days 18 and 19...

played three sessions and ran pretty well...

66 sng's: +$235

would like to put this challenge over by the end of the week so i can stop updating totals everyday which gets to be a bit of a pain. i also managed to win a step 6 ticket on pstars and will probably use it for a PCA step 6 where the winner gets a trip package (worth 15 grand) and second and third get $1400 or so. I might wait till i win another step 6 to play just so if i lose i won't feel so bad knowing i have a backup...

Total:
1509sng's:+$3701

Day 16 and 17...

played 7 sessions over the past couple of days

154 sng's:+$333

Total
1453sng's:+$3466


another good solid day, could have been even better but my last session ended with about 5 or 6 horrible beats and ended up being a losing session, still, doing well and only 1500 from the 5k goal, and have maintained close to a 15% roi through the challenge, going to try and complete it next week, hoping i can get in 5 sessions a day starting monday again...

Day 14 and 15...

Played 6 sessions over the last two days, before that i had been playing steps almost exclusively, no luck though as i am still trying to qualify for either the costa rica tourney or the pca. I played in the 700 pca tourney but got horribly unlucky when i had qq allin vs K8 and 1010 and the board made a straight for a chop, then i was short and got in jj vs aa and 77 and the 77 hit a set :(

132 sng's: +$320

total:
1299sng's:+$3130

going to try and bring this home soon, even though i can't make any promises on volume cause i will still be adding in steps, steps are great too cause you get more vpp's in general from the higher steps so it lets you build the fpp's up faster, i wish they had a few more outs though as getting to step 6 from step 1 can be soul crushing at times...

Day 13...

I took a day off playing and then yesterday, monday played steps for about three hours and played two sets of sng's, one set of my regular 16's and one set of 6 man sng's. These both went very well, and the 6 man's were even softer than expected. Sometimes when the 16's are very heavily filled with regulars or other good players i will try out different games, from now on i will probably look to the 6 man's as my second option...

38sng's: +$432

total:
1167sng's:+$2810

Day 12...

played 4 sessions today played pretty well and i have covered a few of my biggest leaks i think, although there is still a few spots i probably need to cover so i can't say i'm playing perfectly, but i am pretty happy with my game right now. motivation is probably the biggest thing keeping me down right now. i will probably just play when i feel for the next couple days as i am just a little tired and semi burned out, not really from poker, but having to concentrate for 4-5 hours a day leave you with not enough energy for the rest of life i find sometimes, so i may just take it easy for a while and then return to finish this challenge in a blaze of glory, we'll see what happens...

90sng's: +$147

total:
1129sng's:+$2378

Day 11..

played five sessions, had a great first session, broke even over my next two and then ran absolutely terrible in my last set... i bubbled 8 tournies, 4th place, so that pretty much sums it up. It was funny because i was actually running well and then bam, lose every bubble race, watched as every shortstack won their allins and then lost a couple incredible three way pots...

114 sng's :+$9

total:
1039sng's:+$2231
pretty frustrating end to the day and i was tempted to play one more set but decided against it, probably a good idea, will try to put in more volume tomorrow...

Day 9 and 10...

Saturday and Sunday, didn't play too much but made some money...

88sng's: +$269
+160 pokerstars bop bonus


Total:
925sng's:+$2222 (160 is from bonus)

Going to include the bonus money in this challenge for the simple fact that money is money. I will also add up how many fpp's i make (pokerstars frequent player points which you can trade for cash). Every 1000sng's i play equates to 17,500 fpp's which is around 200 dollars, so as you can see if i include my rakeback-fpp's then I am nearly halfway there. Either way I am going to keep putting 6 or 7 sets during the week and try to keep the momentum going...

Day 8...

Played four sessions, ran bad, played bad, ended up with a small loss for the day... just wasn't too motivated. I will likely play one or two sessions on saturady and sunday and then look to put in a lot of volume next week and take a big chunk out of that 5grand :)

90sng's: -$53

total:
837sng's:+$1793

Day 7...

Had a good day today, played solidly again and got rewarded for my efforts, finally. played 5 sessions but only 14 tables in the last one with some 6mans thrown in because i was finishing off a Battle of the Planets sng leaderboard score and i needed 14 more games. i ended up with a 1563 and it should net me some extra winnings at the end of the week when they tabulate the scores, probably good for 5th or 6th and a hundred dollars or so.

day 7

102 sng's: + $701

Total

747sng's:+$1846

Obviously today was a good day, up there with my best at these levels. I am thinking the game very well right now and pretty happy about it. I feel like I am making good decisions and letting everything else not bother me. Which is all you can do. Very motivated to play and finish this challenge.