Going to try to grind this free$50

Well I was looking at some strategy on the web and was just searching around and came across the pokerstrategy.com site. Thought it was worth looking around.
So I found that they have this 20 question quiz there and if you pass they will deposit $50 on a site for you. I know that they will be getting the rake but I thought well if they are going to start me at a site and if I lose the money what the hell!!! Its a free shot!.
So This was Saturday, and by Sunday evening the money was in an account I had set up for it.
Oh the site is 888.com

So my plan is, is to play good BR management and play decent level games for my money, so starting on $1.20 SNG's which are 10 handed, and some 88+8c 40 man SNG's now these are wild. You get 888 chips and blinds go up every 3 minutes, 8 players per table.
So far I have failed to cash in the 3 $1.20 SNG's but did have cashed in 4 of the 88c 40 man's.
Got a 9th Place for only 70c -18c profit
Then 2 6th's for $2.10 each $2.28 profit
And Just had a 1st for $10.56 $9.6 profit

So that means that from small amount if play I have a ROI of 65.38% and BankRoll of $56.12 $6.12 Net Profit.

Going to set a reasonable target of getting it to $80 by end iof November. Now I know this is a low target but I want it to be achievable and there is so much variance in these 40man 88c games. But if I run good for rest of week, I may up it to $100.
Well enough for now.

Been a while

Been a bad month not really played any poker, had to have my arm broken and plated so that didnt help. So what have I been doing? Well studying the game some and generally just resting as been feeling so tired of late.
Looking at November as the month to get back to the game. Am going to try to put in some sessions of 6-8 hour each at a time and get in some SNG. Maybe grind some cash.
Been playing a bit on UB as they have some really loose 4 seat cash games which are kinda fun, but volitile.

BankRoll, can I ask for your thoughts

Have a bit of a question going round in my head about my bankroll, and would like some others thoughts on this matter.

Here is the question;
I have about $1500 spread around a few different poker sites and am wondering what is really the best way to play it. Should I consider it all one roll and play levels accordingly.
For example, using good tourneys BR management like Chris Ferguson recommends, putting only 2% into a Tournament buy in, which would allow a buy in of $30 including the juice.
Or should for example if I have say $500 in one site only be using 2% of that $500 giving me a buy in of $10 including juice.
I have been mixing the buyins around on sites depending on game and structure, but just wondering what the general thoughts are.

I could easily replace my roll should I bust the lot but think that is unlikely as am doing ok and winning on most of my sites so far.
I do fancy playing things like the $50K GTD $3.30 rebuy on stars and that would fall nicely into the $30 giving me about 8 rebuys if needed.

So hey please let me know what you think.

Travelling & Working

Been travelling for work recently so not much poker being played.
DId manage to make sure I got back home last Thursday for my Red Tooth tourny, and managed to take a 2nd place in that. Got a good start after calling an all-in with KK after I got 3bet by a player who was so on tilt, he had AK never caught the Ace so gave me good start.
Will be playing there again this Thursday coming, but that will be about it until next week for me, due to work. But on the bright side going to have my arm broken next wednesday so will have couple of weeks off work for that, so will be playing a load then.
On another poker note, I have been playing some Stud H/L recently, but only play money, as I have a liking for this sort of game recently, it certainly seems to help with card/player reading, what with having to read the other players boards.
ALso een playing some micro stakes HORSE games which are kinda fun, but damn the limit hold'em rounds are frustrating, having people call the extra bet and make up on river, damn them.

Regional Final

Well went to the Gala Casino in Bristol yesterday to play in the Red Tooth Pub Poker south west regional final. there was about 200 players so are tables were spilling out of the card room onto put up tables and was all squashed in, some of the proper Gala tables even played 11 handed for a while. 3 of us went myself Gary, and Chris (Chris won the last one for a nice pay day.)
Game took about 8 hours total, and I bust out in 12 place 5 off the money, and 3 from final table which sucked. Blinds were slow to start with but towards teh end all players were complaing as they were doubling so quickly I bust out when I took a lose and was left with 45,000 chips and blinds were at 10,000/20,000 I was in middle position and blinds were about to double again to 20,000/40,000 so I would have had the BB plus 5k so as the UTG and +1 folded I shoved my last 45,000 in with Q9 suited, but got called by the CO with KK I caught another queen on the flop but he hit a king to have trip Kings on the turn and I was at the rail.
So that sucked but Idid win the last longer bet and feel I played well.
SO went to get a drink and played a bit of the "Beat the Dealer poker" which was fairly soft, I bought in for £30 and won about £21 when we left so that paid for my drinks for the day so left up a couple of Quid.
Think I am going to sign on with Cake poker tomorrow as still not able to get Rake back with FuillTilt. Will try there $5 and $10 SNG STT for a while see what they play like.

Crashed out in last place

How annoying, I crashed out of our RedTooth league game last night on the 3rd hand!!.
We were playing only 2 tables of 6 so nice short handed game which I like.
I had Qs9d in Big Blind and UTG + UTG+1 folded pre-flop CO limped button limped SB called the extra. I checked as it was early and I wanted to see a flop.
Flop came down Qc9h3h.
SB checked, I bet pot which was 150 so I bet 150, CO (Chris) raised to total 450, Button and SB folded leaving me Heads Up with Chris. Now I know he could have had a set but I didn't put him on pocket pair as he would have raised from CO with Pair 100% of the time, even 2's.
So I re-raised all-in!!! Maybe wrong move but had to try to push him of flush draw if he was 4 to flush.
He called, and turned over Qh9s
So we both had top 2 pair and looked like was going to be a split pot, but I saw there turn come down a 6h, I started to see the flush appear, Feck!!! River card was a Th and Chris had a Queen high flush, and I was off to the bar to get a early beer.
Think I did it right though as my read was right he didn't have a set, I had put him on AQ which would have gave him top pair top kicker but that's that.
I was trying a different strategy of trying to get chips early in tourny so I could start bullying, and pick up lots of later small pots, but in the end Chris started doing that.
But he later donked them all off to someone later when he tried to bluff a huge pot with just Ace high against a player who had a Fullboat.
Anyway I am off to the South West Regional Final of the RedTooth poker to pick up my Trophy and play in the tourny for seat in National Final.
Been playing a nice few $5.50 STT on Stars and FT recently and running good in them, will try to play load of them next week.

Full Tilt Take 2 Promotion staked my buddy for $10

As I am sure you all know, well those of us fishys that play on FT that theyare running a Take 2 promotion again.
I started playing in it and was chatting to one of my buddies at the pub on Friday night over a few beers and I mentioned it to him. But as brian was starting to get bit fuzzy so next day I suddenly thought he does not have an account at FT so I signed him up for a rackback account via www.thisisthnuts.com and I transffered $10 over to his new account.
Told him to play safe and he could easily make the $50 free money by playing 25 of the last 26 days of the month.
So far he is playing and best bit has made some money think he is ROI of approx 25% so $2.50 up, but only playing .02/.05 2 tables so can make sure he does not go broke there, and has couple of spare buyins and make the $50 hopefully will have made about that much by the end so can give me at least $20 back for the loan.
He has been running bad at micro stakes on PS so its why I thought it was worth doing.
Then we can train him to grow his new bankroll to decent hights from the bonus of $50 after this promotion.
Will update on his micro grind as it progresses.