This past week has been stressful and emotionally tolling for personal reasons, so I haven’t played much poker. I hear I haven’t been missing out on much, though, because games have been mostly awful.
Since Friday and Saturdays are the best days of the week to play poker in my opinion, I decided to play a few games the past couple of days. Because a large number of people are trying to get Supernova Elite before the year is over, a lot of regs are resorting to playing other regs at higher stakes to get VPPs faster. Due to this and not really wanting to play regs all day, I decided to just play $100s and $200s the past couple of days.
Playing lower stakes has been pretty nice because I pretty much don’t play regs all day (for a change). I have been on a pretty annoying downswing since coming back from Peru (and just before it), which appears to have me tilting a lot easier than usual. I particularly remember getting extremely annoyed today after losing 7 straight $100s to a fish today, which is just silly considering the stakes are so low.
(I feel the need to interject and say that I just read the post I made before this and I’d also written about losing 7 BI to a fish. I guess 7 is that magic tilting number for me :P)
For the rest of the year, I plan on only playing when games are good. I’m not really interested in playing few games per hour and mostly regs, so I’ll likely just quit any session that doesn’t look promising in December.
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I like your blogs. I follow them for a while. Can you make it easier to like them for Facebook? Put the button above the text for example,.. and possible without logging in first … Can you also tell me with what bankroll you started playing as a pro? And with what bankroll you work now playing these hypers 100/200/300? i want to become supernova through PLO MTTs and STTs. Any advice from you is very welcome.
Thanks for your suggestions about Facebook, I’ll look into it!
I have almost always had an exaggerated bankroll for any stakes I play because I don’t like to drop down when I go on downswings. If you want to play professionally, you should also have money in the bank to cover expenses in case you don’t make money for a month (or three). The amount of money needed is different for everyone, though. Some people are fine with having only some back up money, and other people can’t handle downswings unless they have over a year of expenses in the bank.
If you are playing PLO full-time, you are going to need a large number of buy-ins. Team Online pro GodLikeRoy talks a bit about bankroll in this article: http://www.pokerstrategy.com/news/world-of-poker/-PLO-is-Still-the-Place-to-Make-Money-Interview-with-GodLikeRoy_66402/
If you’re playing MTTs full-time, don’t want to drop down, and can’t afford to reload, then I would want 200 buy-ins minimum (and ideally more).
For SnGs I think having 100 buy-ins is good, although you can get by with less if you have a large edge or if you’re okay with dropping down during downswings.