Big Win (For These Limits)

Played another 45 minutes and won $2.12. I think that's my biggest win yet. I played a few hands pretty terrible too, so I should have won a little bit more. Oh well, I'm pretty happy overall obviously.

The bankroll is now up to $8.60. It keeps looking more and more likely that I will not be going broke. Awesome.

Another Session

A 45 minute session and I ended up $.45. I'm happy since I got stuck to start with, and any win is good at this point. That brings me up to $6.48. I suppose I should start putting some hands up to remind me how bad I was at this point if I ever come back and read this.

I might play a little bit more later, but I'm doing well with this short burst style of playing, so I'm going to keep doing it.

Edit to Today

Played another half hour, and won again. I now have $6.08. I actually might not go broke with this bankroll.

Slowly Winning

I played another half hour or so today. Won a little more than a dollar still at the $.02/$.04 tables. I am now up to $4.51 in my bankroll, which puts me over the 100 big bet mark. I'm winning a little bit too high above expectation, but hopefully I can ride it long enough to get me in to the $.01/$.02 NL games, and then the $1.10 double or nothing sit n gos. Once I get to those games I think I'll really start putting in some volume since I'm more comfortable with those games. Short handed limit hold em can be really swingy, but there's something about the controlled nature of the game that I really like in the few hands that I've played.

Anyways, that's a quick update on how I'm doing.

Short Session

I played for about a half an hour. It was pretty up and down, but I made $.20, so I'm up to $3.56.

It's fun while I'm winning. I've only played a couple hundred hands, but I've made a few adjustments already. For the most part though, playing really straight forward and just betting when you have a big hand will win in this game. Good story.

As long as I keep my cool and patience I think I will be just fine with the roll that I have.

$3 Challenge and Goals For Me

This next set of posts is entirely for me to record this somewhere.

I've got $3.36 in my Poker Stars account. I had $.80 a few days ago, but I ran really good in $.02/$.04 limit holdem and now have the $3.36.

Here are the bankroll goals I will use.

At my current roll, I will play $.02/$.04 limit holdem and continue to destroy the tables.

Bankroll Game
$20 $.05/$.10 limit holdem or $.01/$.02 NL holdem with a $1.00 buy-in
$30 $1.10 Double or Nothing sit n gos or $.01/$.02 NL holdem with a $1.50 buy-in
$40 $1.10 Double or Nothing sit n gos or $.01/$.02 NL holdem with a $2.00 buy-in
$100 $1.10 Double or Nothing sit n gos or $.02/$.05 NL holdem with a $5.00 buy-in

We'll see how this goes to start with. If I get to the $30 or $40 level, then I'll expand my rules a little bit.

I'll probably cut limit holdem out after $20 because I honestly have no idea how to play the game, and I think it would be much more productive to play NL. I'm really hoping to do this with cash games because that's where I really want to be good now. Tournaments are sweet and all, but I think there's more money in a good cash game player. I particularly want to get good at heads up cash. Oh well, no sense in worrying about that since there's only about a 5% chance right this second I'll make it to the $100 level. I just want to put my hopes and goals in to writing and fucking do it for once.