Part timers - what do you do with your winnings?

[Songwind]

I don't mean specifics - what's your plan?

Do you roll it all back into your bankroll? Do you take everything above the theoretical 300BB out to spend? Something in between?

[jaxUp]

I cash out about half of all my winnings to pay for school and taxes and keep the other half to grow my BR

[gharp]

I bought a 2001FP (sweeeeeeet). I'm also planning to upgrade my whole computer when I get enough to do that.

Mostly though I just use my winnings to move up and test myself at higher limits.

[jaxUp]

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I cash out about half of all my winnings to pay for school and taxes and keep the other half to grow my BR

[/ QUOTE ] Also, I dump a lot of it to tiltaholic at 10/20

[Reqtech]

It all goes back into my BR. Back during the summer during a time of tilt and general suckage, I cashed out enough to buy me an Inspiron 9300. If I was going to lose all my money, I wanted to at least have something to show for all my "hard" work [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Songwind]

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I bought a 2001FP (sweeeeeeet). I'm also planning to upgrade my whole computer when I get enough to do that.

Mostly though I just use my winnings to move up and test myself at higher limits.

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I feel like I should know this, but can't figure out why. What's a 2001FP?

[jaxUp]

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I cash out about half of all my winnings to pay for school and taxes and keep the other half to grow my BR

[/ QUOTE ] Also, I dump a lot of it to tiltaholic at 10/20

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In addition to that, I need to get a diamond ring one of these days, so that's something else it will be used for.

[tiltaholic]

i put it in the bank and periodically check on it to see if it needs anything. i suspect it's losing its race with inflation but it's too proud to ask for help so i'm going the passive aggressive route and i'm not going to say anything first.

in other news, when you sit with 25bb and then win 25bb, do you then think of 25bb as "originally yours" and 25bb as "winnings", or do you think "50bb=mine"?

[Songwind]

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in other news, when you sit with 25bb and then win 25bb, do you then think of 25bb as "originally yours" and 25bb as "winnings", or do you think "50bb=mine"?

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It's definitely all mine. I don't think of session results as winnings (or losses). I find myself thinking of it in month increments, I guess. So if I had 317BB at the beginning of the month in my roll (and therefore in my online account(s)) and 400 at the end of the month, I would consider that month's winnings to be 83BB.

The decision then comes, what to do with it? Do we put it into the "roll" category and it becomes untouchable, take it out and go by toys/pay bills/whatever, or a little of both?

Personally, I'm still playing at such low limits that the amount won or lost is too insignificant to bother with withdrawing, and it gets reinvested in building my poker funds and skills until I can play at a higher limit and get faced with a meaningful decision [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[gharp]

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I bought a 2001FP (sweeeeeeet). I'm also planning to upgrade my whole computer when I get enough to do that.

Mostly though I just use my winnings to move up and test myself at higher limits.

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I feel like I should know this, but can't figure out why. What's a 2001FP?

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It's a big, flat panel monitor that allows for some nice high resolutions and can be bought at a pretty reasonable price (I paid about $425 for mine). You'll hear it come up again and again on 2+2 because it allows you to 4-table all the major poker sites with no overlap.