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Lots of stuff IRL at the moment, start back at uni a week on monday, so just been sorting out my new flat etc. Finally in and can start grinding. Really want to get my BR up to $100 by the time uni starts. currently sitting at around $20 (as always), so really gonna hit the grind hard from now on and try and get the BR up!

feel like i'm playing pretty good at the moment, stopped making my ridiculous shoves.

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09-16-2010 , 12:12 PM

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Caledonianbu

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Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 248

Only played one hour, BR:20.10 dollars.

Really, really need to get some volume, FT'd 3 of the 4 i played. Just really need to play enough volume so that I can really start building this damn BR

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09-17-2010 , 11:12 AM

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Caledonianbu

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Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 248

3 hours of play and the BR is up to 25.88

Felt like i played really well. Putting in a stopgap to try and prevent tilt. So if I drop 8 BI ($2.00) then I have to leave and come back another day.

4 tabling at the moment, seems to be going well, think tomorrow wont be good for grinding, but i'll study over the weekend and come back next week big time.

Finally feel like i'm making some headway, making some really solid steals etc.!

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09-17-2010 , 12:18 PM

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dartstothesea

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Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 394

This is great because I'm trying to do the same thing. Well minus the volume because i have little free time in school.

I discovered I had .79 left in my account. (I haven't really played online in months, like before summer. I've been playing 1/2nl at the B&M on the regular instead. Profit has been good.) Anyway, I played one, and I won. So now I'm just going to play a few thousand games and basically see if they are beatable. This is debatable because you see a lot of crazy ****. Kind of a goal for me, because I have never had the discipline for BRM or sticking to one game. We'll see how it goes.

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09-17-2010 , 12:22 PM

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dartstothesea

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Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 394

Btw, any graphs available? How many have you played total and what's your profit/loss looking at?

I'm just wondering because I too am sticking to quarters for a while, learning discipline.

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09-20-2010 , 09:28 AM

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Caledonianbu

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Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 248

Yes, they are very beatable, patience is the main thing you need. Just be happy to fold hands down until you get to a certain stage. Wait for monsters and shove!
In terms of graphs, I dont really have any, i'll try and get a sharkscope graph up on here somehow. But my current profit/loss is -6$. I'm hoping to change that this week and finally get +ve. It takes a while before you regularly get in the money, at least it did for me, but once you get the hang of it, it's pretty basic!

GL and if you need any pointers (or have any for me!) please shout!

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09-21-2010 , 12:32 PM

#33

Caledonianbu

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Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 248

Br= bang on $30.

Good little session and really getting ITM a lot more now.

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09-21-2010 , 02:14 PM

#34

Stripedman

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Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 213

25centers should be super crushtastic. Move up to 1's imo, $30 br should be enough to take some shots at least if you're not feeling confident. Pm me if you want some advice or quick coaching with these, pretty easy place to start out and build a roll imo.

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09-21-2010 , 03:00 PM

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muuuka

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Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 13

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Originally Posted by Stripedman

Yep, they are destroyable. Any decent player who knows fundamentals can murder these games for at least 60% ROI. I wouldn't recommend to play 1$'s/45 though because of huge rake (20%) and since more people use their brain there your edge decreases and swings are more painfull for such a little bankroll. It's easy to grind it up to 100$ with some decent volume in like 7-10 days and then move to maybe 1$'s turbos or sth.

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09-21-2010 , 03:25 PM

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Stripedman

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Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 213

1.10 45 man turbo.
1.00 + .10
.10 = 20% of 1 dollar?

Also.. these players think in these games? Are we playing the same game?

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09-21-2010 , 03:44 PM

#37

muuuka

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Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 13

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Originally Posted by Stripedman

1.10 45 man turbo.
1.00 + .10
.10 = 20% of 1 dollar?

Also.. these players think in these games? Are we playing the same game?

Sorry, we just didn't understand each other. I thought you were talking about shots at non-turbo because I assumed turbos have too high variance for this roll to be even discussed. Still I think the safest way is to grind those nanos because with his bankroll he can't put serious volume so $/h can't be higher playing turbos. He can easily make like 5-20$ a day (everyday) depending on volume and time spent grinding which is much better imo than winning 14$ then losing it back, wiining another few bucks then losing it again. Of course it's only my pov, I just have very conservative approach to my bankroll.

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09-21-2010 , 06:25 PM

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Tom0001

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Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 12

Good luck. Keep it going I'e found the $0.25 games really easy, just play ABC poker and you should crush them. Are you just playing the 45man games or some of the 90's as well? I found the 90's to be heaps for fun and easy to take down

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09-22-2010 , 08:19 AM

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Caledonianbu

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Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 248

TY guys,

Yeah, they're very crushable, definitely. My ROI at the moment is pretty poor, mainly due to playing ridiculous poker (attempted river bluffs etc.) before i realised the level of poker required to beat them.

At the moment i'm finding it hard to put in serious volume, playing about 8/10 per day.

thankyou for your offer of help stripedman, I may well take you up on that, i'd like to get into the 1 dollar games. Are the turbos noticeably harder than the standard timescale ones? starting a little session now

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09-23-2010 , 09:35 PM

#40

muuuka

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Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 13

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Originally Posted by Caledonianbu

(...) Are the turbos noticeably harder than the standard timescale ones? starting a little session now

The game itself isn't much harder but because of blinds level increasing twice as fast as in those regular ones, you need to involve in more marginal spots (can't sit and wait for premium hands forever, basically it's just push/fold). Given that the variance is higher and you need to be properly rolled for those. So basically, swings can be brutal - I wouldn't have played those if I were you without solid bankroll (it depends on how confident you are with your play, how many tables you play and so on, probably sth like at least 50bi+ is ok imo if you're only 1-2 tabling). 40bi swings are nothing unusual, on PS at least rofl.

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