Rebuilding The Roll

[MasterLJ 0]

In light of my recent post of an admitted problem of playing above my stakes, I've decided to post results on a daily basis (well, days that I play). It's a rare opportunity that someone is willing to post their entire bankroll status in public view with the intent of being completely honest (if I go broke, you will know). This post will benefit me by having to be accountable for poor decisions (I'm not planning on making any this time), and will benefit some newer players on proper b/r techniques and game selection. The selected program is obviously talored to me and my specific strengths, but I think people will be satisfied with what can be learned combined with comment from veterans.I'm at work now and have a lot of driving to do afterwards. But tonight I've decided to deposit $200 and start over. My short term goal (2-3 months) is to get to $3000, take out $1000 for the few tilt fests I've had since I stopped playing for a living and tried to gamble up a bankroll after several weeks of successful management. From $2000 I can start launching an attack on a multitude of games. I think that HU LHE stops being profitable around the $100 level because your success is exactly proportional to luck+your opponent making gross errors... not just missing a bet, but screwing up entire hands. At $2000 I will re-introduce the SNG (probably way lower than my b/r would allow, $30 or so) and I will hopefully ramp up my NL cash game/short handed LHE game.Gameplan:For now I'm going to be playing $20 HU LHE. I think my bankroll is not strong enough for many HU players, but I have a few year track record of being a winning HU player. I feel very comfortable with 10xbuy-in.I may throw in the odd $11+rake 10 person SNG as the play is God awful and I certainly feel comfortable with the amount of buy-ins I have even though it's a shared bankroll. And I'm going to leave the option open for playing ABC poker at 0.10/0.25 once I hit the $300 mark.Just for reference, when I've gone broke before it's exclusively becuase I've taken my money to cash-game tables that were out of my b/r. For some reason, I do not tilt my way to the higher buy-in SnGs.Once I get my b/r back to $500, I will introduce the 0.25/0.50 NL game ($50 max), probably 2-4 tabling. These are so ripe. At $600 I'll move up to the $30 HU SNGs and possibly introduce HU NL to my gameplan again. My perception of the HU game is skewed pretty badly right now because I've been playing mostly LHE and it will take some time to re-adjust (funny enough, I have no problem adjusting to the cash game).At $1000 I will introduce the $1/$2 Short-handed LHE to the game and take my SnGs to $50. I will stay at the 0.25/0.50 level playing ABC poker until I have at least 20k hands logged and have a proven record of crushing the game (6BB+/100).I will edit this post with the results from tonight. I'll probably only get 3 hours or so of playtime. Tomorrow should be slightly more productive. I will cut and paste from an excel spreadsheet/poker tracker where applicable. Most of the games I will be playing initially will have no PT entry, so it will be straight cut and paste from Excel.DAY 1Just finished up Day 1. Changed the plan a little already by starting at the 0.10/0.25 NL table straight off the bat. I think 8 buy ins is ample for this level.Played 10 games of HU LHE

Game	Buy-in  Rake W/L  Tot. WonHU LHE	  20	1	0	0HU LHE	  20	1	1	40HU LHE	  20	1	0	0HU LHE	  20	1	1	40HU LHE	  20	1	1	40HU LHE	  20	1	0	0HU LHE	  20	1	1	40HU LHE	  20	1	0	0HU LHE	  20	1	1	40HU LHE	  20	1	1	40

