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Poker Bankroll Freerolls

First of all we are happy to see that we are getting decent traffic to our blog now. Actually we are absolutely thrilled about this. I hope that everybody enjoys at least some of our posts;)

We will arrange a number of freerolls in September for the readers of this blog and the members of our poker forum only. Mark, Anders and I will of cause also play, so it should be great fun.

The tournaments will be held at Titan Poker (does not accept US players) and Poker Nordica (accepts US players).

To dates so far are:
September 7th (Sunday), $50 prize pool
September 13th (Saturday), $50 prize pool
September 19th (Friday), $50 prize pool
September 27th (Saturday), $50 prize pool

The rules for participating in the freerolls are quite simple. You have to be a member of our poker forum. So if you are not already a member, visit our poker forum and sign up. It is that simple!! Once you have made your first post you will automatically be moved to the active users group in which all the members will receive a PM with the tournament passwords.
I will post a new blog entry when we get closer to the date.

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Michael, August 27th.

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Alas!! I discovered a giant moth lying in my protein powder tonight. I don’t know how long it’s been there and more importantly I don’t how how many moth larvae I might have consumed.

The whole experience has left me with a rather negative attitude towards the moth community.

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Bankroll Skyrocket - $10 to $2000 in 24hours

                 Let me tell you a Story of Luck and a little Skill

                I’ve always been a believer and attempter of bankroll management.  My difficulty seems to be that bankroll management and TILT are often not well mixed, like prescription meds and alcohol.  I will later discuss my bankroll beliefs but for now to tell you about my intense bankroll building that I accomplished on Friday August 22.

                I had recently cashed out my bankroll on Full Tilt after a rocky month, but a nice profit.  I had been playing some cash games on another site but was itchy to return to Full Tilt for some tournament play after watching a good friend of mine place second in a $26 token KO taking down over $2000. It was early Friday morning when this tournament ended. This friend had owed me $10 from a week before and he transferred it to my account. I seem to be nocturnal these days so I decided to play a little poker. I played a $5 tournament and took first place, boosting my bankroll to $170. Being that the sun was up when that tournament ended, I slept through the majority of Friday. I dabbled around Friday night after I woke up and ended up playing two tournaments, an Omaha token tourney and Full Tilt’s $10 Midnight Madness. I busted out of the Omaha early but after a rocky start in the madness, seemed to be sticking around.  I wasn’t hitting cards but was building a stack slowly, holding about half of the average throughout most of the tournament.

                It wasn’t until the bubble burst that cards and luck seemed graced me.  I won some races and had my Kings and jacks hold up to make the final two tables with an average chip stack. I had to endure a marathon before I busted the tenth place player and the final table was set. This was a memorable hand as I was dealt pocket aces in late position and finally busted the final table bubble. I put in a minimum raise with my aces to trick the loose aggressive players on me left. Both blinds called and the flop came low and paired. The blinds checked and I put in a standard continuation bet of about half the pot. The small blind instantly pushed in his average sized stack. I called and he showed K10 off suit, drawing almost dead. I knocked him out and the final table was set, with myself holding a nice chip lead over the field, about 500K of the 2.5 million chips in play. Sitting in this position I now felt that this was my tournament to lose. 

Screenshot from the final table

 End result

This feeling was inspiring as well as scary. Being that first and ninth was a $3000 difference I played conservative at the starting of the final table. I experienced one suckout to double up an opponent and faded my way to four handed play. I was still holding my 500K stack and a dominate chip leader had emerged. The difference between fourth and first was over $2000 so I didn’t want to risk playing against the chip leader before knocking out the short stacks. The leader was amazingly loose and proceeded to suckout out to get us heads up. I played heads up well but could not seem to get ahead of my opponent. I made a nice bluff, betting the turn and the river on an ace high board but lost almost half my stack when my opponent called with king high. At this point I still had about 300K to my opponents over 2.0 millions chips. The last hand was my A4 suited all in pre-flop against my opponent’s pockets fives. I lost this hand and took the juicy second place prize of just under $2000.

                This tournament was only $10 to enter but offered a high payout due to the over 1700 people that entered. In 24 hours I had turned my bankroll from $10 to over $2000. This was not done by following any set bankroll management. I only practice bankroll management if I have a big bankroll that I want to protect. I see no point in trying to build and protect $10 to $50. I cannot play well at micro limits and by risking small deposits give myself a chance to build a big bankroll to start managing. I now have over $2000 in my account which I am protecting. I never put more than %5 of my bankroll at risk in wither a cash game or a tournament. This way I can safely handle bad beats and runs of bad luck to push my bankroll higher. Don’t worry about using any math equation to figure out how to manage your bankroll. To be a good manager, just play what you like but make sure not to risk enough of your bankroll to take a hit to your poker funds. If you play limits where you feel comfortable losing, you will be more relaxed and play better, helping build your roll higher and higher.

Send my any question you have about bankroll management or tournament play and I will be glad to answer them or add them to my next post.

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-          Brian Suta

                     
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I was just thinking of my worst poker memory from my own game and it just took me on a mental rollercoaster ride from one bad event to the next. Why did I take this mental ride – I don’t know – it’s not making any sense. It’s not like the ride is expected to lift my spirits – but actually it did - some of the moments were quite fun when I recall the memories.

So which one was the worst? It’s not easy because you have to take many circumstances into considerations – the sum of money lost, the degree of the bad beat, importance of the event to my self-esteem as a poker player or the external elements making the event so much worse.

