Yeah, I've been thinking.

I'm happy that I've recouped my losses with interest. I have a lot of work to do, and also preparing to get my teaching qualifications, so I'll be having a short break from poker, and it couldn't be better timed.

NL100 is much less of an emotional roller coaster for me. But I don't want to move down. I mean over 17 hours i'm making 38BB/hour (3 tabling) net of bonuses, and at 100NL I make 31BB/hour over a sample of 54 hours. So I'm making 2.5 as much in NL200, and I have confidence in my ability there. I'm hoping that I'll 'acclimatize' to the swings and the amplitude of the money i'm throwing around (I *am* only 20). I mean I wasn't comfortable when I moved from nl25 to nl50, and nl100 seemed like huge stakes to me at first... I think having had the last two days experience will help me there.

It's a funny thing... I mean we talk about bankroll management. 15 buy ins is standard and 20 is conservative. I'm looking at a bankroll of 18k... so that's like 90 buy ins, and still I'm not yet comfortable with it.

And coincidentally, I've recently had some of my friends who know that I'm pretty good at this game called poker (I destroy them in person HAHA) msn me to play with them. Obviously they have neither the skill, guts or bankroll to play at my limits, so we might play NL10 or something... and I must admit it's therapeutic! Just gotta make sure you don't develop bad habits like going all in with TPTK.

Oh, and I do enjoy other games... couldn't beat the fishies at 7-stud, but can beat 5 card draw. As for Omaha... absolutely no clue! I once accidentally joined a 15+1 PL Omaha Hi-Low tourney by mistake. I was in the middle of an upswing and won the damn thing! But I seriously didn't have a clue what i was doing. I just folded a lot and raised like hell on a pretty hand and tripled up and took it from there.