Daily Winnings: 30Winrate: 0.6 Cash Table: Started off at one table. After securing a buy-ins worth of winnings I decided to 2 table.Played well, got good cards, went for 39.44BB/100 (variance of the good variety over a very short span, 249 hands)At the second table I went up a couple bucks and decided to take a shot at a pre-flop aggressor when I held AQ and the board was 225. Turns out he liked his holdings and I went down 2 bucks under buy in.46 hands, -2.83BB/100End of Day 1 bankroll standings: $275.50Daily Gain: $75.50Best hand of the day:FullTiltPoker Game #600562824: Table Riviera - $0.10/$0.25 - No Limit Hold'em - 23:34:08 ET - 2006/04/28Seat 1: LJJones ($30.20)Seat 2: count_aight ($19.10)Seat 3: fluiddude ($43.45)Seat 4: BoominKid ($22.90)Seat 5: shawneyboy ($23.40)Seat 6: millennium ($26.90)Seat 7: Strega ($56.55)Seat 8: fmdt2000 ($18.45)Seat 9: Mollys Moby ($36.20)Mollys Moby posts the small blind of $0.10LJJones posts the big blind of $0.25The button is in seat #8*** HOLE CARDS ***Dealt to LJJones [Qh Kc]count_aight foldsfluiddude foldsBoominKid foldsshawneyboy foldsmillennium raises to $0.50Strega foldsfmdt2000 foldsMollys Moby foldsLJJones calls $0.25*** FLOP *** [7d 3d Kh]LJJones bets $1millennium calls $1*** TURN *** [7d 3d Kh] [Jc]LJJones bets $3millennium has 15 seconds left to actmillennium calls $3*** RIVER *** [7d 3d Kh Jc] [Qc]LJJones bets $5millennium calls $5 <------- she has the second nuts and is calling*** SHOW DOWN ***LJJones shows [Qh Kc] (two pair, Kings and Queens)millennium shows [Th 9h] (a straight, King high)millennium wins the pot ($18.15) with a straight, King high*** SUMMARY ***Total pot $19.10 | Rake $0.95Board: [7d 3d Kh Jc Qc]Seat 1: LJJones (big blind) showed [Qh Kc] and lost with two pair, Kings and QueensSeat 6: millennium showed [Th 9h] and won ($18.15) with a straight, King highWhy she called on the flop, I have no idea. At least on the turn she was open-ended, but jeez. Day 2 Got off to a pretty crappy start today. Lost the first 3 SnGs I played. I opened up my game selection to $10 HORSE (only played 1) and some short handed 0.25/0.50 now that the bankroll is ample. At the end of the evening I treated myself to a $5 tourny, went out in 115 out of 360.

Game   Buy  Rake  W/L   net gainHU LHE	20	1	0	0HU LHE	20	1	0	0HU LHE	20	1	0	0HU LHE	20	1	1	40HU LHE	20	1	1	40BONUS	0	0		10HORSE  10   0.5		 1		 20HU LHE	20	1	1	40HU LHE	20	1	1	40HU LHE	20	1	1	40

Total Winnings: 51.5 (Bonus + SNG) Win rate: 0.666666667 Cumulative Win Rate: 0.631578947 Cash game went well today. I only had one major blow out and that was when I had JJ UTG, raised it to 5xBB only got one caller.Flop is Q79 rainbow. I bet out, get a caller. I have him pinned on 10's or 8's or even AK at this table. I felt AQ would be re-raising. Turn brings a 10, I decide to test the waters since a 10 does not bring any reasonable draw (68 but I'm not worried), again, another call. On the river there is ~$15 in the pot (River was a deuce or something), I check to him, he throws in his last 4 bucks, I call. He shows the MIGHTY Q7 SOOOOOTED­.Total Bankroll: $347.70Daily gain: $72.20 Day 3Another day of success. My BB/100 is nearly 10 at this point at 0.10/0.25. Nothing to write home about in such a small sample (1500 hands), but it seems very maintainable since I haven't been running overly well and have been sucked out a few times and had a few blow ups. If I can control the few blow ups (not continue betting after on the turn) I think I can easily get this to 15BB/100. My original goal was 6 - 8... whatever I wrote above. I'll be able to see more clearly once I hit 10k hands. I'm hoping to log 2k hands tomorrow. I'm going to up my cash game tables to 3-4 and maybe not play any HU SnGs.I didn't get that much play time today. Took the son and the dog to the park, had coffee with friends. To appease Actuary, I'm taking this all to blog format. Anyone who's actually following this, I will have a link in my signature. I have actually found that I don't need readers or people to keep me in check. Simply making a day's end report makes me reflect on everything I did for the day.HU results:

