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So last year was a mess all the way round. Two years ago, I ran $150 up to a $1000 online bankroll and pulled $3000 out. So $150 into $4000 at low limits. Nice. Last year, my bankroll dropped back to $200 and I pulled out a net $100 from my poker accounts. The suck was large.

2005, 20% cash rate on tourneys. And a 50% final table rate of the cashes (I only consider it a final table if I'm also in the money). 2006, I don't think I saw a final table, unless you count SNGs. And cash rate? I couldn't tell you, my carefully built tracking spreadsheet got encrypted, then my PC freaked out and tada.. unreadable.

That's what personal turmoil will do to your poker game.

So now, 2007. I still don't have good tourney tracking stats and lost poker tracker to my PC as well, however, I do have results. This week 5 tourneys, 2 money finishes. The week before that about 10 tourneys, 3 money finishes. Live play, came in 8th of 38 in my first live tourney. Just short of the money. And I had a healthy chip stack when it went south. My bankroll is moving up. My cash game is profitable again (barely). Life is grand, now if I can just my bankroll to a grand I can pretend 2006 didn't happen.

One more time round the horn

Okay I'm going to try this one more time. The last two times I tried to blog, my life promptly fell apart. Now, this could mean I only feel the urge to express myself when life is already going to pot. However, this could mean that I have bad timing. Only one way to find out.

Three's the charm, right?