To start off I want to let everybody know that in my daydreams and aspirations to become a pro poker player I realize I have sub-consciously sabotaged myself for the past 3 years. I now understand my error(s) and with the help of added training and extra examination of my game with proper bankroll management I expect this all to change...Thank you PokerVT!
You see every time my online poker bankroll reached $1100.00 I would withdrawl $1000.00 and spend it on... whatever anything but re-investing in poker. Leaving myself $100.00 in my online account to play with. Self sabotage, and I did it again and again and again, in fact over the last 3 years I have withdrawled $1000.00, 18 individual times and spent it on bills, entertainment, anything but poker. So how the heck can I ever go pro if I am self crushing my bankroll... simple I won't!
Unless I change my strategy of which I didn't have much. Imagine grinding out a $100.00 bankroll over 18 times up to the $1100.00 only to destroy it in the thought that "I am great at my hobby, sure would love to be a pro someday". I didn't even take myself seriously, how could anybody else. Below I will list my current bankroll on each poker site I currently play on and will update them monthly to identify any trends. I have never kept strict records, never used poker software, never understood bankroll management, and still managed to make a profit. So with all these added to my life as well as the motivation provided by training at PokerVT and this self documented journey I will be forced to re-evaluate everything about my game. In turn not withdrawling and in fact, hopefully, increasing my bankroll to the point I can consider turning pro (after 3-5 years to not get my hopes up too high).
Betfair: dfalenangel, poker account just created, will download when I get new computer. Start up deposit:
$50.00
Tournaments played: none yet
Mansion: falenangel, poker account just created, Start up bankroll (deposited as start up capital by training site):
$50.00, currently at $45.00
Tournaments played: Free rolls, $1 MTT's
Tigergamming: falenangel, poker account 3 yrs old, Just withdrawled $1000.00 for the last time to buy new computer set up:
currently at $225.00
Tournaments played: Free rolls, $5 MTT's and under,
Pokerstars: dafalenangel, poker account 3 yrs old, Start up bankroll deposit:
$50.00, currently at $40.00
Tournaments played: Free rolls, $1 MTT's, $1 Sng's
FullTilt: dafalenangel, poker account just created, Start up bankrol deposit:
$50.00, currently at $33.00
Tournaments played: Free rolls, $1 MTT's, $5 Sng's, $5 MTT's, $2 Matrix Sng's
I currently only break my bankroll rules at FullTilt to participate in member training tournaments with PokerVT as the reward of getting advice on my play afterwards is worth the possiblity of having to re-invest another $50.00, as well I have the option to transfer funds between sites if I begin to do very well at one over the others. I will use the 50 buy-ins needed in my bankroll to play at a given limit theory before increasing in limits on any given site.
I only plan on playing on 3 sites primarily in the future, as well as tiger (I will never give up the tiger). By the end of the year as I begin playing more volume I will choose which sites. This will also be a testing phase for me to decide which poker rooms I feel most comfortable playing on. I can allready say that I have 3 pokerooms that I will NOT be playing on ever again, no need to name names right? UB, PP, PP. However I do enjoy the current sites I play on and feel that in the end rakeback bonuses will be the deciding factor... as allways is for any high volume player I am sure.
Soon to follow: results for this year and past tournaments I feel worth mentioning that helped make me believe that I can succeed in poker.
In fact learning what I have begun to learn I don't see how my game can do anything but improve, which makes my toes tingle and my dead cat purrrrrrr. To think if I hadn't won that tigergaming tourny and gotten 12 free months of PokerVT training I never would have come to this realization about how truely lucky I am to understand this game of Hold Em poker. I would forever just be a dreamer... now I am gonna be a doer and make my mark in the poker community. Dream a little dream...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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