Thanks rwvander! Great information. Most of what you mentioned is exactly what I've been doing. I've watched several videos and read a lot of material on DU-SNG strategy so...I'm with you on that. So far I'm hanging in there. I'm up to just over $100 from my $30 start. Still grindin'!!!

im up 24k from my $30 deposit, f grinding! Keep up the good work.

So, after Day #1, I found myself up to $127 (just shy of the daily goal). However, my initial goal was to build my BR up to a position where I could make $100 per day. So...IMO, that's a decent start. Yesterday, I took the day off from live poker to spend time with family and then play live in the evening. Today, I'm back on the grind. I'll post my results from day either later on tonight or tomorrow morning.

Good Luck

GL man.... You should make volume goals not monetary goals. Because you are never gonna make $100 a day every day.... even the best players have a bad days. When you setup $$$ goals you end up trying to chase losses to reach these goals.

That makes a lot of sense. I appreciate the info. So...what would be a reasonable volume goal to set. I know this depends on a lot of factors. Would you mind sharing some of your volume goals and then I can compare/analyze? Thanks.

Small boost to my BR today. Played the $15K guarantee on Carbon and finished 8th out of 1,579 players. Took 2 pretty bad beats in a row to lose as well. Went to the final table 3rd in chips. $11 buy-in earns me a payday of $315.81

I'm incredibly disappointed with the play at the final table. I expected the players there to be the best of the best and from what I saw...it wasn't even close. It was as if they felt they had no choice but to gamble. The blinds and stacks sizes didn't require any shoving whatsoever. There was plenty of play. Unfortunate I didn't get a chance to experience it fully. Oh well...at least now I have a decent sized BR to grind on.

** Side note, I forgot to mention the $109 tourney ticket I won today as well. I'd have to consider this a profitable day of poker.

Learn more about variance, ROI and BR management. The more realistic you are with your goals, the better chance you have of completing them.

This isn't exactly specific. I know about variance, ROI, and I have an understanding of BR management. It's not as easy to follow a sound BR management strategy as it seems. I think it's safe to assume that 95% of players are playing beyond the limits of their BR.

95% of the losing players, sure.
95% of the winning players, nah.

this....

It is easy, set out limits for what you'll play when your roll is what numbers, put it on a post it next to your computer and you have a goal, I'm currently taking shots at NL50, if i start a session and roll is >$1k i can take a shot, if after session i'm down down to nl25 and take another shot when i get back up to 1k. Even if your BRM is aggressive, you have to have one and more aggressive it is more important it is to move back down when your roll goes down under your limits.

gl op hope you take some advice from everyone here and dont go busto

So, I've been on quite the rollercoaster lately swinging up and down. I've been multi-tabling SNG's and turning profit in some spots, and losing in others. I found myself making some mistakes in small cash games and costing myself larger portions of my bankroll than I would've liked.

On a brighter note, I previously won a $109 tournament ticket so I decided to use it for the $109 buy-in $10K guarantee on Carbon Last night. I finished 7th out of 126 for $504. I lost in a spot that I still feel is profitable in the long term. Fairly tight player with 90K raises from the cutoff to 8K (blinds 2/4K). I'm in the BB with approximately 42K back. Based on 200+ hands played against him, his stats indicated that he folds to a 3-bet 100% (9 of 9). I have As4s, and thought this might be a good spot to pick up an extra 15K with blinds, antes & the raise. He tanks and almost times out before he calls with AdTd.
I could've folded my way to a much bigger score, but I was going for the win. Oh well, back to the grind.

I'm wanting to take a deeper look at game selection. I've been multi-tabling the $5 DU SNG's, as well as some of the $5 Bounty SNG's. I'm finding that the bounty SNG's have extraordinarily weak players that focus too much knocking players out and not enough about winning. On another note I've been playing quite a few of the $5 & $2 Hyper-Turbo 6-max SNG's. After reviewing several of the top SNG Leaderboard players, many of them are regulars in these hyper-turbos. While they have a ton of variance and don't appeal as much to better players (rather to getting lucky and catching cards) I can see merit in the volume. Any input is appreciated as I'm looking to find something I can really hone in on.