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High I recently just won $2 from the 500k play money buy-in at full tilt. I want to build up my bank-roll as much as possible. Any tips?
At the moment im playing the capped .01/.02 ring games and fluctuating between $3-4 (I got a few lucky flops). Should I stay in these games or try some others? I was thinking about 1 table SnG but it's a 20% rake.
I just found out an awesome way to make money in 1c/2c. I just shove with any strong ace or high pocket pair preflop and i get called with rags. It's amazing. I figured this is the best way even though sometimes it gets folded around, whenever i do get called (I'd say 70% of the time) I'm at least 70% favourite to double up. As apposed to raising to 10c pref and continuation betting only wins bet about 20c each time.
The only game you could hope to play on that roll is 0.01/0.02 NL (2NL), and tighten it up immensely to try and double up a few times.
It'll be very risky. You should not play anything higher, unless you wanna gamble it up to see what might happen. :lol:
At $100, you can move up to 5NL.
With $2 you will go broke sooner or later, its a matter of time not of stakes or skills or awesome strategies.
I would say stay in the 2nl (1c/2c) until you have 50$. Then you can either move up or try some kind of sng's.
(if you are good at hu, 20$ is probably enough for building a stack in hu sng's).
Of course as stated above, the risk of going broke is aparent, but with some luck to start with and some good brm after that I belive you can do it.
By the way Bankroll Management wise, my advice arent that good, so only do that if you are not scared to go broke. Otherwise, try to build a bigger stack before moving up (read digest).
He needs just little luck initially.Quote:
Originally Posted by XTR1000
2$ is 100BBs, he can play 1 table. He says he is fluctuating between 3-4$. I started my recent run with 5$, and with some luck initially (and very bad play by opponents) I quickly rose and got to 80-90$. It can be done.
Just play NL2 until you reach at least 100$, and do not get cocky, greedy or anything similar.
Nonsense. You are quite likely to get unlucky at some point and lose a buyin, but hopefully by then you will have gained a few first. Id say buy in for 50c at first to minimise the risk and maybe camp for aces. Once you have about $20 you can probably start buying in full (assuming youre a decent player). After that wait until you have at least 20 buyins for the next level before moving up. You have a decent chance of going broke when youre starting so underrolled but if you are a half decent player id say you have a much bigger chance of not going broke.Quote:
Originally Posted by XTR1000
If you do lose the $2 you could always put in 50 more and play 2NL properly :P
Hey you are from Australia.
If I were you I would do like this:
Deposit the min amount at the end of this month, then on Nov 6th you can play the "first deposit freeroll".
I know it sounds scary to deposit, but if you can grind yourself through the play money tables I am pretty sure you have quite good money management skills.
PS I did that, and if you want to know how I did, well look me up in sharkscope.com
Posting in a troll thread without being trolled imo
sometimes you'll come across people are willing to buy a few mill of playchips for a few dollars, try and find them
Buy in for the minimum and 3 table 2NL and hope you don't start with a really bad streak.
I was at $10 a few mo ago before building to my current $1,050 so it can be done.
Im sitting on $5 right now. I'm playing the 60c cap so i have 7 effective buy-ins. I'm getting get to $20 before i play the full $2 limit.
Also, are the matrix any good? In the play money matrix games i usually won at least once (which pretty much recoups all my losses). I could try the $2+25c (I don't like the $1+20c too high rake).
I tell people all the time that bankroll management just doesn't apply to the same degree when the roll you're managing is tiny. The reason is that it's very easy to replace, whether by winning some more freeroll money or by simply bankrolling yourself.
So with $2, play whatever you want. The same with $3-$4. If you play the entire amount on one table or in one tournament, and happen to lose it all, it's only a small setback.
That aside, if you lose your small roll more than a couple of times or get stuck on some low amount, what you should be focusing on is your game, not figuring out what and where to play.
I built my bankroll from 1 dollar, so XTR1000 is shitting on my parade here, 1 dollar almost to 500 right now. It is possible.
bankroll management is not about how much losing your bankroll will affect you financially. Its about making sure you DONT LOSE IT.
If losing the amount in your bankroll isn't meaningful, then what's the problem if you lose it. Not that you'd try to lose it, but if it doesn't matter, then why do you need to make sure not to lose it?
haters will hate.
Just buy in for the minimum on a bunch of 2NL tables, wait for some fairly decent hands and shovel. shove a little wider in late position with limpers... tighten up a lot if someone raised.
Start to buy in full once you reach ~$50 and move to 2c/5c once you reach 100 and go from there.
Alright I've been playing the matrix style games as of late. They seems to be good for my bank roll: I play the $2+25c so effective it's 50c+6c; not as much variance. I've managed to increase my bankroll to $6.50 (not that great, but still). I play around 2 of these matrix everyday (around 2 and a half hours in total). Idk if i can keep this rate up but the play I've seen here so far is worse than the 100k SnG freerolls (which was pretty bad anyway). How should I manage my bank rolls for matrix? IMO 3 buy-ins is enough; effectively that's 12 SnGs.
some good info here