Give me my leg (and bankroll) back - Part II

Counterpoint - it's okay not to be obsessed by building your roll too.

Originally Posted by Trainer_jyms

Get a roll soon. Those micro S&G's can fry your brain in a hurry. What's your immediate plans? Are you going to be a S&G player now if things go well? I know you can beat the $25NL stakes, do you not think the $10NL game on stars would be faster and easier? It would be interesting to hear your thoughts on this. You said $300 to move to $25NL, is that because your confidence in beating the game? I would tell anyone looking to grind a a BR to play $25NL they need $500 but less is acceptable if you can easily replace the lost money if you bust. Is that just your "I'll take a shot $$ figure".

I just want $300 because I know swings can be brutal. I am going to be 8-10 tabling FR so I will have $200-$250 lined up at all times. I had many 6 buyin downswings and one 16 buyin downswing. This is just about where I'll feel comfortable and can obv move down if I start dropping.

As for sngs vs 10nl, I don't know. I have played some 10nl but I just can't focus. If I get re-raised $5 with tptk, I think "oh well it's only $5" rather than "that's half my stack I should re-evaluate here." I like pushaments because I can play many at a time, about 13 per hour right now. Plus, I kind of like the break from ring atm. I still love ring and will be primarily a ring player but imo for someone wanting to grind a micro-roll there is nothing better than sngs. It could just be a personal opinion, but they're always really soft, very basic, and clear bonuses very very fast (much faster than 10nl).

Originally Posted by Trainer_jyms

It's funny, that when I read your posts on the move to $50NL, I had the same thoughts and feelings. Trust that you can beat that game. It's not much tougher. It's no different than the move from $10NL to $25NL. You just have to watch your tables. Don't stay sitting at a table just because. I don't care if I'm up a buy in or down a buy in. Once a player or two has switched out, I re-evaluate. GL, you have a lot of people backing you up. Don't give up on it.

I had a bad run. I know I can beat it but it really did mess with my head! I have beat 50/100nl FR for a decent sample size but never ran into such a bad downswing right off the bat. That just through me off and put things into perspective. I have much more time right now then I did when I was doing Part I of my thread, so I don't see myself quitting. I love following your operation thread and [ envy ] Irish's 75k [ /envy ] thread. Thanks for the support!

Originally Posted by Trainer_jyms

Also, I will say this to anyone thinking of cashing out. This thread should show you what it can do to your poker "career". The absolute worst thing you can do when grinding Micro limits is cashout. Everyone has a reason to cashout. I have to sell my house because I'm falling too far behind. Sure I could cash out most of my $1300 and probably buy another 2 or 3 months of room, but how does that help? My $1300 could be $13000 in a year. That is a lot more help than any $1K could do for me now. I know Givememyleg started a business, and it will potentially give him more money than poker could, and that's fine. It's possibly one of the only reasons I would ever cashout my BR, to make more money, but for someone cashing out to pay phone bills, rent or just to pay living expenses is just prolonging there agony another month, keep grinding, get a job, and get to $100NL where small cashouts will mean something more than a one time $500 bill.

Yeah, I will not cash out anymore. I have made two large cashouts (both of 90% of my roll both times) and I don't necesarily regret it, but I still wonder what if. I think the main reason for me cashing out was I never felt comfortable playing 100nl or above.. too stressful. I don't think there is anything really wrong with being a low limit grinder like Mark, or setzy; they have great success. I don't think I will ever see poker as my main income, but I wouldn't mind being able to dab around 50 / 100nl and making some side money. I don't have an overall goal of where I want this to take me but I know one thing, I want to have fun. When I was doing Part I poker became almost like a job to me, and that turned me off. I want to be able to play because I want to play, not because I have to. If it starts happening where I am not having fun, I may take a break for who knows how long. The only difference is I will not be a cashout fish this time!

Thanks for your words and gl to you as well in your thread (although judging by your last post you don't need any luck ).

Originally Posted by biondino

Counterpoint - it's okay not to be obsessed by building your roll too.

Yes, this is true. I am going to play when I want, not because I have to. I'm really phlegmatic, anytime I think of anything as work, I get really turned off.

Originally Posted by gimme

Yeah, I will not cash out anymore.

