Moving along...

My plan is progressing slowly. I have played about 30 hours and made a whopping $93. The swings haven't been too big, however. My high is $178 and my low is about -$50. So it hasn't been bad, just slow. Every time I book a small win (I have yet to book a big win), it seems the next time I sit down I get beat over the head by a series of 3-outers. In fact the only reason I am ahead is because I actually hit a few flush draws yesterday. So far I am making 21% of what I think I should be making. Looking back, I think I was being overly ambitious when I put that plan together. I don't know how I expected to go from being a break-even/slight loser to a consistent winner. I think $8/hr would have been more realistic to start, rather than $14.

I am also considering adding a third table ahead of schedule. Two tables is getting pretty boring and I see myself starting to compromise starting hand selection the longer I play. I think adding a third table will make me focus more. I might also move up to 3-6 ahead of schedule as well. The main reason for this is, since I starting playing 2-4 exclusively, my rakeback payments have been about half of what I'm used to. I think I might add a third table of 2-4 at 50 hours, and then switch to 3-6 when my bankroll gets above $2,000. With the way things are going that will be sometime in 2007. The players at 3-6 are pretty much the same as the ones at 2-4, so as long as I have the necessary bankroll, I should be fine. There I go, deviating from the plan.

In other news, I whole-heartedly recommend the movie The 40 Year Old Virgin, unless you are easily offended by drunk women, mint-in-box vintage action figure collections, broken flourescent light bulbs, striped dildos, transvestite hookers, big-screen televisions, big boxes of porn, slutty bookstore employees, 40 year old virgins, or the guy who played MC Hammer in VH1's original movie Too Legit: The MC Hammer Story. Or if you happen to be my parents.