A Story and Advise?

With the help of Jaytodd I now have a brankroll to play with on Juicy. (thanks) So today started off pretty shitty. First I decided to try a $1.50 double or nothing SNG. Which I unfortunately ended up the bubble boy. Next I tried a $2 DoN this round I went all on the first hand with a set of queens only to lose to a set of aces (go figure). So after that I decided to chill for a while at a BCP freeroll offered here at PokerOwned.com ended up placing 5th for $0.94.

Feeling pretty good about BCP I then again decided to try my luck @ juicy only this time .2/.4 cash games. After mistakenly joining a limit game then leaving after the first good hand I began searching through the cash tables for rooms that weren't going crazy betting $0.30 cents preflop. Once a suitable room was found I sat down and sat out for a round or two to get a feel for how each player was playing. 4 players in particular were quite tight and only getting into pots in position against looser players. After taking a few mental notes on goes the game. The blinds probably went around the table 2 full times before I played anything and when I did it just happen to be AA against a new player who had just joined a hand or two before. Luckily this guy didn't know what he was getting into he bet the flop big then the turn and finally I decided to put him all in on the river which he called and lost.

After that I decided to try and steal a few flops unsuccessfully, loosing about half of what I'd won earlier. Yet again I get a monster hand UDT+1 Pocket Kings 1H 1D bet 3x bb the whole table folds except one caller. Board comes two hearts and a spade (I don't actually remember the cards except for the A of hearts) he barrels into me .30 I call, 4th street comes another heart he double barrels for .90 I flat call. Thinking to myself at this point oh no what are the odds of runner runner hearts cuz this guy has a flush. The heavens open another heart drops I check hoping for him to value bet himself but no luck Ace high nut flush. Saved by the river :).

So with two $2-4 wins I'm about break even. Having started with $12.77 then a draw down to $6 I'm now back to $12.

Obviously I can't expect to be this lucky all the time so here's where I need advise. Cash games so far with my limited amount to time spent at the tables seem to be a hell of a lot easier than DoN SnG's. Do you agree? If you were me would you keep playing cash games or try DoN SnG's again or maybe even a small tournament?

One other question, Do juicy tournaments not pay deep? All the $0.50-1.50 tournaments I'd checked only paid top 3 or 5. None paying 10 positions.

Maybe a bit long winded but I do hope you enjoyed reading. :D

Played in my first freeroll today on Lock and won $2 and then I lost all of it like 10 min later obviously I'm pretty upset by this hopefully I can regroup and work on my BR management anyways I'm really excited for the freeroll tmw and heres hoping I cash again good luck to everyone and yall better watch out for me bc im aiming for 1st lol :)

GL in the next freeroll

i would stick wth sit and go's cash games eats up your money fast

gl in next freeroll, you must win more coinflips next time :P

SNGs are traditionally the BR builder, but if you are more comfortable with the cash game, then go for it. I usually do limit when there are good tables, and you can make good money doing it, but its a personal preference.

have you considered playing some fixed limit HE for awhile to stabilize your bankroll? If you play smart, you're not likely to lose anything and you can buy in for less than a dollar on the FL HE cash games.

jesus chris fergeson had the same ups and downs but that didn't stop him from starting with zero dollars to ten thousands within a year... keep trucking.

I would play on merge. a lot more options for small bankroll.

sng's are supposed to be the better brm, but the cash game's, if played right, are more profitable

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Originally Posted by rdhGOAT

Played in my first freeroll today on Lock and won $2 and then I lost all of it like 10 min later obviously I'm pretty upset by this hopefully I can regroup and work on my BR management anyways I'm really excited for the freeroll tmw and heres hoping I cash again good luck to everyone and yall better watch out for me bc im aiming for 1st lol :)

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grats buddy

Gratz RD, freeroll moniez bro! :cool:

Alright it's about time for an update -

Monday I went all in on AA ($4) and lost to yet another flopped set of Queens. After that I decided not to play the following day.

Today was pretty sweet though! I decided to sit down at whatever table was available (9 player .02/.04) and grind back my loss from Monday. This time at a stack size disadvantage. Everyone at the table had roughly $3-5 stack sizes I joined with $2. Slowly but surely I began the grind (tight of course). After about 6 really good all in moves I was up not only $4 dollars but $8!!! This truly is why I love poker. One can simply sit down at a table as a small stack and end up chip lead within a short period of time (15-30m).

