How Did You Build Your Bankroll?

[mk 11]

people fear my super lazer reads.

FYP

FYFYP

[strategy 4]

FYFYP

It was the right play, and you'll never understand why.

[myenemy 0]

Ive never got rakeback? How does it work and how do you go about getting it? Would it only be from the sign up period onward or from previous games as well?

[kdogg 0]

When I was down to my last nickel, I invested that nickel in an apple. I spent the entire day polishing the apple and, at the end of the day, I sold the apple for ten cents. The next morning, I invested those ten cents in two apples. I spent the entire day polishing them and sold them at 5 pm for 20 cents. I continued this system for a month, by the end of which I'd accumulated a fortune of $1.37. Then my wife's father died and left us two million dollars.

[Abbaddabba 0]

Registered in a free roll.Free roll was cancelled. Account was awarded with $2 for chips at time of cancellation.Played $2 MTT, came in 2nd for about $200.Started from .50/1 after that. Playing 3/6 and 5/10. Up about $30,000 since i started.

[Actuary 3]

Registered in a free roll......Up about $30,000 since i started.

ahhh, that's where the arrogance comes from!

[No_Neck 0]

I worked overtime at my job. got together about $600 bucks and went from there. I don't have the patience for .02/.04

[checkymcfold 0]

how to get from 20 bucks in feb 2005 to 60k and back again:the old fashioned way: buying into MTTs over my bankroll and winning them. withdraw half your winnings, keep rest in roll. after that, i started playing 10/20 and 25/50+ until a horrendous run knocked me back to where i am these days, grinding out the 22 dollar sngs on party to try to get my roll back to 3k so i can play cash games that are worth my while again.the party sng route is a VERY good way to build your roll, imho. in the evening hours, 4-6 tabling, you can net over 100 dollars an hour just at the 22 dollars.

[Actuary 3]

checky:pm me your sig.I'm playing those as well.I've only mulltitabled (2) 6 times and dbl cashed all 6 times.But I feel to tense.Partly my anxious personality.I also play mostly 6 Man.1 table is toooo slow, but just adding one more gets me rattled.that's sad.

[shpaget 0]

Started playing live rebuy/freezeout tourneys at a local casino...won $160 in my first.won $1050 in my second.won $1750 in my third.went from there...

[meservery 0]

play 1-2 NL in AC. buy-in for $200.2nd hand get dealt pocket aces. take down $400 pot.not much later, crack pocket aces by spiking 3rd king on river.go home with nearly $1k profit...not too difficult. don't even need to learn how to play correctly.

[krup24 0]

sorry, I'm still laughing about cu_dan playing 20/40.

if you stopped laughing, I definitely startedAs for the BRStarted out a few years ago playing $50 NL, sngs, and MTTs and was consistently cashing out $200 a week for months upon months. I never really built a bankroll until this yearDeposited $200 when FCP opened in January and a few decent MTT scores and now I'm comfortably playing 1/2 NL. I've cashed out a few thousand but mainly everything I have won I have kept online as my BR. I'm hoping to have a comfortable BR for 2/4 NL soon.

[pokerplayer24 0]

$5.50 turned into 1300 via chopping a 5$ tourney.300 turned into a bunch playing LHE.And now its all about 8 tabling NL.

[Canary3 1]

credit cardless i played a freeroll on party and worked it up from there. $20 to start with and im now playing 10/20 and 20/40. it can be done you just need to have a good run to get started

This is hilarious.... if hes playing 20/40 then wow....i started with $50 deposits and lost a couple two or three of those.... ran it up to 600 once.... started over...... lost a couple of more $50 deposits and then ran it up to $1600 playing 1/2nl and then cashed out because i suck and have no discipline

[aucu 3]

Walked ditches looking for empty beer botles to play the game in the school library when I was in grade 7.

[Shizant 0]

Took down two live tourneys in one week. 1st one was at the Hustler Casino paid $8,000 and 2nd was a rebuy nooner at the bike that paid $2,500. Had my ups and downs like everyone else. But really started to build a bankroll when I began to consistently win at the $2-$5 NL tables. Now I play $2-$5 NL and $5-$10 NL.