Just for the record, I said that to start your business was reason enough. I just don't understand why taking a money making thing like poker, and cashing out a potential income earning amount, is a viable option for most. It brings an end to the potential earnings. Your never going to sell your business to pay your phone bill, how does that help. You wouldn't quit a job to get your vacation pay and pay rent, so why is taking your poker Bankroll, and ending an option to earn money smart thinking. You never did this and I was careful to mention it. Starting a business with your bankroll has potential earning greater than your poker money may have ever brought. I just thought that yours was a good thread to mention the bankroll cashout dilemma. Seeing as your struggling now to get a roll back.

Originally Posted by Trainer_jyms

Originally Posted by gimme

Yeah, I will not cash out anymore.

Just for the record, I said that to start your business was reason enough. I just don't understand why taking a money making thing like poker, and cashing out a potential income earning amount, is a viable option for most. It brings an end to the potential earnings. Your never going to sell your business to pay your phone bill, how does that help. You wouldn't quit a job to get your vacation pay and pay rent, so why is taking your poker Bankroll, and ending an option to earn money smart thinking. You never did this and I was careful to mention it. Starting a business with your bankroll has potential earning greater than your poker money may have ever brought. I just thought that yours was a good thread to mention the bankroll cashout dilemma. Seeing as your struggling now to get a roll back.

Ya, gotcha. I wasn't taking it as a personal shot or anything, and I agree 100% that people who take their bankroll for other various things is just silly. So many times I've heard people cashing out instead of keep building it, for no reason. Someone might score 1k in a donkament or something and cash out 800 of it. They don't look at it as a long term investment. I have a friend who has had moderate success with online poker, but he always cashes out when he starts winning and ends up going busto. He uses the money he "won" on stupid things like food, bills, etc... like you mentioned. All in all it is a struggle grinding back up, but it's a lot easier with the end in mind.

Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame Update:



These things do fry your brain. Nothing worked today. I would get caught pushing into monsters, lose flip after flip, make stupid moves, and lose 60/40s left and right. It was a sad sight. I actaully went 16 straight without a cash. Oh well tomorrow I'll donk around so more, maybe splash around some 10nl FR.

Operation total: +$62.60
BR: $120.48

Originally Posted by givememyleg

Oh well tomorrow I'll donk around some more, maybe splash around some 10nl FR.

So I did, and it was lame.



Not really much of an update, but I need to count my winnings. I did make $.22 / hour today, so I'm sitting fabulous.

No poker tomorrow, got a lot going on all day. Sunday is the gauntlet and will probably play either a couple thousand 10nl hands or a 30+ sngs. Either way I need to hit the damn $300 mark.

Operation total: +$63.70
BR: $121.58

stop trying to mirror my results!

Originally Posted by litetruck

stop trying to mirror my results!

No poker yesterday and none again today. Well, technically I did play in the gauntlet and that did come out of my bankroll so I'll update that. Today is mine and the gf's 4 year anniversary so I'll be spending some time with her. Cyaaaaaaaaaa.

Operation total: +$58.20
BR: $116.08

C'mon more SNGs.

You inspired me to start dabbling at the $3s and I want more!!

Originally Posted by Anosmic

C'mon more SNGs.

You inspired me to start dabbling at the $3s and I want more!!

I'll play 100 today just for you!

It was 4am and my gf's asleep and I was just laying there awake next to her, so I get up. While I browse the dead ftr I decide "meh, mine as well play." After I say that I decide I am going to try and break my record for most sngs played at once, I think it was about 12. Sounds fun, right? Well while I had a bunch loaded up I snapped a screen shot, which is below (click to enlarge).



I don't know the exact count as some of the items on the taskbar are tournament lobbies, but according to PT I played for exactly 60 mins and finished with 21 sngs. So I guess my new records stands at 21. It's funny because I had about 2/3 of my total roll in play. This was INSANE. I never once timed out, but I don't think I'll try it again.

Now there's a story to tell and you can shed a tear if you want for me. This was the WORST TIME EVER to try and break my old record.