After the mental ride one event stood out hitting the head on the nail for the two last circumstances mentioned above. I was in Newcastle several years back – staying there for half a year with Michael who also writes here at the Pokerbankrollblog. One week we had a visit from Mark (Pokerbankrollblog) and a friend of mine and we decided all of us to go to this big tournament at a casino in Newcastle. My experience in live poker at the time was zero – I had never been to a official live tournament event before.

So we get to the tables and first hand I get is AJ suited. I see the flop and hit top pair of jacks second to act. I play it aggressively and make a pot bet, but I get a call. Turn is a low card so I keep being aggressive while thinking a lot about what to do. He ended up going all in with me calling - beaten to trips seven…ouch. OK that’s it I think and I get up of my chair when all the other players start clapping me out – beaten in the first hand and the first person to exit the tournament. Welcome to live poker tournaments .

OK it might not be in the category of a nightmare but remember: I was young, rookie and just starting to get a feeling for the game – I was vulnerable .

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Why do I like playing poker? Why do I spend several hours each week gazing into a computer screen watching 2 cards being dealt to me and 5 cards being dealt on the table over and over again? Why do I bother keeping detailed records of session times, rebuys and net profits? Why do the 37$ I won during a session yesterday mean more to me than the 200$ I could earn sports-betting in half the time?

I already know the game and most of its aspects after 4 years of online poker, and I’m really not that interested in learning the finer details at the time being. My knowledge is good enough for the low levels I am playing. So where lies the fascination? Where does my motivation come from? Why am I content with grinding low limit tables with my short stack strategy?  

I think I have the answer: I am in love with my Poker Bankroll. It’s my precious. My current Poker Bankroll is 191$ and I cherish every single dollar. You know why? Because I earned them myself from scratch by being better than my opponents. I have treated my Poker Bankroll with respect and done my utmost not to lose it when I have taken chances at higher limits. By doing so I have avoided going broke which in turn means that my current Poker Bankroll represents more than 100 hours of my life.

I want my Poker Bankroll to stay alive for a long time to come. Therefore I play as much as I can on limits where I know I can win and with a short stack strategy that I believe is profitable. This way my Poker Bankroll will grow fat and be able to withstand lean periods.

I hope that one day my Poker Bankroll will be able to pay me back for the many hours I have invested in it by paying for buyins to large tournaments, cool electronic gadgets, romantic dinners or even holidays.

We have had a rocky start my Poker Bankroll and I, but things are finally starting to go our way. We have almost 25 buyins to the limit we are playing and can therefore soon boast of practising sensible bankroll management.

I look forward to sharing more stories about my Poker Bankroll in the future. 

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I’m on a roll, and I have a graph to prove it. MUHUHAHAHAHAHA

200$ Bankroll here I come!!!

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Bingo is mentioned more and more in advertising and in the media in general. I keep being amazed how fast this gambling segment is growing. 888 Holding plc (Pacific Poker) reported just a few days ago that the company revenue on Bingo, through the brand 888ladies, was up fourfold to $12m in just one quarter.

So I had to see what it was all about, just like the first time I tried poker at Party Poker back in 2003 or betting at Bet24 in 2001. I signed up at 888ladies and received $20 in free “chips” to play with. Bingo is mostly targeted the ladies, hence the lobby is pink… I used all the chips at once and bought 20 $1 cards with my numbers.
My first surprise was that it is not possible to calculate how large your chances to win are. You are informed how many players have joined the Bingo session but not how many cards have been purchased in total. This is rather annoying compared to poker where mathematics plays a very significant role.
Second surprise was that the game ran automatically. A number was drawn and this was instantly noted on the cards. So it is not like offline Bingo where you must be focused all the time to make sure that you get all the numbers right.
Third surprise was that the people on the live chat board really seemed to have a good time. So my conclusion is that even though Bingo is “just another casino game” in my view, I do understand why many people seem to enjoy the game, but I can’t imagine many poker players migrating to the Bingo tables instead of poker.

Michael, 18 August 2008

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Michael - 18 August 2008

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I bet you have been waiting in great anticipation for my next short stack strategy update. I have been purposely waiting until I hit the 50 session hours mark so I could compare my short stack strategy results to my ealier regular cash game project.

Here’s a quick summary

Regular Cash Game project:

• 50,45 session hours played
• Bankroll high: +42,56$
• Bankroll low: -28,9$
• Largest losing session: -13,04$
• Largest winning session: 23,15$
• End result: +25,75$

Short stack strategy project:

• 50 session hours played
• Bankroll high: +78$
• Bankroll low: -6,22$
• Largest losing session: -36,7$
• Largest winning session: 36,22$
• End result after 50 hours: +49$ 

If there is one conclusion I can make on my limited statistics it is that following the short stack strategy probably results in larger swings in your bankroll. Having said that it automatically follows - in my case at least - that the short stack strategy approach is simply more fun. I dislike the long grinding sessions…it’s simply too boring for me. I also like the simplicity of the short stack strategy. You will either be folding or putting it all out there.

I have also been playing quite a few tournaments lately to practice some “real” poker. I have had very limited success which has meant a reduction in my tournament bankroll from 300$ to 200$. I am seriously considering cashing out this bankroll because I would hate to lose it all.

I will leave you with an updated graph over my short stack strategy project. There are some big swings in there:-)

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