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Poker bankroll building with poker cash games

Mark — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 07:24:54 +0000

This article belongs to the Poker Project series. I never play cash games because frankly I suck at them and probably more importantly haven’t had the motivation to play them. As a result my blog has almost no articles on poker bankroll building with poker cash games or cash game strategy. This is a shame. Now however things have changed and I have a new-found motivation to start a poker bankroll building project where I will only be playing cash games. My motivation comes from the fact that I unfortunately have to start paying my own money to keep my poker tournament league running on PokerBRB.com. My goal is to finance my league by increasing my current poker bankroll on Power Poker. I haven’t set out any rules yet for my new poker bankroll building project but I’m sure they will appear along the way when my bankroll grows (currently I am severely under rolled, so it doesn’t really make sense with too many rules) Yesterday I played for an hour on 0,10/0,20 shorthanded and full ring tables on Power Poker and increased my bankroll from 30$ to 80$. As well as paying for my league, I also expect to be able to write some articles about cash game strategy once I get a better feel for the games.

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NY Giants Game Challenge update

Mark — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:43:23 +0000

Submitted by McTap, this article belongs to the Poker Projects series. If you haven’t already, it might be a good idea to read the first installment in McTap’s NY Giants Game Challenge before moving on to the update below. Just a quick little update on my NY Giants Game Challenge, and a some other points of interest. See my blog for more updates. After being excited to go back and play on the fishy Mansion tables 12 days ago, and also to be able to bonus hunt a little quicker than on Poker Stars, reality quickly set in. It took me 7 days (12 tourneys) before I actually cashed and it was only a 4th place that paid back the BI only. Another 2 days of nothing before I finally started making the money again. Over the past few days, I managed to make all the money I lost back and then some (see BR stats on left side panel). I am also over 40% of the way to my first $10 bonus, which I figure should hit within the next 10 days or so, depending on how much I play this long weekend. At this pace, I should be able to hit $30 in bonus (of the $200) before the end of June. If I can continue to increase my BR, I should be able to start double tabling these games to increase my bonus points faster. The problem right now is that playing in a $5+1 SNG is 1/20 of my BR (factoring in exchange rate) and that is not proper BR management. I did try the $2+0.40 SNG games but they were such a donkfest that I couldn’t play my normal game and win. I also couldn’t degrade myself to pushing OOP with any 2 cards, like most of the players seem to do at this level. So I decided to move back to the $5 games and have been striving since. One thing that has come up a few times over the past 12 days is people getting their money in good when they are short stacked but losing to players who have pot odds, and the chance to knock someone out, call. I am totally for this. If you have the chips to call some one’s all-in and it doesn’t cost you more than 3 BB or leave you as the SS, then do it with almost any 2. If calling means committing more than 30% of your stack, then it is not worth it unless you have a strong hand, especially since the person going all-in probably has a pair or better, which would probably include at least 1 face card. Case in point, on the bubble and I’m the BB. I have about 2500 and the blinds are 100-200. SS is UTG with 550. He shoves it all in. It folds to me. Now it is only going to cost me 350 more for a chance to win a pot of 850. Almost […]

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New York Giants Game Challenge