[kkot 0]

I lost a few $50 deposits. After finally getting tired of losing, i decided to deposit $100 into a site with a 100% deposit bonus. I got that up to about 300, and am now trying to clear another bonus. Would rakeback end up making me more money at $.25/.5 and $.5/1 limit than these deposit bonuses?

[CobaltBlue 662]

Deposited $25 on Bodog and introduced games/levels in this order...-October '04-.05/.10 NLHE-Novermber '04-.10/.25 NLHE.25/.50 NLHE-December '04-.50/1 NLHE-January '05-1/2 LO8-February '051/2 NLHE2/4 LO85/10 LO8-March '05-11 NLHE STT22 NLHE STT2/4 NLHE-April '05-.50/1 LHE1/2 LHE33 NLHE STT44 NLHE STT-May '05-.10/.25 PLO8.25/.50 PLO8/PLO.50/1 PLO8/PLO2/4 LHE-June '05-3/6 LHE-September '05-1/2 LCP-December '05-1/2 L7S-January '06-5/10 LHE1/2 PLO-March '06-3/6 NLHE4/8 LHE8/16 LHE10/20 LHE20/40 LHE-April '06-30/60 LHETotal Earnings: ~$47kAfter finally getting all my credit card debt paid off, going through a mediocre month, and saving for a trip to Vegas, I'm currently in rebuilding mode (BR=$8.3k), so these days, I'm mostly playing 2/4 NLHE and 5/10 LHE.

[Abbaddabba 0]

I lost a few $50 deposits. After finally getting tired of losing, i decided to deposit $100 into a site with a 100% deposit bonus. I got that up to about 300, and am now trying to clear another bonus. Would rakeback end up making me more money at $.25/.5 and $.5/1 limit than these deposit bonuses?

Not if you're getting a good deposit bonus.

[screech 0]

I read this forum way back when smash was posting. Put 300 down. Never looked back.

[athdemo 0]

I started off by depositing 50 bucks on party, losing it, depositing 50 on party, losing it, depositing 50 on party, RUNNIN IT UP TO 800 IN 3 WEEKS and then losing it....and then I put 50 on stars, got that up to about 250 through some .10/.25 no limit after I'd finally adapted to online play. I had to figure out that being fancy at micro stakes NL online is about the dumbest move you can make. Finally got my break taking 2nd at a $20+2 deepstack on stars (lost a coinflip which would've won it for me, 4's lost against a5 after I hit a set to the wheel...still pissed, lol) for, uh...1500 or something, I forgot. Switched to cash games almost exclusively for a while, maybe a MTT every few weeks but I figured I was a much better ring game player and stuck to it, working my roll up to maybe 2500. Chopped for 1st at another $20+2 a few months ago for about $2500, and I've been grinding it out at ring games ever since. If it wasn't for that first deepstack, though, I'd probably still be sitting at .10/.25 or .25/.50 if I was lucky. Always nice to take down a good MTT, and I really recommend the deepstack format if you're willing to commit to playing solid for 11 hours.

[pbwl11 0]

Deposited $70 on UB last June--lost it in 3 days playing 1/2 limit, thinking it would be as easy as playing live. Yeah, right. Deposited $50---Got down to literally my last $5 playing .25/.50 limit.Looking back, I realize that I didn't know jack about this game, thought it was easy, any two cards could win, yada yada....Read SSHE, TOP, and the other bibles. Read the strat forums, and learned how to play. Moved down to .01/.02 tables, ground my way back through .02/.04, .05/.10 with some $1 and $5 SnGs.Now I'm up to about $500, playing .5/1, hoping to jump to 1/2 soon, and playing $10 SnGs. I never want to get down to the felt again! So I guess I'm a contender for perseverance and starting from square one and literally grinding it out. If I can do it, anyone can.

[BazookaBoB 0]

Just curious how everyone started and built there bankroll for online poker. Im just a casual online player and university student who usually builds from 50 to 4 or 500 and makes consistent cashouts. Just wondering how everyone got started and how they built up.

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[Turbo 0]

1) Become a dictator2) Take money from your 'people'3) Play poker

[shinychicken 0]

Started with instantbankroll last june and I've made 10k in the mean time between playing poker, online surveys, casino bonuses, poker bonuses and rakeback. There is just so much money out there for the taking. I mean damn, you can make 1k in a week just from casino bonuses (only doing 5-6 sites).