Today I am at $385 mark. I havn't overplayed my roll yet. Ok maybe once or twice in the 50NL but other than that nothing else. I have been sticking to $5 SNG's and MTT. Every once and a While a $10 MTT. I have almost made all the money that I lost Last week back. I have tightened up my game a little also. There ins't a need to do anything but play solid poker at the lower limits. Lately I have been playing pretty tight but really agressive. The higher level of agression really puts people on a decision. Alot of times that decision is the wrong one and I am cashing in. I should be up to $550 pretty soon If I don't make another half bankroll mistake.

I recently downloaded the trial version of PokerTracker. I really like the program and I am going ot buy it.

More to come later
Logan

It is kinda funny how this can go bad so quick. Just last night I wrote how I wasn't going to overplay my roll and was going to set strict guidlines for myself. Well I did it agian. I somehow talked myself into taking my chances at the 1/2NL. Of course my KK ran into 10 9 who drew to the inside striaght and I lost $200. I worked so hard to get my stack up to 400 and like that in one hand it went down the drain. I am now sitting at about 22o and felling pissed. I know what I need to do to win but yet I can't even follow my own guidelines. It must be the greed in me that thirsts for higher stakes and money. So it is back to working my stack. I must promise myslef that I will not do this agian. I was so close to actually moving up a level. One in which I can support those fluctuations where my big hands get beat by runner runner.

I wonder if it is ever going to change. I come on here with the same lame excuse every time. I think that my be what seperates a great player from just a good player. I think great players know when to stop and think about how much time and effort they have put into there game and know bettter than to throw it all away for one shot at the big game. I am going to make an attempt to not even take one step out of the 25NL tables until my bankroll is a 550. Not even once. I think if I can succeed at this than I will have the patience to control my urges and not keep making the same mistakes that are preventing me from moving up.

Logan

Again it has been awhile since I have posted on my blog. I have done alot since I last wrote on here. My SNG strategy went well at the beginning but soon I had to quit it. I had made the money for ten straight tourny's and was excited until right after that I didn't money for 10 staight. I got tired of the SNG and moved on. I did manage to win 2 ($215) entry to the sunday tounry on stars. I didn't play in those tourny's and used the money for high limit SNG's. That turned out to be a stupid. I played about 6 ($50) turbo NL and didn't place in the money on one. I had chip lead on a couple and managed to get suck out upon suck out. I still managed to have about $100 left in my account. I withdrew that $100 and went back to full tilt at the beginning of the year. I have worked it up to $430 as of today playing mostly $25NL. I mixed in a couple $50 dollar games but the bulk came from $25 tables. I plan on playing mostly cash games around the $25NL level until I get my roll to about $700. I will then proceed to move up to the $50NL level. I will also mix in a few small buyin tourny's here and there. My goal is to eventually work my way up to the highest level tables. I won't cash out any money. The money in my account will stay there and be used for poker for a while. I probably won't move up to the $100NL tables until I get about 1600-2k. I will try and update more often that I have been.

Logan