Quote Originally Posted by Robb
You'll progress a lot faster by going somewhere with rakeback. You in the US? If so, it's probably Full Tilt - get rakeback there right away 'cuz they can be real dicks about it if you don't activate your account and get it linked to your rakeback affiliate. Non-US you have a ton of good options where your HUD will work and you can get good rakeback.
Luckily I'm in the UK so I have a whole host of sites available to me except that rakeback isn't available to me on some of them due to my freerolling past.Have an account with Full tilt with 29$ on it and no affiliate link and a friend who is the same is trying to get rakeback through the affiliate/rakeback group posted about in the 2+2 thread.If it works I'll try it, but even so at the micro levels their rake rate even with rakeback would be worse than Pokerstars.
My problem is that I started playing poker when my son was born as wife ended up in hospital for 3 weeks before hand and about 10 days after so it was a pasttime in the evenings playing with play money.When the motherinlaw found out about it she made me promise not to put any money onto the sites so I didnt end up a gambling bum.(here I am playing cash )eventually started playing freerolls and started building up stakes at sites.I saw the first deposit freerolls advertised on Poker stars and thought whatthe hell , cashed out 50$ from my William Hill account and deposited it on stars which together with the 90$ i won in 2 invitational freerolls last summer and about $7$ from the first deposit freerolls made up the starting bankroll at Pstars.
Full Tilt has a $600 initial deposit bonus, but you probably can't clear the whole thing at 10nl within your 90 days. Gotta know a bit more before I could recommend anything specific. It's just hard bonus whoring before you get to 25nl 'cuz they take forever to clear and you usually "time out" before you get 'er done. You might put, say, $400 on FT w/ rakeback and bonus, and at 10nl you can probably clear that in 90 days, depending on how many hands you play each week.
At least I got 1 fpp in last night session.Just 485 more to go in order to get the 50$ bonus.At poker stars , the 1$+0.1 double or nothing SNG's seem to be the best at earning FPPs as they pay 1 each but they play so tight that when it gets to the bubble its an all in situation before you get blinded in.I roughly broke even on the 14 of those that I played.
Well, not to high-jack OP's thread, but I'm going to follow your 5K hand plan at $10NL. I feel I'm working on too many things at once which is hindering my ability to really improve long-term. Starting over from ground zero may be the best thing for me. I have 25 BI for $10NL, not quite $300 but it's enough to get me started. Arghhh... it's going to suck to be a 10/8 super-nit but meh, it's only a couple sessions. Go go go...
glad that its helped you,it certainly tightened up how i was playing the session to my previous hands.I'd read AOKrongly system in the strategy forum and it didn't feel right taking no account of position and I only came across this system by reading the blogs and then following a link to it in Robbs operation thread.