The adventures of a donk Part II - Op: Beat Micro Stakes
Hi I'm Rich aka Skeenobeener, I've mulled over whether posting my own operation would be profitable and useful for myself, however after reading several other micro grinders ops and seen how they've progressed I kind of feel inspired to do my own one.
First off let me tell you a little about me, I'm a 28 year old guy from the UK, I've got two girls who are 4 and 5, and a lovely fiancee, live in a nice house, earn a nice wage working away from home on week shifts. Get the best of both worlds, a week at home with my family and then a week away from home working. Works well for all of us as my family are sick of me usually after a week, Football, Cricket and Poker can become tiresome for women, so I'm told. The thing with working away is I can't really play poker so I want to really concentrating on studying and reading whilst I'm unable to play.
Now for my past poker experience, I've been playing on and off for about three years, recreationally.
In that time I've learnt the basics as you would hope. I've also managed to withdraw winnings which have paid for our current car, the laptop I'm typing on and the holiday fund. Does this mean I'm any good? Hell no!
Is it a little micro donk brag? Yeh lol. Sharkscope and OPR distort everything though. I look at things like that and think I'm good, the reality is I suck, mind not as much as some of my fishy mates IRL! I've had some good results though and turned about $2.5k profit in three years with most of it in the last year playing SNGs and the odd MTT.
If your really interested in my past life playing poker then some of its documentated here http://skeenobeener.blogspot.com/
I guess it's good to revisit past misdemenours - playing blackjack to clear bonuses, playing $2/4 Limit severly under-rolled and generally tilting like a donkey or take a night back in April where I was absolutely sozzled and took down $7.70 180 man, at about 3am UK time god knows how.
However one shouldn't forget the good times neither, like taking 2nd in a big job MTT for $1,300, cashing healthily in the Party Million or even just getting to heads up in an $11 omaha MTT for $430 odd loose change.
So moving on, why the new operation?
Basically I've withdrawn pretty much everything I've won (expensive fiancee, lifestyle etc) and keep getting to the stage of having about $100 in my roll and then either winning a small bit here or having to deposit the odd $20 after I've played drunkenly one night at mental cash levels. So I need to focus on something and I need to focus on bankroll requirements, as I say I can redeposit but it's not something I want to do.
So I've decided to begin and grind no limit cash at the micro stakes (edit - I know 5nl isn't micro/micro but with $100 I feel comfortable starting there). I plan on playing as many hands as possible volume wise and beating each level on the way up, not moving up to 10NL until I've got $250, and likewise not till 25nl until I've got a minimum of 25 buyins, which seems quite odd since I was probably playing it a few weeks back with 4 buyins! Bankroll Management FTW.
The other side of the coin I fail to do is theory, since I've logged back onto FTR I've begun to read, absorbe, watch videos - this is essential. I've got to start taking the game seriously and equate my game time to learning/theory as much as playing.
So to sum up the main goals are to :-
* Keep within strict bankroll guidelines
* Don't play whilst tired, drinking - take my A Game to the table at all times
* Concentrate more on using PT and HUDs, whilst improving my note taking and reads of other players.
* Grind up the levels starting with 5NL and approximately 20 buyins, moving up when I've got 25 buyins for the next level and am beating the current level for a good win-rate.
* Read through the Beginners section on this site and several operations, some of them are absolute gold. Concentrate on theory as much as playing.
* Take my own notes from these posts and formulate my own game at ring instead of basically just jerking around
I do plan on solely playing 6 max 5NL on Stars, probably with two tables, I find with one I become eager to play hands I shouldn't do. I'd hope to in time move up to four but I feel better playing 2 tables than 1. I'd add I'm not going to knock SNGs and MTTs on the head totally but with kids and work, playing MTTs is a pretty unsocial way to play. Not dissing it by any means and I love MTTs but I need to improve my ring game play so that's where I plan on playing.
I'd also be keen to chat with fellow grinders via msn so by all means send me a mail. Best of luck to everyone at the tables :)
Re: The adventures of a donk Part II - Op: Beat Micro Stake
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Originally Posted by Skeeno
I've had some good results though and turned about $2.5k profit in three years
OP doing slightly better than $200 up ;).
