Not sure what happened, but I only ended up $42 according to PokerTracker. In fact, my game time numbers have been revised downward to 8.27 hours. Very bizarre.

Up $60. Not bad. Of course, that’s after 8.28 hours of game time (i.e., an hour at two tables is two hours of game time), giving me a win rate of $7.42 an hour. I think Ben and Jerry’s pays more than that. But now that my bank roll is over $200 (I withdrew $55 yesterday), I’m gettin’ close to the point where I’ll move on to a higher limit. The same win rate at a .50/1 will net me almost $15 an hour, which is what a good internship will pay me.

Grind, grind, grind. I was looking back at one of my past entries, and I can see how my expectations are completely warped by a few good sessions where I netted $30-50. I suppose the good thing is that I’ve not experienced another loss like last Monday afternoon’s. The bad thing is that I was up $30 today before I blew $14 on some bad beats and fishing expeditions. The overall problem is that I want to build the bankroll up to the point where I have a) made up for my PokerStars losses, and b) can move on to higher limit tables. Until then, I guess I’ll have to be ecstatic about $16.

In other news, I was trolling around on the poker blogosphere and came across a new one to add to the right side: Boy Genius.

Combined bankroll is now over $200. Made another $20 today and played the requisite number of raked hands for the deposit bonus. Would have been higher if it hadn’t been for a couple bad beats at this table. But it’s been good for the most part.

Empire Poker and Party Poker are basically just two skins for the same game. So when Empire sent me a 50% bonus code, I promptly transferred $100 of my Party bankroll over to Empire. So far I’m up $30 and I’ve played about 70 of the 250 raked hands required to get the bonus.

My combined bankroll is about $137, which is a result of the heavy losses I sustained on Monday and the minor gains from the rest of the week. I even won some money while playing Thursday evening from 6 to 7.

I’m looking forward to pushing past $200 this weekend. Yup, I’m just a small-time, low-limit grinder.