july update / august goals
I focused my game in July, playing nothing but $5 SnGs for a long time. It worked. I hit the money in an obscene percentage in the first half of the month, and cooled off a little bit, but still showed a $100 profit after 50+ tournaments. A few MTTs for large prizes didn’t pay off, but that’s no big deal.
I also started playing .05/.10 NL on PokerStars… that wasn’t quite as sensational, but the profit was still there. I am always reloading when take a hit, so it’s hour after hour of super-tight play… gets a little boring after a while, but you can’t do much else. I don’t know enough to get away from ace-junk when I end up playing it, so I am better off waiting for premium hands.
Having proven that I could crush the $5 SnGs, I was really eager to try the $10, but a friend advised me to wait until I’d built up at least $300 in my bankroll. That was wise: you’ll read in my August recap what happened as soon as I "graduated".
That’s more or less what I want to see happen in August: hit the $10 tournaments, see about the same success rate (or a little less), and keep building. Maybe cash a bonus or two.