By AHMWM on October 9th, 2007 (more posts by author)

I haven't posted for several days now, but I also haven't played a great deal of poker, or at least as much as I'd liked to have. I have dropped a couple buy-ins since I last posted but I'm not greatly disappointed. I am still ahead for the month and my winrate is now back to where it has been for months. My hands have slowed down and today I was especially victim of some ugly boards. Not as many terrible outdraws but more missing flops, and being outflopped. I still feel fine and aside from a few plays my game is not terrible. I'm trying to play the absolute maximum number of hands my schedule will allow this month. I want my rakeback to be huge for October along with my overall winrate. I recently made an account on Red Nines Poker, from the Prima Network. I signed up for rakeback through RaketheRake.com and plan to make a deposit within the next week or two. I really like the site as I have played a few freerolls and played some micro sng's with the winnings. Playing FullTilt NL10 takes so much rake it is tough to build fast. With my FullTilt rakeback though I still plan to move up before the distant future. I feel that once I hit NL25 my game will really take off. The rake will be much less of a factor and hopefully I won't have to deal with the same amount of variance that comes with the calling stations at NL10. I have specifically set goals for myself up to the end of 2008 as far as moving up goes.

By the end of 2007 I want to be 4 tabling NL25 on FullTilt.

By April 2008 I want to have a bankroll ready for NL50.

By August 2008 a bankroll to play NL100.

Finally by the end 2008 NL200.

I understand that these are huge goals for a micro player like myself, but I am confident I can do it. 3-4 months at each level should be enough time to make 20 buy-ins. As long as I keep playing a great amount of time I can only get better. With enough experience and study I have no doubt that I have the potential to be a solid player at any level I play. I'll keep you all updated on the grind, but right now I gotta head to class.....