Game	Buy  Rake   W/L   WinningsHU LHE	20	1	0	0HU LHE	20	1	0	0HU LHE	20	1	1	40BONUS	0	0	0	10HU LHE	20	1	1	40HU LHE	20	1	1	40

Daily HU winnings + bonus: 25Daily Win Rate: 3/5 = 60%Cumulative win rate: 15/24 = 62.5%Cash-game: Juicy again.

session_start	session_end	site_abbrev	table_name	game_level	co_seat	minutes_played	co_won	total_hands5/1/2006 01:59:16	5/1/2006 02:35:01	FTP	Count Diero	NL ($0.25)	8	36	0.2	395/1/2006 01:58:03	5/1/2006 02:08:11	FTP	Grand Canyon	NL ($0.25)	6	10	1.7	44/30/2006 16:37:19	4/30/2006 18:37:57	FTP	Grand Canyon	NL ($0.25)	8	120	27.45	1054/30/2006 16:13:14	4/30/2006 18:44:13	FTP	Upland	NL ($0.25)	9	151	10.45	1544/30/2006 02:22:28	4/30/2006 02:43:26	FTP	Kris (6 max)	$0.25/$0.50 (6 max)	6	21	-0.8	284/30/2006 00:22:37	4/30/2006 02:47:07	FTP	Churchfield	NL ($0.25)	8	145	14.25	1344/30/2006 00:13:47	4/30/2006 02:02:17	FTP	Ducharme	NL ($0.25)	1	109	1.15	1034/30/2006 00:12:30	4/30/2006 00:20:01	FTP	Ferrell	$0.25/$0.50	5	8	1.4	13

Total Won in cash game: $55.80Hmmm, don't know why things aren't adding up, but I am too tired to figure it out.Ending b/r: $412.50Not too bad, doubled my b/r in 3 days of moderate effort. I suppose I should brace myself for some downswingin'.Day 4Best Day Yet!I played almost exclusively cash games today. I was 3-tabling for a few hours. 2 of the tables were hot and perpetually threw decks at my hand, one was cold. Not only do I blow up twice at this table for about 20 bucks total (called an all-in with TPTK... so stupid), but when I finally get my break with 88 in the BB and a flop of KJ8, I meet UTG's limped JJ. Hurray!Never-the-less my BB/100 is now nearly 15 over 2k hands. I got in about 500 hands today, far shy of the 2k I wanted. To be honest, I was happy with my winnings and wanted some Dairy Queen.Best part of the day was sitting down with fellow FCPer, RON MEXICO™!11!!11!. He kept convincing me to go South. I gave into the Mexican charm. I'm still not gay, because the balls didn't touch.Cash game winnings:

