Hey everybody, I decided to go ahead and post my goals and challeneges here, not necessarily to announce it to the world, but to have the opportunity to keep good records myself. I finally came back to poker after about half a year away from the online tables. My ultimate goal is to build a sizeable enough bankroll to (like all other degenerates) make the plunge to Vegas. Depending on how the rest of this year goes with my progress, we shall see! Will have about 20k saved up from work hopefully plus whatever I get from my grind. Try to spend 50% of my free time grinding and the other 50% studying/reading forums. As well as time to hit the gym of course

Started with $100 deposit two days ago and after two tabling the .01/.02 NLH and PLO tables, up to about 120. Will have an exact figure later. Thinking about moving up to .02/.05 today.

Probably won't be able to get too much more in because of classes today, but with a start of 121.75, was able to run it up to 144.88 primarily playing .05/.10 heads up PLO. Got bullied around a little bit at first, tightened up and got it in when it was good.

Goodluck dude! Started with a 100$ deposit 2 days ago aswell! I'm hitting up the tourneys though. See you in Vegas next year

Decided to play a little Omaha Hi/Lo today, first time ever. Glad I did so, had a pretty exciting threesome.

Play 2NL Hi/Lo since I was a virgin player in this format.

Dealt As9s6h3c in cutoff, being 2NL I guess everyone likes to call so it was a 6 way 2cent call going into flop.

Flop is 2s4h8s, pretty excited here since I have flush draw, gutshot straight draw, and a good chance of hitting the nut low. check,check,check to hijack who bets 8, I just call 8 because I want to keep the action going. button calls 8 everyone else folds.

Zing! Turn is a 6s, darn near the best card I could have asked for. Now I have the nut flush and the 2nd nut low. Hijack shoves all in! I snap call as does the button.

River shows 6c, Hijack had 5d5hAd7s and button had 5c2d10s7h. Guess they were trying to get their money back from the low, suckers

Ended up scoring $9.81 total on a 2 dollar buy in table!

Now up to $156.95. Get some! Moving up a lot faster than I had expected, so I shouldn't be depressed if I have some small downswings later. Keep the tilt on low

While I'm bored watching the WSOPC, I guess I'll write a little bio about myself for any of you that have nothing better to do than but read it . Thought my initial intro was a bit weak.

I'm a 25 year old currently living close to Indianapolis, Indiana. I'm a true degenerate commuting from my parent's house while attending graduate school downtown for statistical economics. With that being said, I'm not doing too well because, while I love economics, I'm not much of a math person (which will come back to haunt me in poker probably). However, I am excellent at reading people and trends, even when playing online poker. I find it natural to expect what individuals are going for based on their bet size (not exactly their hand ratio, that is going to take more practice), and when it's the right time to get my money in. It goes back to my dilemma with econometrics. Went in with the desire to learn more about behavioral economics, (why are consumers predictably irrational), but they don't really cover that or game theory too much.

Never touched a single hand of poker/gambling until last year, and while I loved poker and was dedicated to learning it, I was addicted to casino gambling, and ended up losing much more than I could afford to. Took some time to reevaluate my life, and had a strong yearning to come back to poker, and am pretty certain that I will never have the desire to hit the casinos again.

Hoping to get a bankroll (from both my current job and from playing poker) to around 20-30k before making the plunge to Vegas, which hopefully can happen around early mid 2017, but will only commit based on how my time with online poker goes. Thanks for reading my story, hope it didn't put you to sleep. Cheers!

30 MAR 2016

Only had time to play a few games today, got a "big exam" tonight. Might hop back on afterwards, or play a couple more rounds between cramming.

Went back to comparing my Omaha games and my NLH games and there is starting to be quite a large gap between my gains in Omaha and my gains in NLH. Thus far, (only 3 days of 14 games of Omaha, so definitely not a big sample size) I have had 100% positive gains in all of the games I've played, though today was very shaky as I had to rebuy in two of them today to come out positive in the end, and even then it was just barely.

That brings a change from 156.96 to 158.39, nothing admirable today, but the run it up express train was bound to slow down inevitably. That just means I have to
1) Do some more studying
2) Patience patience patience, always want to play too many hands and lose some BBs just from fooling around waiting for a Hail Mary pass to come my way.
3) Stop dropping back down in stakes when I'm still running hot and it's within my BR. Not sure why but I was afraid to keep playing 5PLO with some 2 NL Hi/Lo when I was doing well at those levels. Went back to 2PLO because I was afraid of losing.

Last update for tonight. Still don't believe I've truly been hit with the variance train yet. But today had some major swings with lots of losses, rebuys, and barely going in the green. Any of the losses could once again have been mitigated by slowing down, analyzing the situation better, not bluffing micro, and stop being so eager to play often and against anyone else who wants to tango at the moment.

Started today with 156.96, ended around 162 or 163.

31 MAR 2016

Not sure what it is about 5NLH and 5PLO, but man I get tore up in those areas, swear it's the hardest playing field for micros.

Decided to take a swing at 10NL Omaha today and it went surprisingly well, though I chickened out once I got a nice profit going.

Hopped back into 2PLO and 2NL Omaha short after and tore it up pretty good.

Might play some more in a few, got to get things ready for drill this weekend... woo

Started today with 162.99, currently at 178.75

01 APR 2016

Won't be playing until Sunday night after drill, but man I had a pretty volatile run this morning (it might be because of increased anxiety before every drill weekend). Was playing way too aggressive and loose, luckily I got a nice quads vs two fulls during my PLO session that raked in the money.

Started with 178.75, currently at 210.12

In for degenerate econometrics. Good luck!