Mission: Become a poker player - via FTR

Originally Posted by d0zer

Originally Posted by LuckySlevin

I must admit I'm starting to grow a little impatient now, as I think I should be able to grind to at least 50 with relative ease

Unrealistic expectations will make you grow impatient and drive you to play above your bankroll.

It would do you a lot of good to release your expectations for bankroll growth. Focus on developing your skills first. The bankroll will naturally grow at its own pace. Sometimes ridiculously fast, sometimes it will stagnate. Your mental health will suffer if you expect it to be consistently fast though.

^^This.

The thing is, you might be winning right now, but that doesn't necessarily mean you have become a winning player yet. I'm not saying this to down you in any way. I'm simply saying that even though you have made some realizations about your game, it is possible that those realizations haven't changed you into a winning player. And this is okay...

Whether your crushing the tables or losing just a little, you have made some decent strides in the last week that you failed to make for the first couple of months. You just need to stick with it. Your two main focuses right now should be to (1) make sure you stick with 2nl, and (2) learn poker. Your biggest flaw was BRM. And while going busto again would suck, it would be much better for you to do so at 2nl, than in a SNG in which you put your whole roll on the line. So don't get impatient and do that. And while I know you want to see money begin to flow in and the roll begin to increase, you need to realize that is a little ways away from occurring. You shouldn't be judging your progress on your hourly, or how big your bankroll is. You should instead judge it on how much you are learning and beginning to understand. The hourly, and BR will follow.

And while you are playing you need to keep studying... TBH, I'm not sure you should be playing 7+ hours a day. While playing gives you great experience upon which to build, you need a foundation to build it on. You should consider studying the majority of the time at your current state. When I was playing 10nl, and I'm sure it's the same for a lot, I studied about the same amount of time, if not more, than I played. It's after you learn the majority of the things you will need to know to be a winning player that you can start mutli-tabling and crushing. If you do this before your a winning player, you aren't increasing your chances of winning, your simply increasing the speed at which your losing, or the number of hands you put in playing break-even.