Bankroll builder plan
I need assistance in building a bankroll again on Stars. I have $100 and want a plan to build it up to $1000 within six months. I have one day a week I can play 8-10 hours, the rest of the week is approx 2-3 hours between 11pm-2am.
I prefer SNGS, MTT SNGs and MTTs.
I prefer SNGS, MTT SNGs and MTTs.
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I'm out of ideas
GL
Yea, you just need to beat .25/.50 for 4bb/hour, seems reasonable.
That's not really your roll though.. Just reload if that happens..
Question is, are you a winning player? Otherwise bankroll has no meaning and you are playing as recreation... If you are a winning player then you need to be playing 5/10 cent to avoid a high risk of ruin..
Playing within your bankroll properly means you can't get to $1K in that time...
If you haven't found that game in your previous online shots, then the choice is to either just play casually for fun (like most in the forum seem to have settled for) OR to make the time-consuming commitment to seriously study the game enough to elevate your game to be among the top ~25% of players that can beat the rake in your game. This is easier to do in the fishier live games. For online, SNGs are easier than MTTs and cash games to become competent at. Good luck.
Obviously, a lot more than 1% of grinders beat the rake. Sharkscope stats consistently show that ~26% of players are winners. There is no point in grinding to lose just to get back a fraction of the fraction of rake you pay.
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My best advice, which has probably already been offered, after finding a stake you know you can beat and have proven to do so, is brm. This is the most important (IMO) aspect of maintaining your roll through the downsides of varience, and slowly building it.
There are lots of numbers thrown around about how many buy in's you should have for a particular stake, I've seen ppl say as low as 20 and up to 50+.
Personally, I recommend around the 40-50 mark, although this can be quite high I find it suits me best. Your less likely to become 'tilted' after losing a couple games because of the much lower impact it has on your overall BR.
Now I don't play on stars, so don't really know much about the different stakes offered, but with $100, I would look at playing the $2 games, with the occasional shot at higher, up to say, the $5's, until your bankroll has grown enough where you can then focus on the $5's with shots at the $10's etc.
Ps, this is all for single table sng's, if your playing big field mtt's, then I would definately look at 50+ buy ins to best protect your roll.
Hope this helps some
Well, you cant hit youre goal without getting lucky properly.
Playing $1 SNG, you will never get there at an expected win rate
Youre completely screwed playing MTT unless you bink.
And you'll go crazy playing properly rolled cash games.
Youre highest opportunity would be to play underrolled in lower level cash games.
Shortstacking cash games for min BI is probably your best bet. I assume you have decent knowledge of shove charts being a sng player. Close the table when you double your BI.
You guys are freakin' geniuses. In 200 hands of $50NL, I started with two tables, buying in short at $20, doubled both of my stacks. Nice way to start.
I'd play .1/.25 though
Now where you at...?
Still trying to figure out how to win money online. I don't have the patience I need to build a roll properly, at least I haven't in the past. I have always been able to re-load as needed but I want to try and get away from doing that.
And when I do bink a nice score, I have to withdraw the funds to pay for real life stuff. Now that I have a more stable job and my wife is working full time again, I may be able to keep more money in my account to play higher buy-ins.
You understand that is not how poker works, no?
Geez man, sounds like a recipe to faster busto.. Why not play some $500. matches, go on a run and be up a few K in an hour or two? Better earnings (or losses) per hour..
Not quite. Still go to pay the rake.
doesn't sound like the other way is working out for the guy. Just suggesting a shorter route to doubling his deposit. Of course he can lose, that's a known factor once you decide to gamble
If your really not keen on playing the micro levels, maybe take a week or two off, try to re-evaluate your game a bit, find some leaks and come back with a slightly bigger deposit so you can comfortably move up a little bit.
STT's I'd recomend 40-50 BI's, 30 BI's for the occasional shot taking, and MTT's with larger feilds try and keep it at 75-100 BI's.
Maybe have a stop loss as well, if your tilting, and down 'x' BI's on the day, quit and try again the next day with a clearer head.
Oh, and GL!!
Isn't the consensus for cash games 20-40 buyins? Now I realize that since dj takes money out of his "bankroll" if he gets a decent win it doesn't really apply.
He, like the majority of us, I think you included, are recreational players so it doesn't apply in quite the same way.
Not sure if dj knows whether he is a long term winner at poker or not and obviously if someone is not it doesn't matter what the size of his bankroll is.