I'm a U.S. citizen currently residing in South Korea, and will be here for a while. I pretty much gave up on online poker given the poor environment for U.S. players. I focused on my live game playing mostly 500NL and hitting a few tournaments when I could. Finding myself in another country allows me to enjoy the online poker freedom.

I will be playing on PokerStars. Starting small to get the feel for the online game again and the larger fields.

Ill be starting out at 5NL Full Ring and micro buy in tournaments.

BRM
$0-100 = 2NL, $1MTT
$101-250 = 5NL, $3 MTT
$251-500 = 10NL, $5 MTT
$501-1000 = 25NL, $11 MTT

I will reevaluate if this limit is reached.

Most of my tournament time will be on the weekends and cash during weekday evenings. Not going to lay out any volume goals at the moment. Instead I'm just going to enjoy the online environment for a while and give daily updates.

Starting BR: $150

GL, man. But I think your BI's for tournaments are way to small. Field sizes in these small tourneys are huge..

Well going to have to reevaluate and set some guidelines. First one being no drinking too much then playing. Woke up broke. lol.

So first rule is to exclude myself from playing for 12 hours before beginning to drink any.

Prior to the mishap was running about even. Down in cash, up in SNG's, and about even in MTT's with one deep run in the Hot 0.55; 53/1972.

Going to reload and set up a new plan, probably focusing a lot of volume on Fifty50. Was finding good success and bad players there.

How's the live poker scene in Korea. I've heard from other Korean players, the rake there is extremely high and playing live for profit really is not possible?

The regulated live poker scene is just a tourist attraction to feed the economy. Nothing to be done seriously. APPT has a tournament in Seoul. I believe the buy-in is around the equivalent of ~$3,000 US. But unless you lucked into finding the private games there isn't much going on.

Round 2(Hopefully we don't have too many rounds of this.)

Reloaded to $200
- Focus on SNG's
- Keep multitabling 6-8 til I feel comfortable and profitable going up
- Play 1,000 games a month min.
- SELF EXCLUSION BEFORE DRINKING

Had to make some adjustments, but only a fool doesn't make adjustments when they are needed.

Was spewing fast at SNG and decided I sucked. Signed up for Upswing Poker and started to watch one of the best explain the game. Went through the entire starter series already. And felt it could best be applied to cash game first to get used to implementation.

After about 3,000 hands at NL5 6 max, I'm up 5BI's overall after I was already down a couple and BB/100 is 17.51
Of course that's not a sustainable rate, but everything is coming together a lot better. Doug Polk explains guideline thought processes for every situation.

I feel like my pre flop decisions are almost always automatic now. And there aren't many spots I feel confused. I also downloaded TableNinja and now I can comfortably multitable profitably.

I definitely recommend both. I felt like I needed to invest in something or I was going to keep investing into my Stars account. Was not transitioning from live well. Going to keep running cash for a while and see what I can put together with a decent sample size.

Putting in a good amount of volume cash game. Around 9,000 hands so far. Mixing in some sngs and mtts. Roll steadily increasing. Feeling much more confident with my play.

BR: $306.27

The rake is about 17 dollar cap LOL.

On the bright side, Seoul cash games has some big whales on the weekends. For example, (1/2 game) I witnessed someone cold calling a 100,000 won 3B out of position with JJ and then jamming it on an overcard flop 3 way and another dude snapping it off and mucking at the river.

*mindboggling*