Bankroll at $204

You read that correctly. I am currently learning a money management lesson. It has led to a downward spiral of my bankroll. A couple of nights ago I started playing 8 tables up from my max of 6. Also, I could not find many good 20NL tables but I saw 4 really loose 50NL tables. Well before the night was out I lost 4 buyins at 50NL. Two were really bad beats one was clearly misplayed and the other I was just out played by the villian.

Since then I have been on the wrong side of variance mostly this A.M. at 20NL my AA was cracked by QQ when he made a straight on the river??? But that is all part of this game we call poker. The good news is, I know I can handle the mechanics of 8 tables. I will most likely continue to play 8 tables but I am now playing back at 20NL and 10NL if I can't find enough good 20NL tables.

Also playing more tables does allow the chance to earn alittle more rakeback. That may be my silver lining for the month. I had a goal of earning $250 this month with rakeback. Now my goal is just to do damage control. Stay tuned... this might get ugly! :)

Brandon Mark

Back from seminar and playing poker

I am back from my business seminar. I played no limit poker tonight, just finished up a 1.5 hour session, playing six tables. It went well. I am up and my bankroll is at $625.11. I am headed to bed. Just wanted to give you a quick update.

Brandon Mark

I will be out of town this weekend so I will not be playing poker

I will be down in Atlanta, Georgia this weekend for a business conference. I am excited about the conference but unfortunately I will not be able to play poker all weekend. That part sucks. I ended up playing for about 2.5 hours last night though and I broke the $600 mark. My bankroll is currently at $602. If I can maintain this momentum I should have no problems hitting my goals this month.

It's getting time to start thinking about my goals for no limit texas holdem next year. I will have to do a blog post. Just on my poker goals. I will focus on being conservative and creating goals that I feel are very realistic. I write goals often but have usually been very aggressive with goal setting. This usually leads me to either get burned out quickly or to get frustrated and give up before I am done. My focus with poker is a marathon approach where I consistently get better and improve. Yes, I want to be playing at the nosebleed stakes tomorrow but I realize that is not going to happen and may not happen for some time. I have resigned to the fact that I will just focus on my game and have good bankroll management. I will work to improve and understand that given enough time I will reach any goal I could aspire to in Poker.

On another subject, I love reading poker blogs. If you have a poker blog leave me a comment, let's exchange links, I would love to follow your blog. I just ask that you update regularly or I will eventually stop reading. You will notice all of my blogs on the right hand side of this page that I link to are active blogs that I follow. If you are looking for other blogs to read I would HIGHLY recommend checking them out!

Have a great weekend,
Brandon Mark

Great start so far to the month

Each month on poker blogs you will often see everyone's new goals. This post will be no different. Today, I received my rakeback of $156.00 and just finished up alittle in a two hour session. My bankroll currently sits at $553.11. My goal for the month is to end the year with $700 and to earn $150 at least in rakeback. That will give me a total of $850 before the end of the year.

Wish me luck,
Brandon Mark