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blammo81 says
Just curious as to how much you initially loaded up on Bodog? Also, at what levels did you initially start out playing?09/27/07
EdmondDantes says
Excellent! Picking a goal and making a public commitment to it is a great first step to achieving it. You make enough bank to play Tunica and I'll come down and roll with you. Let us GO GO GO!Hey, wait...It's only your first day and you've already got a 100% increase in readership! Keep it coming!
09/27/07
Mr_Taterhead says
Blammo- I initially started in Jan 2007 on Bodog with $50 and I grinded at the microstakes ($10NL). . I made a vow to myself and my wife that unitl the UIGEA was cleared up, I wouldnt deposit anymore money online, except for the one time I had to clear a bonus on PokerStars to get my PokerTracker.09/28/07
Anonymous says
if you know anything about PLO, microstakes PLO at bodog is like stealing...09/28/07
Anonymous says
Just do the best you can. It can be pretty tough finding time between work, diapers and maybe even a little sleep to blog. Good Luck on your goal.09/28/07
Mr_Taterhead says
Isnt anything at Bodog like stealing?Guys open an account on tworags.com so you dont have to post as anonymous.
Thanks for the kind words.
Good Luck
09/29/07
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by Mr_Taterhead on 09/27/07
Ok, I know that it has been a while since I posted, but I have been swamped at work. I recently got promoted to a different job, so the transition has been kind of difficult, but everything will be fine in due time. I know that is not an viable excuse, but all the spare time that I have once I get home is going to either changing diapers, feeding Harper a bottle, watching football and then if I am not dead tired I will play some poker. The most I usually will play on a weekday is about an hour and even then I kind of feel bad, because in my gut I feel like my wife is having to do all the work around the house while I play poker on the internet. It is very difficult adjusting to having someone else around the house that you must take care of every second he isn’t sleeping, but I wouldn’t change that for any amount of money in the world. I love my little man with my whole heart.I was approached by the one soul who reads my blog and he suggested that I make this blog about something so that it would push me to write more than once or twice every two weeks. I have decided to make this a bankroll building blog. I know that there are so many blogs out there that deal with bankroll building and I am sure that no one wants another one, but guess what. I DON’T CARE. This is my blog and if you don’t want to read it C-YA. I will mostly be blogging about my bankroll and my family from here on out.
I have one pretty simple goal that I will try to accomplish before the year is out. I am going to try my hardest to have a $8-10K bankroll by the time I go to Tunica for the WPT World Poker Open in January 2008. When I am in Tunica during a major tourney, I usually play low limit NL cash games ($1/$2 or $1/$3) and sometimes even dip into the second chance tourneys that are spread every night. I usually go to Tunica with about $1K in my pocket and if I have a bad run in the $1/$2 or $1/$3 game I am usually not able to take shots at the second chance tourneys, mostly because I don’t have enough money in my roll. If I can get my roll to around $8K by January 2008 I will have enough money to withstand variance and play in all the smaller tourneys/satellites that I want.
Once I get to a $5K live bankroll I will move up to $2/$5 NL at my local casino, where I have been wrecking the game since I turned 21. I currently play $1/$2 there and I have been told that the $2/$5 game is even softer. I also hope to win my way into a major live tourney in 2008, but first I got to get this thing I call a bankroll a little higher before I dream of taking down the WSOP in 2008.
My entire online roll of $1,500 is on Bodog and I am currently 3 tabling $100NL. I have about a $1K live roll that I use for live play and home games. In total I currently have $2,500 that I need to turn into $8K by January 2008. Does this sound doable? I will take a shot at $200NL on Bodog once I get to $2400. I know this isn’t bankroll protocol, but I don’t do this professionally, so 12 BIs for a certain level is ok for shot taking IMO. If I ever drop below 10BIs for a certain level I will move down a level.
Tonight I won $20 messing around playing some fixed limit games on Bodog, while playing in a satellite to the $100K, which I didn’t win. My Bodog bankroll currently is at $1,540. Total bankroll is at $2,540 I will update this every day that I play, win or lose.
