I was scheduled to start on Friday but woke up not really feeling it so I skipped it, instead went out and played a bit of live poker, which I haven't done in about 6mths. Lol live poker, game was very good and I ended up winning 600ish in 4 hrs playing 5/5NL. Game was super loose with the average raise being 40 to 55 preflop which kinda sucks because you have to play super tight until you double up and can play deep vs most of the table. Alot of the stacks where 1500 plus so once you get a double up the game tends to play like 5/10.

I managed to double after an hour went I open limped 99 utg+1 (10 handed), the game was playing super aggro so I was trying to see a multiway flop for likely one raise behind me. I had a pretty tight image so I think a limp is way better than a raise in this spot. Anyway everyone limped behind me and the sb didn't realise he was in the sb and threw out $5, which was counted as a minraise. The bb calls, I call two behind me call, then the huge action player at the table makes it 5 with $55 more, he gets four calls and I ship for slightly more than $600 total, folded to the action player he snaps (he has me monsterously covered), next player tanks and calls for 300 to 350 all in.

I'm up against A2ss and K7cc and manage to fade both and scoop. Not much happens after that and I quit a few hours later with an ok win, and a few hrs of entertainment.

But back to my online challenge, I stuck 700 Euros into a Euro network this afternoon to start my challenge, I only deposited 700 Euros instead of the 1k I had previously mentioned because that is all that I had in my neteller account. My plan is to just grind .50/1 euro 6 max until I get up to 8k total and then move up to 1/2 and keep moving up at 40 Bi's and re-evaluate when I get to 600nl. I'm planning to be at 1/2 within three weeks, not sure if it will happen but to motivate myself when I get to 8k euro bankroll for this challenge I'm going to head out and purchase a nice LCD hi def TV I have been looking at.

So far today I have play around 1300 hands and am up just under 6bi's, I'm going to head out grab a redbull come back and try and get in another big session and then I'll update this.

Gl all.