Hey TPE nation Happy New Year to you all,

I have had a change of mind and will not be updating this weekly. I am now going to update monthly or if i have a decent cash that has boosted the bankroll. The reason for this is i was trying to write the blog tonight after a week and had nothing to really mention. This being said ill let you know my bankroll is currently at $450 after the past week, i have been playing really well just not holding when i get it all in but i dont let these spots get to me as long as im playing well. Not had much time this week to study either due to getting back to work and the first week back always being the busiest.

Ill leave it there for now hopefully will be posting the cashes at least once a week fingers crossed, good luck to you all on the felt.

barra2088

Hey Guys Thanks for following the challange.

To answer your questions. Florianm1 i do play on other sites other than stars but the bankroll challange is just for stars, i know there field sizes are huge in the low/micros and the variance can be huge but thats what im wanting from this challange a test of how i can handle the variance and keeping my focus while going through these.

Kmid, i am going to play the St James park leg of the GPPT and then going to hopefully play the Elland Road leg, If you are going to either of these let me know it would be nice to meet fellow TPE members in the flesh rather than talking in forums.

Regards

Nathan(barra2088)

Hey TPE.

Yesterday was a good day we FT’d and won the $2.75 deep stack for $440. We made a deal HU, i had a decent chip lead HU but after 13hrs+ of play on one table i just wanted to finish feeling very tired. I played great throughout the whole tournament and cannot think of many mistakes i made. i am going to review the tournament during the week(might take a little longer than i expect) and if there is any good spots or bad spots i got in i will put them up in here. The bankroll is now upto $1028 but i am not going to move up stakes yet as i feel i still have a big edge in the micros, saying that i will be adding in the big 7.50 and big 8.80 into my schedule, i am also trying to stay away from turbos as much as i can but i have to play them sometimes as they are good for learning push/fold situations and i love to learn more about the game. Thanks for following the blog, on the 2nd Feb i will be doing a whole review of the month of January with a few stats from HEM2 added so if you are good at reading into the stats as i am not the greatest it would be good to get some feedback from you, ill leave it there for now and i hope you have a great Sunday on the felt.

barra2088

Hey 

Not had much to report on the past couple of weeks but here are my HEM2 stats for Jan 2016 if anyone is any good at reading these and can give me some direction it would be great. Thanks in advance and hopefully i can get some more pics of decent finishes in here in the near future. Also the BR is currently at $820.

Thanks for taking the time to read 

Barra2088

Hey 

Forgot to take to get a picture of the lobby after yesterday as i was streaming for the first time. I came second in the $2.20r 2.5k gtd for $518, a pretty good result to say it was my first day on twitch. I am going to start streaming more often now and if you want to come watch me in my journey you can at twitch.tv/barra2088. The stream isn’t the greatest at the minute but hoping to get it there in the future my internet is slow so wasnt able to stream and have my stream on at the same time, some people were saying it had an echo which i am going to try and sort out and in the near future i am going to get an overlay.

I hope you get to tune in and watch me on my journey.

barra2088

Hi Sen,

My starting BR was $500, My BR management is good and id say its over 100BIs i filter stars tournies upto $9 so i don’t get tempted by the bigger BI tournies. My BR currently is $1038 i had to pay some money to set up my twitch stream so took it out the bankroll as i still have plenty of time to make up $250 to hit my 31st Mar target. I will be posting my HM2 stats every month for the previous month just so people can see how ive been doing and if theres any leaks ive let creep in from the previous months that i can sort out.

Thanks for following and taking the time to read my blog

Barra2088

Hi Barra,

Well done, impressive results. How many tables do you play at the same time ? Also, do you play the multi-tables SnGs like the 90-man or 180-man ?

Hi mate,

Thanks for taking the time to read and the feedback, i play 4 tables max at the moment but am going to move to 5/6 soon to see how that goes. I did play the $2.50 180 mans at the beginning of the challenge but not since my bankroll passed $750, i am currently working on the push/fold part of my game and then i am thinking of playing a few of these during the week when i have finished work to help up my volume rather than just playing on a weekend. 

Hey,

I took down the $3.30 $1k gtd but did a deal HU when he had a 2-1 chip lead. Bankroll is currently at $1100 slowly building it up, dont forget you can also follow me on twitch twitch.tv/barra2088

barra2088

Also i’m going to change the Title to My Poker Journey or something like that, and have this as a long term goal with short term goals within like the BR challenge and make this a long term thread

Hey again

I won The Big 7.50 today for close to $1900 1 better than yesterday, The bankroll is currently $1600, $350 above my expected target by the end of March which is good, i have taken some money out to spend on my family and treat them as they have been supportive of me throughout this challenge so far so they deserve rewarding as well. 

Finished 2nd in the Big 16.50 for $2.1k bankroll now at $3983. May end up finishing this challenge early, if i do i will be keeping this blog live and making myself new goals to keep track of.