I have been playing poker for about two years. I play microlimit poker online about 5 times a week and live games about 3 times a month. I have played both cash games and tournaments but have decided to turn my focus to tournaments for the time being (mostly because that’s the most popular type of live games in my area).

I don’t have much money ($40) so I will have to start at the very lowest of limits. I have two goals:

(1) To become a better tournament players
(2) To turn my $40 into $200

I will be playing on Pokerstars (single table SnG’s) and have set the following guidelines as to the buy-ins:

< $20 = $1.20
$30 - $100 = $5
$100 - $199 = $10
$200 = GOAL MET!! TIME TO SET A NEW GOAL!!

I will be using Poker Office to keep track of my stats. (database was cleared to track ONLY this journal)