Blogging with a purpose

I have been playing poker on and off for about 8 years now. When I started playing back in the day everyone was really bad and it was easy to make a profit. Now times have changed. Sure, there are plenty of fish out there but the dynamics of the game have changed and a large number of the "bad players" have gotten much better and it seems that reading a few books just won't cut it these days.
In an attempt to boost my skill level and knowledge of the game I decided to join a training site. I fell upon PokerVT.com. It has been very enlightening to say the least. I have learned too many things to elaborate on them all, but with what I was learning I decided to stop playing cash games and begin a new road with sngs.
From my graphs the road looks easy enough, largely due to the teachers and fellow members of PokerVT. I took $50 from my bankroll on stars to experiment in sngs on FT during mid November of 2009.



Not too bad.
Buy in : $3.50
13 days played
551 Tournaments
+$238.11

With my winning here and some from cash games I moved up in stakes to the $7.50 for December.



I started out great. Then hit a huge downswing fallowed by a desert of a break even spell. I really felt my desire to play drop off as the month wore on.

Buy in : $7.00
17 days played
1,062 Tournaments
+$338.40

There is always next month.



Another 300 games of nowhere ville and then bam, back on track. I tried out about 85 $14.00s this month as well. Lets add that in.
Buy in : $7.00
18 days played
677 Tournaments
+$491.70
+$27.60 ($14.00s)

On to February...



Welcome to variance!
After this 40 buy in downswing I called it a month. Goodbye $600. I got gun shy after this and essentially stopped playing all together. I withdrew enough to buy a new 65" TV. I think it was my way of sabotaging myself. You can't lose what you don't have right?

I saw an opportunity to get going again by joining a prop bet with some fellow members of PokerVT. 13 of us put in $50 to ship to the winner of a 500 game $6.50 stake pure profit race. After breaking even for about 250 games I dropped out. At that point I needed a serious heater to catch up.

At least I got myself going for a bit. I'm ready to give it another shot. Oh shit. I killed my bankroll on a TV. Well, I still have $900 on FT. Too short for my $14.00s, but it just so happens FT changed all the buy ins anyway. I now find $10.00 buy ins with much lower rake!

I will play more. I will play more. I will play more!
I will give you guys an update at the end of the month. So far at 26 games I am up $150! Sick good run but I'll take it.