While I am playing, and the blinds are ranging from 100/200 - 200/400, I notice the cards stop being dealt. I'm like WTF (I had about 15 tournaments still running). I GET FUCKING DISCONNECTED. So I'm like GG CABLE MODEM I HATE YOU. Well, I hit network status and what do I see:



My connection was ONLY cut off at Pokerstars. Aim, and every other website worked peachy keen. I was literally sick. Now I know the amount of money inplay at the time (somewhere around $55) is pretty insignificant to most people. However, the amount doesn't matter as I am trying to grind up. That is about half of my total roll. I was devistated.... Well about 5 mins later I get reconnected and I am sitting out at all of my tables. I probably did not even get to hit "I'm Back" on all of them, and was already eliminated out of a few. Keep in mind the blinds were 200/400+ by now and the ones I did get back to I had only a bb or two left. You can't really put a price on how much money I lost, but it's fair to say I lost a lot more than I would have. Because of this, out of these 24 tournaments I only placed itm in 5, 1st 1, 2nd 1, 3rd 3. Blah.

It just sucks because I never had a disconnect problem while playing on pokerstars without it being on my side. When I reconnected no one else was sitting out that I noticed, so I was like WTF?!?! I sent them an e-mail asking them to explain what happened because obviously I did not lose my connection to anything else but Stars. I don't really except much besides a "blah blah blah" response, but meh. It actually makes me nervous to play more donkaments or just playing in general. I don't plan on ever trying to play 20+ again anytime soon, but even if it happened while I play my standard 10 it would suck.

Oh well I guess I'll stop complaining now and play more. If I can get in the green for today I will be a very very happy man.

Oh, also, 3rd hand in:

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t20 (10 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

saw flop|saw showdown

MP1 (t1500)
Hero (t1490)
MP3 (t1620)
CO (t1390)
Button (t1420)
SB (t1460)
BB (t1610)
UTG (t1500)
UTG+1 (t1580)
UTG+2 (t1430)

Preflop: Hero is MP2 with Q, Q.
UTG calls t20, UTG+1 raises to t80, 2 folds, Hero raises to t260, 5 folds, UTG folds, UTG+1 raises to t1580, Hero calls t1230 (All-In).

Flop: (t3120) Q, 6, 6 (2 players, 1 all-in)

Turn: (t3120) J (2 players, 1 all-in)

River: (t3120) J (2 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: t3120

UTG+1 has Jd Jh (four of a kind, jacks).
Hero has Qc Qh (full house, queens full of jacks).
Outcome: UTG+1 wins t3120.

God I'm getting so frustrated. Granted I did get disconnected with 16 or so tournaments open, I ran like shit. I know blah blah but ffs I had nothing but shit for luck today. I e-mailed Pokerstars about the disc issue and they sent me a whopping $10.20 for the trouble. I guess it's better than nothing...

This micro grinding is so very frustrating.

Operation total: +$70.00
BR: $127.88

You know stars tables are resizable right?? Why do you leave them all scattered like that? Is there a method to your madness?

Originally Posted by Trainer_jyms

You know stars tables are resizable right?? Why do you leave them all scattered like that? Is there a method to your madness?

For whatever reason I hate hate hate small tables. I either have 8 full sized windows on my 2 monitors or just let me rip where ever. I tried it because I think I remember vqc saying he use to MT with them all rezied big on one monitor. It works good though because stars will popup each window when it is your turn, one after the other. I don't think I'm going to be playing more than 10 at a time from now on though, it gets too hectic.

Originally Posted by givememyleg

Originally Posted by Anosmic

C'mon more SNGs.

You inspired me to start dabbling at the $3s and I want more!!

I'll play 100 today just for you!

All talk. Obv.

OKAY NEW RULE TO BE ADDED:

Stop being a moron and trying to play more than 18 tables at a time.

Yeah it sure is nice to average 23 sngs / hour, but it's not worth it. I will only play a max of 10 donk-n-gos at a time from now on. Anything past that and I go bonkers.

I tried trainer's idea, here is how 19 looked (click to enlarge):


Oh, and here's the result:


That was the most stressful 45 minutes of my entire life. Still looks cool though. I'm getting really sick of breaking even at micro stakes, it doesn't help your confidence at all. I'm considering throwing $500 on my account and just getting away from this nonsense. Only problem is I don't know what method I would use to deposit.

Ok here is my new idea. If I do not have my $300 goal by March 1 like I have in place, I will deposit so that I am rolled for 25nl. Forget this $3.4 turbo and 10nl nonsense.

whats your BR at now???

id go mad with 18 tables for sure. HU would be crazy shit

Originally Posted by givememyleg

It was 4am and my gf's asleep and I was just laying there awake next to her, so I get up. While I browse the dead ftr I decide "meh, mine as well play." After I say that I decide I am going to try and break my record for most sngs played at once, I think it was about 12. Sounds fun, right? Well while I had a bunch loaded up I snapped a screen shot, which is below (click to enlarge).



