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well a few days ago, i withdrew everything from my pokerstars account except $60 and wanted to try to see if i could get to a $1000 playing $55+$5 sng's. i got 2nd in my first one so was up to $185 or something then lost, lost, and lost, had enough for a $25 sng, placed, then lost another $55 one leaving myself with like $4 and some cents. before depositing more money, i went to the .05/.10 nl tables with my $4 and just went all in every hand, lucked out and won the first time someone called leaving me enough to play in a $6 sng. i won that, and after 2 days im up to $150 haha. guess i wont be depositing after all unless i blow it all playing limits and sng's out of my bankroll; which i probly will, but will most likely luck out and win $1000's of dollars instead of going bust. i recommend you play a $5 sng. go big or go home.

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Basically don't be stupid and get lucky. I started with $10 from a freeroll at UB and their lowest limit tables are .25/.50. I did those till $20, won a $5 sng, went back to limit-- rinse/repeat. Got it up to $200, dropped $30 in a MTT, placed 2nd and now have $2000. Now I'm doing $10 sng's and will likely move to .5/1. (don't want to jump too high yet)You can do it.

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x300gtx, thats just crazy talk. Why even play poker, go buy some lotto tickets or something. You can totally grind your bank roll up at .02/.04 tables in a week to 20. Consider this a way to teach you some skills you need to learn, in a month youll be hitting some bigger limits... but play proper.

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Doesn't PS have .01/.02 limit tables? That would be more ideal for a $5.50 bankroll.
0.01/0.02 limit tables are impossible, because then the SB in those games would be half a cent. I don't think our country has used that denomination of money for a while now. :D Sorry for the joke. To answer your question, 0.02/0.04 refers to the limits, not the blinds, so 0.02/0.04 is as small as any site can possibly go.
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Best thing to do would be to play the .0000000001/.0000000002 limit games. This is about the highest limit you can afford with your bankroll that you found in the seat cushions of your car! :D

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yea well now im down to $5 its horrible i pick up AA in middle position2 limpers before mei raise and someone reraises and someone else caps the beting.....overall 4 people see the flopflop comes A T J 2 diamonds......jackpot!!!!someone checks i bet and get raised ad reraise...KQ is a concern but im happy..i reraise and get 2 callers to the turn.....turn is an 8 of spades...good card for mesomeone bets..i raise...get a cold call and the original bettor callsriver...7 clubssomeone bets...i raise... one guys fold..i get reraise...i call....the guy turn over 49 unsuited...4 mother &^%%&$ 9 unsuited.....4 9 wtfhe has a staright and my 3 aces lose to him wowowowowowowwiam getting sick of this im down to 5 bucksmy PS nickname is ldudeus2oh please help me god..im dyin here

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Play the lowest limit you can untill you have 1k hands played at that limit and 300 BB for the next limit. I know it sounds tough, because it is. If you do it the right way it will pay off.I have turned $17 into $150 playing the penny games and now the dime games on stars. (It took about a week)

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Doesn't PS have .01/.02 limit tables? That would be more ideal for a $5.50 bankroll.
0.01/0.02 limit tables are impossible, because then the SB in those games would be half a cent. I don't think our country has used that denomination of money for a while now. :D Sorry for the joke. To answer your question, 0.02/0.04 refers to the limits, not the blinds, so 0.02/0.04 is as small as any site can possibly go.
UB has .01/.02 tables. They just make both blinds .01.
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yea well now im down to $5 its horrible i pick up AA in middle position2 limpers before mei raise and someone reraises and someone else caps the beting.....overall 4 people see the flopflop comes A T J 2 diamonds......jackpot!!!!someone checks i bet and get raised ad reraise...KQ is a concern but im happy..i reraise and get 2 callers to the turn.....turn is an 8 of spades...good card for mesomeone bets..i raise...get a cold call and the original bettor callsriver...7 clubssomeone bets...i raise... one guys fold..i get reraise...i call....the guy turn over 49 unsuited...4 mother &^%%&$ 9 unsuited.....4 9 wtfhe has a staright and my 3 aces lose to him wowowowowowowwiam getting sick of this im down to 5 bucksmy PS nickname is ldudeus2oh please help me god..im dyin here
Welcome to micro limit.Play ultra-tight, and you'll rake in more than you pay. Let the odds play themselves.
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i did i similar thing on royal vegas, i started at 2 dollars that i won in a freeroll, and went to work on the .o5/.10 tables for a while, actually built up to 30 then got fifth in a $1 PL tourney and won 64 dollars, the next day i won a $1000 freeroll, so that added $250 more to my account, and now its actually respectible...do that

