My last 8 sessions (30 hours) at Commerce have found me down $250 and I find myself sort of frustrated. So I started 3 tabling the $100 game on Stars and have been doing well, up $260 for 4 days/16 hours played. Playing 3 tables is not as diffucult as I previously thought. I'm playing 99% ABC poker and the players at this level kind of walk on into you. I've been getting 750 hands during my 4 hour sessions and it's cool to see the numbers build up on my Poker Tracker. There's no kidding yourself when you use PT for all of your online poker as it keeps record of every single action you take. Analyzing a session after I play is always interesting especially with the replay function on PT. In the $100 buy-in game I'm at 16,000 hands holding steady at 8.15 BB/100 hands. I've got 4765 hands at the $200 level and a dissapointing .73 bb/100 hands. I'm gonna stay away from the $200 and grind it out at the $100. The internet provides a steady earn for me and I think I'm gonna put in as many hours as I can and use that money to play a little higher when I go to Las Vegas. I'm a little shell-shocked from having 8 mediocre days at Commerce and I dont feel like playing there much right now. I've been trying to comit myself to playing 5 nights a week but the moment things dont run well for me all of the drawbacks of playing at Commerce become clear. The people are generally in a depressed state, the rake is $4/pot the second the flop hits the table and you can only buy $100 in a game with $2/3 blinds. I like playing with happy tourists , a rake of 5% max up to $4 with a buy in of 100X the big blind. There are actually more good players in Vegas but there are so many fish out there it is nice to have a couple of readable players at the table to minimize the craziness of the game. Its' clear that I can not make any real money playing the $200 in Vegas (due to trip expense) so I have to set a goal of playing the $200-500 with 2/5 blinds in order to be able to show a decent profit for the trip. Hopefully soon I'll be able to write a blog report about making a killing the first time I play in a game with a $500 buy-in. I'm sure I'll play at Commerce again soon because my good friend Vlady keeps calling me to remind me of all the good action there. They are truly the softest games in the world. Not much else going on. Made some money in June but I aint saying how much. The numbers for the middle of the year look good..I am on track to reach the goal I set for myself as far as poker winnings but I think I set the goal too low. I need to book more hours, somewhere close to 40/week if I want to keep building the bankroll. To tell the truth it's all a fucking grind. The only time I really enjoy playing is when I am in Vegas. There is something so special about playing poker with people who are on vacation. I booked a cheap ticket on Southwest for a single night this week. I'm leaving Burbank around 3PM and coming home the next morning at 6Am, aiming for a 10 hour session. I'm not currently in a state to play the $200-500 game yet but I hope to book a nice win at my regular game.

Source: Live No Limit Holdem with Yogi Steve