~600 hands, +$32.44
Cleared Bonus, +$10.00

I know this sounds really stupid, but I'm disappointed that none of my progress at Cake can be tracked in PT and even more disappointed that it can't be graphed. If things go as expected, and I'm playing 50NL or perhaps even 100NL by the time I move to a site that supports PT, the graph is going to look really wacky.

Of course, that's a trivial matter. The #1 priority is always making money, and that's exactly what I'm doing. Beating 20NL at Cake is as easy as... well, cake. Even if I could post hands from the last two days, I probably wouldn't because most of them were really standard. Hit monsters, get paid, lather, rinse, repeat.

I did play one hand today that was somewhat interesting though. I limped with 44 in EP, and as expected everyone else came along. The flop came something like 4h 6d 2h. I pot it, CO calls, Button shoves. At this level, I'm treating this sort of like my KK vs AA philosophy. If I'm against a straight, I'm stacking off every time. I could easily be up against an overpair or a flush draw, and if I'm not I still have some equity. As it turned out, he had the straight and it held up. No big deal.

In other news, I played like shit in the Gauntlet. At this point I'm wondering if I even have a shot at making the top 10. I think my problem is that I think everyone perceives me as a weak/tight noob, so I see every button raise as a blind-steal, every c-bet as a bluff, every 3-bet as a power-play. Whether I'm correct about that or not is irrelevant. It's caused me to get way too involved early in the tournaments. I should just play standard Harrington style until my M gets low, then I can worry about people pushing me around.

It's been over 24 hours since I requested a payout from Vegas 24/7 and it still hasn't gone through. I don't think it's panic time just yet, but I'm getting very nervous. My AP mystery money took about a day to go through, so what's the hold up? Perhaps because this is my first withdrawal, or maybe because it's a larger amount. I'll give it another day before I contact customer support. For some stupid superstitious reason, I'm afraid that correspondence with AP could make it worse.

Bankroll: $722.04