Well, I started playing a few S&G’s and MTT’s yesterday and things didn’t go great. I took an EB style exit to 3 of my events losing with pocket A’s which tilted me a bit, but I was able to get beyond it and keep playing my other events – I still was able to only bubble one event, so no big scores today. After the tournaments went south, I didn’t want to lock myself into playing a full day of events, so I opted to get into the cash games. I noticed right away that I was still playing a little off, so rather than play my normal stake of NL, I moved down a level and played some PLO. If things aren’t going well for me, I’ve found that if I switch to low stakes PLO I don’t mind losing and just the act of playing as many wild hands puts any NL variance in prospective. After my PLO dip (losing a bit of course), I started grinding the $25NL game and ended up winning about 4 buy-ins in a couple of hours. I also redeemed the new $40 credit from Poker Stars so all things considered, I came out about even for the day. I’m very close to my Silver Star VIP level, which I know isn’t much, but since I’ve started this, I have only come close once to getting off the Bronze Star level, so it’s a happy achievement for me to get to the Silver Star level (I wonder how close I can get to Gold?). I’ll post my play at the end of my next set of sessions.
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I hope you get the silver star. I am a bronze myself.