Hello TPE!

My name is Cody, my friends call me Hawk, and I'm a 42 year old self employed remodeler.  I live in Cincinnati, OH and have been dabbling in online poker for years.  I recently decided to take a shot at making some part-time money playing online poker.  I'm having surgery on Dec 15th and I won't be able to work for about 6 weeks afterwards.  After dumping about $600 in October this year mostly trying to build a bigger bankroll playing the PS $4.40 180 Turbos/Non-Turbos  I learned the hard way that my way is wrong.  I should have been more patient and playing the 1.10 90 and 2.20 180 with the bankroll I had.

I redeposited another $250 and have been grinding it up to $350 and down to $210 for the last 2 weeks.  I'm at $280 right now.  I've also started to dabble in the bigger MTTs.  I accumulated enough FPP to buy 2 tickets into the Sunday $250k on PS the last 2 weeks.  My first one I made it into the money.  Last week I was sitting Top 100 and busted out at 447th for $104 payday.  It's not what my goal was but it was my first 2 times playing in 30000+ people MTT.  My plan is to fund the Sunday $250k with my fun money and use my bankroll for my regular play.

As far as how I'm doing at the other small stakes MTTs here is a small list of my finishes:

218/7500

168/3000

612/7422

151/1000

625/4842

6/4730

823/6472

155/1000

535/5000

414/4860

193/1000

I typically make it past the first couple hours in most tourneys.  I'm really hoping TPE can help me make a serious move from a consistent top 20% to top 10% or better player.

I use Pokertracker 3, Table Ninja and Tournament Indicator when I play.

Sorry for the long intro, but I figured I might as well throw the info out there and maybe someone can give me a little guidance.

PS. I tiled 5 tables around Panda's Bankroll Videos yesterday and listened/watched as I played the 1.10 90 Turbos and was extremely impressed at how much deeper I got.  4/13 ITM, bubbled out 3 times and took 3 6ths and 1 10th place finish.

Thanks,

^Hawk^