McTap03 — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:39:07 +0000

Submitted by McTap03, this article belongs to the Poker Projects series A new challenge is on the horizon that will be played along side my other current challenges (see my blog for those challenges). First, let me provide a little info before explaining this challenge. I’m a HUGE NY Giants fan. It is almost obsessive once the season is in full swing. Most of my free time during the week leading up to the game is spent analyzing match-ups, talking about it on various forums, and making my picks for the several pools I’m in. I would say I’m just as obsessed with the Giants as with poker, only poker is 12 months a year, while my Giants obsession minimizes during the off-season (I still read as much as possible, just don’t throw myself fully into it until pre-season starts). My wife has come to terms that Sunday’s from September to February (Super Bowl) are pretty much off limits for family outings, ESPECIALLY if the Giants are playing. Yes I have a PVR, so I could record it, but what good is that. I am so involved with it that I now have my ritual clothing that I wear for each game, and now that my kids are a little older, they also ask to wear their jersey’s on game days (gotta love them!). So what does this have to do with a poker blog and a new challenge, let me tell you. A few years ago I found out that in 2009 the Giants would be playing against my good friend’s favourite team, the Oakland Raiders, in New York, and since I would be turning 40 that year, and he turning 30, we thought a road trip to the game would be necessary. So 2 ‘Major’ birthdays, and a huge rivalry amongst friends, meant fun times and plenty of drinking would be in order. Trying to make this happen would be our goal. We’ve spent the past 2 years talking about it and now that the schedule has been released, we now have a date: October 11th, 2009 1:00pm. Now comes the dilemma. The price of tickets for NY Giants home games are OUTRAGEOUSLY expensive. The reason, the stadium is mostly season ticket holders, so getting them through the box office/Ticketmaster does not happen. This then means that I/we need to look for other avenues to secure tickets. i.e. online ticket sellers (scalpers). The problem is that these guys mark up the price +300% because they know there is a demand for tickets, and they are allowed. This then makes a $110 ticket (lower bowl sections) anywhere from $300 to $500 a ticket, and when you are buying 2 each (our wives would be coming for the weekend and the game), it gets expensive fast. So 2 tickets to the game ($600-$900), 2 nights hotel (anywhere from $125 to $400, so $250 will be assumed), and transportation (gas) & food for 3 days (~ $250) makes this trip cost […]

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Poker Bankroll Blog’s bankroll building project update 2

Mark — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:24:15 +0000

This article belongs to the Poker Project series. To celebrate our new collaboration on the Poker Bankroll Blog and PokerBRB sites, McTap03 and I have started our own bankroll building SNG and MTT (multi table tournament) project on Full Tilt Poker. Our starting bankroll is 150$ and we will be posting regular updates on our many wins and hopefully fewer losses. It goes without saying that we expect our bankroll to increase significantly in no time. Since we started our bankroll building project in February our bankroll has decreased to 147$. The highest it’s been is around 170$. It goes without saying that we have yet to hit a final table. The closest I (Mark) have been is a 20th place in one of the FTP early double events. Bankroll building via mostly MTT tournament play definitely requires patience. I have completely lost track of the number of tournaments we have played, but so far we have earned 337 FTP points. You earn 7 FTP points per dollar payed in tournament rake, so 337 points corresponds to about 50$ in tournament rake. I mostly play the early double events which are 5000$ guaranteed MTT tournaments with a 5$ buyin and a 1$ rake. I know McTap has been playing some 90 player turbo SNG’s and I have also played some 2$ and 3$ buyin tournaments where the rake is 0,2$ and 0,3$ respectively. I therefore guesstimate that we have played maybe 75 events in total since we started the project. Usually when I play the early double events I end in the money in one of them, so I hope it is only a matter of time before I hit a final table. We will keep you updated! Mark and McTap03 You could be posting your articles on the Poker Bankroll Blog. Read all about it here.

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Stake deal

Mark — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:04:07 +0000

This article belongs to the Poker Articles series. I was approached the other day by my good friend MaddyUK who wanted to discuss a possible online poker stake deal. Maddy has previously grinded 1/2$ shorthanded cash games with good success and I know him to be an extremely disciplined player so obviously I was interested to hear what he had to say. Turns out he is highly motivated to get back in the game but hasn’t started due to a lack of necessary funds to start up an online poker bankroll. Maddy’s timing was perfect since I have 1000$ of risk capital lying around perfectly suited for an online poker stake deal. Here’s what we agreed on: Starting bankroll: 1000$ Revenue share: 50/50 for the 1000$-6000$ profit interval Limits: 1000$-1500$ : 0,25/0,5. If the bankroll drops below 500$ the project is stopped. Between 500$ and 1000$ Maddy will continue to play on the 0,25/0,5 tables. 1500$-3000$ : 0,5/1. If the bankroll drops to the interval 1200$-1500$ Maddy will continue on the 0,5/1 tables. If the bankroll drops below 1200$ he will move down to the 0,25/0,5 tables. 3000$- ? : 1/2. If the bankroll drops to the interval 2400$-3000$ Maddy will continue on the 1/2 tables. If the bankroll drops below 2400$ he will move down to the 0,5/1 tables. Daily stop loss: 2 full buyins at any given level I would not recommend people to do stake deals unless they know the person they will be staking really well. I have known Maddy for more than 20 years so there are no trust issues whatsoever. Wish us luck:-) You could be posting your articles on the Poker Bankroll Blog. Read all about it here.

