Hi All,
I forgot to have my introduction (this is my 1st blog) and here it is:
My 1st name is Franz Josef and I am from the Philippines. I have been playing live local poker cash games since last year and from there I have learned that there are a lot of freerolls online where I can actually earn seats for Huge Live local Tournament such as the APT/APPT Manila/Cebu.
November last year, one of my poker buddy inforemed me about Pokerstrategy and decided to create an account and get the bonus. I did not play it seriously and did not read most of the materials and end up losing my entire bankroll within two weeks. After that I have abandoned my account and continued playing live games from time to time.
March this year, I decided to revive my online account since we again have online freerolls and real money satellite buyin in one of our local big tourney. I deposited $100 in my Pokerstars account. Within a few weeks and not following any bankroll management, I was able to win some money and increase my bankroll to $900. With $900, I then played NL100 and putting $50 as my initial buy in on each of my table ( 4 tabling).
Suddenly I experienced a huge downswing and when I only had $200,
I withdrew the money and made my 1st deposit in Fulltilt. My mistake is that I signed up in a different advertiser and my FT account is not link with PS.
During this period I started reading the materials on Pokerstrategy (silver level). I was able to win a lot in fulltilt using SSS. The highest balance I had there was $4500 and I have sold some of the winnings to my poker buddies cause this is the fastest way to receive the money. I also received $500 bonus on their Biggest Bonus ever promo. ![]()
By the end of July I still hand more than $3800 in my FT account but suffered very huge downswings on Aug and Sept until my roll was down to $1000.
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I have been on a losing streak in Fulltilt for the past two months so I decided to transfer my $1k roll to Pokerstars.
I have decided to create this blog to keep track of my poker games, to have a place to rant and to get rid of the bad luck.

I had a good start this Oct 1 - 5. I won $1600 in just lest than 5.5k hands. I sold $1100 of my roll to a friend since I needed some money and I do not want to use my personal savings. ![]()
My current roll is $1700. I am 6 tabling nl200 using SSS and I also play the VIP freerolls every weekend.
October 09 Objectives:
Balance:$4000
Pstars VIP Platinum VIP: 3800 VPP more needed
Pokerstrategy Diamond: 5069 SP more needed
I am not really sure of the exact playing time I can dedicate this month since I am also working. I will try to update this blog as soon as I am done with my daily session.
Other PS members' comments are more than welcome.
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Summary October 2009
Balance:$3770 ($230 short of the objective)
Pstars VIP: Platinum
PokerStrategy Diamond : (1034 SP short)
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November 09 Objectives:
Balance: Win $4500
Bonus: Purchase $650 bonus - needs to earn 20KFPP
PS VIP: Reach Diamond - needs to earn 1034 SP