A road to... higher roads: --OPERATION ANDYROLL--

Howdy. My name's Andy. I'm a poker player on a motivated mission to PUMP UP MY BANKROLL.

You may be in my position as well: A low-limit player with skills that deserve a profit. Well, you can follow along with me on my journey as I take the plunge, and see for yourself whether I can sink or swim in the kiddie pool.

See, I understand that building a bankroll can be a neverending process... I mean, it's really sort of a fancy way of saying "accumulate money while playing solid poker," right? Well, OPERATION ANDYROLL is much more than that. While I do plan to move to higher levels eventually, I'm perfectly content to do so only after I have the skills and financial freedom to make it in the deep end (the "deep end" being maybe 50NL or 5/10 LHE). Therefore, I need a bankroll.

Well, you may have read my initial post about wondering how to go about this endeavor. I think I have a good idea of where I want to go.

This idea has manifested into OPERATION ANDYROLL:

I will start by depositing $250 into PartyPoker, accumulated elsewhere online and transferred via NETELLER. With this $250 I will:

-Wade back into the SNG world to see if I've still got it by playing ten $11 SNGs and aiming to get a 50% ITM within this (very small) sample.

-Play 12 hours of .5/1 LHE, single-tabling the best table I can find on PP.

-Play 3 small-buyin MTTs (somewhere between $1 and $11) and aim to ITM at least one, if not all.

And the most important part: I'm keeping a journal to track my progress, not just for this little project but for my whole poker career. I've never done this, I think it would certainly help my recurring problem with discipline.

Also, you should understand something. OPERATION ANDYROLL isn't designed to build my bankroll or anything, merely to get an idea of what I'm good at and where I want to go in order to grind out a decent bankroll. Once I find what I really truly enjoy and am most skilled at, I'll be able to make a decision.

That decision... will be where I choose to grind out my world-class bankroll. That decision will affect the rest of my poker career.

One more thing: I know that each of these samples is EXTREMELY small compared to the long run, and just 3 MTTs is kind of a joke too, but so is my current bankroll.

Here I go!

you are quite the showman.

i hear they have an opening over on QVC.




good luck pimpin your roll.

gl

Good luck!! Keep us updated

Well, this operation is going quite well.

So far I have played the ten SNGs, about 5 hours of two-tabling LHE, and about 6 MTTs.

I calculated net profit in limit to be about $3/hour.

I cashed in 1 MTT, for a little bubble-burster score of about $15.

But the real fun was in the SnG's, which were even softer than I remember. My game has certainly improved a lot since I last played on Party, and these $11 tables are for the most part extremely soft. I made it ITM in 7 of these tables, and my ROI was about 55%.

OPERATION ANDYROLL CONCLUDED: ANDY WILL BECOME A SNG SPECIALIST IN ORDER TO PIMP HIS ROLL.

The BR sits at about $360 right now, I'm going to move up to the $22s once I hit $400.