I don't know the exact count as some of the items on the taskbar are tournament lobbies, but according to PT I played for exactly 60 mins and finished with 21 sngs. So I guess my new records stands at 21. It's funny because I had about 2/3 of my total roll in play. This was INSANE. I never once timed out, but I don't think I'll try it again.

Now there's a story to tell and you can shed a tear if you want for me. This was the WORST TIME EVER to try and break my old record.

While I am playing, and the blinds are ranging from 100/200 - 200/400, I notice the cards stop being dealt. I'm like WTF (I had about 15 tournaments still running). I GET FUCKING DISCONNECTED. So I'm like GG CABLE MODEM I HATE YOU. Well, I hit network status and what do I see:



My connection was ONLY cut off at Pokerstars. Aim, and every other website worked peachy keen. I was literally sick. Now I know the amount of money inplay at the time (somewhere around $55) is pretty insignificant to most people. However, the amount doesn't matter as I am trying to grind up. That is about half of my total roll. I was devistated.... Well about 5 mins later I get reconnected and I am sitting out at all of my tables. I probably did not even get to hit "I'm Back" on all of them, and was already eliminated out of a few. Keep in mind the blinds were 200/400+ by now and the ones I did get back to I had only a bb or two left. You can't really put a price on how much money I lost, but it's fair to say I lost a lot more than I would have. Because of this, out of these 24 tournaments I only placed itm in 5, 1st 1, 2nd 1, 3rd 3. Blah.

It just sucks because I never had a disconnect problem while playing on pokerstars without it being on my side. When I reconnected no one else was sitting out that I noticed, so I was like WTF?!?! I sent them an e-mail asking them to explain what happened because obviously I did not lose my connection to anything else but Stars. I don't really except much besides a "blah blah blah" response, but meh. It actually makes me nervous to play more donkaments or just playing in general. I don't plan on ever trying to play 20+ again anytime soon, but even if it happened while I play my standard 10 it would suck.

Oh well I guess I'll stop complaining now and play more. If I can get in the green for today I will be a very very happy man.

Bit late to reply to this but it happened to Anarchoi while 4 tabling a few weeks ago and they refunded the buyin for all tables! Did you actually complain, cos if not do. Those guys are pretty nice. If you did complain and they ignored you then this is pretty irrelevant. So sorry

re: deposit methods, Is it illeagal to have kind, discerning European players deposit for you and transfer money account to account?

Originally Posted by gingerwizard

Bit late to reply to this but it happened to Anarchoi while 4 tabling a few weeks ago and they refunded the buyin for all tables! Did you actually complain, cos if not do. Those guys are pretty nice. If you did complain and they ignored you then this is pretty irrelevant. So sorry

I sent them an e-mail just explaining the situation and attaching screen shots/logs. I didn't really complain because I know they are protected by disconnection policies and such in their terms, but just asked for an explanation. They explained their policy and said this back to me:

Even though PokerStars does not typically accept responsibility for routing problems or connection issues beyond our control, we have decided to place $10.20 into your PokerStars account as a one-time exception to the above policy. After analysing all the games you were playing at the time, this amount covers the events where we feel that the disconnection significantly harmed your ability to place in the money.

Still not sure how they decided it was only three tournaments, must have been because I was blinded out in them. But I'm not going to complain. Pokerstars has always been really good and I'll always play there.

Thanks for your concern!

Originally Posted by gingerwizard

re: deposit methods, Is it illeagal to have kind, discerning European players deposit for you and transfer money account to account?

I'm not sure what the scoop is in this regard but how would this kind, discerning European player get my money to transfer to my account?

Hi.

I haven't updated this thing in a while. I have been slacking as of late but haven't stopped completely. I moved some moola onto FTP so my micro roll is split between the two atm. I have been running okay I spose, but it's been slow. I've mainly been playing the micro HU sngs and 10nl between stars and full tilt. I also have been spewing a lot of FPPs and Full Tilt Points to try and win the 10000 - 1 shot for a WSOP seat. I think I've spent about 7k FPPs and about 1k full tilt points with nothing to show for it. Well since I haven't updated in a while here's how I stand:

Stars Roll: $97.48
FTP Roll: $81.90
Operation Total: +$120.50

I really don't know or can say how dedicated I will be this month, but I am going to make a goal I will be able to hit: 10k hands. So it's 10k March...