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Poker Team Bankroll

Mark — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:52:40 +0000

Submitted by Matt Gai this article belongs to the Poker Project series Free web-based service for turning your home poker game into an enterprising partnership with your friends This article explains the history, features and strategy behind pokerteambankroll.com The idea was spawned as my friend and I were talking during a car ride down to Atlantic City for a poker tournament over a year ago. He said to me, “We should get everyone in our home game to pool our money together so we can play in big tournaments like a World Poker Tour (WPT) Championship and the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event!” That was all it took to get the wheels spinning. The very next week I drafted up the concept on paper so all of the home game players could get on the same page. I laid it out for everyone. Our team goal was to put together enough money for one $10,000 buyin to the WSOP Main Event for one of us, plus $1,000 for 1 Main Event Satellite buyin for a second player, plus $2,000 for travel, food and lodging expenses for both. $13,000 in all. In order to reach our goal, we were going to follow this plan… Any profit made in our home game could be contributed to our team bankroll in exchange for an equal number of points. I would collect the money from each player and record an equal number of points on paper (e.g. $82 profit contributed = 82 points recorded). I then put the money in a savings account that I set up just for this. We did this every week – and we still do. Anyway, every week, profits are contributed and points are given. And it adds up quickly! The idea is, when we reach our goal, whoever has the most points will take $11,000 from the bankroll and use it to travel to Las Vegas to play in in the World Series of Poker Main Event, poker’s most prestigious tournament. Our team member with the 2nd most number of points will take $2,000 from the bankroll, travel to Las Vegas and play in a satellite tournament to try to win a seat in the Main Event. If that player wins a seat, then the team will have 2 players in the Main Event, thereby doubling our chances of cashing. Here’s the best part, and you may have guessed it already, but, if either player cashes any money in the Main Event, everyone who contributed to the team bankroll will be paid out according to their percentage of contributions. For example, if the point leader, who contributed $3,500 in profits to the team bankroll, which is 27% of $13,000, cashes $100,000 in the tournament, he or she wins $27,000. The rest is paid out accordingly. What this means is that everyone has a shot to win big money, regardless of how much you contribute. Take this hypothetical example: Player B has the least amount of points contributed […]

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Poker Bankroll Blog’s bankroll building project update 1

Mark — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:11:01 +0000

It’s been a couple of weeks since we started our Fulltilt poker (FTP) SNG and MTT poker bankroll building projects, so we thought it was about time with an update on our progress (or lack of the same). We were off to a slow start, both being busy with the re-design of the pokerbrb website, but then things cleared up and we were able to put in some hours on the FTP tables. Here’s a quick overview of the tournaments we’ve played: Two 3$ MTT’s Two 2$ 180 player SNGs One 2$ 9 player SNG Four 5$ MTTs We didn’t have any high finishes ITM so our roll on FTP has dropped 13$ to 137$ We have experienced quite a few suckouts during our first hours on FTP which has confirmed our hypothesis that all online poker is rigged:-) As for the opposition; tournament players on FTP seem to be of an overall higher quality compared to Titan poker. You rarely see preflop re-raises on Titan poker, but they happen quite frequently on FTP. Higher quality opponents doesn’t necessarily have to be a bad thing; their feel for the game means that higher poker level bluffs tend to be more likely to succeed, which is definitely an advantage during the later stages of tournaments. On the other hand, better opponents require that you play your A-game at all times and watch your back. Playing tournaments on auto pilot until the later stages simply won’t cut it on FTP. We vow to come back stronger this week and get our BR over the original starting mark. At the least, we will go down swinging and embrace the risk to our grave:-) You could be posting your articles on the Poker Bankroll Blog. Read all about it here. Mark and McTap03

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Poker Bankroll Blog’s Fulltilt SNG and MTT tournament bankroll building project

