Alinator
03-02-2004, 05:00 PM
I have played on-line poker for years. I used to make great gains in very short periods of time on sites like Paradise. What would usually happen is that I would take a $100.00 buy in and then run it up starting with 3/6 (sometimes it required more than one $100.00 buy in) to a couple of thousand dollars by moving through the 5/10 and then up to their 20/40 limits. The problem with this was that my bank roll was never large enough to sustain any real slides. I found that loosing a couple of thousand dollars in 20/40 was very easy when cards were running bad.
Still, being a stubborn person, I continued this for some time and then gave up on on-line poker in disgust. But, after some thinking and seeing the recent upsurge of popularity in on-line poker, I decided that I would give it another try.
Now I am playing at Party Poker in the .50/1.00 and the 1.00/2.00 games. I have built $200.00 to about $500.00 over the last two days (currently on a short slide and down about $30.00 today). I chose the lowest limit games instead of the usual 3/6 that I would attack (or be attacked by) with the logic being that I can take a long string of hits before I am in trouble with this small bank roll. But, at some point I need to move up in levels. At what point would you think that a bank roll is really big enough to move up to the 2/4 or the 3/6 levels. What amount of bank roll would you assume would be strong for constant bad runs at 3/6 or 2/4? I do not expect to have just horrid bad swings. But, I would rather move up when I am prepared to take them than to be back at Neteller again putting more money into my poker account because I moved up too quickly.
I have to say, by the way, that the low limit games at Party are some of the best that I have ever seen. I would never expect to have the kind of runs that I am having in those games anywhere else.
Still, being a stubborn person, I continued this for some time and then gave up on on-line poker in disgust. But, after some thinking and seeing the recent upsurge of popularity in on-line poker, I decided that I would give it another try.
Now I am playing at Party Poker in the .50/1.00 and the 1.00/2.00 games. I have built $200.00 to about $500.00 over the last two days (currently on a short slide and down about $30.00 today). I chose the lowest limit games instead of the usual 3/6 that I would attack (or be attacked by) with the logic being that I can take a long string of hits before I am in trouble with this small bank roll. But, at some point I need to move up in levels. At what point would you think that a bank roll is really big enough to move up to the 2/4 or the 3/6 levels. What amount of bank roll would you assume would be strong for constant bad runs at 3/6 or 2/4? I do not expect to have just horrid bad swings. But, I would rather move up when I am prepared to take them than to be back at Neteller again putting more money into my poker account because I moved up too quickly.
I have to say, by the way, that the low limit games at Party are some of the best that I have ever seen. I would never expect to have the kind of runs that I am having in those games anywhere else.