so, ive decided to follow suit and create a little operation/blog/quest so i can get my shit together.

a little background on me:

i started playing, and consequently found FTR at the same time back in April and did the usual noob thing and deposited $50 three different times before i even scratched together what i could consider a BR. I ran the last $50 deposit up to about $200 playing low stakes MTT's and SnG's. At this point, i was playing $5 Sng's and MTT's with the occaisional $3-5 rebuy. In June i got 5th in the $5 R+A on stars for a cool $1700. I wasnt ready for this, and after squandering $400 or so of my winnings, i decided to cash out $1000 to put towards a downpayment on our house, and to force myself to play smaller stakes.

After this I had about a $500 roll, and decided to try out ring games. I played $25nl FR on stars and broke completely even over about 15k hands. i then went back to sng's, ran it up to $800, back down to $400, rinse/repeat.

At the start of November i moved my remaining $450 over to Full Tilt to take advantage of the 100% sign up bonus, and everything has gone downhill since. I played SnG's, MTT's out of my roll, ran about -5ptbb/100 at $25nl 6max, and as of Jan 1, 2007, I have exactly $200 in my BR.

I moved this money onto Stars yesterday for the reload bonus (although I only get $50), and thus begins my 6max joy ride. I will be grinding $10nl 6max, and my goal is to be rolled for $25nl by the end of february after putting in about 25k hands.