Since going on a nice little heater, I am proud to say that I have so far kept my habitual winner's tilt in check. My heater is a combo of running hot with cards and running hot with a huge donk sitting on my right on Sunday. I was playing today and found him, managed to get on a table with him (the waitlist quickly filled behind me), and stacked him when I picked up JJ. Eventually he ended up in a HU grudge match with another player from Sunday's session who must have been hounding him. It took some doing for me to find the donk and get him on a table as he was changing tables fairly rapidly. I started to think that this kind of bum hunting at 50nl is not useful to improving my game, which I am trying to do, and chasing a big donk around is distracting. I think in the long run improving my play will pay off the most, and so I won't spend a lot of time looking for big fish until I am at 100nl and 200nl and the money becomes more important to me. Right now, I think I can win at 50nl for a decent rate, and I want to earn my way into the higher stakes with my play and not my table selecting abilities (which will sharpen a lot quicker and more easily than my NLHE game...).

Also I made a modest withdrawal for the week, and if I can keep that up for the next 3 weeks, I think I should be able to convince my wife I can quit my piddly 2nd job.

Play well. Do good work. Keep in touch.

PFJ