Kicking off

risk2Dupside · 01-18-2009, 02:45 AM

This is my first blog here, so greetings. I have another (social) blog, but it was getting very poker-oriented and wanted a separate one to be able to distinguish between my poker and non-poker life, so expect reasonably regular updates.

The reason I'm here is, well, I had spent most of last year building up a smallish ($2k) roll playing cash games and the odd tourney on PokerStars, and thought everything was going great. I got a little bit ahead of myself in terms of buy-in size for
my roll, had a downswing in terms of wins, and consequently donked the lot of it off over the last month or two. The other thing that contributed was trying to qualify for a few local events via PokerStars satellites using my existing bankroll rather ...

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lakong · 01-18-2009, 09:59 AM

Welcome to the site. I look forward to reading more.

DeuceSeven · 01-18-2009, 10:57 PM

I think starting a roll with $50 if you're a winning player is basically throwing money away as you get screwed by spending your time playing lower when you could be winning playing higher. It sounds like ur already breaking the rules by using your own money to fund some bigger buy ins. My suggestion is forget bankrolls if you can replace the money fairly easily and just play what mtts you think you have an edge in. Once you get to a point where your roll is significant enough that you can't replace it from work money then practice bank roll management. Believe me you'll be kicking yourself when you're grinding $1 mtts for 6 months finally hit a decent score, move up and realize that you could've been crushing bigger buy in mtts sooner thus making more money and improving faster.

Aztec122 · 01-19-2009, 04:08 PM

So your $50 roll is for cash games only and you'll buy into the $4.40s with outside money?

What cash-game stakes will you start at?

Good luck.

01-18-2009, 02:45 AM	#1 (permalink)
risk2Dupside Junior Member Join Date: Dec 1969 Posts: 8	Kicking off This is my first blog here, so greetings. I have another (social) blog, but it was getting very poker-oriented and wanted a separate one to be able to distinguish between my poker and non-poker life, so expect reasonably regular updates. The reason I'm here is, well, I had spent most of last year building up a smallish ($2k) roll playing cash games and the odd tourney on PokerStars, and thought everything was going great. I got a little bit ahead of myself in terms of buy-in size for my roll, had a downswing in terms of wins, and consequently donked the lot of it off over the last month or two. The other thing that contributed was trying to qualify for a few local events via PokerStars satellites using my existing bankroll rather ... Read Full Post

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01-18-2009, 09:59 AM	#2 (permalink)
lakong Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 98	Welcome to the site. I look forward to reading more.

01-18-2009, 10:57 PM	#3 (permalink)
DeuceSeven Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Iowa Posts: 43	I think starting a roll with $50 if you're a winning player is basically throwing money away as you get screwed by spending your time playing lower when you could be winning playing higher. It sounds like ur already breaking the rules by using your own money to fund some bigger buy ins. My suggestion is forget bankrolls if you can replace the money fairly easily and just play what mtts you think you have an edge in. Once you get to a point where your roll is significant enough that you can't replace it from work money then practice bank roll management. Believe me you'll be kicking yourself when you're grinding $1 mtts for 6 months finally hit a decent score, move up and realize that you could've been crushing bigger buy in mtts sooner thus making more money and improving faster.

01-19-2009, 04:08 PM	#4 (permalink)
Aztec122 Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 5	So your $50 roll is for cash games only and you'll buy into the $4.40s with outside money? What cash-game stakes will you start at? Good luck.