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The problem with "thin" BR management is that it takes so little to send you down. And that's what happened: my flopped set of aces ran into a flopped flush. The villain in the hand was aggressive, already caught semi-bluffing and no way I could have folded my top set. Just when I was hoping the cooler was drying out, Variance LOL'ed and slapped me in the face.
Since my "BR" dropped below $150 I had to go down.

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I run bad. NL100 despite being fishy, not at all different from NL50, was a big cooler [censored]. Plenty of my value bets w/ TPTK got rivered for an ugliest donk winning hand: lowest two pairs. So I dropped down. And the [censored] continued. Every donk that semi-bluff shoved into my top two hit his draw. Also I tilted a little bit and now I'm down to $157. That is all.

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(BRMA update)

Tonight's session was helluva ride. Days before I was running pretty hot so cooler was not much of surprise. I kept playing my standard aggro game only this time I ran into more (nitty)TAGs on a heater then ever - hard to differentiate from ordinary lagtard.

However what really makes me satisfied was that (contrary to how I played in the past) I wasn't really intimidated by running into good hands way too often. I didn't tilt at all and just kept putting pressure on my opponents and abusing position - all the good things one is supposed to do. It was just a matter of time when my 'vanilla tag' opponents will lose control after me holding them long enough out of their comfort zone and when my over-aggressive-donk image (while in fact I was 21.5/17.7/3.0) will fool someone. Eventually I got there 'with fireworks'.

Graph says it all:


Enough of excitement for tonight. Right now there are $413 in my PS account and tomorrow I'm taking one buyin shot at NL100 (as planned).

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(BRMA - see $previous entry for details)

And adventure continues. After failing the first time my BR (at Stars) dropped to $150-ish. I had to move down to NL25 and in relatively short time had $200+ again.

The second shot at NL50 went smoother. At first there were swings from about $180 to $220, when luck finally evened out.

Right now I have $320 and the moment BR hits $400 I'm moving to NL100 (one buy-in shot, as planned).

So far:

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BankRoll Monkey - Adventure

Recently I discovered my forgotten $80+ on Stars and decided to turn it quickly into something decent.

Here's the setup:

The idea is to start right at nl25 until I make $200. Then I take 'one buy-in shot' at nl50 (at $150 I go back down, rinse, repeat) up to $400. Then I take 'one buy-in shot' at nl100 up to $1000 which is the goal. If I fail at the beginning, so be it. Before the chorus of BR puritans jumps down my throat, I'll just say that I have a separate BR at other rooms of more than $1.5K (that I can easily shift via moneybookers), so I'm not playing underrolled.

I've already started and up to this moment:
- in 3 days made up to $200+
- moved to nl50 right into a cooler (bad beat + bead beat + ...)
- went back to nl25 to rebuild
- right now BR = $189

soon to take another shot

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"Same thing, poker and life" -Mike Caro

Finally decided to start a blog of my own. Right now I'm in very low M life phase and blinds and antes are starting to threaten, so putting my thoughts here as well as getting different opinions should 'ground' me a little.

I started my poker career about two years ago at Everest poker with their freeroll limit SNGs. My idea was to take free money and never deposit a single cent of my own. Slowly I learned what TAG really is and up to about few months ago it was just a hobby, day-dreaming about Big Moneyz and buying some balla stuff. My lack of 'balla success' was mostly due to lack of time to play and serious lack of discipline a.k.a. bad BR management. But I was making profit, small but big enough to not give up. Sweet innocent days.

Back at that time I worked at small firm, partnership of my father and another woman, that has worked for years (food industry). As the times got tougher and profit started to decrease, partners started to quarrel and accuse each other on a regular basis - ending with a 'split pot' GG Firm. My father being old enough decided to retire and half of the 'Firm' (actually a so called 'healthy food' grocery) is now mine. I'm the boss. At first glance it's sorta cool, at second - if my math is correct, making decent profit will take a lot of work ... and luck.

Few months ago it was obvious where the whole [censored] is going to and that was the first time when I started to look for opportunities and the first time I started to take poker seriously. Interesting to note that only then did I started to play seriously and the results were above expectations. In July I made almost $1k, more than I have ever made in poker. It's funny how things change in a snap when you have really strong motive and 'crack addict'-like desire. And my motives are really really strong - I have a family to support: wife working at my 'Firm' (i.e. we're in the same [censored]) and 4 year old daughter. I can't afford to lose. And I need extra poker money (at times). So this is my extra job (that's why I'm semi-pro), but I need this supplement to cover life expenses (that's why I'm semi-pro).

Just recently I had to do what I hated the most: withdrew $300 from my $2k-ish BR. So far I'm fine and have a month to make another 300+.

As for play style I consider myself good thinking TAG with above average (for SSNL) hand reading skills. Recently my hard drive crashed so I don't have some sexy data to post. My game is 6max cash; 25NL and 50NL; VPIP/PFR/AF gravitate towards 19/12/3.5 .

"Same thing, poker and life" -Mike Caro

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