I don't think it's much of a secret that I haven't been playing much poker in the past year or so. I got married in August 07 and started grad school the next month, so I decided to take some time off. Well here I am almost a year and half later. I'm in my last semester of my masters program and my schedule right now is a joke. I only have to do stuff two days a week. Because of this, I decided that this would be a good time to start playing again.

Last Monday, I put $600 on FT and started grinding 25NL. I played my first 6k hands and...I got crushed. I was down 6-buys and pretty frustrated. I talked to one of my irl friends that plays 400NL+ for a living and figure out that I was playing like a spewtard. Since then, I've started playing better and over the next 8K hands, I made it to $1000 and was ready to move up to 50NL.

Here's my 25NL graph:



You can see the spewage and where I adjusted my play.

Since I moved up to 50NL, things have gone pretty well. I'm up 6-buys after 3.5K hands. I did go through a stretch where I started playing bad again, but I recognized it and took a break before playing again. As long as I stop beating myself, I should be playing 100NL very shortly. My plan right now is to move up to 100NL when I hit $2000, and then move up to 200NL when I hit $7000-$8000.

I called this "Play Poker" because that's really my only goal. I'm not trying to make X amount of money or play X amount of hands, I'm just trying to play when I have time and play well.