My PT got messed up somehow and it's messing up with FTP and Stars hands (I dunno why). I don't really feel like messing around with it atm so my updates will probably just be written, even though I think the graphs look sexy.

Well peace and GL everyone else with an operation thread!

Played about 3 hours today and got in around 1,700 hands of 10nl. I am starting to get use to FTP now and will pretty much play there exclusively, since I have rakeback. Also upped my hands goal to 10k for this month, as I am fast approaching 5k. I was running really really hot until these 2 hands:

Full Tilt Poker
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.05/$0.10
8 players
Converter

Pre-flop: (8 players) Hero is MP1 with 6 7
UTG calls, UTG+1 folds, Hero calls, MP2, folds, CO (poster) checks, Button folds, SB raises to $0.2, BB calls, UTG calls, Hero calls, CO calls.

Flop: Q J 8 ($1, 5 players)
SB bets $1, BB calls, UTG folds, Hero raises to $5, CO folds, SB calls, BB raises all-in $8.25, Hero calls, SB calls all-in $3.05.

Turn: 7 ($25.55, 1 player + 2 all-in - Main pot: $25.15, Sidepot 1: $0.4)


River: 9 ($25.55, 1 player + 2 all-in - Main pot: $25.15, Sidepot 1: $0.4)


Results:
Final pot: $25.55
SB showed Kc Jd
BB showed Ac Tc
Hero showed 6c 7c
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Full Tilt Poker
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.05/$0.10
4 players
Converter

Pre-flop: (4 players) Hero is SB with 3 9
UTG calls, Button folds, Hero calls, BB checks.

Flop: 9 3 3 ($0.3, 3 players)
Hero checks, BB checks, UTG bets $0.3, Hero calls, BB folds.

Turn: 8 ($0.9, 2 players)
Hero checks, UTG bets $0.4, Hero raises to $1.7, UTG calls.

River: 6 ($4.3, 2 players)
Hero is all-in $6.05, UTG calls.

Results:
Final pot: $16.4
UTG showed 8d 8s
Hero showed 3c 9c

March Goal: 2,656 Hands
Operation Total: +$153.05
BR: $211.93

Ouch! Coolered. Not much you can do. There are some good software tools for FT, poke around 2+2's software forum or pm me if you want...

Originally Posted by zook

Ouch! Coolered. Not much you can do. There are some good software tools for FT, poke around 2+2's software forum or pm me if you want...

Nice to see ya in the thread! I spose I could have folded pf in both of them, I think I'm limping too much.

Played 1,015 hands today. It was a slow hour with nothing but small pots, then hit a set over set 230 bbs deep (!!) and stacked a donk w/ 22 on a A27 board (he had AQ). I played like an ass in a couple hands, but all in all it was a nice 1k hands. Starting to like FTP after being weened off of Stars. BR is almost high enough for 25nl (finally).

March Goal: 3,671 Hands
Operation Total: +$184
BR: $242.88

Originally Posted by givememyleg

I spose I could have folded pf in both of them, I think I'm limping too much.

Meh, I would call both. Players at these stakes are loose passive, right? And you're better post-flop than at least 90% of the other players? Might as well see lots of flops.

Originally Posted by zook

Originally Posted by givememyleg

I spose I could have folded pf in both of them, I think I'm limping too much.

Meh, I would call both. Players at these stakes are loose passive, right? And you're better post-flop than at least 90% of the other players? Might as well see lots of flops.

Yeah I have been enjoying seeing limped flops. I'm running 21/9, which I think it fine, but what jumps out at me most is my VPIP in the SB is 46. Should probably cut that down a tad.

Played 1559 hands today. The memory is starting to come back as to why I quit my last operation. SO FRUSTRATING. I hate when people complain to me about bad beats, but ffs I need to vent. I'd rather write it in here then IM someone anyway. Let's see, during this 1500 hands session, I got allin preflop TWICE with KK, once with AA, twice with QQ, and once with AKs. I was ahead in every single one of them and lost all except once with QQ. I must be due for an upswing sometime here.

