Let's build some bankroll - who's with me?

[Jagsti]

I have been reading this post and find it very interesting. I have been playing for over a year and i have a detailed log of every day i have played since February 2007. Does anyone have any suggestions on when to start my posting. From the top of my head i would think Jan 1/2008, Feb 1/2008 or Feb 14o or 15/2008 would be good starting points.

Why not make it the 1st of feb, then thereafter just show upto the past 6 days results or so.

I'm gonna update mine tomorrow I think, as it's just pure evil, sick, spewy, rancid, putrid, horrifying downswing. I really don't want to see it so I'm delaying it for the time being . 25% of my bankroll donated to some mega suckout donktards on Party and Stars.

 

[wachinpntdry]

I'm with ya......

" Let's build some bankroll - who's with me "

I'm with ya.....now,....about that starting banroll of $ 50 you speak of....if someone would kindly deposit that into my account........we can get started building

 

[WhodeyX]

Day 0: 100% ($150)
Day 6: 280% ($420)
Day 7: 329% ($493)
Day 8: 426% ($624)
Day 9: 463% ($695)


Just played 2 or 3 SNG's real quick and calling it an early day. Placed 2nd in a $30+$3 and 2nd in a $20+$2. Was in a third $22 turbo SNG and just got raped flop after flop with much much better starting hands and busted out 4th or 5th.

 

[Boltneck]

Day 0: 100% ($500.00)
Day 1: 103.45% (517.25)
Day 2: 105.70% (528.50)
Day 3: 119.75% (595.75)

Only 221 hands played today 9which is relatively low for me) but it was one of those days when everyting went well – oh for more sessions like this.


PS Not quite sure what's gone wrong with the graphs, but 2 of the 3 are not showing the correct figures. Day 3 is missing from them?

 

[pigpen02]

Day 51 kinda zero. Day 52 big drop at full tilt poker, little drop at Ultimatebet but made up for both at Stars. Whatever it takes to level out variance, I guess.

50 110.4%
51 109.1%
52 109.3%

 

[Jagsti]

Day17 123% ($4386)
Day18 123% ($4391)
Day19 119% ($4238)
Day20 116% ($4113)
Day21 108% ($3845)
Day22 103% ($3665)
Day23 97% ($3464)
Day24 97% ($3447)

So I haven't posted on this thread for a few days mainly b/c I haven't played as much and I've been away for a couple of days. Also I'm now on a pretty bad losing streak of days, 6 red days to be precise. There's not much to say or to complain about b/c we all suffer this at some stage. I've just got to grind it out and reduce the effects of the downswing as much as possible. I have now dropped down to 25nl until I can turnaround this slide. GL all.

 

[Kick The Bucket]

Right, I'm going to join in with this. I've just deposited $100 into Full Tilt. Could anyone give me some advice regarding what limits I should play at. I like MTTs and S&Gs but I'm starting to get into cash games a bit more. So any advice at all would be appreciated.

Day 1: $100

 

[Jagsti]

Right, I'm going to join in with this. I've just deposited $100 into Full Tilt. Could anyone give me some advice regarding what limits I should play at. I like MTTs and S&Gs but I'm starting to get into cash games a bit more. So any advice at all would be appreciated.

Day 1: $100

Welcome to this thread Kick. As for advice on BRM and stakes to play, there's an article in the 'strategy articles section' and if you do a search in the poker general section you will find lots of threads on what stakes you should be playing, just type in 'bankroll'. GL with this.

 

[Boltneck]

Day 0: 100% ($500.00)
Day 1: 103.45% (517.25)
Day 2: 105.70% (528.50)
Day 3: 119.75% (595.75)
Day 4: 120.95% (604.75)

Nothing of significance to report.

 

[Celeporn]

Do you guys calculate rakeback into your bankroll calculations? Because since it seems that some of you guys is pretty in to poker, you probably play pretty much. So therefore my question is; Your rakeback should be good then?

 

[Boltneck]

Do you guys calculate rakeback into your bankroll calculations? Because since it seems that some of you guys is pretty in to poker, you probably play pretty much. So therefore my question is; Your rakeback should be good then?

I'm playing at PS, so don't get rakeback. However, I think that it would be perfectly legitimate to include rakeback, bonuses etc in the calculations. The bankroll is after all money made from playing poker. How that money is made (imho) is largely irrelevant, so long as it's a direct result of playing poker.