Mark — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:07:18 +0000

This article belongs to the Poker Project series. To celebrate our new collaboration on the Poker Bankroll Blog and PokerBRB sites, McTap03 and I have started our own bankroll building SNG and MTT (multi table tournament) project on Full Tilt Poker. Our starting bankroll is 150$ and we will be posting regular updates on our many wins and hopefully fewer losses. It goes without saying that we expect our bankroll to increase significantly in no time. Here are our rules for bankroll management and sharing of winnings We will start playing SNG’s and MTT’s with 5$ buy-ins or less. If we play re-buy tournaments, we are allowed to re-buy up to a total buyin of 5$. Each time we double our bankroll we will add another buy-in level All levels must be played for 1 week before moving up. This avoids any *rush* playing (where you only move up because you are on a winning rush), and allows some time to get use to the current level. Weeks start Monday morning. All SNG winnings will go to boost our bankroll. MTT winnings will be shared according to the scheme below with the winning player getting the bigger amount: – MTT winnings below 100$ will go to boost our bankroll – MTT winnings between 100$ and $500 will be split 45/45 and 10% to the bankroll. – MTT winnings between $501 and $1000 will be split 55/35 and 10% to the bankroll. – MTT winnings between $1001 and $2500 will be split 60/30 and 10% to the bankroll. – MTT winnings between $2501 and $5000 will be split 70/20 and 10% to the bankroll. – Anything higher than that will be split 80/10 and 10% to the bankroll. Winnings can be withdrawn when agreed upon by both of us. Our screen name is ‘pokerBRBblog’ and our motto will be “Embrace the risk” which hopefully will make Mitchell Cogert proud of us:-) Wish us luck! Mark and McTap03

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Short stack strategy cash games – bankroll project

Mark — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:14:57 +0000

“Easy come easy go” seems to be the story of my life when it comes to reaching the magical 200$ poker bankroll. I was so close 3 sessions ago when I hit 197$, but I’m now down to 135$. As usual I have made a graph which clearly shows my dismal last 3 sessions. Here’s how it happened (posts taken from my bankroll building thread on the PokerBRB forum) Took a beating tonight Not my best session hour ever. Lost 3 buyins (-24$) and my bankroll is now down to 171$ Lost with QQ against AK (turn and river were AK) Lost with AA against AKs (turn gave my opponent the flush) Lost with 910s on a A52 board (2 of my suit) against KK Instead of playing on, I decided to stop for the evening. No point in continuing when I am mad about my losses. Perfect example of the short stack strategy in action I look down at KK in early position and raised 7xBB to 3,5$. I get 2 callers. The flop is 10 8 K, two spades. I go all in with my remaining 4,5$ and get one caller with QJ Perfect, I get the money in as favorite which will make me a winning player in the long run. Not tonight however since the river was an A My bankroll is currently free-falling…. Arghhh when will I learn to listen to my intuition? I raise 6xBB with AQ and get a reraise allin by another short stack player who has me covered. My intuition screams at me: “FOLD, FOLD, FOLD, FOLD…..FOLD you idiot” What do I do? I call…he flips QQ and I’m down 2.5 buyins tonight. My bankroll was soooo close to 200$ and now it’s down to 155$. Unbearable I tell you…unbearable. I need a poker break to re focus. Whyyyyyy? Another loosing session: -20$ I guess I can only blame myself. Twice I reraised an initial raiser all in with pocket sevens because I was convinced they had high cards. It turned out that they had high pairs, QQ and KK respectively. I also lost with AK against QK. My netprofit of 125$ has been halved in 3 sessions. Sucky Sucky is my only comment…. Join the Poker Bankroll building community on the PokerBRB forum and get support and useful hints from other bankroll building poker players. Get a PokerBRB rakeback deal to maximize your revenues. Subscribe to the Poker Bankroll Blog. Receive new posts to your email or a reader of your choice!

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short stack strategy_applied_update 4

Mark — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:54:55 +0000

I’m on a roll, and I have a graph to prove it. MUHUHAHAHAHAHA 200$ Bankroll here I come!!! Join the Poker Bankroll building community on the PokerBRB forum and get support and useful hints from other bankroll building poker players. Get a PokerBRB rakeback deal to maximize your revenues.

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