Sunday, December 30, 2007

New Year, New Site, No Hope!

Here's the skinny:
I started pokering in July, and I've put a good whack of time into learning the game and I've ground out, and topped up so I have just about 20 buyins for $50nl. I beat $20nl for about 7ptbb/100 over 15k hands and that included a horror stretch of variance (great excuse isn't it). Anyway, I'm confident I can beat $50nl for something close to this, so laughing time is over. No more 3-betting with AK and then shoving over the villains lead on a whiffed flop "coz he might have nothing"
The operations is as follows:
1. Playing $50nl on ipoker, with a loyalty scheme that gives some decent cashback
2. Initially for 3-buyins given my marginal bankroll, but I'd say I'll just top up instead of going back to $20nl if I drop 3 buyins.
3. 4k-5k hands per week...and I really want to stick to this
4. Be rolled for $100nl by the end of February or mid-March
5. Grind $100nl until June when I go to Vegas, by which time I want to be able to withdraw enough to buy-in to the smallest WSOP event ($1500) and still be rolled to take a shot at $200nl (20-25 buyins).

So basically I'm giving myself 8-10 weeks, or ~40k hands to get through $50nl, which means I need to beat it for around 3ptbb/100.
I'll try to update this weekly with the week running from say Sunday to Saturday. So here goes!.....