Playing around with a sidebet

I'd say either 5 or 8k.

5k sounds good

I would fail at any of these...

Without reloads and playing cash with br management scheme:

50 => NL5
100 => NL10
250 => NL25
600 => NL50
1500 => NL100
4000 => NL200

Assuming like 50k hands in the month and an 8BB/100

$50 / .40 => 12,500 hands to get to NL10

$150 / .80 => 18,750 hands to get to NL25

$350 / $2 => 17,500 hands to get to NL50

So you're at $600 after playing almost 50k hands at an 8BB/100 winrate with that BR management plan.

You can probably win at a higher rate than that and you could use more aggressive BR management but allowing for the fact that you'll probably hate playing such low limits and you won't care to put in so many hands, I think $1k is a pretty decent propbet for a single month. There's also the potential you run bad to start with which really hurts you as your progress will be geometric.

10k should be easy if you run good at micros.

10k would be the only one I would bet on, since if you are able to go up to $200nl anything else would be pretty doable if you do not run bad. Like I did a test last year and turned $11-$2k in 1.5 weeks, highest played was $50nl.

It is way easier than you think at the micros because at pokerstars the micros are deep stacked lol

On April 28 2009 12:22 failsafe wrote: I would fail at any of these... Without reloads and playing cash with br management scheme: 50 => NL5 100 => NL10 250 => NL25 600 => NL50 1500 => NL100 4000 => NL200 Assuming like 50k hands in the month and an 8BB/100 $50 / .40 => 12,500 hands to get to NL10 $150 / .80 => 18,750 hands to get to NL25 $350 / $2 => 17,500 hands to get to NL50 So you're at $600 after playing almost 50k hands at an 8BB/100 winrate with that BR management plan. You can probably win at a higher rate than that and you could use more aggressive BR management but allowing for the fact that you'll probably hate playing such low limits and you won't care to put in so many hands, I think $1k is a pretty decent propbet for a single month. There's also the potential you run bad to start with which really hurts you as your progress will be geometric.

using a full buyin at the very start of each level is not optimal if you want to expedite the jump through the levels to $50nl+. The best play would be to go to the $5nl with $4 and leave after 1 double up, doing that until $65, then you can go to $5 until $80 then $7 until $100, etc at the $5nl deep stacking. In fact if you can find a lot of deep stacked micros you could probably skip $10nl almost entirely. Then once over $225 play $25nl with $20buyins. Once yo are $450 start $50nl. Moving down each level after 3+ losses. That would basically guarantee never going broke due to a bad run and maximizing roi. If he is starting at $50 then that should take <2 weeks. 2+ weeks of $200nl not running bad and you will be over $10k total. Not "easy" but that is the only one that would be an actual challenge.

wait are you taking 2 months to do this? This should be in a 1 month time frame not 2 months