session_start	session_end	site_abbrev	table_name	game_level	minutes_played	co_won5/1/2006 22:01:36	5/1/2006 23:51:58	FTP	Fairfield	NL ($0.25)		 	   110	-485/1/2006 21:52:13	5/2/2006 00:38:59	FTP	Grand Canyon	NL ($0.25)	     	    166	   36.555/1/2006 21:46:41	5/2/2006 00:42:34	FTP	Riviera	NL ($0.25)		                 176	77.1Total cash: $65.65For good measure I played exactly 1 HU LHE $20 SnG.  Not only did I win, but just as I won... MY BONUS WAS RELEASED OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG.Total winnings, $19 + $10 bonus dollars.Daily Winnings: $94.65Current B/R: $507.05Bah... the math is off again... but fug it.  The important thing is my b/r at the end of the day.[b] Day 5!1!1[/b]Best day yet!! Woohoo!  So nice to be able to say that back to back.  I'm not going by days since I don't play every day.  Yesterday was for the ladies, today was for poker.Again, I'm stopping early as I'm a bit drained from work and ended up doing really well.Played roughly 650 hands quad tabling.  Even did a HU SnG while quad tabling with little problem.I played 2 HU LHE SnGs ($20)... took both.My record is now 18 Wins and 9 Losses for a cumulative win-rate of 66.67% (over a miniscule sample size).I've only seen about 3k hands at 0.1/0.25.  I'm thinking I want to see at least 10k before I move up.  I really want a solid b/r before moving up, but also I want to have the players at this level figured out, as I know from the past that 0.25/0.50 plays about the same.  At 3k hands my BB/100 has moved up to 19BB/100 hands.  Easy money!As for my play, I made some nice laydowns (one actually ended up being the best, but the river would have brought the suckout anyway which made me feel better.  In retrospect it was a good laydown at any rate... I had AQos to a 7A8 board with 2 diamonds, turn brought another diamond and 2 other players were betting huge).  I folded a flopped full house.  I came in in the hijack with 4s5s [limped].  SB completed, BB checked.  Flop is 454.  I'm hoping one of them has a 4.  They check to me, I let one card come for free.  Turn is a J.  SB decides to get brave and bets out, I smooth call the pot sized bet (0.75).  River brings... another ****ing jack.  Now he bets the pot again ($2.25).  I have only a dollar invested in the hand (4xBB) and have to call 8xBB where there is a huge probability I'm beat.  At the same time if he bluffed at the J turn he had to bluff again on the river.   On the negative side I had my first suckout.  I put the moves on a relatively short stacked player with an over pair when I held AK, basically put him all in on the flop, he calls and I go runner-runner for the ace-low straight.Total net for cash games: $102.95total net for HU matches: $20*2 - $1*2 = $38Bonus: $10!!11!!For a daily win of $150.95.Total bankroll: $658.00Not bad, tripled my b/r in 5 days.[b]Day 6[/b]Played about 100 hands online, but had our weekly tournament (15 players).   I start off really well, I make a good call to double up, then I bust the nut flush on someone to have about 3.5 buy-ins.  I bluff a little bit more to get to 4 buy-ins and the tables merge.  The bad beats tonight have been sick.  Q9 beats QQ on a 995 flop (all-in pre flop).  Ac2c beats AA (all-in pre-flop), then there was my luck.  Blinds are now 1000/2000 and I have about 80k (M = 10).  Worst_Player_Ever limps UTG.  I look down at AJ, it's folded to me so I make it 6500 total.  Folds around... Worst_Player_Ever goes all-in.  He did this before when I took a similar course of pre-flop action when I had AQ... I tanked it and called, he shows A6os.  This was about 2 months ago.  Recalling this horrid play I think about it, announce to him my memory and call (I have him by about double-triple)... he flips over the mighty A9os.  Flop is blah,blah,blah turn is a blah, and on the river I deal a 9.  He quickly resorts to the "I Just knew it..." from the book entitled "Hold'em Donkeys catch phrases."Later on the blinds are now 4k/8k, and I have about 60k.  My M value is decreasing by the second.  There's only one player I respect out of the 5 remaining and only 2 that know when to fold.  The player I respect has been catching some hot cards and was already the chip leader.  He's UTG and doubles to 16k, I look down at 55.  Harrington says to do it... so I push.  