THREAD INTRO

Hey everyone!
I know most people will not be interested in some chumps attempt to crawl up stakes, but honestly I'm using this to help stay focused and use as a self-accountability and reflection tool. If anyone decides to hop in and share the experience, GREAT!

Bankroll is starting at $102.06
$52.06 of this will be on BCP as EugeneBadBeets (say hi on the table if you see me!)
$50.00 will be on Ignition Poker

The plan is to play mostly 6max Cash with some MTTs thrown in.

I will be playing the majority of cash on Ignition. While no rakeback or HUD is a bummer, the horror stories of botting seem all too real. I will be mixing in MTTs as well, mostly on BCP. It seems botting is less of a problem in MTTs, the games are soft, and I want to have Sharkscope track my MTT progress. This original plan may fluctuate as we move forward.

Bankroll Management Rules
Cash - Take shots at 20BI, go down stakes at 15BI
MTT - Take shots at 60 BI, go down stakes at 50BI

Goals
No specific goals as of yet, other than be a winning player of any magnitude.

Tools and Software
-Upswing Poker Lab and ECGM
-HM2

I will be posting daily (hopefully) posts about my play, studies, and thought process.
Thank you to anyone following and contributing!

Well, a very quick change to plans...
Ignition is terrible on my computer, I don't know what the issue is.
Clicks don't register, windows don't pop up correctly. Its a mess.
I played like 100 hands before I gave up. I was up 20c

I'm going to move EVERYTHING over to BCP.
Bots or no bots, I guess we will take a shot at BCP 6max.

If I struggle I will consider going back to Ignition.

Day 1

Didn't play much. I was frustrated by the Ignition issues, and just played a few tournaments. I haven't looked back at the HH yet, but nothing much to report.

Cash Games
Ignition - 100 hands - +0.20

MTTs

Manic Monday - $500 GTD - Bust
$200 GTD - Bust
TURBO10 - $200 GTD MEGA STACK - Bust
$1,000 GTD 8-Max - Bust

Total - -$3.85

Day Total - -$3.55

Bankroll Total - $98.51

Lol +20c , you really look passionate about poker, keep it up!

Eugene was the name of a talking plant in some tv show but I forgot which one haha

GL.

Lol, silly I know...
But in a year when we look back at that when I'm rolled for 500NL, won't that be somethin?

Day 2

Had some time tonight to play for about 90 minutes. 4 tabled some 5NL and smashed!

Study
None, need to make it a point to do an hour tomorrow.

Cash Games


MTTs
None!

Day Total - +$24.21

Bankroll Total - $122.72

Hey 20¢ is not anything. Where I live 90%+ of the patients would jump to the room with a 20¢. (they all smoke cigarettes & are broke)

Also I took more than 5-6 years to 200z starting at 10nl, if you make it to 500nl within a year you step on me like im an ant^^

Lol, I don't expect to get to 500nl anytime soon

No worries, the only good thing 500z players are good at is hitting gutshots, saying "I'm going to make a lawwwrge raise because I have valeeeeue (with a UK accent), and last, using big sizings (usually between 80% anc 150% pot) in a spot where they can't rep anything but the 1-2 combos that they actually have (and they have it. its the same from 2nl till 500z)

Day 3

Spent some time with the GF and studied for a bit.

Study
One Hour Reviewing hands and running Flopzilla

Cash Games
None!

MTTs
None!

Day Total - +1.21 (Rakeback)

Bankroll Total - $123.93

Day 4

Was talking with friends and they basically told me I HAVE to take my money off BCP. They are convinced bots/superusers exist, and said the games are 100 times softer on Ignition. I compulsively listen and try to withdraw my roll. The only option is bank draft. I message support and they tell me I need to validate my account. I send them everything, but annoyed, and tilt play NL25...

Luckily, it went good, but I NEED to get my s*** together with BR management and my temperament if I want to succeed long term.

Study


Cash Games


MTTs
None!

Day Total - +$36.49

Bankroll Total - $160.42

Day 5

Played a few hands on lunch, and had time after work for a short session of about 500 hands.
Had another really good session and ran really well. 4 for 4 on winning sessions!!!

I'm going to start posting at least two hands per day to review on here, hopefully starting tomorrow.

Study
Flopzilla and HH for an hour

Cash Games


MTTs
None!

Day Total - +$17.80

Bankroll Total - $178.22

Here is the total chart so far!

Day 6
BCP was giving me issues withdrawing, so I found someone who wanted $60 BCP.
Made the trade and moved the money over to Ignition, where I plan to play some cash, more specifically, Zone.

I went out of my BR management (again) by playing a $3.30 MTT. Bricked. Not a lot of harm doing this, but its more of a discipline issue at this point.

Study
Watched a few Upswing videos, nothing major.

Cash Games
Played some Zone on Ignition. I bought the hand converter, but it appears hands are not available for 24 hours after the hands. I will start posting on a day delay to make up for this in the future.

Played two small sessions. First one went poorly, about an $18 loss. Second one went well and I salvaged the night to a few dollar loss. Does anyone have any suggestions on a stop-loss amount before quitting for the session or day?

Cash Total - -$5.95


MTTs
MOSS #39 - $6,000 GTD - $3.30 - BUST

Day Total - -$9.25

I played some hands with you yesterday, or the day before on WPN, gl on ignition!

Thanks man!

I'm going to play cash on both for the time being, see how things go!

