The mission: Get good at fullring

Starting Point: $330 BR at 10NL at Pokerstars

Short-term goal: Beat 10NL

Long-term goal: Grind my way through the micros.

Background: My names Carl, I'm from that small country off the coast of Australia known as New Zealand. I'm currently second year uni doing a BSc majoring in Computer Science. Well... not technically second year but I will be in a month or so. I've liked poker for about a year and a half. But didn't get into online poker till about June this year. I broke my knee and had to move back in with my parents for a couple of months, where I clocked up a few weeks learning the basics. Starting with SNgs and then after finding FTR moving onto cash games. I grinded up to 25NL through a few kickback bonuses and was pretty much breakeven over a few thousand hands.

Then my leg got better... I resumed second semester and withdrew my roll to pay some overdue rent. Haven't really played since, till....

...A couple of weeks ago, I deposited $150 onto Neteller, and cleared a boogster kickback bonus at Hollywood poker playing DoNs(Yawn) getting my roll to its current state and also paying for my Small stakes edition of Holdem Manager.

Today I started playing cash games, and I'm following Robb's first 5k of NL guide (here) to ensure I take things nice and slow. I'm in no rush to jump up through the limits, I'm going to ensure I can comfortably bet 10NL over a reasonable sample before jumping up to 25NL and I'm going to be following good bankroll principles.

Well since thats all been said...

Todays progress:
Nitting it up!
772 hands, $-2.70, -3.50BB/100, VP 11%, PFR 8.5%
trouble hands Homework posted in Beginners Circle.
Thoughts: It was good been back playing Cash games after grinding those frikn DoNs for the last couple weeks. Even though I was down a few dollars for the day I felt I played reasonably well and didn't get into too many awkward/stupid spots.
I'll keep ya posted on my progress.

Thanks guys