ruh roh

PokerStars rebuilding project took a turn for the worse tonight. Over the past few days, I somehow decided that I'm capable of 8-tabling $50nl. I have no evidence whatsoever that I can beat this game at all, so this probably wasn't a wise idea. Even at $25nl, I was usually playing 4 tables, and MAYBE up to 6.

Anyways, I dropped $200 tonight. The Stars roll now sits at about $940, which, without the recent $600 deposit really means that it's at $340. ouch.

It doesn't help that I have this urgency due to the reload bonus... I didn't realize how much I was going to have to play before making that deposit. I think it's going to be somewhere on the order of 5 hours per week, which doesn't sound like that much, but it's definitely way more than I've been playing since the Hopkins days. And of course the more tables and the higher that I play, the less time it will take. Unfortunately, this swayed me to make a poor decision.

What to do at this point? Should I drop in stakes? Play less tables? I mean, the bonus means nothing if I go busto before I even reach it.

Well, after some thought, the plan now is to confine myself to a 6-table mix of $25nl and $50nl, at least until my roll gets back to $1200, since this is where I originally began to play $50nl. If I drop below $800, I'm gonna forget about the bonus and be back to $25nl exclusively.

Reload bonus

Today I sort of cheated and deposited $600 into my PokerStars account, in order to qualify for a $150 bonus. And I mean "cheat" only in the spirit of the challenge. But it seemed silly not to take advantage of free money if I could. Also, I didn't even think it would work, since... the whole reason this challenge arose was because I was unable to deposit, whenever it was that I tried last year.

I might just withdraw the $600 as soon as I can though (probably as soon as I clear the bonus).

Anyways, I need to earn 3,000 VPPs within 3 months, to obtain the bonus. I think that's actually going to be rather tough. We'll see...