50nl shot

Played a lot of hands on my day off. I took a shot at 50 nl with 24 buy-ins. I didn't play real well but only dropped 2 buy-ins. I played 25 nl yesterday and dropped 6 buy ins. I am off tomorrow and will try to get the head right and play some 25nl. I talked to SIRNEB on cardrunners.com and he helped me get my head right some and i figure my next move to 50 will be at 30 buyins. I move to Champaign in a week and am pretty excited about it. Not much else. Hope life is well.

50NL moving on up

Hey. Played about 3K hands over my two days off and made enough to move up to 50NL. My final stats for 25 nl this month were 13.8k hands at 7.8ptbb/100. MT ratio was around 8. Feel like i played pretty well. I'm going to add the moneyhater of the week in honor of the person i feel who hates their money the most by the way they play. www.moneyhater.com is the blog of a professional limit poker player who writes really well and is quite funny.

Take care. More about the step up to follow in a couple of days.

first blog

My name is Adam and I decided to do a blog mainly about how poker's going but also just to update people on what's going on with my life and etc. It looks like I'm going to be joining an Army Reserve unit in Urbana. This is a Chemical Company that is not leaving the States. If I do this I can guarantee I stay in country, and it cuts my time in the reserves by half. I was planning on working 15 hours per week or so but with the Reserve pay I can make enough money playing poker to make up the difference. I am currently playing 25 NL with a bankroll of about $980. My MT ratio is probably 8ish and i figure my true winrate is around 6 ptbb/100. That puts my hourly rate pretty close to 25. I am going to move up to 50 NL when I get around 12 or 1300. My goal is to be beating 100 NL solidly by the end of the year. I really don't like working for someone and merchandising for Pepsi is killing my back. If I can make twice as much per hour and work whenever I want it will definitely make my time at school more enjoyable and give me more flexibility. I only have one class Friday and it's over at 11 so I can get a real good session in when the games are good.

I am also going to try to get more balance in my life with work not being as big of an issue. I have been really bad about praying, reading my Bible, or going to church (I've been working most Sundays). I need to get my life balanced.

I am also looking at getting a home game going in Champaign with a big blind of 25 cents with an uncapped buy in. Shoot me a message if interested. epiniraq@hotmail.com or myspace.com/epiniraq

Less whining, more poker,

Adam