Current Bankroll: $3.03

So the firstdown swing in this challenge has been an interesting one and can once again betraced to my lax bankroll management. As you may see it appears I have onlylost roughly $3, but I have had quite a few swings in between. Following myprogress to $6 I played a three Dollar Dazzlers and managed to only take down 3rd in one of them putting me at $5. I then got the bright idea to play in a couple$1 Turbo MTTs on the hopes of binking an easy pickup. Well I crashed out ofeach of these around the middle stages making some pretty dumb bluffs in anattempt to pickup blinds.

Following these attempts I was sitting around $3 and got the bright idea to try some $2 HU matches. Why you may ask? Because I am a moron and the gamblers itch tends to overwhelm my sense of bankroll management. But anyways I miraculously end up winning three in a row, but then proceed to spew losing two in a row thinking trying to continue my heater. This left my roll at roughly $9, which isn’t bad considering I started at $0.00. My biggest problem though once again reared its ugly head this morning when I thought to myself “I’m feeling lucky” and proceeded to register for the $4.40 $3,000 Rebuy.

As soon as I registered I knew it was a major mistake as I have never performed well in rebuy tournaments as it is; but luck would have it I managed to double up early several times with pocket Aces. After two hours I am sitting around 16th
place out of a remaining 109. On the button I pick up pocket Jacks and raise 4xthe blind, the big blind proceeds to re-raise 3x my bet. This player had been stealing blinds pretty consistently so I put him on A rag or maybe even a lower range pocket pair. So I end up shoving and low and behold the guy is holding pocket Aces. Looking back this was a retarded shove on my part because of the possibilities, but I figured to trust my initial read.
Thus far the challenge as further magnified my major leak of improper bankroll management which I hope to get a reign on soon. Hopefully I will pickup some run good and continue onward with this challenge. Sickest beat so far was picking up pocket Kings in the 10pm PokerOwned freeroll tourney last night with 11 players remaining only to get bounced out by Pocket Aces.