So I have managed to find my way back to a sustainable bankroll after months of grinding/losing/frustration, and the line continues. I've managed to get my game back (thanks mostly to help from Jennifear) and re-focus on my poker "goals."
I read through Soupie's article a couple nights ago, and it all made sense: I am a "decent" player by standards, looking at the stats, so what happened? Where did I go wrong? I reassessed my game, my life, poker, etc. and found out that I had just flat out lost the concept of keeping up on my game as I moved up limits and gone spewy in situations I shouldn't even have been in the hand pre-flop.
Playing at the lower levels is pretty simple. If you want to succeed playing for $10 buy-ins or less, just play ABC poker. The guys who just want to have fun and spew money, will eventually do it with second pair or some gutshot draw when I'm holding the nuts.
So I grinded my way back to a $2K bankroll from $300 in just over a month with a major double cash, some grinding, and adding some cash tables back into the mix. That and a little addition of $1K from an original poker investment on the side puts my bankroll back to sustainable again at $3K on FTP.
So I decided it was time to put up a set schedule. Here are my goals for November:
1) 1 final table of a Daily Double ($24), $3r or (only up to $15 spend) the $35K Guar. ($26) I am only playing these 4 MTTs twice a week (8 MTTs a week) so I need to make the best of it.
2) $100 ave. profit a week at $.50/$1 NL.
3) If all else fails, achieve bankroll of $3.5K at the end of Nov. Optimally I would like it to be at $5K by the end of the month, but we shall see.
And away we go!!!! Good luck at the tables.