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Bejamin1 Canada. May 14 2014 19:24. Posts 7042

I've recently begun playing poker again after a relatively long hiatus. My story in poker is like many of us. I was good enough to earn money back when the games were soft and I was lucky enough to box a few tournaments to turn in a decent haul for my time invested. Then when Black Friday hit I stopped playing because I'd recently transferred most of my roll to FTP.

I'll preface this with some facts - I've always been a casual grinder, even if for flickering moments of good run I aspired to be more. I've always been mostly a mediocre poker player with mostly built his game on what videos, books and forums told me I should be doing. I played what most know as the "exploitation style" which relied heavily on a HUD.

I've returned to poker fresh with a completely different take on how I approach not just playing the game but thinking about the game. I more or less used to hate poker and I never found any joy in it. I was locked into one way of thinking and one way of doing things and spent most of my sessions mindlessly grinding within the rules of what I thought was good poker. I'm happy to say that is no longer the case, and not surprisingly I'm now thoroughly enjoy playing the game.

One of the biggest changes I've recently made is in bankroll management. I used to tell myself I should follow the 20 buy-in rule. Move up as soon as I have 20 for the next limit. This approach left me constantly stressed and playing as scared money. This is especially painful in PLO when sessions can often swing +/- 10 buy-ins. Not exactly friendly to those risk of ruin parameters. I've since decided on a 100 buy-in rule. I will dominate each stake I play before I move up. And I will do it all whilst freeing myself from the stress of constantly worrying about the status of my bankroll.

My decision to do this isn't for everyone. Neither are a lot of the sometimes odd things I do "just to see what happens" in various hands I play and post. Some are posted for comedy, and some out of boredom. I probably should post less bad-beat hands, but my comically bad run in 3-bet pots just amuses the shit out of me.

As of today the BR is at 1394, My shot at 25PLO will come when I reach 1500. Below is my graph of the last 1 1/2 months. One for SD vs. NSD and the other for winnings vs. adjusted winnings. I find the spike in redline at the end pretty fun. I work full-time and I'm busy as fuck with my Master's on the side of that so I only play when I have free time.

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Sorry dude he Jason Bourned me. -Johnny Drama

whamm! Albania. May 14 2014 20:07. Posts 11625

100 buyins 25nl = 2500

your setup now is perfect man, work school and poker as a hobby/supplemental income. if i had the discipline id play poker now and set aside 100buyins too, its just poker takes waaay too much out of me so i just dont play at all. good luck

napalm Poland. May 14 2014 20:21. Posts 171

I went through all of those stakes and if you are not heroin junkie who can drop down after losing 10bi you should definitely be taking shots earlier, your plo10/plo25/plo50 will be extremely similar, even more so when you count the massive rake reduction, so if you take a shot at plo25 now and lose 10 buyins you are left with like 1150$(thats 115bi man at plo10) dont sell yourself short!: )

napoleono Romania. May 15 2014 04:01. Posts 771

Imo, dont get carried away and fool yourself with that winrate of 19bb/100. Its not possible to keep that up in the long run, considering rake is another 10-15bb/100 at plo10. GL though.

Bejamin1 Canada. May 15 2014 19:54. Posts 7042

On May 14 2014 19:07 whamm! wrote:
100 buyins 25nl = 2500

your setup now is perfect man, work school and poker as a hobby/supplemental income. if i had the discipline id play poker now and set aside 100buyins too, its just poker takes waaay too much out of me so i just dont play at all. good luck

Yes I agree, but at some point I have to take my shot for 25PLO. I have 100 buy-ins for my current stake 10PLO, so I'd chosen 1500 arbitrarily as the time to go for it. Although I'm thinking I'm ready to try now. I just wanted to work on my game for a while at 10PLO before doing so.

I've tried not to think about results at all. I just want to enjoy playing and challenging myself to be creative. People are beating these games, so despite rake it must be possible. It's a fun hobby in my spare time to work on figuring out how to do just that.

Sorry dude he Jason Bourned me. -Johnny Drama