So anyways finally I'm in the green about $2 which makes the bankroll total $14

The only problem with playing this way is once the table notices how aggressive you are they aren't likely to showdown or even see a flop with less than Suited/Connected/Ace High Paint. This is why I only sit at a table for 15min to half an hour tops otherwise every bet gets folded around. :mad: At which point it is time to pick up shop and move on to the next table or chill for the rest of the day.

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have you considered playing some fixed limit HE for awhile to stabilize your bankroll? If you play smart, you're not likely to lose anything and you can buy in for less than a dollar on the FL HE cash games.

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Eh never really enjoyed limit holdem, pot limit is ok but limit nope I just don't like the mechanics.

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I would play on merge. a lot more options for small bankroll.

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I have $10 on Carbon poker... haven't decided what to do with it yet though.

Why is reply not quoting ?

believe in yourself

sng is best for you at this time good luck

don't feel bad I have been on a bad luck run for a while now, cant rebuild my BR at all, lmao

Another small update.

Does anyone restrict how many poker rooms they play? So far I've been playing PO freerolls @ Bovada, BCP, and SWC. Currently have money in Carbon (deposit), BCP (PO freeroll), SWC (PO Freeroll), and of course Juicy (deposit/paypal trade). This is a lot of rooms to be keeping track of.

Anyways the update is I won today's SWC tournament (33 chips). Went from 600 chips (2 players before final table bubble) to chip lead within a few flops. The major turning point was when I had about 10,000 chips and the other large stack had 8,000. He/She tried to push me off of a 3 diamond flop with an all in unfortunately for this player I had AQ of diamonds.

Comebacks evidently are the thing to do today first SWC tournament and now SWC .25/.50 cash game. I lost all except 5.50 chips of the original 33. Currently back to 28.

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Originally Posted by liquidxskin

Another small update.

Does anyone restrict how many poker rooms they play? So far I've been playing PO freerolls @ Bovada, BCP, and SWC. Currently have money in Carbon (deposit), BCP (PO freeroll), SWC (PO Freeroll), and of course Juicy (deposit/paypal trade). This is a lot of rooms to be keeping track of.

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I do not limit the number of poker rooms I have. I do withdrawals every so often and the poker sites that pay out the fastest will get more of my grinding time. Or another way, the slowest paying poker sites, I try to give them the least of my poker play.

try cheap tourneys with big payouts, there will be lots of players, but it would be worth it in both prize and experience.

I have never been the player to choose SnG tournaments over cash games however at this level and BR, SNG will be the best option to grind your BR up. I personally set a goal to have 100 BB for what ever game I'm planning to play but at the same time, I cannot dip into my BR more than 10% a day playing cash games.

So with a $200 BR I can just begin playing .01/.02 tables. Now you dont necessarily have to save up until you get 100x the BB in whatever game you choose to play, however allowing yourself rebuys for the inevitable suck outs and bad beats will definitely help.

when you play 1 table sngs you musn't play tight!!! thats my opinion though

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Originally Posted by prime14k

try cheap tourneys with big payouts, there will be lots of players, but it would be worth it in both prize and experience.

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Definitely will be playing tourney's here and there for sure just haven't done so yet.

Update-

Donked away all my SWC chips :p

On a brighter note - This morning I was in a gambling mood so I searched the net for black jack strategies and found THIS black jack strategy chart and a video explaining the martingale approach. Basically the idea is to play the lowest stakes ($1 on juicy) every time you lose double the bet. So starting at 1 you win a game or two then lose one double to 2 lose again double again and so on till you win which brings the BR back to break even plus all the profit from the first few wins. Then reset back down to the lowest stake.

After joining about 20 or 30 different free casino bankroll offers (and probably earning someone a but load of affiliate money) I decided what the heck try it out on juicy. After about 15 min of play my bankroll grew from $14 to $50!

Even if your not into blackjack it was fun to play this system. I personally have been interested in blackjack ever since the movie 21 came out a few years back. Anyways give it a try on a free blackjack table like the one bovada provides HERE

In all honesty I do NOT recommend this strategy for building a bankroll from such a small amount of money as $10-20. There were two or three occasions if I'd not won a hand my BR would have been down to only a few dollars. For example one time I'd lost 4 hands in a row and was risking $16 of a $20 ish stack. This happened again around the $30 and one time earlier on.

The point is it only works if you have enough money to keep doubling the bet.