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my advice is this:1) take the 5.50 and play in a 5.50 SNG. play to win it all or go broke. if you win, you'll have 25$. if you lose, you are broke.2)if you win, now you have 25$. play NL.01/.02 2$ buyin3)if you lose, go to a site that gives you 10$ free and play there. royal vegas poker gives you 10$ free. noble poker gives you 16$ free if you go through cardplayer mag's website. pacific poker also gives 10$ free i think (its not stated, but they have for some of my friends)Q--how did you get your BR in the first place? if you can't deposit, where did it come from at stars? did you win a freeroll at stars or something? and if yes, what was the payouts? there are more lucrative freerolls online elsewhere

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i also started with 5 buck on stars about a little over a month ago. i played .02./.04 limit until i got 10 bucks, then i played a 5 50 sit and go and won it. since then i am running with it and havent looked back. turned 5 dollars into 1400 in a little over a month, not too bad.so i would suggest taking a stab at a 5 dollar sit and go and if u dont win it grind it out again at the 02 /04 tables .

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i was down to 2 dollars myself pretty recently, i grinded it out at the penny tables. i play the no-limit tables for some reason though, probably patience is an issue. i finally worked my way up to 15 dollars.this is when i said screw it, i'm playing a sit n go. i used smash's idea (think thats who it was) and waited around for the others to knock each other out. i ended up cashing in the last 6 out 7 sng's since then. moved up to .05/.10 tables and have gone up to 60 bucks. it can be done you just have to be patient.another thing i did on the .05/.10 tables was jump from table to table when i made a little profit. pisses people off but why waste 2 hours worth of work to get screwed on the river. put the minimum in there double up and go from there. i may get ripped for this theory but it has worked and i'll see if i can keep it going.

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geez there sure are a lot of stories of people with under 20 posts turning $1 or $2 into hundreds and thousands of dollars. sounds a little fishy to me. :roll:

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geez there sure are a lot of stories of people with under 20 posts turning $1 or $2 into hundreds and thousands of dollars. sounds a little fishy to me. :roll:
i cant speak for the others but i can tell you my $371 turned into 289 after a couple bad days, its a bummer, but i still treat it like found money so its not too big a deal ...which is kinda bad i guess
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geez there sure are a lot of stories of people with under 20 posts turning $1 or $2 into hundreds and thousands of dollars. sounds a little fishy to me. :roll:
My story isn't fake, I am currently turning $10 into. . .$2o58.27. Down about $150 today lost to a higher boat.
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Skipping all the other ccrap posts...This is the ONLY one you should care about, right here.Ready?PLAY .01/.02 AND BUILD YOUR BANKROLL. Playing slow and building slow beats the HELL out of busting and not being able to play at all. Embrace .01/.02. If you really love poker, you'll be patient with it and you'll understand its .01/.02 or a good chance of busting wit hno chance of redopositing.Just build your roll, have fun.

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Skipping all the other ccrap posts...This is the ONLY one you should care about, right here.Ready?PLAY .01/.02 AND BUILD YOUR BANKROLL. Playing slow and building slow beats the HELL out of busting and not being able to play at all. Embrace .01/.02. If you really love poker, you'll be patient with it and you'll understand its .01/.02 or a good chance of busting wit hno chance of redopositing.Just build your roll, have fun.
Exactly. Norman is completely right. Tournaments you don't have very good odds at winning, but you can grind out a profit even at micro limits. I did it, and I'm not even that good so it can be done.
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geez there sure are a lot of stories of people with under 20 posts  turning $1 or $2 into hundreds and thousands of dollars. sounds a little fishy to me.   :roll:
I just lurk here but you can check my posts at the Cardplayer forum if you want verification. :roll:
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I have $5.50 on pokerstars and no way of depositing any more moneyi was wondering if i could get some advice on how to build it up the fastest?i built it up to $9 playing $0.02/0.04 limit and then played 2 tourneys ( 1 and 2 dollar buy in) and lost them bothnow i have decided not to play anmore tourneys untill i actually get a decent bankrolldo you guys think this is a good idea and could i get some more advice from anyone willing to give it?thank you and i hope to hear from a lot of you
wonder around the street and collect cans. beats playing .02/.04 all day.
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