Pit leak is result of a lot of players' tilt.

I'm on my iPhone posting this but thanks for replies so far. I hopefully put the horrible blackjack table behind me for good after this break.

What happened was I was staying at the casino for the whole weekend but I got there on thurs night and the cash games died that night. I was wide awake and couldn't sleep so I thought I would play some bj. U preceded to lose 3k that night Ouch I know. In the morning I thought it would be a good idea to drive home (2 hours away) and grab 6k. I lost all that too (including spazzing out hard in cash games. When your betting $200-800 per hand
All in with an open ender for $400 sounds like a good idea :0) and my life was miserable. Btw all my poker records are honest to the minute since ive been tracking. Over the course of the next month or so I only had like 1k to my name and basically broke even over my next 115 hours.

After that I decided a break was in order. Just thought I'd share. The reason why I feel like I was breakeven with my last 1k or so was because I was scared money plus running below EV. I also realize that $80 an hour isn't sustainable I was just stating how things were going at the time.

About the student loan, when I get it I'm going to start a goal thread and use it for poker. I feel like 50 buyins will let me forget about chasing losses and hopefully this will be my fresh start to playing disciplined poker that I used to play. Lost post on my iPhone lol. I would love to hear any more words of wisdom from you guys though.

Good luck dude. I really hope it works out.

Chasing losses isn't really all bankroll though. It's also mental game stuff.

I forget if you said you have Mental Game of Poker, but I highly recommend it. There's a lot of stuff you can keep working on to improve your mentality so even when you get upset you don't go on crazy tilt and blow a ton of money.

I never played blackjack, but I would start raising like 94s utg and trying to 3b T6s b/c I was like screw it, I'm going to LAG it up. Then I would get owned and it would really suck.

When I read the concept that mistakes are good, and I can never play totally mistake free it blew my mind. But now when I do something stupid I can stop and go back and hopefully learn something. The little "injecting logic" phrases help a ton too.

What I usually say to myself is "When I'm running this bad, this is when I make my money. Lets tighten up and lose as little as possible."

I haven't read/ bought mental game yet. I have been listening to tommy Angelo and also Bart Hanson like clockwork. Thanks for your advice and I agree with everything you said. I think if/ when I can master the mental side of poker I will have a better win rate which is the thing that persuades me to not work a 9-5 at the moment. I'm only 25 with no degree yet (close) so I need all the motivation I can get during this break. And by the way I am not worried about the loans, I need the money more now than when I start paying them back if that makes sense. And the government can go **** themselves if I never decide to pay them back which I'm just sayin, I would like to pay them back.

How many months of living expenses do you guys like to keep separate from your bankroll?

Assuming we are putting money from our bankroll into that "safety bin" every month.

I hear a lot of people say 6 months, and I know it's a subjective answer, but I'm curious where people get their answer.

did you troll me 24/7 in the PG&C threads? glad to see my advice was so wrong and retarded

LOL

if you deal with tilt, nothing wrong with the student loan

My average hourly at 1/2 is pretty steady at 50 dollars. I wasn't planning on moving up to 2/5 until I have a 25k roll, is this too nitty? My style of play does have fairly large swings even in single sessions of multiple BIs (4+/-2).

I've played 2/5 several times before when a friend of mine who is a very good MTT player and 5/10 player has partially staked me for 40%. I've had similar success at 2/5 albeit a smaller sample size.

What size roll do you think I should wait before moving up? 25k? 20k? 15k? 10k?

LOL, if you're crushing 1/2 at 25bb/hr, you could move up with 5 BIs and shouldn't have any concern.

Didn't mean to troll I'm just opinionated.

Thanks, I'm getting a 5k loan in August then I will probably get another one for 5k 4 months later when the next semester starts. After that I plan to play 2-5 with any full buyins over 10k. I think it will be a good break. Pretty much 5 months.

I just hope the game hasn't evolved by then, but I do hope online is up and running.

over how many hours? Id like to think 500 is a good sample, 1k a very good.

I like 15k for 2/5, and 40k for 5/10

glglgl

What's the biggest plus month you guys had in 2/5 or 1/2?

10k month in 2/5 is my record.

15k is too much for 2/5

I moved up at 6k and didn't look back.

Good discussion in here that motivated me to move up sooner.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/17...kroll-1160302/

please use hours cause a month can be anything


+9840 in 133hrs seems to be my peak

weeeeeee 74/hr. very nice

**** my biggest is +5400 for 125hrs. I average between +2500-+3500

I think this is a terrible idea.

move up to 2/5 when you have 25bi.