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My Micro-Stakes FT Journey (Long) w/ Photoshop Story.
Inspired by recent BTYS and Skeety posts, I present:
My Micro-Stakes FT Journey Sub Title: The day I Re-Learned to beat NL25. (Not once do I mention all my FTP Mod's [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] ) Preface: I Started playing online about 2-3 years ago. Deposited 40$, ran it up to $170 and cashed out. Few months later deposited $60 again. Slowly ran it up to $100ish. The first weekend I started playing multiple tables I turned it into about $500, then made final 18 in a Sunday tourney and had a BR near $1k. I promptly went to NL100 and lost 2+ Buy-In’s as any newbie donk would. This was in the spring of 2k5. I quickly found 2+2 and searched “bankroll management”. Since then I have always maintained 20++ buy-in BR. I had 2 $300+ BR’s on 2 sites. I did the LHE Bonus Whore routine, and eventually landed back at Doyles Room where I stayed for a year+ (without Rakeback [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]). I kept a $1k+ BR playin up to 50c/$1 NL (mostly 10c/25c – 25c/50c). All totaled, I have withdrawn 20-25k over 3 years, always playing micro-stakes. Enter Black Monday UIGEA. I promptly cash out 1.8k leaving me with a $200 BR. Donk’ed around there until March when they booted all USA players. . Deposited $300 at FT 2nd week of march. My last year+ at Doyles all I played was Badugi. I had forsaken NLHE for Half-Pot Limit Badugi. So when I got to FT I immediately went to play Razz fixed limit. Lets just say that an ante/limit lowball game is –EV. As any good micro-grinder I promptly began playing 8 FR NL10 tables as nitty as possible. During this time, at various low/high points I would inevitably try some Hi/Lo. I decided to make a basic spreadsheet to see where the most +EV tables were for me to play. I decided thru math, that the best average FT Points per cost of cards dealt was at the micro Hi/Lo tables (10% rake, and many showdowns). I took a few shots (2,500 hands) at PL25 but mostly PL10. This plan was much more –EV than the plan to play Razz. I then played a bunch of hands on a buddies account. He had deposited $600 and busted it with $540 bonus left to clear. He asked me to try and save his account. So I short-stack, multi-tabled FR NL10 from a balance of $8. Started with 4 tables of $2 each, and was able to rebuild that account to a few hundred dollars by clearing bonus and being a [x]CHOO CHOO. I gave him his account back to play (after clearing about half his bonus) and he sent me a check for the majority of the account balance. He was BUTSO about a week later. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Then I went back to grinding micro full-ring. Multi-tabling 6-8 tables, just trying to grind out some RB. Then I cashed 6th in the gold freeroll for $750. Got real busy, and broke, so cashed out $600 + $600 – leaving me about $600 for donking around, sorta planning on finally moving up to NL25 with 30 buy-ins. I had taken some time off after my MTT score. When I started playing again I settled in to the NL 10 tables, and forgot about movin up. In mid-july I got pretty sick of playing for RB. I decided to make a new PT DB, and datamine NL25. I then started playing FR NL25 and started out very bad. Lost 4 buy ins in ~1.2k hands, and quickly retreated like a pansy. * Notice the first half of this FR NL25 graph. Went back to NL10 and all of a sudden I thought I could beat full-ring. Then the true nature of my Nittiness was revealed as I fell back to even. This brings us to this past Friday. I decided to give NL25 again, but wanted to learn 6max. I re-visited some older 2+2 threads I had long forgotten about. I downloaded some StoxPoker videos from ThePokerBay.org. I found a few videos here and at FTR to watch. So I started with some FR and won a little, which got me ready to try 6max again. I then jumped in, trying to use what I had re-taught myself. Something seems to have clicked. Either that or someone turned on my BOOMSWITCH. Here is my combined 6/9 max NL25 since Friday. Wish me luck as I try to not cash-out, and move back to NL50, where I used to be 2+ years ago. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] I am hoping to not cash out for a while and re-build to a 2k+ BR (which I just had before my recent cash-outs) [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] So here is my "Mid-August" Graph of allgames played. This signifies/shows the end of my Full-Ring Nittiness, and the beginning of my 6max journey. |
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