Peter Chi vs. Daniel Negreanu

Ok Negreanu, you don't know this, but I'm racing you in your challenge.

I just reached the 2c/5c level yesterday, I'm at $25.03 now. It took me just under 2,200 hands, which is about 3 times the amount it took you (786 hands). So this means that you're 3 times the player that I am. haha.

Just kidding (at least, in the sense that you could make any judgment of that based on this). But according to his latest update, he's now at 5c/10c. I should point out, though, that he has had a 2-month head-start on me, plus I started with almost 3 bucks less haha. But on the other hand, I have a $25 bonus coming from PokerStars once I play enough hands... so between all these things I think I'll just call it even :)

I think I'm going to do things a little bit differently from him though, in that at some point I'd like to get off of cash games and switch over to SNGs and MTTs. I'm not set on that for sure though; we'll see how I feel down the road. But right now I'm thinking that at $100 I'll switch to the $5 tournaments and go from there.

The funny thing is how much I'm getting into this though. I was worried when I started that I wouldn't be able to take these micro-stakes games seriously, but... that's not true at all. Twice within these 2,200 hands I had come within $1 of the $25 mark, only to have it come crashing down. And I got just as excited and then subsequently demoralized as I would when I was playing for hundreds of dollars. That kind of makes me feel good though -- it's testimony that I play this game because I love it, and the stakes don't even matter per se. I mean they do matter in the sense that I'm eager to move up because each step up represents accomplishment. but. I dunno, I've always told myself that the day when playing poker becomes all about the money for me is the day I'll quit, if that ever happens.

Meanwhile I'm still hovering around $1k on Full Tilt... been up and down around it for the past month and can't break much higher than that yet. I'm staying at the $10s even though when I first started rebuilding that roll I was moving up at 50 buy-ins for each level, but the $20s just seem too high psychologically for me right now; if I whiff on just 5 in a row that's minus $100 right there, and that's far from unlikely on any given session.

Atlantic City in two days!!