Just a brief progress report for those who may like reading these. Since my last report (Aug 29th, <2 weeks ago) I have:
- Final Tabled more $6 and $11 MTTs on Party (and bubbled out of a few more after going deep). Played another $11 with ~270 people. Held C/L on FT, but after a bad beat decided to agree to a 3 way chop for essentially 2nd place $$ of $305. No 1st's ($500+ payout) in any of these yet
-Played a ton of $6 & $11 SnG's, with a positive ROI (don't know exact # because I haven't got my PT licence yet)
-Played a few more Steps tourneys (still haven't got past level 3), and several Shoot Out tourneys. Haven't mastered those yet, but I've progressed on into later rounds in a few, so I'm about even on those.
-Played my 1st Red Hot Poker Tour MTT and crushed my opponents into the dust. Took 1st of 41 for $136
-Accidentally
played my 1st ever LIMIT holdem, a 20-person SNG, won that for $80 ($11 buyin I think)
-Hit Gold status on Poker Strategy (as predicted in last post)
-More than doubled my bankroll
-First ever cashout, took 1/2 BR to deposit on another site with an AWESOME promo, where I get to play the $250k guaranteed tourney. This is such a sweet deal, I may find a way to get friends to sign up just so I can play the guaranteed tourney more times....it's on an obscure network that doesn't seem to attract many pros, and will probably have an overlay, so that means less than 2500 entrants putting up the $100 buy-in....
- Played my first cautious hands at $1/$2 (yes, I know I don't have the proper BR here yet, just taking a shot with no intent to take any serious risks)...came out with a small profit after ~1hr, and won a couple nice pots playing my position against an overly aggressive big stack (he had almost 4x the table buyin of $200). Didn't see any drastic increase in skill at this level, and in fact there were still a few donkeys making obviously bad plays, though I only managed to capitalize on one.
Full steam ahead!...... ♦
WarGawd