Bankroll update!!

I know it’s been a while since I have posted about my Full Tilt bankroll building process, so I’m gonna try to get everyone up to date on where I’m at.

After running my roll up to $91+, I decided to take a single table shot at 25NL to try jump starting things. The cards ran really bad and I was folding my life away so I opened a 10NL table just to help keep me occupied. Two tables still wasn’t enough and the cards were still running cold, so I opened a 3rd table. Things never turned to the good for the night and I ended up dropping over $30 on the night.

Good fortune came my way in the form of a new poker friend during the last week or so. We discussed strategies and theories and traded some hands for reviewing. Despite running 19/8/2 ish, my new poker pal informed me that I was still playing weak tight. OUCH!! He referred me to an article concerning 6 max tables that talked about what hands this winning player was raising with preflop. It also talked about maximizing position, which I found at Full Tilt is a very profitable tool. I’ve played on other sites where everyone was just a calling station and position is less of a tool, but to me, the players at Full Tilt are much better, which means that since they are thinking about more than their own cards, they’re game psychology is more exploitable.

So with my newly found aggression techniques, I started back at the 10NL tables. I am getting a lot more comfortable playing 4 tables at once. I’m able to remember who has done what and what position they were in better than I was during my first few 4 tabling sessions. I find that there is always something going on with 4 tables rolling and very soon I hope to move to 5 tables, though I may need another monitor to make it work right.

The session immediately following the coaching that I received turned out to be a great one for me. $17 isn’t great in the whole scheme of things, but to the fledgling Full Tilt bankroll that I have and coming off the 30% loss that I had just absorbed, $17 is quite a nice score! The session in between then and now have been slightly break even to losing, but they are small loses that I expect as I flesh this newer, more aggressive style out.

My stats have “improved” to 22/11/3ish, so I am happy with them and my bankroll is back up to $78. Still nothing superb as far as dollars go, but this is the beginning of one long session of cards! If all goes well, it should be a life-long session.


Week of 5-27-07

I had a horrible night of cards, 40% was a mix of over-aggression and variance, and 60% was one hand that I played really badly with a very deep (2 buy in) stack against an opponent who I barely had covered. To cut the bad hand down to a short version, I slowplayed trip aces on the flop w/ my A-Q, made a pretty decent raise on the turn when a LAG donked into me, and raised a river bet that I had no business raising. It was quite a bad hand and I’ll say only a few things about it, if you reopen the betting on the river, you had better be holding the goods. I’m not saying that you need to be holding the nutz every time, that would be too predictable, but if you have your opponent’s hand down to a tight range and your hand is significantly better than his range, then you can raise the river and reopen the betting. If you don’t have a very strong hand versus your opponents range, it’s better to just call the river, but exposing your deep stack to very large loss by raising on the river is just silly. When deep-stacked in cash games, it becomes more important to protect your stack than to protect your hand.

My roll on FT stands at $48.15 after dropping three buyins on this horrible night.

BJJIII and I did make a trip to the casino this weekend and will be posting some session reviews from that within the coming week.