**Official 2006 Results and 2007 goals thread**

[GooseHinson]

Up until Oct. 13th I was crushing party 22-33$ sngs (and dabbling in the higher levels). Probably made about 22-25k from those and maybe 20-30k hands of min-bet hold them (2/4-3/6 on party earlier in the year).

Other then that, my only NL cash experience had come from clearing occasional reloads at the party 25nl and various PSO bonuses (I guess I was a small winner in the games).

After black friday, I tried continuing with my party sngs, but it was simply not going to cut it; they didn't start often enough and the competition seemed to be tougher. I tried sngs on stars but just ran terribly and became disheartened. I then read NLHTP and tried my hand at some 50nl 6max, winning a bit but then giving it back and then some...I needed more help.

I took the next 2 weeks (early november) and dedicated them to studying the game. This including getting a membership to cardrunners and watching all the videos, watching various videos of 2p2ers playing (thanks iStrong!) and reading the entire archive of monthly digests in SSNL. Finally I felt I could play with some confidence. Well things didn't start out too well at the stars 25nl (PS I hate stars) so I then created an account on Full Tilt with rakeback, deposited 600 and vowed to get on track. I played about 7k hands of breakeven/losing 25nl; the games just weren't poker and I was trying to apply principles that just didn't apply to such a game. My elaborate bluffs and squeeze plays barely if ever worked.

Out of frustration (and having the bankroll for it) I moved to 50nl in hopes of finding games were my alleged poker prowess would be rewarded. I ran hot for about 5k hands and was hooked. I then ran relatively well for another 12k and decided to try my hand at 100nl. Had a good start there too (10ptbb over 8-9k hands) and now find myself having an icky breakeven stretch.

My last 7k hands I'm down a bit, so rather then keep at it and risk giving more of it back, I've decided to take another 1-2 week sabbatical and study and work on my game some more. I hope to get back on track and ideally be playing 200NL full time by march and 400NL full time by the end of the year.

Here's my graph since nov. 15th, if anyone has any questions or comments, feel free to fire off a PM. You guys (and SSNL) helped me, although I don't post so much, I'd like to give back and help you too.

(I was actually proud of my winrates before the past week (8ptbb at 50 and 100nl...Looks like I have some work to do!)