Your poker bankroll story

[bigt2k4]

I first started playing poker in August 2004. I deposited 50 bucks on party poker and quickly went bust on the .25/.5 limit tables. I then deposited 300 dollars (a lot for me at the time) and began working my way up the limit ranks. I was dead set on playing limit and would not even consider playing No Limit. I had mediocre success for 7-8 months grinding it out at the low limits. At this time I was playing 10K hands a month at most. This was a great learning time for me though. I read everything I could get my hands on. I have every poker book available at borders and many that are not. I would read the forum every single day and post hands that I was unsure about. I would also be spending time thinking about hands on my own.

Now it is April 2005 and I have moved up to 2/4 limit. I had no plans for the summer after graduation and decided to play poker fulltime in Vegas. I am supposed to start graduate school the next fall, so I figured 3 months in Vegas would be a great break from school. S0 I moved out to Vegas by myself last June. At the time I was playing 5/10 limit. At this point poker was all consuming. I would spend 14-16 hours every day playing or reading about poker. I was actually pretty miserable since I had no friends and I love to work out but could not with the Vegas weather. At this time I was trying to move up to 10/20 limit but I could not for the live of me beat it. I lost 5K (a lot for me then) trying to beat it. I know looking back I wasn't playing my best because I wouldn’t think about hands that I was playing, I would just multi table like a robot.

Half way through the summer I took 500 bucks and went down to the mirage to play some live poker. Instead of playing 10/20 limit I played NL for the first time. Unfortunately all did not go smoothly as I got it AI against a rich older fat guy with KQ on a AJT board (with one spade). He had AQ of spades and caught runner runner flush on me to scoop a 1100+ dollar pot. This was the biggest pot that I had ever lost and I was devastated.

With this aside I still had really enjoyed playing NL. So I began playing 2/5 blind NL games around town, towards the end of the summer and it got me thinking a lot more about poker again and not mult-itabling like a robot. I was crushing these live no limit games as they are very very soft. I would consistently build ten buy in stacks. The summer finished up with me playing a lot of live poker and not as much online.

I went back to school last fall and being irresponsible I didn’t have a place to live. So I spent fall quarter living on my friends couch and having my computer set up in her living room. Since I could no longer play live no limit games as LA was 2 hours away, I went back to multi-tabling except this time on the prima network for 40% rake back. I finally started having success at 10/20 and quickly moved up to 20/40 limit and higher.

I still didn’t enjoy limit as much as no limit, but for some reason I wouldn’t play no limit on the internet at that time. So I found a small poker club in Ventura California and would drive the 40 minutes to play in a live uncapped 2/5 blind no limit game. This is where my NL game really matured and grew. We would play 2/5 blinds with every person having 2K plus on the table (and bigger stacks having 10K+). It was in this game that I lost the largest pot of my life thus far. UTG limped, and then it was folded to the button who raised. I reraised from the small blind with aces. The UTG lag called 120 cold (we had 6K stacks) with 56o saying I know what you have but you don’t know what I have. End of the story he called my huge flop and turn bets with one pair and a gut shot and hit on the river where I check called his push. This hand taught me so much about no limit poker, especially deep stack. It really changed my way of thinking about poker and to those looking to move up I would recommend playing in live deep stack games as it will improve your skills immensely. Playing at this club taught me the importance of 1) position, 2) pot control, 3) thin value bets, 4) and having a wide range.

After realizing that I enjoyed no limit more than limit I finally got smart and started playing no limit on the internet. I began at .25/.5 no limit in the middle of December. It was very easy for me and I moved up very quickly. I was playing 1/2 no limit by the end of December. 2/4 in January and part of Febuary. 3/6 in Feb. 5/10 in march 10/20 in April and 25/50 and 50/100 in May and June. If you are dedicated to improving you can move up quickly and have alot of sucess.

Hope this answers some questions. I have also decided today that I cannot pass up this opportunity and will start playing poker fulltime.

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I have a seperate roll for playing when drunk had about $40 in it i run that up to about $1200 playing super lag drunken hu. Probably have to cash that out soon to pay my bar bill tho!

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thats hilarous.... great idea but me and drunked HU don't mix well

[polkaface]

Back in 03 and 04 I had deposited $200 on PP. Did well with that, taking the deposit back out and playing with made money for a little while. Ended up busto.

Took time off and gave it another go in 06 and this time I made about $1000 again on PP. Then the legislation comes and move money to PS and don't like the feel of it so I end up taking out 750 and keeping 250 on it. Lose the 250 on suckouts. Quit playing in Nov.

Around May I started freerolling on PS with the FPPs I had made in Oct/Nov 06. Made .53 and with playing 5-7 hours a week the past month or so I now have $10 playing .02/.04 limit. Trying to see what I can grow it to with proper bankroll management (something I haven't ever had).

[Tryptamean]

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This is a graph of my NLHE cash game story so far. Obviously I am the grand master of BR management.

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[icanseeyourcards]

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This is a graph of my NLHE cash game story so far. Obviously I am the grand master of BR management.

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[payoff wizard]

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This is a graph of my NLHE cash game story so far. Obviously I am the grand master of BR management.

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Picture tells 1,000,000 words baby. However, let me divulge the 3 of the lessons I was able to learn from this experience, ala Robert McNamara.

1. Keep a level head when things are going well - Running like God does not necessarily mean that you are God.

2. Accept that higher stakes games will generally be tougher, and thus, your win rate smaller - I deviated from the game that gave me success in the hope of creating "new techniques " that would allow me to crush 5/10 for 15bb/100. So fing dumb, so fing dumb, so fing dumb.

3. Cash out regularly and treat yourself to non-poker related stuff - I wish I had bought an ice cream or a prostitute or something. As I click away at 25NL tables, the new computer I bought acts as a daily reminder of how stupid I was.

Peace out BBV!

[NuklearWinter]

Started playing on Party in 2003. Mostly $11 and $22 SNG's. Won about $5,000 from that. Cashed it out to pay for stuff in college.

Won about $1k each year in '04-'06.

Took about 6 months off.

Deposited $60 on PokerStars in June. Up to $4800 mostly from donkaments.

[YouMyBoy]

started with play money on stars. got 10 mill play chips and sold for 70 cents the first time.

eventually learned to play poker. a year later i was playing seriously, another year later it was my job, and now in my 3rd year, made 175k last month. (by far my best month ever tho)

[jordiepop]

last year i kept deposting and kept losing my ass playing min-bet. what a bad game. same [censored] happened with stud. than i took 2k started playing 50 & 100nl . turned it into 4k and now im hanging out at 200nl, indefinitely.

[Jiganti]

1. has monies
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3. has monies?
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