Microlimits Progress Quest: Post plans/updates/setbacks here.

[dfscott]

I finally got PokerTracker so now I feel like I can accurately report my own micro-limits quest!

I started on March 27th playing .05/.10 on PokerStars with $50. My long-term goal is to reach .5/$1 by the end of the year. (I have no idea whether this is conservative or not.)

My intermediate goal is to move to .25/.50 and then accumulate $350 so I can cash out 300BB at .5/1 BB and still have some money at PokerStars. Since there is a big gap between the low limits at PS (there is no .10/.20 game), I'm going to move to .25/.50 at only 200BB.

I'm almost exactly two months in and here's where I stand:

Current stats as of 5/29
Current Limit - .05/.10
Hands - 7,113
Earnings - 407BB
Rate - 5.73BB/100
VP$IP - 21.27
PFR% - 7.23
Agression - 0.90 (need to work on this)

Most of my play style comes from WLLH, although I've just finished reading TOP and am starting on HEFAP. However, I'm having a hard time figuring out what parts of HEFAP are applicable to these games.

I'm actually at about 450BB because I lost some hand data before I realized that PS only keeps your last 200 hands. So, I'm about 50BB from my next milestone, the 200BB I need for .25/.50.

[dfscott]

Just to clarify -- I'm cashing out the 300BB from PS to move it to PP because I think the fishing is a little better there. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[laceratedsky]

I'll add my own boring story here.

Started on April 20th with $300. My goal is to work my up in the limits to $3/$6 by July 11th for my Vegas trip so I could play $3/$6 comfortably while I am there. My long term goal is to make it to $15/$30 with a bankroll of $10,000. I'd like to do this by 2005.

I made it to $600 on 5/11 and decided to move up to $1/$2.

I got my stack up to $792 and thought to myself that this wasn't going to be very hard. I was wrong. I got pummeled back down to $605 and have manage to claw my way back up to about $650. I identified some leaks in my game and have worked to correct them. Hopefully I'll get on a good run soon as July 11th is right around the corner and my bankroll is woefully inadequate.

Glad to see so many others out there with like minded goals. Great thread!

laceratedsky
http://www.wtfman.com/poker/

[Matty]

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My goal is to work my up in the limits to $3/$6 by July 11th for my Vegas trip so I could play $3/$6 comfortably while I am there.

[/ QUOTE ]Judging by what I've read around here, 3-6 in a casino should be a LOT easier than 3-6 online.

[dfscott]

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Judging by what I've read around here, 3-6 in a casino should be a LOT easier than 3-6 online.

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Absolutely. I don't have any first-hand experience, but a friend of mine that plays online just went on a trip to a casino in Florida. He played 1/2 and couldn't believe how loose it was. It was much looser than even the 0.05/0.10 tables he's been playing.

[Hedge Henderson]

Great thread, Bison.

Now, y'all don't laugh at me.

Operation Something from Literally Nothing (with apologies to Todd)
Goal: Turn $0 into solid knowledge on how to play the game, and maybe make a little money eventually.
Start: 29 February, 2004.
Immediate Goal: Take the free $2.00 Paradise gave me and turn it into enough to buy Pokertracker.
Long term goals: Be able to play $0.50/$1.00 (HE, O8, Stud, whatever) for kicks with no worries and kick some butt in my home games.
Current Limit: Paradise $0.02/$0.04 and $0.05/$0.10
Hands: Dunno. Best guess is around 6500
Earnings: Approx. 450BB at $0.02/$0.04 and 80BB at $0.05/$0.10
Rate: 14.13 BB/100 for my first thousand (Pokertracker trial version). It's dropped since then.
Comments: Man, poker is fun.

[Surfbullet]

Sweet thread... here's my little saga...damn this ended up being verbose...

Operation I Want PokerTracker Damn This Mac
Goal: $0.25 / $0.50 to $3/$6 by the end of the summer
Milestones: 300 BBs at each limit
Date Started: May 7th with $50 in pokerroom.com, $15 bonus.

started 1 table, added a 2nd the first day, 3 by the 2nd day, 4 by the 2nd week. No pokertracker so stats I record (ie table started at 9:58, end 10:30, +11.5BBs) and then compute spreadsheet-style.

300 BBs at 0.25/0.50 on May 15th
BB/hr: ~3.65 (approx 82 table hours)
BR: $196 - lost a few MTTs wasting about $14 (eventually losing another 5+1 for a total of -20)
approx 4,500 hands given 55-65 hands per hour

Moved up to 0.50 / 1.00 5max on May 19th.
BR: $288
BB/hr b4 move: 4.03
approx 7,000 hands given 55-65 hands per hour

Immediately after the move I went up a bit, but the higher variance of shorthanded and higher limits were tough, and I went cold and didn't adjust properly - dropped 80bbs ending on May 24th.

Moved Back Down to 0.25/ 0.50
BR: $207
BB/hr b4 move: 2.5
approx 10,000 hands given 55-65 hands per hour
Immediately after moving back down I continued into the worst ever slid for me - a total of -178BBs spanning 8-9 real hours of 4 tabling. (about 2,000 hands - i think)

First Huge Slide Ends!
BR: $168.70
BB/hr as slide ends: 1.7
approx 11,000 hands given 55-65 hands per hour
I hit rock bottom here - it starts to turn around slowly.

Moving back up to .50/1.00 May 31st
BR: $282.15
BBs earned at 0.25/0.50: 628.2
BB/hr: 2.58 (includes .50/1.00 time)
approx 13,000 hands

Back to where I was a week ago before the losing streak...The pokerroom 0.25/0.50 games are absolute fish-fests, but the 0.50/1 rarely has enough 10max tables to make it worthwhile - so I'm going to have to work on my shorthanded game.

I can't wait to switch back to a PC and get PT - it gets a little frustrating having to record all the details and transfer them to spreadsheet etc...

Regarding BB/100 - what is an accurate assumption for # hands / hr? I've just been doing BB/hr as a function of table minutes vs BBs earned - is there a better way to get BB/100?

Great thread Bison! I'll post updates from time to time - everyone needs a quest!


Dan

[B Dids]

As I mentioned in my own thread Just hit over 550B today. Now I'm going to take a few days to read and watch some play at 1/2 before I move up. Re-did my plans- here's the new numbers.

Level Dollars Date Reached
1/2 $550 5/31/04
2/4 $1100
3/6 $1650
5/10 $2750
10/20 $5500
15/30 $8250
30/60 $16500

[peacemaker]

I'll add mine to the list.

Original goal:


Started: Jan. '04
Goal: Turn $50 into $1,000 by the end of the year.
Current Bank roll: $850.

I got a big boost on Friday by winning $300 in Fridays $3+0 tourny @ Stars so I my have to come up with a new goal soon [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[dfscott]

After a couple of near misses, I finally hit my next BR goal -- 200BB for .25/.50. I'm going with a little less than normal because due to the lack of a .10/.20 limit game at PS, I've had to earn this at .05/.10 (which is painful).

Here's where I stand now:

Start Date: March 2004
Current Limit - .05/.10
Hands - 9,047
Earnings - 504BB
Rate - 5.35BB/100
VP$IP - 20.73
PFR% - 7.09
Agression - 0.91

As a prize for hitting my goal, I can now play raked games and start accumulating FPP towards the PS bonus. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]