 man's to a pretty decent tune. They're definitely profitable. I'm pretty close to right on pace. Now if only I was a touch more disciplined and continued here instead of moving up too fast I'd be far ahead. I'm considering if 4-5 tabling these would be a more profitable move than moving up to $110's.

These are just so juicy.

2nd hand of the game. No reads on me:

PokerStars Game #48760586635: Tournament #305402912, $55.00+$2.50 USD Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2010/08/27 18:12:29 ET
Table '305402912 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: bpmst2 (1490 in chips)
Seat 2: WAPDEGO18 (1510 in chips)
WAPDEGO18: posts small blind 10
bpmst2: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to bpmst2 [As 6s]
WAPDEGO18: raises 20 to 40
bpmst2: raises 100 to 140
WAPDEGO18: calls 100
*** FLOP *** [9s 9h 6d]
bpmst2: bets 220
WAPDEGO18: calls 220
*** TURN *** [9s 9h 6d] [4s]
bpmst2: bets 315
WAPDEGO18: calls 315
*** RIVER *** [9s 9h 6d 4s] [Jc]
bpmst2: bets 815 and is all-in
WAPDEGO18: calls 815
*** SHOW DOWN ***
bpmst2: shows [As 6s] (two pair, Nines and Sixes)
WAPDEGO18: shows [2c 6c] (two pair, Nines and Sixes - lower kicker)
bpmst2 collected 2980 from pot


5 days in: +1,450.

- Brian/bpmst2

Days 1 2 and 3

Good start so far, ahead of pace. Grinding the $330 and $550 heads up sit and gos.
-Brendan/BCM11

+$5266

Brian's introduction

Even though I'm getting pretty busy in a lot of my day to day activities, I feel like I'm neglecting good habits in poker and lost some of my grind.  I'm around 160k vpps on the year and want to reach 300k.  Hopefully this will help push me to it.  I decided to go along with brendan in this challenge to channel my focus on having a strong 3 months of poker and hopefully motivate one another.   So for the next 100 days I'll be starting at the $55 level and will climb from there towards the goal of $25k.  I'll update every few days with random musings, progress, and challenges along the way.

Starting bankroll: $600

$55’s til I reach $2,000.

$110’s til I reach $4,000.

$220 til I reach $7,000.

 - Brian

$100k in 100 days

Since I decided to not take classes this fall I am going to do a poker goal of $100k over the next 100 days.  I've been pretty lazy with poker the last few months so setting a goal will hopefully help me have extra focus and motivation.  I'm going to start out playing lower stakes heads up sit and gos and progress to the $1100s and possibly $2200s or $5500s as it goes.  However, the idea of this goal is to just grind out $1k a day so I don't need to be playing too high of stakes to do so.