Would be interested to hear if others in this thread include rakeback / bonuses in their stats.

Bolt

 

[Boltneck]

Day 0: 100% ($500.00)
Day 1: 103.45% (517.25)
Day 2: 105.70% (528.50)
Day 3: 119.75% (595.75)
Day 4: 120.95% (604.75)
Day 5: 115.35% (576.74)

One word to describe my fortune (and ability) today – CRAP!

 

[holden12nz]

bankroll

im inclined to agree we cheetah as well, its no use winning if you plan on losing it all by playing too aggresive but hey thats just my opinion

 

[WhodeyX]

Day 0: 100% ($150)
Day 6: 280% ($420)
Day 7: 329% ($493)
Day 8: 426% ($624)
Day 9: 463% ($695)
Day 10: 544% ($812)

Good day for me overall. Feel really confident with my MTT play. It just keeps getting more and more solid. With my strengthened aggression around bubble time I managed to go from SS and last til 23rd out of 800 or so in the 19k $24+$2 KO tourney on full tilt. So that makes my 2nd top 25 appearance or so in the last 3 days in really large MTT's. Other than that, won a $30+$3 SNG and bubbled out of two more. Here's my 10 day graph:

 

[Jagsti]

Rakeback and bonuses should definately be included.

 

[Celeporn]

Ok, then I start. Dunno how I shall calculate this, but I start with 300 EUR on Passionbet today. And lets see how this goes.

Day 0: 300 EUR (100%)

Wish me luck

 

[Jagsti]

GL and welcome celeporn.

 

[Chris_TC]

Welcome and thanks for joining to all new posters!

Rakeback should be included in your progress update / graph as long as you use it for poker (i.e. it's part of your bankroll).
If you keep rakeback separate and cash it out, then obv. it shouldn't be included.

Progress Update

Day 105: 222% ($4,448)
Day 106: 259% ($5,174)
Day 109: 297% ($5,942)

I'll now finally go back to updating more regularly. Hopefully this will motivate me to play more because I've only played a couple thousand hands in the last two weeks. I'm not even Platinum for February yet

I'll just give up on setting myself a goal in terms of hands played because I hate "having to do" something and end up playing less instead of more.

The weekend before last, I satellited into the Sunday Million, but haven't played it yet. I'll probably play the Warmup next Sunday instead because it has a smaller field and fits better with my time zone.
In general, I'll try to play maybe one MTT per day alongside with the cash games. But here we are back to setting goals, so I'll leave it at that.

 

[Celeporn]

Ok, then I played. And it goes good.

Day 0: 300 EUR (100%)
Day 1: 778,60 EUR (Give me a easy way to calculate the %)

 

[Chris_TC]

Ok, then I played. And it goes good.

Day 0: 300 EUR (100%)
Day 1: 778,60 EUR (Give me a easy way to calculate the %)

You divide your new bankroll by your starting bankroll and multiply the result with 100.
(778.60 EUR * 100) / 300 EUR = 77860 EUR / 300 EUR = 259.5%

In your case, you can also simply divide your new bankroll by 3.
778.60 EUR / 3 EUR = 259.5%

Can you give some detail on what games you played? Did you go deep in a tournament?

 

[Celeporn]

Ok mate, I will do that then. I played 3/6 NL USD omaha game. My game is omaha for sure. Last year I won 170.000 dollar, mostly in hold em, but also in omaha. I removed all my money online, and want to build a new bankroll on Poker Start page - Passionbet because I know the manager there and good a good rakeback deal and stuff there.
So now you know a little of my story. I will update more, too tell how this goes further. Lets hope I get away from the small tilts I can have. Cant afford that

 

[Boltneck]

Day 0: 100% ($500.00)
Day 1: 103.45% (517.25)
Day 2: 105.70% (528.50)
Day 3: 119.75% (595.75)
Day 4: 120.95% (604.75)
Day 5: 115.35% (576.74)
Day 6: 116.80% (584.00)

My PFR was almost 3 percentage points below normal, and my VP$IP was over 5 blow normal. This was not because I played any different to normal, but was entirely due to the poor hands that I was picking up. Of course, I didn’t complain on day3 when I had far more playable and premium hands than normal, so I have no justification for complaining today. Take note any novices – that’s poker!

