Bankroll Building

[steaknshake925]

I started playin seriously during winter break last year, after dropping a couple $50 deposits on party like everybody else.

started with $200 on party 25nl, bonus whored my way to 1/2 and 2/4nl over the semester.

meanwhile i went on a massive casino whoring rampage that inflated my roll ridiculously, so I started playing 5/10 and 10/20 limit 6max at the beginning of summer, despite never being able to beat 2/4. I ran well at first and stayed at 10/20 limit, and am now coming back to NL taking shots at the party 1000s.

sometimes i think i've been pretty succesful at this game, going from 25nl to 1000nl in less than a year. but then i look at guys like strasser or bk or bruiser and i'm like, wow i suck so much, i've done nothing. and this makes me work harder.

[Yeti]

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yeti, were you really playing 25nl a year ago? that is really amazing to me.

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That's probably a bit misleading as I had dabbled in poker for about a year before that, on and off. Had 2 or 3 MTT 2nds for $1200 or so, and had played some $25NL. I don't think I was much good though.

Last Oct was when I decided 'hey, I can make a lot of money in this lark'. I bought PT, read everything I could get my hands on and put the hours in.

I owe tons to the boards, and private correspondence with fsuplayer. I think even when I began the 5/10 I was unsure in common situations and he put that to rest straight away.

[-Skeme-]

I think I also need some private correspondence with our fine feathered friend, fsuplayer..

[punter11235]

I dont play much of 5/10 yet (few k hands there but my regular game is still 600$) but I have more than 25xbuyin bankroll for that game.
I worked my way up from as low as 2$ NL which I started playing 6months ago with 30$ bankroll.
I moved up to 25$ soon (shortstack) and it was the only time when huge MTT win helped me, cause I cashed mighty 85$ for 4th place in 1$ buyin tourney [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]. I was struggling with it for almost 2months (having largest downsing in my career, from 650$ to 250$ more than 1/2 of whole bankroll). I moved up to 200NL in 2weeks crushing 50NL and 100NL in the meantime (I put really many hands then) then stay there to earn some money (cause it was significant money for me) and then jump to 400NL and after a week to 600NL when I played almost 20k hands already and I am doing great. My plan is to move up to 5/10 in 2months or so.
My general rule was "not to move up too fast". I usually had 15xbuyin and started playing shortstack at new level (40BB) mixing it with old level. I always have more than 25xbuyin before starting playing fullstack at any level.
Edit : now I am overbankrolled to say the least even for 1k NL game but I came to the conclusion that overbankrolled is good thing which allow you to play in peaceful state of mind and eliminate almost all tilt from your game.

Best wishes

[punter11235]

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What is it about the 3/6 ? Im thinking of moving up from 2/4. For those who have made the jump, is it good to just skip it ? what is the state of this limit on party, we dont hear a lot from this game.

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Not as many tables as 400's or 1000's but very fishy.

[Rotating Rabbit]

I deposited 200$ and played my first game of poker in January this year (100nl full ring on ultimatebet, and I'd read Hellmuth's book so was able to avoid going broke). Got to the point of beating 100nl comfortably and 3-tabled that for a month making steady progress. I then played 200nl full ring doing the same for most of feb, and was floating around 5k in roll when I messed around with a few 6max games and they seemed to be a lot more exciting.

Probably sometime just after the 1000nl on party opened, I suspect I was one of the fish giving money to yeti and the like, as I dabbled in the 6max there losing a fair bit, about this time I discovered 2+2 and dropped back to 400nl 6max 2-tabling, which I did mixing with 600nl on weekends and then gradually replacing completely. I now 3-table 600nl and quite comfortable playing any 600nl party table, dipping into the 1k 6max on a saturday if im in the right mood.

[catlover]

A poll like this should include a "does not apply" type answer so that people who don't fit the poll question can see the results without skewing them.

[DarthIgnurnt]

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try search.

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I know I'm not too smart, but does anyone else find the search function on this site 100% useless? Most recently, I searched for the phrase "jump shark" and found several pages of posts, none of which yet have contained those words.

Oh and another thing ... sometimes people want to actually participate in a post rather than reading a bunch of opinions from 6 months ago.

So ... please ... for the children ... stop wasting your time and everyone elses by replying to posts with "try search". It makes the baby Jesus cry.

[warlockjd]

100% agree and altho the search function is the worst i have encountered on any site, it also may be the nature of the beast insomuchas the terms that you logically would think might be in a type of post you are looking for simply aren't there bcz there is so many different ways to describe even a simple poker concept.

I think there are a few 'search experts' that have figured it out, and they have become the 'search cops'

[captZEEbo1]

I started playing $5 sngs about 1.5 years ago with like a $50 bankroll. I immediately had a HUGE upstreak (11 out of 12 cashes with a bunch of 1sts) and assumed I was best poker player alive. I basically did a TON of grinding of sngs from $5 up to about $50 before I switched over to limit. I would take ocassional stabs at 25 nl but didn't play very well and would usually blow money. I had been playing a LITTLE limit throughout this too. I must've grinded to about $8k or so. I started grinding full ring $1/2 then $2/4 yadayada, before I found what was the most fun: 6-max limit. I started $1/2 6max for not too long I hopped up to $5/10 and grinded a TON again. I eventually grinded up to about 25k. Then about 4-5 months ago I decided to try out NL cash. Since my roll was fairly big, I decided to just hop on 400 nl and I immediately did well. Once I learned that getting AK allin preflop wasn't the optimal strategy for 100 bb nl cash (like it was for sngs), I did even better. I jumped up to 1000 nl within two weeks. Since I started nl cash it's been nothing but domination climbing up the ranks to 50/100 nl.