The whole country was partying hard last week, so not to be left out I joined in.....untill I got ill that is. The later part of the week was difficult but meaning I was not in the mood for leaving my room much I put in just short of my 20 hours for the week. This meant I played 5274 hands and went on a bit of a heater and end up just over break even for the week. I ended up just over break even for the week. 

In terms of how my is evolving, plans are changing, I feel I need to study more and play less. I am probably going to cut down the hours I play slightly and study more. I have found a great thread on 2p2 by a absolute legend called veneer. The thread basically follows his journey from depositing $100 i think, through the micros to the small stakes. He covers a huge amount of poker and the way in which he explains this is both correct and concise! I am only about a third of the way through I have learnt a lot and feel I am thinking more about every decision in terms of hand reading and not auto-piloting. I would definitely recommend any struggling or break even micro stakes  player with a basic knowledge of NLH to read all of this thread......two plus two, no limit holdem, micro stakes, moving up through unl 2010. Sorry I wasn't sure how to link here.

Through reading this thread, I feel am playing a slightly higher range, finding some spots to take pots due to better hand reading. I hope this continues into this week. This week I am going to figure out how to post images on here and hopefully will be able to post some stats and graphs to show my progress.

Once again good luck on the virtual felt.

ssgrinder

Well last week was a bit of mixed week really. I started the week strongly, quickly moving up 5 buyins, before running a little bad. I ended up just under 1 buyin up for the week. When I say running a little bad, dont think i am moaning by any stretch of the imagination and I am certainly not saying this is a bad downswing.....far from it! I have been hit by a few 2 or 3 outers but thats poker. It was more my 3bets, or c bets not working or people hit a weak two pair on the river after calling 3 streets of value to beat my TPTK. All things thats I am not worried about, and will keep doing as I have been.

In terms of volume, i put in just under 16 hours. Not where I want to be but I partied hard last week. That grinded me 4516 hands so my predicted of playing 8000 hands a week is far from the mark. 

This week is already Thursday and I have not been able to concentrate on poker due to the partying. Its dying down now though and I am not back at work until Monday so I have 4 days to put some serious hours in and hopefully play as well as I can. 

I hope to feed back some positive results soon.

Take care and good luck on the virtual felt.

ssgrinder

Firstly I will be applying a 25 18 bankroll rule. This basically means that when I have 25 buyins for a limit I will move up. If I drop down to below 17 I will then grind the lower level again till I am back up to the 25 buyins required. I feel bankroll management is hugely important and something I am determined to be strict with myself on.

Ok well having started my quest on Wednesday and having an extremely busy week I am please with the amount of hours I put in. I moved into a brand new apartment on Thursday so didn\'t play at all on Thursday and didn\'t have the internet available of the Friday. So all in all I am pleased with the 11.06 hours I played. 

I played 3171 hands and was extremely please with the way I played. Yes looking back there was one or two bad decisions, but playing a tight game of 14.5/12 I kept out of a lot marginal decisions. Perhaps in the past I would not have been so focused, and ended throwing away a few buyins of hard graft. 

Results wise I am $60.15 up which equates to a win rate of 18.97bb/100. This takes my bankroll to just over the $360 mark. 

I am hoping I can keep this up in my first full week of grinding starting with two later today. I have a day off tomorrow as well, so will be looking to put in a few extra hours. I am going to try and play as much as possible this week due to there being a national holiday next week, for 5 days. I can see a lot of drinking occurring which will of course hinder the grinding. I will try to curb this as much as possible and continue my good start!

Untill next time, good luck on the virtual felt.

ssgrinder