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Current BR sits @ $366 and change, did well in a few SNGs whilst taking a break from the cash grind...........

But poker may be on the back burner for a bit as my son was just diagnosed with...

I'm going to read this to myself often :) Very true.

Hey man, GL with this OP........I'll be following along. I'm definitely in the same mode currently of dropping down a level to figure out the basics, then spewing at the lower level, etc.

I'm...

Considering that a few days ago I peaked out at $365 and I've gotten $15 in Bonus since then, I've actually dropped something like $45 at 5NL & 2NL...........this is not good at all.

Well, this little experiment with dropping back down feels like a massive abortion so far........I dropped down to 2NL with $339 in my BR just to practice some of the very, very basics.........and in...

Yeah, it seems pretty clear that for me and my current Bankroll (plus the fact that I'm not a particularly skilled MTT player), stuff like the Daily Dollar could in fact be pretty harmful for my MGR...

OK, cool........so just to be clear, I'll be generating "less" Rakeback while earning the bonus, but the Bonus $$ more than offsets that, and then once the bonus is clear I'll be generating RB at a...

I've signed up for RB through FTP's preferred affiliate rakebackpros, and here's what happened during my first week of play:

Basically, I was earning RB (playing short sessions of 5NL) at a clip...

Well, I've played about 8K hands at 5NL, and so far this has been my basic route:

Step 1- - Ran hotter than the July heat on the Equator

Step 2 - - Decided to open up my range in the Button,...

Little up, little down, I've probably logged about 5K hands at 5NL and BR currently sits at $359....................keep on keepin on

Another 500 hands today, finished 3 BI's to the good, so that's positive for sure.........felt like I got a bit lucky in a spot or two, but mostly bet good hands for value and collected alot of...

1 quick session played after work, lost about a buy-in (slightly less I think, but who's counting ;-) ), and I was playing like I was in a hurry (WHICH I WAS).........so I stopped. And I'm glad that...

Played a solid (but very short) session of 5NL last night, finished ahead 3 BI's.

BUT..........the much bigger news in this OP is that 2 emails and 12 hours after my initial inquiries, I'm now...

Beating 25NL, which I realize sounds very small, but that would be a good year for me seeing as I started 2011 at 2NL!! :D

OK so I thought it was time for a mini-update, been a few updates to this OP that were worth recording:

+++ Played 28K hands of 2NL, had one significant downswing in the middle, but still managed...

Thanks, Harley.........great thoughts and input, to be sure.

The next 1K hands went better, so at least I'm not permanently retarded or unable to play FR!! :-)

Reflected on this session while getting cleaned up to go to IRL work, and it occurred to me that

A) I took risks or tried cute things when I was down that I wouldn't have tried while ahead in a...

Well, that was fun......... -3 BI's over about 1K hands, and although most of it was due to AA < QQ & QQ < AA, it was still a good reminder that I'm not god and this level is still not sufficiently...

Another mini-update:

++ Played 1K hands today after work, may play a few more later, but finished ahead 1.5 BI's ($2.82 to be exact), and considering that I got stacked off when QQ<KK like 40...

Harley, I honestly like your min-raise on the flop, and I don't know what your plan was for the turn, but considering their are straight and flush draws aplenty that could fill out on that turn, I...

I agree about only focusing on 1 or the other..........I play cash b/c its what I enjoy. If I want a "tournament fix", my wife occasionally plays super-micro SNG's, earns T$$ from those, and plays...

Thanks for the encouragement........the way I see it, this is my 3rd little foray into poker, and the other 2 times I had no goals, really, just tried to find a game, sit in it, and hope it worked...

It won't be easy, you're definitely right.

And I might find that the BR limits are excessive, and maybe I'll dial them down a bit at some point. Its a possibility for sure.

But even if I...

Just wanted to put this cooler up for reference, I mean we got all the money in so it worked out fine, any other thoughts on this one??

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