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Nice story and good luck with your new blog and challenge:gl:
Further I wish you also a happy Christmas and happy 2015:f_drink:

Cheers,
SDK1987

Hey CustardKid,

An exciting couple of weeks you have been having. ♠_biggrin:
So where are you settling with this $127 bankroll, NL5? and whats you BRM plan now?
Of course it is only whilst you grind towards your $1,500 goal and I'm sure you'll be moving up soon enough.

All the best,
MD

Thanks a lot SDK.

Hey MasochisticDesire can I call you MD for short lol?

im playing NL10 at the moment. That's something I haven put a lot of thought into atm im in 2 minds whether to attempt the Tankroll BRM again leaving out NL50 or .. something like this

NL5 up to $250 (I might just stick at NL10 yet)
NL10 up to $500 - droping back to NL5 if I go below $200
NL25 up to $1500 - dropping back to NL10 if I go below $400

I plan to take 4 shots at NL $50 at $1000 dropping back to NL25 at $800, but again I might not bother with this one yet it depends on how im coping with the blind defence, by the time I get to $1000-$1500 im hoping to have mastered a basic strategy in the blind defence.

What are your thoughts on this?

Thanks
CK

Hi CK,
Sure, MD, I don't know why I sign off anyway - probably cause I send too many emails.

I have literally got back into poker again two weeks ago and am considering whether to put some serious time into it next year. Due to this and having a job (admittedly a low paying job) I haven't yet felt the need to build a BR plan before now.
Here is what I would consider a very safe plan that purposely expanded your BR and lowers your ROR (risk of ruin) as you climb the limits:

BRM:

NL5 < $250 (25BI @ NL10)
NL10 < $750 (30BI @ NL25)
NL25 < $1,750 (35BI @ NL50)
NL50 < $4,000 (40BI @ NL100)
and on to real $$$

*I would allow for a 10BI shot at each new level before moving back down.

Pretty standard but, hell, I will probably follow that BRM if I get stuck into poker in 2015. I think this sort of BRM suits someone making a longer term investment. I think it also allows plenty of hands at each limit and time to build solid fundamentals of your game. If you want to play a little more cut 'n' dry and make some quick bucks on the side then you would probably want something faster. It would be plenty exciting with the extra risk and reward but could pay off. My main concern wouldn't be going broke but learning in a 'piece meal' fashion as you will need concepts at NL50 that may be redundant at NL10 and population reads at NL5 will be useless at NL25 for example. Regardless, before attempting an aggressive BRM strategy I would put in at least 50k hands at one level that you can definitely beat so that you know you can drop back there to rebuild if it goes wrong up top.

GL,
MD

Hey MD,

That does look like a solid BR plan I might stick to that im still undecided at the moment, here is my session review today, I have had hardly any sleep this week (I am going to create a strict routine with a good diet plan into my poker game). witch didn't help with a few of my decisions today mostly marginal, but still. I played badly for 30 mins or so with a few ups and downs, then decided to sit back relax and try and get my dad into a better way of thinking about the game. I then had a session again after a break for an hour at 4 zoom results were

$127-$118 then I decided to stop cause my Agame couldn't be seen

$127-149.80 <--- funny that cause its 0.20c under the $150 if I decided to follow the Tankroll BRM at NL25.

here is a hand in witch im not 2 sure about

6max
UTG 100bb
mp 100bb
bb 100bb

hero is bb with 78s
UTG raises 30c, 1 calls, 3 fold, hero calls

flop (95c) 9 T J

hero bets 3/4 pot, Utg raise/calls heros shove of 100bb

UTG turns over KQ

I figured that would be worst case sinario but I thought a lot of 2 pair type hands would also raise here for protection I sometimes fold here only vs passivefish, how do you think I played? could I have took a better line?

for some reason some of my hand are dissapeariing and are not being tracked by hm2 and when I try to replay a hand in the replayer on stars its disappeared has anybody else been haing this problem?

this might sound like a noobish question, but how do I take a pic of my graphs and upload them on here lol? (althought they are inaccurate because there is hands missing and it seems to be most of the big pots won and lost)

thanks~CK

oh and I think ive played over 20k hands in the last ten days I don't know how to take a screen shot of graphs and where it saves the pic to though lol?

here is my overall graph, although its slightly inaccurate because its missing hands

here is what it should look like after my tilt, ive had to modify it because my session was on my friends laptop, NOTE: im not playing without hm2 again

NL2- as you can see the first 4k hands were ups and downs as my return to poker

NL5

NL10

NL25

NL50

here is my new graph after beginning again, I will only play when I track my hands so I can keep a record so far $149-$1500 10% progress

Nice graphs. Keep it up:f_thumbsup:

Originally posted by SDK1987
Nice graphs. Keep it up:f_thumbsup:

Thanks SDK I'll try my best!

I had a bit of a crappy session yesterday had 2 pairs of Ace's cracked by kings all in. I wasn't playing my best either so decided to quit instead of continuing to play, I think I finished the session about $135 I'll post graphs every 5k hands from now on

session $135-$163

I'm taking 1 shot at NL25,

here is a hand I just played what do you think.

co hero $13.24
btn $25.85 3B 16.7% on the button, with a 40% RS stat

6mx 10nl (deep) I sit with 100bbs
hero is CU with ATo,

folds to hero who raises 30c, BTN 3bets 70c, 2 fold here 4bets $1.80

Flop($3.87) Qs Tc 2d

hero checks, btn checks

turn($3.87) 5s

hero bets $1.85, btn raises $4.30 hero calls.

turn($12.47) 6c

hero check calls his last $7.14

did I play this hand right or should I have taken a different line of play?

utg 25.
mp 25.
co 78.
btn 40.32
sb 54.88
bb 43.37

hero is sb with As Ad

3 fold, btn raises 61c, sb raises 2.08, bb calls btn calls

flop ($6.24) Ks 8s 6S

hero bets 4.47, sb folds btn calls

turn (15.18) Jh

hero check calls btns bet of 7.25

river (29.68) 6d

hero check calls btns bet of 16.90

reviewing the hand I think I should have bet flop, bet turn and decided on the river. would this have been better?

Ive just finished my shot at NL25 BR $135-$198 despite losing that hand above overall it was a good session today

$198/$1500
progress - 13%

NL25 session had K flush beat by A flush HU, about $30 and AA cracked by KJo

ok so ive took another shot at the NL25 at $150 I think this tankroll brm, is having a negative impact and making me look at my bankroll too much, so ive decided to give it up and drop to NL5 and move up with a tight strict limit of 30BI and move down at 25BI

$125/1500
progress 8%

12k hands 7bb/100 I keep making some really stupid mistakes

After finnishing. 2nd in 2 tornys my bankroll is now $1061 but my cash Ge play has deteorated would anybody like to add me on Skype and show me some of the things I'm doing wrong

After finnishing 2nd in 2 tornys my bankroll is now $1061

But my cash ge play has deteorated would somebody like to add me on Skype and show me hat I'm doing wrong?

$1061/$1500
Progress 70%

I think I have what it takes to become pro just need some guidance by the write person