Headed in the right direction, keep it up

no volume this month

BR - Start - $165.70
BR - Start of session - $198

30No - $1.10 - 45 man - $33 invested
Prizes - $22

BR Finish of session - $187
ROI to date - positive 10% (187 No games)

I'm doing roughly the same thing, give or take some HU/dailydolars/STTs on the side.

Good luck!

What software are you using?

I have a MAC so I'm a bit restricted in terms of software.

I've got Poker Tracker though and it's paid for itself.

another quiet week. Don't think I'm going to get the volume in to achieve my goal. Only averaging 20 odd games a week, but still happy with the progress. Almost ready to move up!

BR - Start - $165.70
BR - Start of session - $187

13No - $1.10 - 45 man - $14.40 invested
Prizes - $27

BR Finish of session - $199.60
ROI to date - positive 15% (200 No games)

moving up to the 3s!

BR - Start - $165.70
BR - Start of session - $199.60

4No - $1.10 - 45 man - $4.40 invested
Prizes - $10

BR Finish of session - $205.20
ROI to date - positive 18% (204 No games)

Decent start to the 3s. Got lucky as on the last game if I didn't cash I would have been back down to grinding the $1.10s. Fortunately I won!

BR - Start - $165.70
BR - Start of session - $205.20

16No - $3.25 - 45 man - $52 invested
Prizes - $54

BR Finish of session - $207.20
$1.10s - ROI to date - positive 18% (204 No games)
$3.25s - ROI to date - positive 4% (16 No games)

while I realise this is far from riveting reading, it helps me stay focused on my goals, so you'll have to put up with it :P

And yes it's slow going!

BR - Start - $165.70
BR - Start of session - $207.20

6No - $3.25 - 45 man - $19.50 invested
Prizes - $42

BR Finish of session - $229.70
$1.10s - ROI to date - positive $39.50 or 18% (204 No games)
$3.25s - ROI to date - positive $24.50 or 34% (22 No games)

Definitely not true. It all depends on how much you play at once obviously, though 50% even at 1.1/45 is not sustainable (at least these days). 350 tourneys isn't a sample at all - 1-2 days of play for high volume players. You can run on a 1000 tourneys 50%+ heater but that doesn't mean it's your true ROI. 1k-2k tourneys breaking even stretch will kill your ROI even at micros where your shoves are gonna get called by all sorts of crap. In long run, 20% imo is a pretty solid ROI though I guess you can do slightly better at 1.1/45 (doubtfuly better than 25-30%).

@OP. You should really increase volume and grind those 1.1/45 to reach at least those 100-150 bi's for 3.25/45. It's just a lot easier and more comfortable to play with a solid bankroll. Anyways, gl.

Good luck!

You're right that 50% is probably unsustainable, I'm now down to about 40% through ~700 tournies at 1.10. The whole debate about true ROI is really pointless since lower volume players like myself will never have a large enough sample to reach our true ROI. All we have to go on is our actual ROI as a rough assessment of our profitability.

Anyway my point was simply that if you're multitabling the easiest level and returning 20%, you're going to be eking out a smaller and smaller profit as you move up. I agree with you that OP is rushing things. Moving up after a 200 tourney sample of results with only 60 buyins for the next level is a recipe for disaster.

I'm quite comfortable with this. I'm happy to drop down if I go back below $170. While my sample for this challenge is only 200 I have got about 1,500 under my belt all up so I have sustained success at the 1s.

You're doing good so far but if I would be you I'd try loading up more tables atleast 10 at a time to increase ur hourly profit and to keep you more focused on the games and forgetting the bad beats which may tilt you if you only play 2-4 tables at once, if you stack the tables up it should be very easy to 10 table

In vacuum, you're right. All I meant was that without solid sample it's really hard to determine whether you're a solid winner or not. OP may be as well on that worse side of variance and his 20% is pretty good indicator of how he actually plays and that it's enough to beat 3.25/45 and higher for a solid %. Just wanted to make my previous post more clear, sorry for offtopic op.

I run with 6 tables at once. I'm not one to tilt. As long as I'm happy with how I played the hand if I lose I lose.

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Now I wont be able to sleep tonight!

Long overdue update (not that I've been playing a lot). I've been bouncing around between the 1s and 3s a bit with no success.

BR - Start - $165.70
BR - Start of session - $229.70

43No - $3.25 - 45 man - $139.75 invested
Prizes - $90
15No - $1.10 - 45 man - $15.50 invested
Prizes - $24

BR Finish of session - $188.45
$1.10s - ROI to date - positive $48.00 or 20% (219 No games)
$3.25s - ROI to date - positive <$25.25> or <12%> (65 No games)

got a couple more in today (1 good result)

BR - Start - $165.70
BR - Start of session - $188.45

2No - $3.25 - 45 man - $6.50 invested
Prizes - $30
4No - $1.10 - 45 man - $4.40 invested
Prizes - $5

BR Finish of session - $212.55
$1.10s - ROI to date - positive $48.60 or 20% (223 No games)
$3.25s - ROI to date - positive <$1.75> or <1%> (67 No games)

went ok in the last week. The $3.25s takes forever to fill up now with no Americans there! Hard to get any volume with the time I have to play.

BR - Start - $165.70
BR - Start of session - $212.55

8No - $3.25 - 45 man - $26.00 invested
Prizes - $48
1No - $1.10 - 45 man - $1.10 invested
Prizes - $0

BR Finish of session - $233.45
$1.10s - ROI to date - positive $47.50 or 19% (224 No games)
$3.25s - ROI to date - positive $20.25 or 8% (75 No games)

Haven't been playing much (and updating even less!). No where near achieving my goals for the year, but not actually losing money so I guess that's ok. Seem to have the $1 games sorted out, but struggle with the $3 games. Maybe just a volume thing?

BR - Start - $165.70
BR - Start of session - $233.45

31No - $3 to $3.50 - 45 man - $106.39 invested
Prizes - $12
134No - $1 to $1.50 - 45 man - $184.50 invested
Prizes - $266

BR Finish of session - $220.56
$1 to 1.50s - $430.90 invested, $559.90 won, ROI to date - positive $129 or 30% (358 No games)
$3 to 3.50s - $350.14 invested, $288 won, ROI to date - negative $62.14 or 18% (106 No games)

Small update as going on holiday for next week (and the small session went ok!)

BR - Start - $165.70
BR - Start of session - $220.56

1No - $3.50 - 45 man - $3.50 invested
Prizes - $8.61
5No - $1.50 - 45 man - $7.50 invested
Prizes - $11.32

BR Finish of session - $229.49
$1 to 1.50s - $438.40 invested, $571.22 won, ROI to date - positive $132.82 or 30% (363 No games)
$3 to 3.50s - $353.64 invested, $296.61 won, ROI to date - negative $57.03 or 16% (107 No games)

Prob just variance with the diff btwn $1/$3 45man results, I would get out of the $1 asap bc of the rake

I hope so, but over my 45s in my life (obviously including games before this 'poker goal') my results are:

$1-$1.50s - ROI - 20% (over 1,700 games)
$3-$3.50s - ROI - negative 15% (over 515 games)

While 515 games isn't a big sample, I would have thought the ROIs would be closer, as when playing them I don't see any difference in skill level. In fact in the 3s I see some crazy stuff.

The difference in rake is only like 0.5%, so not too bad.

get more volume in

it's variance.

from last 1k 7 dollar 45 man turbos I run at 14% roi.

last 1k 3.50s the roi is 2.5% 100 BI downswings ftw.