Plans on moving up

Didn't get to play much poker the last few days. I spent a bit of time on Pokerstars Friday night, but mainly mucking around low BI SNG's and some NL5. Couple of crazy pots. I had T8 on a TT84 board and got it in on the turn and lost. The nut full house and lost? He had KT and hit a king on the river, doh. The other I was running over the table a bit, and went a little over the top with top pair when a fairly loose weak (as in saw too many pots, but gave up if he didn't hit) played back at me. He had top two pair, and after getting it in, I hit my kicker. Overall, I finished up, but it was all just a bit of fun really.

Played a bit drunk last night on FTP also. Again played pretty average while drunk, but just hit cooler after cooler after suck out to be down 4 BI's in no time, and bounced back thanks to one lucky pot and some donks to be down just a bit. Still I let my drinking affect my decision making at points, which I didn't like at all.

Plenty of forum posts and reading forums. All micro limits stuff now, but it's nice to be able to look at a hand, and pretty much see the persons mistakes. It also highlights how important every decision is. Without seeing the results, you can still see the poster got in a really tough spot, all due to calling OOP pre flop, or 3 betting a loose player with a bad 3 bet hand. But certainly experience helps you understand that losing a big pot is not important. What's important is that when you got it in, there were hands he could be holding that you beat. Or that your bluff was going to be successful a lot of the time. As long as you have some solid reasons for a play, then losing the pot is not an issue. Part of having solid reasons for a play involve having solid reads on players, so I'm still looking to improve my attention skills on pots I'm not involved in.

On the bankroll side of things, I'm about $330 on Full Tilt, $100 on Pokerstars. If I wanted to I could join the accounts, and work at getting just 7 more BI's at NL10 before moving up. TBH this is crossing my mind, because I know I will be competetive again at NL25 6 max, so if I can win 7 BI's, I'll seriously consider moving up. I'll probably just keep the money in their current accounts, but I'll count the Pokerstars amount in my bankroll. This works out OK anyway, because if I had a douwnswing of 10 BI's on NL25 to start with, I'd just move back down to NL10 again, and still have 15 BI's for that level, plus the extra 10 sitting on Pokerstars. So in theory you should not really ever need to access that bottom part of your bankroll, because you just move down again when it's required anyway. Given I'd hope to be a 10BB/100 hands winner at NL10, I'd be aiming at getting 7 BI's within 3 weeks play, and I think that's ample time to prove I'm playing well at that level anyway. So if all goes well, I'll move up once my full tilt account hits $400.