Where today differs from yesterday, I maintained discipline, and played almost like a robot in that I just ignored the bad hands and waited for the few decent ones. The result – I made a small profit today rather than the significant loss of yesterday.

Bolt.

 

[greener_lax]

i started off with a $50.00 deposit on fulltilt about 9 months ago. i went from 50 to 200 playing micro no limit holdem. i then went from 200 to 500 playing 5.00 sng's. After breaking even for a month in the sit n gos, i went back to ring games, this time .25/.50. this was when i really started winning. i went from 500 to 1500 in only a couple of months. i then moved up to the .50/1.00 blinds, where i went from 1500 to 2000. but after that things went all down hill. it seemed there was nothing i could to stop myself from losing. i just kept getting sucked out all the time, or losing with a full house to a better fullhouse. i went from 2000 to 1000 in under a month and had to move back down in blinds. im only 18 but i would like to consider myself a very good poker player. i'm just wondering if anybody has any advice for me to get my bankroll back up or how i could of lost half of it in the first place. i usually am the one defending fulltilt poker when everyone says it's rigged, but as of late it seems that i cannot win.

 

[wsorbust]

Well, I'm back. Kind of. I'll be posting occasionally.

I'll show my graph, which by the way disproves my own statements (which you can probably understand why I said them, after seeing the graph), and so that the kids can see, even with a fierce tilt more than a couple times in one month, that with proper BR Management, it is still possible to be a winning player. (for now )

It is probably also a good note that I started playing with any type of basic BR about 4-5 months ago at most. I'm a fairly streaky player, but am trying to get that under control.
The more than few times I tittled on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, which almost caused me to have my first losing month. Streaking going into the weekend only to be surrounded by loose players I would take a couple horrible beats and losses in sit and gos and more or less fall apart several times. But, working my way back to 40 cents down going into the last day of the month, I managed to more than pull it off. The micros at stars are brutal most of the time, so my sit and go play has basically brought me to a new high, but I'm not sure what I'm going to do because I can't stand the rings.

As for my newly acquired BR at Tilt a couple weeks ago, thanks to two Sunday CC final table free rolls ( Thanks CC! ) I'm going to play with this one a bit. Looking to exponentially increase this thing in less time than I'm taking at Stars, because there are really no decent guarantee MTTs at Tilt, so I'll have to stick to the rings. I'm currently looking for and playing shorthanded CAP tables where every person at the table doesn't want to see the flop, which is sometimes hard to find because of the sheer number of people playing at the .05/.10 tables is so low.
I've been doing decent. Players seem a lot easier to read, most of the time calling with horrible hands, and the fact that I can deal with losing the cap in one hand isn't a big deal, which helps a bit. I'll probably will post a graph sooner or later if I don't loose it all, since I don't have a great sized roll, but I think it is definitely adequate to make something happen.

GL at the tables everyone.

 

[Chris_TC]

Progress Update

Day 106: 259% ($5,174)
Day 109: 297% ($5,942)
Day 110: 266% ($5,327)

Well, on the first day of wanting to play more hands, I ended up with the grand total of 700 hands. That's just over one fourth the amount I'm shooting for, so things can only improve from here *sigh*

Today, I lost quite a bit of money to a huge fish. It was really quite peculiar, so here's a quick story. He started with $120, his VPIP was around 50%, we will call him Nemo.

11:13 pm: Nemo limps from EP, I raise AK, he calls. The flop comes AQQ, he checks, I bet, he calls. The turn it comes a blank, he checks, I put him all-in for less than half the pot. He turns over Q3 suited.
$120 --> $250.

11:18 pm: Nemo limps from EP, I limp on the button with 78s. I flop top two pair on a two-flush board. He bets half the pot, I raise, he calls. The turn it comes an offsuit Jack, he bets, I raise, he pushes, I call. Nemo has 9To.
$230 --> $470.

11:24 pm: The pot is a 5-way limped pot. I complete in the SB with J6o. I flop top two pair on a J56 rainbow board. First to act, I bet 3/4 pot, two players fold, Nemo calls, one player pushes for $77. I call, hoping Nemo would come along with a weak Jack, and indeed he does (only he doesn't have a weak Jack).
The turn is a King, I bet just over half of Nemo's stack, he calls. The river is a 3, I put him all-in, he calls. He has 74o.
$350 --> $800.

11:25 pm: Nemo sits out.

I hope you liked the story