Last night may have been the first step in actually making the corner visible. I played well, wasn't frustrated by MIrc and made some money. I went back to PS since I had been depleting my roll on Full Tilt so much lately, played for about 1.5 hours on 10NL, full ring. Started off buying in for table max on two tables. Opened the IRC Chat channel and started working. Had a little trouble with PT3 at the beginning but restarting it fixed that up.

I ran very tight, for the first 20 hands I couldn't play a single hand on either table... so 40 hands in I had nothing but blinds leaking away. The cards were just dead. So I finally caught a button spot on one table where there were no raisers ahead... raised and stole some blinds. The second table remained painful though. On the first table I had been closely watching a few players though, finding one who loved to call anything if he had an ace... another who was only playing with pairs, AT+ when in position, so he seemed pretty aware. He was to my left. I caught KK in MP a few orbits later and had a raiser in front. The raiser in front had about half my stack, he raised to 4xBB, I re-raised to 12xBB... player to my left flat called. Original raiser put me to 24xBB.... I flat call, so does player to my left. So now original raiser has half stack in, I'm a little worried about guy to my left but let's see the flop... flop was KT7 if I remember right... so worst case I think to my right is a potential straight draw... guy on my left may have aces but I've got him covered...

Original raiser shoves, I call hoping to prompt guy on my left to shove, he does and I do too... pot total: $26.80 and my set holds up...

On the other table I donked around for a long while waiting for a hand, I limped a few small PP's from MP looking for sets until I hit one, a set of 3's and took down a couple of dollars, then went card dead again. Eventually towards the end of the session I ran with KK then QQ then AJ and pulled out minor gains on all of them...

So a productive night, reasonable IRC discussion and I made a little money. I didn't copy down figures before leaving home this morning so I don't know exact numbers but I'm down on FT but up a little on PS... a decent day yesterday since I made some progress. I hope to continue it this week and make even more progress... have a bunch of ground to make up in the next 4 weeks to clear my bonus.