2005 Microquests Thread -- Post Your Progress, Setbacks

[bigmac366]

i set some ambitious goals for myself, and while i wont say theyre out of reach, i will say i'm going to have to work MUCH harder to reach them in the next 8 months. my jump from 1/2 to 2/4 has been a kick in the sack, but i can still bust up 1/2 with a vengence so i know i'm not making some key adjustments in the higher game. i'll take a shot again in another week or two after the bonus period is over. so in short, my game has improved but i'm still riding the short bus to school. good thread.

[toots]

Goal:

See how far I can take that two bux Paradise gave me a year ago.

Rules:

Grind it out in cash games, move up limits only when I have 300BB at the higher limit.

Progress:

Been playing pretty sporadically. Quit playing entirely last fall, picked it back up in January.

Started at $.02/.04 last Feb, moved up to $.05/.10 sometime last summer, pretty quickly made $.10/.20 late last summer, quit playing in the fall.

Just cranked it up to .25/.50 earlier this month. I now have a bit over $170 from four levels of limit (.02/.04, .05/.10, .10.20, .25/.50) and one level of 7 stud (.02/.04). Just getting my feet wet in the $2/$.01/.02 NL ring games, so far ahead, but I haven't done much with that game.

Setbacks:

Hit a major losing streak shortly after I moved up to .10/.20. Figured it was the move-up and not luck, so I backed down to .02/.04 and .05/.10 and continued to lose pretty dramatically until I got frustrated and gave it up while I went back to the books to study up more.

Lesson learned:

The losing streak made me tight-weak. I finally noticed that this was the one thing preventing me from getting out of the losing streak. So, I got really aggressive and a bit tighter, and have been rewarded quite well for my efforts. Well, maybe not "really aggressive," but really aggressive compared to the sorry game I had been playing.

New goal:

If it can keep my interest, continue moving up and learning more about the game.

Non goal:

I don't want to pressure myself into moving up until I'm ready. I actually broke $150 (the 300BB bankroll requiremnet for $.25/.50) a few weeks before playing my first game at the higher level, 'cause I wasn't sure that I was fully comfortable with the .10/.20 game yet.

Mantra:

Patience

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i feel confident we shall meet at a 15/30 game by years end.


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Maybe so, though I may end up making my permanent home at either 5/10 or 10/20 6max, depending on skill and bankroll.

The last week has been kind to me. Up $1300 in play and another $800 in bonuses. Woot.

[btspider]

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i feel confident we shall meet at a 15/30 game by years end.


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Maybe so, though I may end up making my permanent home at either 5/10 or 10/20 6max, depending on skill and bankroll.

The last week has been kind to me. Up $1300 in play and another $800 in bonuses. Woot.

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yeah, since that statement i've had more 6max experience.. definitely liking it. 5/10 6max is hopefully not too far away.. tho if i play it, i'd probably have to drop down if i took a 100 BB downswing to be sure its not my play.

[shadow29]

5/10 sh is scary.

I reviewed one of the local players hands and the aggression is just nuts.

I'm not ready for it, emotionally.

But, on a personal note, I'm starting to do really well at 2/4. It definetly took about 3.5k hands to get a grasp on the game, but I feel confident in about 85-90% of the situations now.

Almost done working out that huge red number from my first 830 hands, so it will be a relief to start getting some positive cash flow.

[Kumubou]

Too bad I missed this the first time around, but now is as good of a time as any.

Right now:

-Play enough at the nanos so that I won't get completely pwned. This is almost complete (8 BBs/100 hands over 3000 hands, whee).
-Keep studying.

Short-term (next couple of months):

-Do a round of bonus whoring (initially starting at .25/.5 on Paradise.. it'll take a while, but that's kinda the point).
-Show consistent success at .5/1 (once the bonus whoring gives me a bankroll sufficent for it), minimum 20,000 hands.
-Get comfortable multitabling 4 tables (go for more as necessary).
-Keep studying.

Long-term (next year)

-Break 100,000 hands played.
-Get a bankroll sufficent to play 2/4, and the skill to beat it consistently.
-Get more comfortable playing SnGs and shorthanded.
-Stop being such a ####ing idiot. (Good luck with that [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] )
-Keep studying.

Personally, my original goal was to build a bankroll deep enough to go to 2/4 (not actually play it) so I could take some off to fund my trip somewhere during the summer, while still having plenty of money to bonus whore. I don't know if six months is overly ambitious; I think that depends on how much I play.

Also need to keep reading, keep studying, and keep posting to push myself to improve myself as much as I can.

Looking now, I recongize my play as atrocious, but looking back to some of the 'strat' posts I made when I started I have learned a lot -- and realized how little I know.

-K

[bottomset]

for me May3rd is the key, right now I haven't had time to play much with school and work taking up most of my time

I hope to get in 20k hands/month May,June,July,August mostly 6max, and really start bonus whoring, I only have enough time to go 700 to Party reload instead of the full 1k ..

[Reqtech]

Guess I might as well go with the trends and review my goals:

1) Average playing 1000 hands a week.
More or less, I've suceeded in this. Some weeks more, some weeks a little less

2) Start multi-tabling up to 4 tables. Currently playing 2 at a time.
Done. I've been 4-tabling .5/1 since not long after making the original post. There is a little bit of overlap on my screen, but I choose seats so that my cards are always visible. Right now I feel real comfortable with 4 tables, any less feels slow.

3) Build up a 300BB bankroll to move to 2/4 (I plan on skipping 1/2)

So close that I can taste it. BR is now 1050. .5/1 has still been mighty friendly to me. Current winrate is 9.5 BB/100 over 9K hands

4) Play winning poker at 2/4.
see #3

I did take a shot at 1/2 and lost about $100 over 3000K hands, before dropping down. In retrospect, I should've stuck with it longer, but going from 10BB/100 to negative was hard on me psychologically even though I mentally knew that both of those numbers were variance.

[shadow29]

Dude you should play 1/2. Taught me a lot of things that I couldn't win at 2/4 without.

[ErrantNight]

made it up to consistent 5/10 play, to the point of exercising for the jump to 15/30 before this semester..

backed down to largely 3/6 due to an unexpected need for a bunch o' cash right at the start.

2/4 was always the stoned/drunk game of choice (and the only way i play with this screenname... if you need a read when you see me!)

now largely at 2/4 and 3/6 because i'm in the middle of producing a film... and I'm hardly ever playing.

so the goal, starting May 1... is to make it back up to steady 5/10 play before i leave for two months in LA starting May 23rd... make a trip to commerce and meet up with that crazy gang of hooligans some weekend (dave, josh, chris, evan, etc.) if they'll let me crash the party... or somewhere in vegas...

and this fall play steady 5/10 and ease into 15/30.

also... find bisonbison and drag him kicking and screaming back to the forums.

oh, and do some tutelage time with james.

and find out who's in the boston area to make a pilgrimage to that shittiest of shitty casinos sometime in May.

buy an engagement ring? i think i'll revisit in the fall.