Hey folks,

I've been meaning to make this thread for the last couple of weeks but due to my inherently procrastinatory (yeh I made that word up) attitude towards life I'm only getting around to it now.

The goal of this thread is to track my progress throughout the Party Poker Summer of Grind promo and show how a bankroll can still be build from the micro stakes. I'll be taking full advantage of all available offers to me during this which are as follows:

1) First deposit bonus on PP for $500, this is matched by the site and unlocked in increments of $100 at a rakeback rate of 20%

2) Summer of Grind promotion - I'm sure you are all aware of this by this stage but if not just to give a quick rundown of it. After I play 30k hands I get a $150 bankroll boost. After 60k hands you get an additional $150. After 100k hands you get an additional $300. After 250k hands you get an additional $900.

3) Standard PP rakeback which I believe works out at 30% for the max loyalty tier but I do not know what it is for the lower tier.

My goals are to hit the 60k hands mark at 10NL before the end of the promo, unfortunately I just won't have the time to hit the higher milestones.

I've been only playing a reasonably small amount, I'm currently approximately 6k hands in and I have been losing. My initial session was an attempt at four tabling the fast forward games which I have now worked out that I won't be able to do profitably, I dropped somewhere in the region of $65/70 over 3-3.5k hands. Going forward I'll be dropping down to my usual 2 tables for the remainder of the challenge. I've recouped some of my losses since that initial disaster and the BR is currently sitting at ~$460.

I'll be streaming some of my progress at my Twitch channel - www.twitch.tv/fergb12345 if anyone wants to come check it out live.

I'll post here later on with my up to date exact results and graphs!

Fergal