Folds around, he gives me the "I know I'm beat," spiehl and calls with AdJd.  Flop 10d9d2c, Turn: Ah, River: Jc.  And I'm out.  In retrospect I played some fantastic poker, I just couldn't win a domination then couldn't win a coin flip.  I don't think I'd change anything I did and if I won that coin flip I would have taken the tournament 80% of the time (payouts are $20 for 3rd, $60 for 2nd and $220 for 1st so you should definitely be playing to win).Came home and played about 100 hands while trying to set up PokerAceHud... man that thing doesn't work very well.  I lost about $30 or so.  First loss, but I was playing like crap.  Made one good fold and one bad call... started playing some very aggressive poker and did VERY well.  Some opponents made some horrid calls when they "knew they were beat," but called anyway, but it was a successful trip into a different flavor of cash game playing (aggressive play actually pulled me out of the hole a bit).My B/r is now around $620, and I lost $20 for the buy-in for the live tourny... subtract that where you want.[b]Days 7,8,9[/b]Overall, this weekend was great.  I laughed, I cried, I threw up a little.I get my son on Friday night.  After bath, dinner, bedtime story, I fire up the quad tabling.  Take a shelling...weeee.On Saturday the anti-biotics my son was on for an allergic reaction to a tetnis shot made it impossible to take him anywhere (poor kid couldn't be 10 feet from a toilet), so that meant quad-tabling all day for me.  I took some more shellings.  Not so much because I was playing poorly, my luck just sucks.  Over 5.5k hands poker tracker is showing that 1. I've had aces less than any other hand (granted, I haven't lost with them in the 17 times I've had them [should be around 28 or so], 2. I'm actually in the red for flushes... I'm losing money on them via suck-outs and no less than twice have I had the 2nd nuts vs the nuts.  I finish Saturday with the bankroll at a pathetic $412.Sunday, same deal.  I'm stuck at home, can't take the boy anywhere.Sunday starts with a roar.   I end up quad-tabling to the $550 range.  At this point I give 0.25/0.50 6 max NL a shot.  So soft.  Instead of a nut peddler I am actually able to maneuver and play hold'em.  I get hit in the face with the deck at the $50 short-handed table and by end of the evening (after some more shellings at the $25 table) I am at around $670.  I decide to treat myself to the $24+$2 19k guarantee.  932 entered.After a few hours of some solid tourny play, I realize that I may have a chance at winning this thing and close out all other tables.  With about 28 left, I take the chip lead.  I'm winning every hand that I was a pre-flop favorite in.  I only sucked out once against a super-small stack (A7 vs A8: turn is a 7).Big pairs were a missing element from this tournament for me.  I made all of my money off jamming AK and being called by AJ, AT, etc.So finally I get KK on the button (about 14 left).  I make it 12k (3k blinds).  UTG limp/calls.  FLop is J8J.  He bets out 9k into a 30k pot.  I raise him to 30k.  He min-raises to 57k (dunno how that happened).  I folded.  In retrospect this is 55-TT, including 8's.  I can't see a hand that would limp-call with a jack.  At any rate, I laid it down with a formidable chip stack still.Some aggressive play puts me in about 7th after the first few hands at the final table.  Then it happens.  I'm on the button and the most beautiful AA is dealt to me.  Folds to CO who makes it 25k (blinds were 6k I think).  I smooth call, ready to jam just about any flop.  Flop comes Q82 rainbow (something like that).  He has me covered and bets about 4/5th of my stack.... beautiful.  I push the rest in, he flips over JJ.  Turn: J.  River:  Who cares?  It wasn't an ace.This wasn't the worst bad beat I've ever had statistically, but it certainly stung.  I felt I was outplaying all of my opponents and would have had a great shot at winning (would have been in 3rd with 225k, CL had about 250k).  The payscale quickly ramped up from the $380 for 9th (8th got $580, and 6th was slightly over $1k, 3rd was 2600, 2nd was 3400, 1st was 5100) and I certainly would have made top 6 with a stack of 225k.  Bah.On a positive note, I hit a milestone in pretty quick time, my b/r total is now:  $1013

