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DumbosTrunkOP
6yr ago

Hi all,

First post in this specific forum. Normally post in NL Strategy. Hoping for some feedback about bankroll management.

I started playing 4-5 times a week at MGM National Harbor in March after a few months off. Previously I had been playing at MD Live and lost most of what I had won (around $1,200). Anyway, I took $200 to the casino and tried my luck. No bankroll to start really.

I had a great March (+$3,000) but a terrible April (-$3,000) after trying 2/5 and losing $1k and a horrific 24-hour session where I dumped $1,800 in just cooler after cooler (set over set, AK into AA, nut flush v. boat, etc.). This month I'm up around $1,000 so far. Any tips about bankroll management that can keep me from losing it all again? Do you set some of your winnings aside for example?

I have a somewhat steady income outside of poker but my goal is to make poker a supplement to that income and not just a break-even hobby.

Appreciate the feedback.

Thanks,
DT

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Maybe? I had no idea it was deleted. In any case, here's the Abyss post. It's been quoted many times, so it's not like I'm uncovering something that's not already out there.

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Slow grind this morning again. A little time for reflection as the year begins its conclusion.

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IÂ’m extremely bored and card dead and I felt like writing about my life. Who knows if IÂ’m going to have kids so may as well document this train wreck somewhere.

I didnÂ’t realize during all of law school and studying for and taking the grueling New York bar that I was undiagnosed. I vaguely thought something was off with my brain (my common refrain was that I wanted something to wash my brain), but being no psychiatrist myself and not having any obvious outward symptoms I didnÂ’t seek professional help.

I remember having sleep issues and constantly needing to listen to music to sooth my nerves. I had a nice pair of ear buds I used all the time, I loved the song “half-life” by sneaker pimps. A little dreary tune but it was very much in line with my mental state. My sleep schedule was so bad back then even I got hardly any sleep the night before the bar exam, I was sorta a nervous wreck anyway. I even had the shts the day of and started the exam a few minutes late (but I still finished it early). I rushed back to start the test probably sweating. My desk mate in the exam room was concerned about me and asked if I was ok, someone I would probably never see again but her kindness in the moment was nice, the sort of support you give to someone you can relate to going through the same stressful moment in life.

During my summer legal internship in a swealteringly hot small town in Illinois where the big thing was class action litigation - the attorneys all parked lambos and Ferraris in the firm lot - I had a rediculous experience with my roommate who I was renting from. The AC was too low and I turned it up a little when I got home. He complained about this and said I needed to pay for the utilities. We’d signed a lease and he was supposed to pay them, which I told him. His response was to get on his knees and shout “suck my dk John! F u!” and whip out his penis and spin it around with his hand. (Yes, I vacated the place after that episode.) I think he was secretly a drug dealer but I never confirmed this. He just had a lot of plastic bags around the place is all I remember. The public defender’s office I was helping out at did a background check on him for me - ironic - but found nothing. At least I played a little poker there, paid for my half of dinner for my boss.

I’d been given high praise from my law professors. I always had problems with taking acclaim to heart though. A prominent federal trial court judge said my mock trial performers in which I feverishly transcribed the witnesses’ testimony and repeated it verbatim during closing argument was brilliant. My oral argument on the fourth amendment in trial advocacy got a “you’re a genius” comment from my professor. (This genius flunked chemistry, prof.)

My illness gave me energy - frenetic energy - that helped me achieve in school, I had an obsessive fixation on performance and constantly needed to be doing something. I got published in my law journal and went on to get published again, after I graduated, in a different journal. (I just felt like publishing another article in my spare time, donÂ’t ask me why.) My manic period helped me get into a prosecutorÂ’s office on a fellowship as well as the ACLU. By chance I was prosecuting cases in the same district I had my run in with the law years a few earlier, a point of pride for me to have come so far in such a short period.

In many ways I am sorta grateful for my disorder because my manic energy helped me perform phenomenally well when it mattered during law school and afterwards. (Now college was a different matterÂ…very depressiveÂ…not the best performance at allÂ…I could hardly get out of bed half the time my freshman year.) eventually all good things come to an end and so did my positive manic energy which eventually spiraled into paranoia and a total breakdown. And then the poker dream was bornÂ…in a way.

Well I just got KKJJ8ds in pre three ways and scooped Â…I think thatÂ’s a sign I can end this rant for now.

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