35k Challenge
thewh00sel, Dec 05 2006
Okay, here's the deal, i'm going to attempt to amass a $35,000 bankroll by the end of March 2007. That gives me approximately 4 months. My bankroll, as of today, is $3,600 online after a bit of a downswing (okay, like 15 buy ins at 1/2), and about $1,400 live. Live games i play: Thursday night 1/2 game, saturday extremely soft 2/5 no-max buy in game, tuesdays/fridays occasional 1/2 game.
Now, with my $5,000 bankroll I have a few general rules for myself to follow. For the live games I don't plan on giving myself any kind of bankroll management rules because the games are so soft that I feel like stepping up to the 2/5 game is extremely profitable as everyone at the table is extremely loose (probably 60% vpip). But for online games my bankroll management will be as follows:
$100NL: 25 buyins ($2500 bankroll)
$200NL: 30 buyins ($6000 bankroll)
$400NL: 35 buyins ($14000 bankroll)
$600NL: 40 buyins ($24000 bankroll)
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Here, when I reach $35,000, I will withdraw $20,000 and resume play at $400 NL and build back up.
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$1000NL: 50 buyins ($50000 bankroll)
$2000NL: 65 buyins ($130000 bankroll)
Day 1
thewh00sel, Dec 05 2006
Today: +$65
To date: +$65
To go: $34,935
Today was fairly lame, 2,650 hands and an essentially break even day. Anyways I guess I'll update if i play anymore sessions today.
I played 17/15 today, didnt get many hands but i should probably be closer to 20/18 for next time. More aggression even though it felt like i was hyper aggressive. Who knows, maybe for 100NL this aggression level is okay, i'll have to look into it.
Day 1 part II
thewh00sel, Dec 05 2006
Today: +193
To date: $258
To go: $34,742
621 hands played
Decided to play some more hands and got in a smaller session of 600 hands. I stopped after I made about 2 buy ins and that makes me a bit happier for the way the day started out. Tonight I plan on going to either my regular 1/2 game which usually has decent action, or I might go out to a 1/2 game about the same distance from my house with a little more action and no cap on the buy in amount. I haven't decided yet, but i'll update this later with a Day 1 part III section.
Day 1 Part III
thewh00sel, Dec 06 2006
Crazy up and down night at the live game. Finished in the green.
Today: +$160
To date: $418
To go: $34,582
Day 2
thewh00sel, Dec 06 2006
Today: +$106
To date: +$524
To go: $34,476
Hands played today: 68
Played a few rounds, flopped set under set, turned quads and got the money in there, decided to call it a session. Again I may go out later to a live game, should be some real fishies there.
Day 3
thewh00sel, Dec 07 2006
Today: +$778
To date: +$1302
To go: $33,698
1,250 hands played, ran well today, my hands were holding up and I was getting paid off for the most part. good 6.8 buy in day, hopefully i'll be moving up to 1/2 soon. I've decided that I won't be moving up to 1/2 until I actually have $6,000 online, so i won't be including my live bankroll, whatever I make there I will still add to the challenge, but it won't factor into which limits I play online. So as it stands my online bankroll is up to $4,633. 14 more buy ins until I jump up to the 1/2 game. I've been playing only at pokerstars so I won't be getting any kind of rakeback or anything like that, but hopefully I can just gain a lot of FPPs and move up the VIP ranks in the coming months.
edit: i went to a live game and made $100, so i just added that in.
Day 4
thewh00sel, Dec 08 2006
Today: +$108
To date: +$1410
To go: $33,590
Played 974 hands
Was running mediocre, wasnt getting sucked out on, essentially just grinded up on every table. I played an $11 rebuy turbo to a $650 PCA qualifier but i just donked off my 31$ there. Pretty short session, I may play more later today, idk.
Day 4 part II
thewh00sel, Dec 08 2006
I joined 2 tournaments, the 35k guaranteed 11$ rebuy and an 8.80$ nlhe tournament. I'm out of the 8.80 and im in for 30 in the rebuy so there's -$39 if I don't place in it. I'll update later but for now that makes total profit $1371
Finished last cash place in the 10rebuy makes it 34 profit for the day so...$1444 overall profit
Day 5
thewh00sel, Dec 09 2006
Today: +$238
To date: $1682
To go: $33,318
MTT day today, lost $112 in several small tournaments and a couple satelites.
That makes it $1332 profit overall, going out to the $2/$5 game today, i'll update when I get back.
Went to the 2/5 game, made $200, played AA really badly one hand, here's how it went down.
UTG raises to $10, next guy reraises to $40, I call in the SB with [As Ah], UTG calls.
Flop is [Ad 9d 6d]. I bet out $60, UTG calls, reraiser goes all in for 150, I call, UTG calls
Turn is  , I check, UTG checks
River  , I check, UTG checks, he has Ac Qd
I feel like I really shouldve bet this for value and to get him to call without odds to hit a flush. I couldve squeezed an extra 200-350$ out of this guy bc he was really loose passive but I was just checking and praying for a boat. I think I need to be betting and don't start hoping for a boat until there are 4 diamonds out there. I played this hand like a bitch and lost a lot of value that I should have gotten out of it. Even if I did check the turn I think i have to bet the river to get paid off by anything. I mean I have top set and there's no sidepot and he showed no aggression on the turn. This hand was just played pretty badly by me. >_< oh well. I made $200 at the game and called it a night. I was chopping 20% with 2 other guys there and they were up more than I was so I should be getting more but for now we'll call today a +$88 day since I lost all the tournaments that I was in...I added everything up. +$238 for the day.
Day 6
thewh00sel, Dec 10 2006
Another MTT day. Played satellites all morning and won 3 qualifiers for the sunday million, so i'll be playing in that + I have $295 profit from playing the qualifiers so i'm freerolling in the sunday million, I'll update if I cash in it.
Today: +$284
To date: +$1,977
To go: $33,023
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