[NYC 0]

Good luck sir!

[Actuary 3]

blog ?just serious

[MasterLJ 0]

I could do that, but I have blogs =\. It would also lack the accountability from respected peers and would more than likely go un-read.

[Actuary 3]

....would more than likely go un-read.

you may overestimate your support base.I'm really not trying to be mean.I know... I don't have to read them.. ok..ill be quietnarcissist..much?

[Zach6668 513]

As long as you don't start a new thread each time, I'm ok with it

[MasterLJ 0]

you may overestimate your support base.I'm really not trying to be mean.I know... I don't have to read them.. ok..ill be quietnarcissist..much?

A blog would have 0 views. This thread alone has 28. 28 > 0, last I checked.

[Actuary 3]

A blog would have 0 views. This thread alone has 28. 28 > 0, last I checked.

I know... 1/2 are mine....I'm so narcissitic!

[iggymcfly 0]

I'm trying to rebuild my BR too, and I'm right around where you are, although I'm not being very disciplined with game selection. So far, I've already played a little .25/50 PL Omaha, 1/2 LHE, some .5/1 NLHE, some 2/4 5-stud, and I've been making sports bets too. (This is all on Bodog.) Anyway, we'll see who builds their BR up faster if I don't go broke first, (the way I'm playing my ROR has to be at least 30%.)Anyway, I'm at $270 right now as I broke even playing poker today, but won $50 on basketball. I plan on using good BR management if I get up to $1000, but I really have a hard time valuing a small bankroll.

[AlphaOmega 0]

I'm trying to rebuild my BR too, and I'm right around where you are, although I'm not being very disciplined with game selection. So far, I've already played a little .25/50 PL Omaha, 1/2 LHE, some .5/1 NLHE, some 2/4 5-stud, and I've been making sports bets too. (This is all on Bodog.) Anyway, we'll see who builds their BR up faster if I don't go broke first, (the way I'm playing my ROR has to be at least 30%.)Anyway, I'm at $270 right now as I broke even playing poker today, but won $50 on basketball. I plan on using good BR management if I get up to $1000, but I really have a hard time valuing a small bankroll.

What happened to your old roll?

[iggymcfly 0]

What happened to the old roll?

I built it up to about $5000, mainly playing the $55-$109 SnGs on Party. Then, I decided to play some LHE, and figured that as long as I only played 2 tables, I'd be OK at 10/20. I lost $700 one night, and instead of quitting, I decided I'd "prove myself" the next day. Unfortunately, LHE games suck during the day, and I ended up going from down $500 to up $500 back to down $500. When, this happened, I started tilting and lost another $800 before I quit. The next day, I lost another $500 or so playing my SnGs before going to my weekly fishy live game.Well, the game's 1/2 PLO/PLHE, and I caught bad cards there (maybe tilting a little at the end) and ended up taking another big loss ($900). When I got home, I went into panic mode, and decided to get it all back at once playing 5/10 NLHE. I got all in for $1000 after turning top pair against an opponent who was trying to bluff me with bottom pair, he made two pair on the river, and then I tilted the last $500 almost immediately.Since then, I've been getting killed playing low-limit SnGs, and I've managed to lose another $500 or so. The money I've got in Bodog right now is really the last I can get my hands on without actually getting a job. (Ugh.) Forget the bad news though. The good news is that the roll's coming back. I was killing the PLO games on Bodog tonight, and I made $480 today, bringing me back up to a total of $750. I was playing .5/1 which is pretty high for where my BR is now, but as long as I don't move up for a couple weeks, I think I should be fine. I'm actually feeling really optimistic about a comeback right now.

[gooch 0]

You seem to be breaking your own rules with your play, moving up in limits before you said you were and such because you are winning. Does not seem to be good discipline at all. And if you can't show good disipline when you are winning, chances are you won't when you are losing. Re-read your first post, if you have found games that are playing better for you than what you thought originally (ie. cash vs. hu or sngs) go play them, but you should be playing in your limits still. Playing out of your br when you are winning doesn't matter, but if the cards or the game changes you can run into trouble again.Not that I am that much better at it, but I do try

[iggymcfly 0]

I think you're getting me confused with the OP, (I kinda hijacked hs thread). Anyway, I pretty much admitted that I wasn't planning on using good BR management until I got up to $1000, so that's why I've been playing a little over my head the last little while. Even now though, I was planning on staying at the .5/1 level until I get to $2500 or so, maybe taking occasional shots at 1/2 if that's the only game I can find on Bodog.

[MasterLJ 0]

You seem to be breaking your own rules with your play, moving up in limits before you said you were and such because you are winning. Does not seem to be good discipline at all. And if you can't show good disipline when you are winning, chances are you won't when you are losing. Re-read your first post, if you have found games that are playing better for you than what you thought originally (ie. cash vs. hu or sngs) go play them, but you should be playing in your limits still. Playing out of your br when you are winning doesn't matter, but if the cards or the game changes you can run into trouble again.Not that I am that much better at it, but I do try

I just re-read my first post this morning to re-cap. The only thing I did was start playing 0.10/0.25 NL before I hit $300. I'm now well within my original parameters of game plan with the exception of playing 0.25/0.50 Short-handed LHE (I've played a few times). This was not in my original game plan but I am currently well within the bankroll range to play it (820BB).Could you please elaborate?EDIT: Was this directed towards Iggy?

