Op 6 max on 888

Good luck norman!

So what's your starting roll at this point? How many buyins do you need to move up to $20 and then $30?

I have similar recklessness when I move up. Though it's not generally betting when I could check, but more calling too much and assuming everyone is bluffing me.

Originally Posted by griffey24

So what's your starting roll at this point? How many buyins do you need to move up to $20 and then $30?

I began again with $10. Assuming no drop backs I would need:-

$4 x5 $20
$6 x6 $36
$10 x7 $70
$20 x8 $160
$30 x9 $270

If I lose 2 buy ins at any level I drop back and raise the target as per the first post.

Thanks for the support. I'm currently working nights with plenty of time during the night to play. With a bit of luck this will make the nightshift worthwhile though there is a dearth of $4 tables around during the small hours.

It has been down and up. I had a day off work and put in a couple of hours at $4. The result of this was a modest gain. I took a break for an hour and messed up for the next 5 minutes. I threw away 2 buy ins by calling where I was obviously behind. I then tilted away another buy in the following morning so I was down $12 in less than 10 minutes playing time. This did not quite trigger a drop down but I went back down to $2 anyway.


At $2 I continued to drop till I was just $1.40 over my initial $10. One buy in loss was silly but the rest was runbad.


Cue heater. I now needed to get back to $24 under my rules to play $4 again. I picked up the 7 buy ins needed. This did include a massive suckout. The villain was clueless but that does not justify the way I played the hand. My only excuses are that I felt he would have called me down Ace High as he had played for stacks with A9o earlier and I would have called the inevitable all in from him if I had checked.


888 Poker - $0.02 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BB: 96.5 BB
UTG: 297.5 BB (VPIP: 81.40, PFR: 65.12, 3Bet Preflop: 66.67, Hands: 44)
CO: 100 BB
BTN: 40 BB
Hero (SB): 252 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K K

UTG raises to 11 BB, fold, fold, Hero raises to 34 BB, fold, UTG calls 23 BB

Flop: (69 BB, 2 players) 6 T 6
Hero bets 51.5 BB, UTG calls 51.5 BB

Turn: (172 BB, 2 players) T
Hero bets 166.5 BB, UTG calls 166.5 BB

River: (505 BB, 2 players) K


I'm currently up 2 buy ins at $4. The roll is $33.66 and I need $40 to hit the $6 tables.