Also, I am a pretty mild person. I don't ever really go on tilt or get easily angered. However, today I wanted to reach through my monitor and strangle someone at my table today. I was allin against this certain "villian" four times (of course ahead in all of them) and lost them all. I was in utter disbelief. It wasn't just me, either. The whole sharade started when "villian" called my aipf with his 94o to pwn my AKs. He then went on to destroy the table with his insane luckbox. He had to have been allin about 10 times within a few orbits and won them all. Give me my upswing.

So for my 1500 hand session I broke even. I cleared $15 of my puny $50 bonus that full tilt gave me and calculated that I make about $.01 per hand at 10nl! Also my rakeback provider owes me like $20 (lol) for the month so far. Weeeee I just absolutely love micro grinding. BR is almost at the 300 mark for a shot at 25nl... hope to hit my upswing there.

Anyway, enough of that, here's some numbers:

March Goal: 5,230 Hands
Operation Total: +$200.15
BR: $259.03

939 Hands. Cleared $10 of bonus and made a buyin or so. It makes me feel kinda silly seeing total winnings for a session a tiny $16.50 and having the bb/100 being 8.79. 10nl is teh suck. Next session I play I'm going to dish into some 25nl. Hopefuly I'll run good and never look back. If I start off dropping a few buyins I'm going to have to drop back down and grind it out since my BR is only around 250 right now. It's almost April and I didn't even notice. I have 2 days to play 4k hands so I should have no problems getting the 10k hands goal done.

So anyway:

March Goal: 6,169 Hands
Operation Total: +$226.65
BR: $285.53
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Fun hand:

Full Tilt Poker
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.05/$0.10
8 players
Converter

Stack sizes:
Hero: $13.30
UTG+1: $3.45
MP1: $8.20
MP2: $10.35
CO: $1.70
Button: $12.15
SB: $4
BB: $5.25

Pre-flop: (8 players) Hero is UTG with 9 9
Hero raises to $0.35, 2 folds, MP2 calls, 2 folds, SB calls, BB folds.

Flop: Q Q 9 ($1.15, 3 players)
SB checks, Hero checks, MP2 checks.

Turn: 3 ($1.15, 3 players)
SB bets $0.4, Hero raises to $1.5, MP2 raises to $2.6, SB folds, Hero raises all-in $12.95, MP2 calls all-in $7.4.
Uncalled bets: $2.95 returned to Hero.

River: 6 ($11.95, 0 player + 2 all-in - Main pot: $21.55)


Results:
Final pot: $21.55
Hero showed 9s 9c
MP2 showed Qd Qc

Oh that reminds me... I know it isn't much at all but I have $50 stuck on Stars right now that I could use on Full Tilt. If anyone has money on FTP and Stars and would like to help me transfer it over I'd appreciate it. PM me or something.

Ok, not a real update but just a change. I had been using the number for total bankroll split between my Stars and Full Tilt accounts. I am now only going to count what is on my FTP account as my bankroll. Taipan168 helped me xfer $50 from stars to ft (thanks again!) so that makes my bankroll now $243.80. I left abour $40 on Stars for Gauntlet games and such. I really don't want to play 25nl and potentially lose over 1/3 of my bankroll (which could easily happen) so I am going to stick to my original plan. I am going to just grind out 10nl until I hit $300 for my first shot. Once I hit $300 I am willing to lose about 4-5 buyins if something goes wrong at 25nl. If all goes according to plan, once I hit $300 my number one goal will be Operation One Kay, which is to grind back up to the four figures mark. Now that I have this all setup I need to make sure I hit my 10k mark for hands in March, so I'm going back to the grind!

BR: $243.80

I so wish that FTP gave me a larger bonus rather than this meisly $50. It is soooo much nicer grinding this out with it. Well anyway, played for about 4 hours and got 1950 hands in. I was up like 4 stacks at one point then lost two huge pots (allin with the best of it both times obv) and had a few coolers (flopped king flush vs ace flush 150 bbs deep). Finished up a little over a buyin and cleared $20 in bonus. I'm running like 8 bb/100 since I started, which would be nice at any limit... but it's teh suck at 10nl. So need like 2k more hands for the month and a couple more buyins for 25nl.

March Goal: 8,119 Hands
Operation Total: +$261.10
BR: $273.25

WTF HOW DO I NOT GET YOUR STACK YOU NITTY DONK?!?!

