Wow.

Well, I just started the new stake for my investors and we got off to a bang. I played the Early Doubles (I FT'd the B tourney just this past Friday). It was rather up and down for the first couple of hours, with me being down to under 1k in chips in both tourneys at one time. I got aggressive with my good hands and before I knew it we were down to the money bubble in both tourneys. At this point I was short in both and had a stack that was well below the average. But I didn't hold back and just chose decent hands to shove with until I got a healthy stack in both. Before too long I was wondering how I stood in the race for the best double finish, so I had some friends do some research. Around this time I crashed out of the A tourney in 43th place and was informed that there was 1 other player that was still in both. This other player shortly crashed out of the A tourney also in 38th place, so I knew that I had to best his finish in the B tourney by at least 5th to take the entire bonus. He busted out of the B tourney in 25th place so my next goal was to get to 19th at the least. Slowly but surely 5 players dropped and I looked poised to at the least get the double best finish bonus. I managed to shove with some sub-par hands and pick up the blinds and antes and managed to win a few key 40%/60% hands. Soon enough we were down to 10 and playing hand for hand to the FT. The FT bubble finally busted and I was sitting in 7th place. I just couldn't get much accomplished on the FT and ended up crashing out in 8th place. Was still a nice finish and was nice to get back to the FT in such a short amount of time. With the double cash/best double finish and winnings from any other tourney that I played for the day I managed to finish the BAP up $367.83 for the day. It's a great start to my 31 day run, and I hope to see this continue to go up.

On to other things, I have been reading at least a chapter a day of  The Theory of Poker, and one thing that I took away from what I read, is that I shouldn't be so results orientated, that I should be more focused on wether I made the right play. I took this into my play today, and I feel that even when I lost chips, I was making the right play.

GL to everyone on the tables,

Merch