Re: - Bankroll Requirements for Shorthanded Play - (long)
 

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One thing that is often overlooked IMO is that people are stay at a certain limit for a while have more chance to improve, and thus a better chance at sucess when moving up. Staying at a certain limit for a while to inflate your role and improve your game before you move up can often be an excellent idea. Good luck at the tables!

Gabe

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Gabe, I'm actually curious to hear how you progressed to where you are now, IIRC you play at least 50/100 and the NL2k games and we're about the same age. Namely how many hands you were putting in and how long you stayed at each limit. My initial thought process was that you being so young you moved up quicker, but with that advice maybe not? Perhaps you played illegally [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

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Yeah, i started playing right before i was 17. The thing is, for people multi-table and put in lots of hands any month where you run very well will represent a huge portion of your role. I started out playing $10 SNGS's in July of 04, and i moved to limit in October playing 2-4 with a $2500 role. When i ran my role up to $8000 in early November, i cashed out 6k to have in the bank. I kept playing 2-4 and 3-6, and moved up to 5-10 in early december when i like an $8K role. I took some a shot at 10-20 when i had a 17k role but decided i wasnt ready for the swings. In late February i took a shot at the 15-30 game with maybe like 14k and ran hot right off the bat, but quickly cooled off, and later had an unsucessful shot at 30-60. At the beggining of the summer, i decided i was going to put a lot more focus on rebuilding my game, so again i cashed out a large chunk of my role and left myself 10k to play 5-10. I moved to 10-20 in Mid July with about 20K. I moved to 20-40 in early August with arounf 40-ish, and then 30-60 when i had about 55K. The rest is kinda irrelevant, i played some 50/100 and 100/200 when i felt adequatley rolled for taking some shots, and right now i am playing 2K NL pretty exclusively. Last year during school i tryed to get in 20k hands/month, now i aim for 30. Hope this helps!

Gabe