It's been a long time since I played serious poker, and I didn't know how much I missed it. Not sure what made me start again, but a lot of reading in my old stomping grounds of http://www.twoplustwo.com/ helped I'm sure.
I decided to stick $75 into an online account and just grind out the smallest stakes I could find. I used to play on Full Tilt, but for a combination of knowing Pokerstars has smaller stakes, and hoping their recent adds with Daniel Negraneu brought new fish in, I went to Pokerstars.
Of course Epassporte was going to take $5, not 5% of anything up to and including $100, so I went all the way for $100, getting $95 in my account.
I took a little time to adjust to the new interface, but got everything set up and felt at home pretty quickly. So this is my plan: I'm staying at the smallest game possible, $.01/$.02 6-max NL, until I have at least $200 in my account.
At that point I'm going to move to the $.02/$.05 $10 buy-in 6-max NL, and work on doubling my $200. I don't care how long this takes, just playing in spare time, but hopefully sooner than later. Basically stick to the 20 buy-in plan. Once I reach 20 buyins for the next level, give it a shot, and if I'm winning, stay there, if I'm losing, drop back down and grind some more out.
Well so far, so good. I've played 2 days, only 300 the first day, 700 today, and results are strong. I'm up 400.25 BB over these first 1,000 hands. That means I'm raking in about 40BB/100, not too shabby by any standards. Here's a graph of my first 1000.
Hmm, kinda blurry, but I don't feel like fixing it right now. There are some hands that didn't get recorded, so my total is a bit higher than the graph shows. Same for the BB/100, but if it didn't get recorded, I can't make up numbers. All I know is I have another 448.75 BB that somehow got lost. I think they're in my gmail, I'll have to check. So my total for 2 days of play is plus 889 BB's, bringing my account up to $128.96. So even if there's 600 (pretty sure wayyyy less) extra hands I played, my big bets won is up to 55.5/100 hands. Hopefully I have the data, and I'll chart it into a more complete graph.
So it's not for much money currently, but at least I'm back in the game. If you log into pokerstars you may just see IBK_Suckout at some $.01/$.02 tables dragging down pots.
I decided to stick $75 into an online account and just grind out the smallest stakes I could find. I used to play on Full Tilt, but for a combination of knowing Pokerstars has smaller stakes, and hoping their recent adds with Daniel Negraneu brought new fish in, I went to Pokerstars.
Of course Epassporte was going to take $5, not 5% of anything up to and including $100, so I went all the way for $100, getting $95 in my account.
I took a little time to adjust to the new interface, but got everything set up and felt at home pretty quickly. So this is my plan: I'm staying at the smallest game possible, $.01/$.02 6-max NL, until I have at least $200 in my account.
At that point I'm going to move to the $.02/$.05 $10 buy-in 6-max NL, and work on doubling my $200. I don't care how long this takes, just playing in spare time, but hopefully sooner than later. Basically stick to the 20 buy-in plan. Once I reach 20 buyins for the next level, give it a shot, and if I'm winning, stay there, if I'm losing, drop back down and grind some more out.
Well so far, so good. I've played 2 days, only 300 the first day, 700 today, and results are strong. I'm up 400.25 BB over these first 1,000 hands. That means I'm raking in about 40BB/100, not too shabby by any standards. Here's a graph of my first 1000.
Hmm, kinda blurry, but I don't feel like fixing it right now. There are some hands that didn't get recorded, so my total is a bit higher than the graph shows. Same for the BB/100, but if it didn't get recorded, I can't make up numbers. All I know is I have another 448.75 BB that somehow got lost. I think they're in my gmail, I'll have to check. So my total for 2 days of play is plus 889 BB's, bringing my account up to $128.96. So even if there's 600 (pretty sure wayyyy less) extra hands I played, my big bets won is up to 55.5/100 hands. Hopefully I have the data, and I'll chart it into a more complete graph.So it's not for much money currently, but at least I'm back in the game. If you log into pokerstars you may just see IBK_Suckout at some $.01/$.02 tables dragging down pots.
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