[gooch 0]

I just re-read my first post this morning to re-cap. The only thing I did was start playing 0.10/0.25 NL before I hit $300. I'm now well within my original parameters of game plan with the exception of playing 0.25/0.50 Short-handed LHE (I've played a few times). This was not in my original game plan but I am currently well within the bankroll range to play it (820BB).Could you please elaborate?EDIT: Was this directed towards Iggy?

Once I get my b/r back to $500, I will introduce the 0.25/0.50 NL game ($50 max), probably 2-4 tabling. These are so ripe. Day 2 and some short handed 0.25/0.50 now that the bankroll is ample.

It was your post LJ. It doesn't matter to me at all, but from experience, discipline is a slippery slope, once you break one rule, it's easy to break others. Keep it tight

[MasterLJ 0]

It was your post LJ. It doesn't matter to me at all, but from experience, discipline is a slippery slope, once you break one rule, it's easy to break others. Keep it tight

I appreciate the comment and concern but I'm much more concerned about staying within my bankroll limits rather than the games I'll be playing (so long as I know I'm a competent player in those games).Btw, the 0.25/0.50 in the original post was NL (when I hit $500). The 0.25/0.50 I was playing was Short-handed Limit Hold'em which requires a conservative b/r of 500BB (very conservative), which I had after day 1.

[gooch 0]

I appreciate the comment and concern but I'm much more concerned about staying within my bankroll limits rather than the games I'll be playing (so long as I know I'm a competent player in those games).Btw, the 0.25/0.50 in the original post was NL (when I hit $500). The 0.25/0.50 I was playing was Short-handed Limit Hold'em which requires a conservative b/r of 500BB (very conservative), which I had after day 1.

I'm a terrible limit player and avoid it like the plauge so I don't really know anything about the BR and how it may differ.Speaking personally, I am a terrible loser and lack the discipline to just walk away, so I have to be very careful about these things. Just want to see you succeed.

[MasterLJ 0]

I'm a terrible limit player and avoid it like the plauge so I don't really know anything about the BR and how it may differ.Speaking personally, I am a terrible loser and lack the discipline to just walk away, so I have to be very careful about these things. Just want to see you succeed.

Believe me, I appreciate it. It's one of the reasons I made this thread. Although it's moving to blog form.

[iggymcfly 0]

Woo hoo. I just won $14,000 in a MTT. How far along are you? Just kidding. I applaud good BR management, and not using it properly has fuked me in the as.s repeatedly. I'm going to be careful this time, and I'm not going to do anything stupid. When I was trying to move up too fast, I just lost half of my BR the other day, and even entering that $100 tournament was a desperation move, which I'm lucky enough to say worked out. Honestly, just stick the course. If you're careful, you'll get there in the long run. In the long run, your monthly/weekly earnings are completely meaningless. It's just that you're making a steady income, and you're taking care of your money.

[MasterLJ 0]

Woo hoo. I just won $14,000 in a MTT. How far along are you? Just kidding. I applaud good BR management, and not using it properly has fuked me in the as.s repeatedly. I'm going to be careful this time, and I'm not going to do anything stupid. When I was trying to move up too fast, I just lost half of my BR the other day, and even entering that $100 tournament was a desperation move, which I'm lucky enough to say worked out. Honestly, just stick the course. If you're careful, you'll get there in the long run. In the long run, your monthly/weekly earnings are completely meaningless. It's just that you're making a steady income, and you're taking care of your money.

I had a sick beat at the final table for the 19k guaranteed last night. Was at least worth 1k, probably more like a 3k bad-beat as I would have been in great position to win the whole thing... walked with 380 =\.