More NL100, and thoughts at month's end

All told, I haven't really played much for the past couple weeks, as I've been more concerned with spending time with my family, and because of the fact that I've been ill and not sleeping very well. Every time I sit down at the computer to play, I find myself a little drained after an hour or so, and my play is suffering.

That said, the time was right to take a shot at NL100 and so far it's gone very well. I'm up about 4 buyins after 1,000ish hands. My PTBB/100 is 19.97 so far :)

I'm certainly glad that there are still people like this idiot at the NL100 level, lol.

And for that matter, even though it's a beat, I'm glad there are people like this guy, too. What a dumbass. Yeah, that preflop call makes a lot of sense :)

All in all the month has been much more successful than even I'd imagined it would be, having moved up two levels despite spending the first half of the month in the doldrums of breakeven at NL25. Combining tournament and cash game wins, I broke $2000 on the month, and while that's not exactly balla status, it's enough to pay my bills.

I think that might be it for the month and year for me, as I hit my iron man status (woot woot, $100 bonus) last night.

I have no plans whatsoever of stopping at NL100, either, and by this time next month I hope very much to be rolled for, playing, and beating NL200. I think, if that level proves beatable for any substantial BB/100, I might stay there for a while and work on making next year a 6-figure year.

Specific goals for January:

1) Crush NL100 for 5+ PTBB/100 for as long as it takes to move up to NL200 (roughly $4k bankroll on Full Tilt).

2) Begin playing and beating NL200.

3) At least $1k in withdrawals while maintaining a Full Tilt bankroll of $5k+.

4) $4k net profits for the month.

5) Minimum of 70k hands played.

6) Net positive in tournaments.

I'm as convinced as ever that this is something I can do. Despite the numbers not being that large overall (yet), I'm absolutely certain that this is what I want to be doing for the time being.