Which Online Poker Site?

My first task in my online adventure is to pick a site. I've played on four so far:

• Pacific Poker, my first poker site, might be a decent choice. Software is OK, games were fairly easy. The only problem is I can't remember my username or password, so screw it, Pacific's out.
• Poker Stars, was my second site. I tried Stars after having a very long conversation with some random dude I sat next to on a plane. He saw me reading "Hold'em for Advanced Players" (HEAP for those cool enough to know) and a 3 hour discussion ensued. (I invited him to my buddy's game that very night and the fucker took down the $300 first place payout. I damn near got banned.) Anyway, he recommended it for having the best software, choice of games, etc. and he was right. Only problem is the players are quite good, and that is incompatible with my goal. I still have about $105 bucks over there for playing the $5 SnGs (sit and gos) I like so much. And it is the only place to find a populated $0.50-$1.00 Stud 8/b game on line. You can find me there as "makahn64".
  
• PokerRoom, was my third site. I deposited about $20 there one night when I was travelling for business and the only computer I had was my Crapple iBook. I was jonesin' for a game and PokerRoom was the only one that supported Macs (through a crappy Java applet). Anyway, I won my very first SnG on PokerRoom (actually my very first bet on PokerRoom to be specific) and I was in love. I quickly ran my $20 up to a gynourmous $80 and cashed out $60. I quikly lost the remainder playing $1-2 stud far too loosley. It turns out PR has some of the crappiest players on the net. Could be the winner.
• Full Tilt Poker, was my forth site. I dropped a $100 in FTP primarily to play in a weekly private HORSE tournament run by some folks I know on the 2+2 Forums (www.twoplustwo.com). I never could remember when the tournament was though and managed to drop the full $100 playing a variety of games poorly. The tournaments were soft, but in the cash games I was softer. And there were a number of complete assholes playing $2-4 stud on the site. And they never had their statistics software working, so this was a real problem if you're trying to track such things.
  

So it really came down to FTP or PokerRoom. I have ended up going with PR because I really needed the stats. Poker Stars has much better stats, but I need soft competition.

The decision now was how much to start with?

$1 did not seem reasonable since Neteller would probably jack me for like $12 in fees. Talk about reverse implied odds. In addition, PR does not have the submicronlimit games Stars has (0.01-0.02) so I need some bankroll.

$100 seems like too much temptation for me. I might jump into some no limit games, swing for the fences, get popped.

$20 sounds about right. I could start out in some 0.25-0.50 limit hold'em games and work my way up from there.

I already had deposited the $20 in PokerRoom previously (actually a reload after pissing away $20 a couple of weeks ago) and have been grinding it ever since. In my next blog, I'll tell you where I am at and what I have been playing.

I'm sure it will mind-fuckingly exciting.