I deposited $200 of my own money on stars and I'm playing 5NL. I want to go up to 10NL at 400$. I like playing with more BI's and not taking shots.
With my current skill level I'm pretty confident I can beat 200NL.
I hope that FTP gets back soon and I will be able to continue with my entire roll and get to play 25+NL soon.
I've had a few people interested in loaning me small parts of the 1500$ request, but did not add up enough and if I'm going to play with only a few hundred dollars roll, I prefer it to be mine. I appreciate the interest though. Well, if something terrible happens to PokerStars and FTP doesn't get well, I will be forced to request staking - I hope this doesn't happen
I still want to make at least one million dollars from poker.
Originally posted by EmanuelC16
40 BIs for NL5 is a waste of time. If you think you can beat NL200 you should use more aggro BRM and get there!
You were not the first to tell me this. So I thought about it and decided to play NL10.
Now my BR stands at 500$ and I'm thinking why shouldn't I do the same and play 25NL? But I really don't like playing with only 20BI and I can't afford a downswing at 25NL.
I also played a few SNGs and MTTs this weekend.
And I had one cash in a weekly silver freeroll (100FPP) for 20$.
I don't know how much of this is variance, but I think I played ok. I know a few things about playing SNGs and MTTs (NashEquilibrium, ICM, SAGE and concepts like folding wars; playing to accumulate or to survive). It's nice because I'm stepping forward to winning my first large MTT (which is one of my sweet long term objectives).
PS: I played more than just one of these SNGs and I played a few other MTT's in which I didn't cash.
This is why BRM is important. If I would have played 25NL I would have been demolished.
12BI under EV in 300 hands.
It all happened at one table. There was a whale that won every hand against me (all weaker by equity + a cooler and a lost coinflip) The funny part is that I acted like a fish and the guy thought I'm a fish and stayed more, I wanted him to stay.
Known players:
[tg]BU$23.99:///////;SB (Hero)$10.00:///////;BB$6.89:///////;MP3$11.48:///////;CO$33.31:///////;[/tg]
Preflop: Hero is SB with J:c, J:s. 2 folds, BU calls $0.10, Hero raises to $2.40, BB raises to $6.89, BU folds, Hero calls $4.49.
Flop: ($13.88) A:c, 5:h, 9:d (2 players)
Turn: ($13.88) K:s (2 players)
River: ($13.88) Q:d (2 players)
Final Pot: $13.88. Results follow:
Hero shows a pair of jacks(J:c J:s). BB shows a pair of kings(K:d 2:d).
BB wins with a pair of kings(K:d 2:d).
I feel good that it didn't affect me. I just played good poker and exploited my opponent which was very weak, but in this case lucky as well. Just standard deviation.
I'm contemplating being staked/asking for staking.
$1K + my stars BR. For playing 25NL. 60/40 for me. I wonder if after splitting the profit it will be more profitable than playing 10NL (I will make some math later - i did it, yes it is). For one month. Volume = at least 50K hands.
And if I do well in the first month, I may ask staking for 50NL.
And this includes that nasty run from the day before.
From this month. I have hands at 2NL, 5NL, 10NL and some at 25NL.
My winnings overall were bigger due to some SNGs and MTTs.
I'm confident I can beat 200NL too, so maybe I should ask from the beginning staking for 50NL (40BIs for it). I'm as sure as a good poker player can be, I play against fishes, there's where my money comes from and maybe from weak regs and some other that I got profitable edge on.
$2K, 50NL for 2 months (at least). 60/40 only profit. At least 50K hands/month. My BR will not be included (what I mean by this, if I end up the deal with -$BR, it's taken out of the stake. I wanted to state this for me to play confortably knowing that I have something to fall on if it doesn't work. But the worst will not happen, I will win - I just want to be conformable playing my game)
If it goes well, maybe I would ask for staking for 100NL.
Before being staked I will have to fully set up my Neteller account (they fail to call me, it's the 3rd time = bad customer service) so I can get and send money direct in $ (my moneybookers currency is in RON, so I will lose a lot in transactions). I plan to get an VIP account on moneybookers, but till then I will have to use Neteller.
I'm in no hurry anyways, I'm gonna play and build from this point that I am now. Till the end of August I should have the BR to play 25NL and then maybe FTP goes on and I can add both BRs into one and start playing 50NL.
I also played a satellite today for the Red Spade MTT:
The entry to the RedSpade is $50+5.
Now I'm pondering if to play the tournament (it starts in 2 days and has a guaranteed prize pool of $1M!!) or get the $55. It's kind of big entry for me, at 10NL it's 5.5BI's, but If I will reach the money it will be great, if I end up at the final table it will be AWESOME! And if I win it, it will be a dream! But I also am realistic and know that there are little chances to reach the final table and that it will be a big field with good mtt players that are good at playing in the middle phase of the tournament (when we have 20-40BIs) at which I suck the most.
It's interesting how I got to play this satellite I was searching a fish at one of my tables to see how many tables he plays and there was a satellite and opened it for a brief moment then checked out the RedSpade MTT and searched through the satellites to find one with the smalles buy-in and in which I will have the biggest chances of winning. If not for the fish I would have never played it.
Do I really have to lose 2BIs (in mistakes) every 2-3 days to relearn that when a fish min-raises (c/minr) the turn is always strong and never bluffing (unless having a note on him that says otherwise)?
Originally posted by Gabinr1
Do I really have to lose 2BIs (in mistakes) every 2-3 days to relearn that when a fish min-raises (c/minr) the turn is always strong and never bluffing (unless having a note on him that says otherwise)?
After opening this thread 6max multitabling A-game and reading the responses, I came to the decision to up the number of tables that I can play A-game at. My current number is 6, I'm going for 9 as a standard (this is 50% more hands in the same amount of time)
I got to get used to 9 tables. For starters. I've set up everything, I found the best layout (still tiled works best), increased HEM font for the HUD as the tables went smaller so all the text with it. I played 2900 hands today, 9tabling, and stayed focused on playing my best, while changing tables that weren't good anymore.
The results from today's 9tabling session are nice:
I still sometimes don't have enough time to think or to look at the stats and make the most informed decision.
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Is this because I'm bronze?
Most probably. You have to be gold or silver i guess.
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