Straight Flush
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: soaking up ethanol, moving on up
Posts: 5,804
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time to withdraw again - bonuses and rakeback play a sickeningly important role in my poker bankroll growth to date!
Poker play itself is feeling light and relaxed at the moment, seems as though I've switched to cruise control
I've barely played the last week - hanging out with friends and beach sifting at the other end of the country instead. Played a nice laptop-screen only session 7-tabling for around an hour and realised how relaxed and easy-reading it is to play so few tables. Running good doesn't do any harm either! (5-bet pushed QQ based on reads and finally I'm applying some theory about range blockers - anyway, nice to get it in full stacked against AK & AJ, and to hold!!!)
I played the Full Tilt iron man, it confirmed what the FTR $500 added suggested - I suck at MTTs. Busted 120th/330 when AJs ran into KK with M=4... Doesn't sound so bad, but I'm an MTT nit and need to play more hands/situations. I am crap at dealing with changing blind structures and with <100bb - too many hands of full ring cash where I'm used to sitting between 100 and 300 bb deep. Once I'm in push-fold mode I'm not so bad again. So, another sub-project. I'm going to play the occasional low stakes MTT, buyins $10-$40 I guess, and try to get a little better. I'll also play a few more sngs...
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Originally Posted by pit_vomit
If your winning at a decent rate and seeing a decent amount of hands (as i believe you are) reaching 200nl seems easily doable. The sooner you move to 200nl the sooner you will begin to adjust to the play at that level and produce a sick win rate (not saying move up ASAP but $10k seems about right) which will put you in a far better position
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You speak wise words here - I'm going to move up to 200nl in December, see how I fare. I'm comfortably rolled for it and - You're right!! - if it goes well, then it's a great decision. The main reason I'm not moving up is that I know that I still suck, but I'm realising that even some of the winning mid-stakes regs suck - so maybe moving up isn't totally stupid. Worst case scenario I blow 7 buyins quickly and move back down to lick my wounds and hopefully have a better understanding of my major weaknesses. More likely is that I spend a few weeks losing lightly, and almost staying breakeven after rakeback... then move down to improve my game before moving up again
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Originally Posted by pit_vomit
As for keeping only $5k online how easily can you fund your poker accounts?
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I'm more concerned with how easily I can withdraw from my poker accounts  My main approach to date is looking ugly, so I'm going to investigate some other options this week. When I pull money offline I no longer consider it poker $$... and my plan is still to never deposit again except for quick clear bonuses where i deposit, clear, and withdraw within 48hrs (and I've been keeping to that for a year now). That may change if I move up in stakes though - I like to play with a bunch of buyins up my sleeve, but don't like the idea of substantial $$ sitting online when they could be sitting in a high-interest account generating at least some $$.
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