So since I was the only player to end up with a profit I took it down... Dixie ended up with 2nd as she a) lost the least and b) actually played the full 100 games.
Oh yeah we agreed to make the bet for 100 games instead of 150 since nobody looked like they would have gotten 150 played. I was doing it slow to get an idea of the competition and wanting to play against them in same tournaments to, I feel, increase my chances of being on top.
So I have had 3/4 softball games rained out so far this season... why does it always rain on a Thursday night... Ugh
I have hit the 10K mark ($10,000) with all of my bankrolls combined on all of my sites with an initial investment of $50 per site total of $200 since Mansion poker's $50 start up was provided by Pokerstrategy, link is on the right top portion of my blog.
Most volume currently played on Full tilt and Mansion due to bonuses and rakeback, plus my interest in playing at Betfair and Tigergaming (action poker network) has gone down since Annette_15 left and joined Team Full tilt and the fact that the selection of games on both sites is pretty poor. I might just ignore bank roll management and play higher buy in MTT's on both sites and hope for a big score. On the other hand I might just try and do a crazy bonus whore on Tiger depositing $50 each week for 10 weeks then turn around and withdrawal $1000 and leave my account at a very minimal amount. Yet my "loyalty" to them is the highest since they got me started playing online, winning money, winning 1 year of free training at PokerVT which lead to everything about more sites, more volume, start of training, more $$, more $$ more $$.
I keep watching lots of training videos and playing almost every day, one of my new favorite coaches making videos (I have many of course) is Jonathan Little on Pokerstrategy. I have watched every video I can at my current level and am encouraged to play more to get the member points to watch all of his platinum videos as I am currently only gold status. But hey the membership was free and still is, I can get rakeback at sites I haven't yet signed up to, and after completing a simple test they gave me $50 which I have turned into $1,900 with a Mansion bonus of 3K coming in the near future. Whooot wooot!
No real goals for this month or most of the summer, I plan on spending a lot of quality time with the family, play a lot of poker, build my experience and hopefully my bank rolls then slowly move up the buy in levels. I have been dabbling in the Steps tournaments on Full Tilt starting only at the Step 0, 99 man super turbo (which costs a buck) then grinding my way up the steps, holding at 3 and 4 for the time being. Last week I was at 3 Step 3 and 1 Step 4, this week I am at 1 Step 1, 1 Step 3, 4 Step 4's all for a total of maybe $20 buy in at the Step 0 level. Step 4 is worth $75 buy in so even if I only had 1 I would feel happy about the situation. Oh yeah and I have only been playing the Super Turbo Sng's that start with 300 chips. The way I figure it there is more money in the prize pool, less in rake, hence more opportunity for profit.
Have a great one everybody and best of luck at the tables, and always remember:
Step 1) Study Poker
Step 2) Play Poker
Step 3) ????
Step 4) Profit!
