Hello everyone.

I started playing online poker around November. During this time I did the traditional noob circle of death and probably donked off around 300 bucks. "a lot of money to an idiot in college such as myself" Around December I discovered FTR, and learned a lot about BR management. Grinder school was also a great help, and I learned craploads. I would definitely recommend Grinder school to anyone starting poker. With all this new information I profitably played my way up to 50NL with a BR of about 1300. Unfortunately college semester money was due and I was forced to give up my roll to pay the help pay the bill.

Now that its spring break I've had some time to play poker and figure its a good time to start grinding a roll for the summer so I don't have to get a crappy job serving grease or stocking shelves.

On to the interesting stuff. I think I play a lot different than most people building a roll in the microlimits. I probably play fairly looser and more passive simply because I feel that I'm sitting next to maniacs most of the time.

Opinions? I know its very very very exploitable, but I feel that it works at these limits where people only 3bet AKo, QQ+, rarely JJ

I read at grinderschool that Bigspenda had to withdraw most of his roll and eventually built it back up to be rolled for 100NL. I want to duplicate this by around Mid to Late May. I figure I'm going to put in craploads of hands and stay disciplined but I think I can do it if I push myself when I get the free time. I still have craploads to learn however and hope to relearn this game at the tables. Hopefully by the time I get back to 25NL I'll be playing better.

Things I need to work on are..
1. Tighten up preflop as I move up.
2. Trust my reads, when I think I'm ahead call and when I know I'm beat fold (especially when I need to prove myself that my read was right)
3.Continue to assign ranges every hand.
4. Don't tilt.
5. Write my thoughts and review my HH after every few sessions.
6. Reduce my C-bet%. I could get away with C-betting about 80% of hands in 2-5NL but I have a feeling that shit wont fly in back in 10NL so I wanna reduce that to about 55-60% and picking the right spots to do so.


See you at the tables.