Full Tilt Poker
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.05/$0.10
7 players
Converter

Stack sizes:
UTG: $6.75
UTG+1: $4
MP1: $11.15
CO: $6
Button: $4
Hero: $15.10
BB: $14.40

Pre-flop: (7 players) Hero is SB with 6 6
UTG, folds, UTG+1 (poster) checks, MP1 calls, 2 folds, Hero calls, BB raises to $0.65, UTG+1 folds, MP1 calls, Hero calls.

Flop: 8 6 8 ($2.05, 3 players)
Hero checks, BB checks, MP1 checks.

Turn: 3 ($2.05, 3 players)
Hero bets $1.5, BB calls, MP1 folds.

River: 7 ($5.05, 2 players)
Hero bets $4, BB calls.

Results:
Final pot: $13.05
Hero showed 6c 6h
BB mucks Ac As

That hand seriously pisses me off.
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Nice 460 bb pot.

Full Tilt Poker
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.05/$0.10
7 players
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Stack sizes:
UTG: $4.15
UTG+1: $24.15
MP1: $1.30
CO: $13.10
Hero: $23.05
SB: $1.20
BB: $16.85

Pre-flop: (7 players) Hero is Button with 4 4
UTG calls, UTG+1 calls, 2 folds, Hero calls, SB calls, BB checks.

Flop: 2 J 4 ($0.5, 5 players)
SB checks, BB checks, UTG bets $0.1, UTG+1 raises to $0.75, Hero raises to $2.85, 3 folds, UTG+1 raises to $7.75, Hero raises all-in $22.95, UTG+1 calls.

Turn: 5 ($46.5, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: $46.5)


River: 3 ($46.5, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: $46.5)


Results:
Final pot: $46.5
UTG+1 showed 2s 2h
Hero showed 4c 4d

This hand made me so happy. I know my line would get folds at higher limits, but once he made is 7.75 he told me he had 22 so I decided to tell him I had 44 because I knew he couldn't fold. I didn't want to risk the turn bringing a diamond and him getting scared or something.

villian: seriously?
villian: 44?
villian: jj?
villianhas 15 seconds left to act
villian: damnit
RockEarl: call him
villian: congrats
villiancalls $15.95

I'm still waiting for the day that I hit set over set and they river quads. In about 100k hands that still hasn't happened.

March is now over. I feel kinda silly posting my stats, but I will nonetheless (micro ftw!):




Number of hands played = teh suck.

So here is where I stand now. BR is ~$475. I was talking to biondino and expressing my frustrations with 10nl and he said he wouldn't mind tossing me an extra $200 for a cushion for 25nl. What a guy! So now I am done with this silly 10nl stuff and hopefully I run so good I'll never look back. April might be a busy month for me, it all really depends on what the business requires. My partners and I are modifying the Wrizz and Wrizz Pad, and might switch to a manufacturer instead of us making them ourselves. This would initially cost some time and money getting everything ready, but would cut a lot of time off in the long run. So anyway, I am not going have a hands goal for April (although I am hoping for around 20k ). Instead, I am making operation one kay $$.

I remember the first time I hit $1,000 bankroll (after I had lost two deposits of $500 and various $50 of course), it was a nice feeling. So my goal starting April 1 is to get a $1,000 BR. It would be awesome to hit this in April of course, and if I do I will start a new goal, but it isn't set in stone. I figure I can play 20k hands in about 40 hours, so 10 hours per week shouldn't be too far fetched of a goal. Anyway, I'm done rambling and am going to play my first session of 8-tabling 25nl on FTP. Run good plz.

BR: $473.25

nice work, keep it up

I wish I was good at poker.

How's that for an update?

Oh also, I just found out from my Rakeback provider that if I earn any bonuses while playing it is subtracted from my total Rake for the month. So instead of receiving $34.65 for March I'm getting $22.49. I know the amount isn't much, but that is a 35% difference. Is this pretty much the same everywhere or do I just have a crappy deal?

standard

Dip, only major site that didn't do that was Absolute. Ub takes like 30% and Full Tilt takes it all.

keep up the grind man. I feel your pain on spinning your wheels at $10nl. It took me forever to get through, but when you finally hit that $1k/$2k again, it feels even better.

Holla.

lol nice graph. just keep grindin

LOL @ graph...dude, keep it up. We're all rooting for you.

You know you didnt forget how to play overnight: just stick at it.