What should I expect from my bankroll growth ?

[TheNerd]

I haven't posted a lot on this forum but I have been around for about 8 months.

Like you I started at .05/.1 at Pacific with $30.00. I am now starting to play 2/4 at Party. I am by no means the best player to ever pick up cards and I haven't had a fantastic run, but by slowly grinding away I have worked my way up.

Right now making a buck doesn't seem significant but you'll find your earnings start to snowball as you move up in stakes. It took me two months to go from .05/.1 to .25/.50 and from there it took off.

.05/.1 can be frustrating but I think it was enormously valuable to me. The thing that will wreak havoc with your emotional control is bad beats. At .05/.1 you get bad beats galore and it helps you get used to them. It's like: if you get kicked in the nuts enough times after awhile you don't feel the pain. By the time you get up to higher stakes the odd time you get a bad beat it doesn't seem as bad ("Is that all you got? Eh? Eh?")or--and I'm baring my soul here--you almost kind of like it ("hurts so good").

So from someone who isn't an expert or a smarty pants: buy SSHE (it saved my life), take your time, move up when you have the bankroll, don't sweat the bad beats and this above all: never fold quads.

What is it Anthony Hopkins says in The Edge :"What one man can do, another can do."

If I can do it, you can too.

Good luck.