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 My Testimony, WilliamS, 23. Sep 2003 07:31 | ||
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| Okay, I have been debating on posting this for about a week, but here goes. I started back playing online July 28. I put in 500 to get the full 200 bonus from UB. I told myself I was going to work my bankroll up and play the highest stakes my bankroll could stand (250-300 BB as a guideline). I started at the 1/2 games and progressed extremely quickly. Too quickly in fact, for it all to be attributable to skill; the deck had to be running over me some. I was playing less than 2 hours a day and worked my online bankroll to over 5000. I would have good days and bad but there wasn't a whole lot of variance at the games I was playing. The biggest "variance" I experienced would be from a good run of sitngos. In the last 3 weeks, (after a lot of success in NL sitngos) I've started playing a lot of NL. I am ahead of this game but my variance is through the roof. Alternating days of 4-700 dollar losses and 1000 wins. With those swings come the emotions I despise about playing poker. When I book a big win I feel invincible, overconfident, and wonderul. When I take a hit, I wonder what I was doing in that game anyway. After all, I built this bankroll playing limit. I think I will take a week off from NL and get a clearer idea of my goals. It is just so hard to pass up "that game" if I find a player or two in the game I know are succeptible to giving away their money. Those thousand dollar wins are addicting, but I can't help but feel I would have a larger bankroll if I had stuck to limit instead of playing NL. (Think Tortoise and Hare) What I'm saying is I'm guilty of looking at the "big prize" and foregoing the "daily grind" which I know to be profitable. I'm posting this for two reasons: to hold myself accountable and not give back my hard earned bankroll gambling; and because I don't feel like I'm the only one who has experienced this. The ultimate point of my post is this: If a player stands to make (arbitrarily) $20/hr at a 5/10 game and $20/hr at a 2/4 NL game. It is probably more wise to play the 5/10 game because the risk is much lower. Am I looney or do you guys agree with my line of thinking? Will | ||
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| Re: My Testimony, Andrew Wells, 23. Sep 2003 07:49 | ||
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| I don't play poker for the thrill of making a huge score, protecting my bankroll is paramount. So I agree with your assessment of limit vs. no-limit completely. | ||
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| Re: My Testimony, Erik Blazynski, 24. Nov 2003 18:48 | ||
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| I used to feel the same way, but DONT get emotional about a hand, before you throw your money in the pot, ask yourself if you would make this move if you just got to the table. Dont gamble at pots, then you won't be saying "what was I doing" what happens is that you get in trouble, you gamble with the A-4 unsuited at a full table, and you hit the A and a bad kicker, it just sucks like that. | ||
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