Day 7 (2-17-19)
Focused on Zone on Ignition today.
Its CRAZY how much different of a game it is compared to WPN.
I think there is value in both, but Ignition is full of limps, terrible lines, and just overall terrible play.

Stayed clear of MTTs, and had my second best day of the thread so far!

Study
Watched some Upswing Videos.
I'm realizing I don't exactly know HOW to study effectively, need to make that a priority.

Cash Games


MTTs
None!

Day Total - $28.28

Bankroll Total - $197.25

Day 8 (2-18-19)
Worst I've felt about a winning day.
I played about 1600 hands, and after 1500 i was up about $31. In the next 100 hands i proceeded to lose 4BI on some pretty silly mistakes. I will go into them more when I have some extra time, and a clear head. I'm realizing I have a sort of winners tilt that makes throw money around when I'm up. Doesn't make a lot of sense as I'm typing it, but its something I need to work on.

I'm also slightly tilted about MTTs. I'm going to just stop with them altogether for the time being, they are just bleeding money from my solid cash game wins at the moment.

That being said, we passed $200.00!
I am able to move up to 10nl, although I think I'm going to wait until around $250 before I do, but we will see.

Study
None

Cash Games


MTTs
$1,000 GTD 8-Max $1.10 - BUST
$300 GTD 6-Max $1.10 - BUST

Day Total - +$8.37

Bankroll Total - $205.62

MILESTONE UPDATE ($200)

Current Cash Chart


Current Cash Stats


Next milestone: $500

Would love anyone's comments, questions, and advice!

Not sure if I subbed previously but I am subbed!

My first bit of advice that jumped out at me was, not to post your vpip/pfr/etc, stats in public when people know your sn (obv just talking about wpn).

I’m on a similar path with an Agro bankroll just like you. I feel there is some value in the tournaments, but not in the massive field ones. I’ve been doing well in the <$5 tournaments with less than 200 runners. Basically running 75% cash 20% small field tournaments and 5% large field Mtts.

Anyways, good luck, maybe see ya on the tables!

Thanks for the imput!
Makes sense about the stats...
I see myself weening away from WPN cash games. The rakeback seems minuscule at this point and not worth the way harder games at micros.

Makes sense about the MTTs as well. MTTs were my first true love but I realize I'm not great at them, and they are just a big red number ATM lol.

I am reverting back to my old reckless ways in terms of BR management.
I took a shot at 10NL on BCP in Day 9 (post coming soon, have to wait for Ignition hands to be available.)

It didn't go great. I lost a few buyins and should have called it a day, and went back to 5NL.

Anyone wanna guess what I did?

Not only did I continue to play 10NL, I hopped into a 25NL Zone game on Ignition.

I recouped my losses and even managed a few dollar profit for the day.

Then today, (will be Day 10) I hopped on Zone25 during my lunch break. I played 50ish hands, and won a 3way all-in with QQ vs two AKs for about $70.

The bankroll got a huge boost, and this used to happen all the time... until I wound up broke playing with no regards to BRM.

I have to figure out how to be more disciplined. I truly do believe I'm a winning player, but doing this is going to lead me to the same place it always has... broke.

Sorry for the long post. While the bankroll is wayyy boosted, I have a bad taste in my mouth.

Does the $200 matter that much? Not really. But I really want to build myself a respectable role, and instead I find myself writing this.

Hey EBB
I also recently started a thread and (once again) a bankroll challange similar to you, and i think i can give you some valuable input.

My Poker Career so far:
Binked some huuuuge tournaments in 2015/16/17 (Hot 7.50, Sunday Storm etc.).
I cashed the big chunks out most of the time and used it in RL as I'm a student and could use the money. I know about bankrollmanagement since 2015 but i ALWAYS found myself saying "**** it" or "YOLO" and played too high, resulting in busting the few dollars (100-1000$) i had on my account. This results in always depositing new money which is really frustrating, but at the same time the only way to play poker.

My point regarding discipline comes now:
- Frustration is the biggest opponent (in CG and MTT's). You always have the feeling to win all the small losses back in a higher game, which works sometime as you can see in your case. BUT it is just WRONG. Why would you try to make the losses back tilted, when you know you're a winning player right?

In my opinion you already made the first step into the right direction: knowing that it was dumb (eventhough you won).
So what should you do know?
--> Remember yourself that you're playing a CHALLENGE. And this challenge has certain RULES. ****ing stick to these rules!! STOP playing immediatly when you have the urge to play higher.

--> define GOALS before you start the session. I do it like this:
- make a to do list (this includes all real life stuff too, like studying for university, working in your job, eating, time with gf, time to sleep/wake up etc. EVERYTHING and of course POKER--> define how many hands you wanna play at which Limit/ select some MTT's out of the schedule in the lobby. Don't stop till you accomplished your goals for the day.
Maybe i will add some more ideas in the future or in my thread.
GL on the tables
Beduines

Solid advice^

Wow thanks for taking the time to explain! I will def try this and would love to hear more from you about this.

I'll check out your thread as well!

Hey, buddy. I read the thread.

I, too, am doing a $50 challenge on ignition by playing 5NL and $1.10 tournaments. However, I'm managing not to play higher stakes for once. I used to follow the same pattern to chase losses, but I think it just gets easier not to as you get older and more mature and realize that the long term at your appropriate stakes will eventually prevail.

I also realized that you said BCP was filled with bots and superusers. Do you think ACR has the same thing going on? What about WPN? How are the games there? I'm curious about maybe playing on other sites than ignition.