Broke and hoping to grind up a bankroll
Hi guys!
I'm a 30-year-old, depressed man hoping to grind up a bankroll and move to Thailand or a similar country. I'm currently living in Australia and live a sad existence; I don't socialise and gamble away my government disability payment every fortnight (I have schizophrenia). I'm currently completely broke and have $0 in my account. HOWEVER I'm hoping that in the next few hours I cash in the #ThanksGG Flipout. If not, I'll have to wait until Tuesday to get my daily $15 payment... I have a financial guardian who administers daily payments due to my gambling addiction. I have a 120,000 starting stack in the tournament so have a decent chance of cashing *fingers crossed*. My plan is to grind out $0.01/$0.02-$0.05-$0.10 using 20 buy in bankroll management and dropping down in stakes if I reach 15 buy ins. I'll use 50 buy ins for $0.10/$0.25-$0.50/$1. If I cash in the freeroll I'll be starting with about 10 buy ins for $0.01/$0.02 PLO so won't be able to use my super aggressive 20 buy in bank roll management. My plan is to reach $0.50/$1 PLO as quickly as possible (I'm a proven winner at these stakes over a large sample size). My vice is sports betting which has kept me perpetually broke over the years, I'm hoping this thread will give me the motivation to stay clear of reckless gambling. I'm going to use this thread as a way to keep myself accountable and motivated. I'll share results along with regular updates. I'm happy to get tracking software if anyone can give me a recommendation. That might make this thread a little more interesting and my results a bit more believable. Wishing everyone the best of luck at the tables!
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And yeah $450 is a bit low but food is covered. My financial guardian pays for Coles orders. I can't be trusted ordering my own groceries 😀 Anyway got about 15mins until the leaderboard prize comes in. I've got the gambling itch bad and can't wait to get back to the tables! Hope you're doing well.
hey brother, I've been lurking here for years and just made an account to post here,
the way you're able to run up a bankroll is INSANE. of course it's that double edged sword, more risk more reward, but if you had just stayed at 25 or 50 PLO instead of moving up to 200, it'd be a different story.
I learned PLO off jnandez and the like a few years ago, and I hate my style of play, just nitty grinder, 1/3 pot size bet, etc.
I've started using your style last week, goodish hands preflop, calling raises and reraising preflop to get the pot big, and shoving the flop/turn when you have good equity.... sure, ive taken some sick coolers, but i've 5xed my bankroll in a week playing .10/25 ignition plo, where as previously i'd be lucky to be 3-4 bb/hr, you know typical nit ****.
I suspect the haters here are GTO nits that don't understand that a big component of poker is intuition, something that is only learned from 1000's of hours of gambling. I just wanna say your thread is inspirational man, it reminds me of a two plus two legend, king niche.
you have insane ability, if you would just tighten up and stop degening to higher stakes... you'd clean up.
hope all is well bro
Wanted to chime in again seeing how this challenge has developed and hearing your experience with your parents and the guardianship. Again, this is coming from someone with treated schizophrenia who has made a lucrative living off of this game.
Professional poker players who are the most successful are generally extremely financially responsible in life and in bankroll management. IÂ’m not seeing those traits so far in this thread and the fact that you donÂ’t even have legal control over your finances is worrisome to say the least.
To me and to most of us here it looks as if you are putting the cart before the horse both in terms of game selection, playing too big too quickly, and in terms of your poker ambitions in general. Before you can seriously consider playing poker for money at reasonable stakes you really need your finances under control. I say this having made the same mistake when I first started playing, going busto a couple times and losing my meager roll. Eventually I got traction but it was only because I saved from my job and was playing a low stakes live game and low variance style of hold ‘em, NOT midstakes online plo.
Anyway I still wish you the best in life and hope you find happiness and fulfillment. Hopefully you take some of this advice from me and others and make the right decisions.
I agree but he's not being financial responsible because he's at the bottom of the barrel. You need to get to a certain "floor" in life yo ince closer to your "ceiling" when it comes to your potential in what you want to achieve success in. When your there from personal experience a month can be a long time but as long as you have proper housing, good to eat and fresh clothes to wear you can dig out. But without certain essentials in life and without family support than anyone would make unwise decisions so I wouldnt judge somebody off of this situation. That's just not real.(ality)
Wanted to chime in again seeing how this challenge has developed and hearing your experience with your parents and the guardianship. Again, this is coming from someone with treated schizophrenia who has made a lucrative living off of this game.
Professional poker players who are the most successful are generally extremely financially responsible in life and in bankroll management. IÂ’m not seeing those traits so far in this thread and the fact that you donÂ’t even have legal control over your fi
What's with the weird letter A type characters in your post? I'm seeing these all over the place lately.
It's how apostrophes show up from people using tapatalk or some other app.
Do you use tapatalk on your phone? I’m on my phone, safari browser, is the apostrophe jacked?
