Starting Afresh

My boyfriend has bought a house, he's spending lots of time on his paperwork and I'm sitting watching whatever's on Netflix. It's rubbish. I forgot how much I love poker and how I used to spend so much time on it, how I used to get so excited when I learned something new I could use the next time I played and when that new tactic succeeded.

 

A month or so ago, I started at $30, played roulette, blackjack and dare I say it...slots. All online, I got up to $240 and decided to keep going until I made it to $500. I never made it that far, I got back down to $100 then rather than doing the normal thing of withdrawing, I spiralled even further. That gambling ship also sunk my love of poker, I don't love gambling, I know that the casino always wins, I have read my way through www.gambleaware.co.uk many a time to make sure I know I am in the right, but this was bad. I felt like a dogs bottom and seemed to have moved poker into that same category, even though poker had done nothing wrong!

 

So cutting to the chase, I have forgiven myself, done my yearly visit to www.gambleaware.co.uk and have turned a new page. I am starting a new challenge, a pretty common challenge, but nonetheless, a challenge! I have already started, I have done 3 days so far or around 4 hours. It started on Wednesday 6th April 2016. I put $10 on PokerStars, I will try to get in a minimum of 8 hours a week (It's not compulsory, keeping it fun and all that), starting on the 1c/2c cash tables. I play 4 tables at once and the rules are as follows:

• Play a table to wins of no more that $4 then leave
• Play a table until loss of all $ then leave
• Play tables until 1 hour has lapsed or 200 hands, whichever is preferred at the time
• Move up to the next level when I hit $50
• At $50 for every $10 made, £1 (yes British pound) will be donated to a charity of my choice, and this will be started monthly (at the end of the month, check how many $10 have been made and go from there)
• If I do wish to play some sit and go's or MTT's etc, I can deposit extra cash and keep an eye on my dollar from there
• I can play Zoom tables, only 1 at a time and again if I wish to play above the relative stake, I will deposit money to do this
• Any wins on extra deposited cash can either be added to my challenge money, or move to my fun fund

Hopefully that's everything. But how am I doing now?

 

Day 1: Played 4 full ring tables then 4 short handed and made 61c

Day 2: Played 4 full ring tables and lost $1.12

Day 3 (still playing however stats so far): Played 4 full ring and gained $1.25 on 200 hands

 

My balance currently sits at $10.74. Yay for micro stakes!