[Closed] The very good start of my SSS career!

How can you call gambling a success? Because that is exactly what you did playing way above your limit and not sticking to the BRM. And how did you manage to play NL400 BSS with less than a half the buy-in for that limit?

Originally posted by Bubalus
How can you call gambling a success? Because that is exactly what you did playing way above your limit and not sticking to the BRM. And how did you manage to play NL400 BSS with less than a half the buy-in for that limit?

No, no, he used to play NL400. Now he is playing the NL25. With 14 BI.

I wish you all the luck in the world cause you're so going to need it when crushing the bankroll rules this bad. You may be the best player out there but without the proper management you're going down. Even when you're 70:30 favorite to win a hand and you put the money in good there are going to be times when the 30% happen 5 times in a row. At those times you're going to go broke when not following the bankroll rules.

Originally posted by mishkagg

Originally posted by Bubalus
How can you call gambling a success? Because that is exactly what you did playing way above your limit and not sticking to the BRM. And how did you manage to play NL400 BSS with less than a half the buy-in for that limit?

No, no, he used to play NL400. Now he is playing the NL25. With 14 BI.

I wish you all the luck in the world cause you're so going to need it when crushing the bankroll rules this bad. You may be the best player out there but without the proper management you're going down. Even when you're 70:30 favorite to win a hand and you put the money in good there are going to be times when the 30% happen 5 times in a row. At those times you're going to go broke when not following the bankroll rules.

My bad But 14 BI is still way out of BRM.

I think you guys are taking the BRM way to literally.. Or you just haven't studied it enough..

From the basic chart:

You play NL10 (0.05/0.10)
■ You play this limit until you have $150.

You play NL25 (0.10/0.25)
■ You play until you have $300.
■ If you start losing and your bankroll drops to $60,
you move back down to NL10.

Now, what I did was the following.

Started with NL10. When my BR hit $75ish, I moved to NL25. Now you don't have to do this, and frankly most people shouldn't do this. But I have some 6 years of experience with online poker, so I figured I could jump up one limit, a bit prematurely.

My plan doesn't end here you see.. IF my roll dropped, from $75, to around $50ish(5 BI's), I would have seen my plan as a failed attempt, and gone back to grinding NL10.

However, I didn't lose the 5 BI's, and continued to wreck the NL25 opposition(as I had figured*bragbrag*). In fact, my bankroll is $191.20 just this moment.

So you see, I'm not hexing BRM, I'm just implementing my own stuff into it, which seems to be working out fine. - With that said, I'm probably gonna have a bit more meat on the bone before I jump to NL50($250+?).

And that's it. If you still don't understand, I'll give you an example that's pretty easy.

You have $75. You aren't supposed to move up until you have $150.. But what if you look at it from another angle? If you flip it, you could think of it as HAVING BEEN on NL25 with $150, and then started to lose. You still have $75 left, and you don't need to drop down a limit until you have $60(okay so I pushed the cushion a wee bit, with $50, but w/e ♠_biggrin: ), ergo you still have 3BI to play NL25 with before you have to move down.

Does it make sense now? I will give you an advice my teacher once gave me. Don't read....STUDY!

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Best regards,
Aleks.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and, I grinded 5k hands of NL10 before I got to $70-$75, but that's all in the PT3 db, and I scrapped it. - I've grinded like 5-6k hands of NL25 so far. : )

EDIT2: 8BB/100hands - Anyone care to comment on this? is it good or bad?

experience isn't a replacement for safe BRM.

anyway, one big problem is that with only 15 BI or whatever, playing SSS, if you're playing a lot of tables as is usual for SSS, you could lose a huge chunk or your BR in a matter of seconds....

just out of interest, 6 years is huge for me, so i'd like to know how many hands did you play in 6 years?

Originally posted by Kruppe
experience isn't a replacement for safe BRM.

anyway, one big problem is that with only 15 BI or whatever, playing SSS, if you're playing a lot of tables as is usual for SSS, you could lose a huge chunk or your BR in a matter of seconds....

just out of interest, 6 years is huge for me, so i'd like to know how many hands did you play in 6 years?

I never played more tables than I 'could afford'. e.g. I played 5 tables when I had 5BI's until I had to move down a limit.

On the hands/pr.6yrs I have no idea. didn't use software then. Don't even think pokertracker etc existed; if it did I wasn't aware of it.

I do know that I played like 4-5hrs(at least) on average every day of the week, 4-tabling - since my computer back then couldn't handle more ;P.

Originally posted by zaplol

Originally posted by Kruppe
experience isn't a replacement for safe BRM.

anyway, one big problem is that with only 15 BI or whatever, playing SSS, if you're playing a lot of tables as is usual for SSS, you could lose a huge chunk or your BR in a matter of seconds....

just out of interest, 6 years is huge for me, so i'd like to know how many hands did you play in 6 years?

I never played more tables than I 'could afford'. e.g. I played 5 tables when I had 5BI's until I had to move down a limit.

On the hands/pr.6yrs I have no idea. didn't use software then. Don't even think pokertracker etc existed; if it did I wasn't aware of it.

I do know that I played like 4-5hrs(at least) on average every day of the week, 4-tabling - since my computer back then couldn't handle more ;P.

wtf? would that be about 3 million hands then? wow

oh and good luck

I haven't done the calculations, but to be fair - and honest lol - I wouldn't say they were educational 3million hands atleast. I was just playing "my game" without any specific approach or analytical aspect.

Well, I basically played JJ+ AK, and set-hunted 22 through 10; and threw in a couple suited connectors for balancing(I knew what balancing was by nature; as I believe most of us do, we just can't explain it as good as these strategist writers! ♦).

So yeah, would be fair to say my real poker career started with pokerstrategy.com.

On that note, I just recovered from the downswing!

http://bildr.no/view/440342

My downswing thread

improper brm does exist but i think that for a very experienced player it is crazy to go on a 14bi downswing on a single session if played top of your game.

but generally stick to a proper brm

Originally posted by excelgeo
improper brm does exist but i think that for a very experienced player it is crazy to go on a 14bi downswing on a single session if played top of your game.

but generally stick to a proper brm

I don't get your post. rewrite it please.

Originally posted by excelgeo
improper brm does exist but i think that for a very experienced player it is crazy to go on a 14bi downswing on a single session if played top of your game.

but generally stick to a proper brm

a 14BI downswing during a single session is perfectly normal for a good player at SSS if he doesn't want to use stop-loss