Re-starting - with graphs
Hi everyone,
I'm starting a bankroll challenge. My goal is to run up as high as I can (obviously, like everyone here).
I've played a bit before but never had any lasting success online due to tilt / poor brm.
I took a long break and read a few books, the main one being Jared Tendler's Mental Game of Poker.
Had a few family things happen during this time which also made me re-think my approach to the game, but that book dramatically changed a lot of my thought process.
Also read Linus's original post in 2013 and was inspired 😀
I started in September / October with the daily freerolls on GG. Got very lucky and got enough of a roll to start playing some of the cash games, then got even more lucky and binked a bunch of the thanksgg tourneys.
I moved most of my winnings over to Partypoker (personal choice - softer games and almost identical software.... also seems the runouts are more balanced than on GG but that's just me -_-)
I started playing 5nl initially but I wasn't playing optimally and I also didn't get the best in terms of variance which made me move down to some fast fold 2NL to try and reset.
This is my graph at 2NL since then:
BRM I've decided to follow is play a stake until I get to 100 buy-ins, plus 2 buy-ins at the next stake up.
Then shot take the next stake.
I.e. for 5nl I would need $210 before taking a shot.
Move down when I get back to 100 buy ins at previous stake.
I didn't follow this at my initial 5nl shot which dug me into a bit of a hole.
Luckily I've been able to climb out of that hole and am now getting close to BE at 5NL:
Don't know how often I'm going to update this but am looking forward to having somewhere I can vent frustrations (won't be too much of that I hope) and brag about running good 😃
Graph from beginning of partypoker move:
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Quick update;
BR at $277
5NL going really well after beating the 2NL ranks.
overall winning at 5NL but only 3,544 hands played.
Unfortunately partypoker doesn't have a quick fold variant for 5NL so it's a bit of a slog right now.
Next quick fold variant is 10NL. According to current BRM strategy I wouldn't start until BR at $520. Not sure if I'm going to change that strategy yet to hit the quick fold tables sooner.
Need more hands at 5NL before making a decision.
It's been a mental struggle for me at 5NL.
Part of my issue is that I now have to sit at a regular table and watch these whales try to face off against each other by betting their entire stack with A high or bottom pair. And somehow they wind up with top set when I have bottom set or w/e.
I did figure out a compromise though; since BR is hovering around $300 usd now, according to my BRM I can move up to the next stake. Which is $210 for 5NL regular tables, or $220 for 10NL fast fold tables.
On Party there are still lots of fish at 10NL, so I'm still grinding 5NL regular tables but when 10NL quick fold is running hot I'll be checking that out.
Here's the graph so far at 5NL - from the very beginning:
Graph of the whole journey so far:
I'm keeping up with the freerolls on GG and have that up to $50 now.
That site is definitely -ev for me at microstakes. Luckily I'm only using it for freerolls and to convert the cash $ into USD. Occasionally I'll sample the spin and golds but saving my volume for party.
