What's up 2+2!!??
My name is Jeremy and I'm making another attempt to journal my progression through the stakes, this time on BCP. I'm 36 years old, recently married and just found out a soon to be father. Life couldn't be any better outside poker, but in about 6 months time, life is going to get crazy busy changing diapers and trying to just figure out how to take care of another human being. I'm excited for the challenge! In the meantime, I'm going to start with $40 and attempt to run up a roll on BlackChip. I live in the US and have only really grinded on Merge since BF, but with all their recent cash out issues and the fact that they offer basically nothing in terms of rewards, I finally made the executive decision to purchase everything needed to run WPN on my Mac and am not looking back.
I've been playing poker now for about 10-12 years, playing on Stars under the name "GLUIPERIG" and had some pretty decent MTT success. Since, I've played mostly 6max cash, which is where I'll be starting this until I have enough to switch over to MTTs. The goal? Not really a goal per se, just looking to get to a point where I'm playing the biggest MTTs online available to US players and holding my own.
Like I said earlier, I loaded up $40 to start grinding $2nl. My first day was pretty successful, but I punted my profits on some $2 spin and go's and basically finished even. So, I'm basically starting from square one going forward.
Bankroll Management:
This without a doubt, is going to be the most important aspect of the challenge and has the biggest effect on anyone's overall success. With $40, I will be starting off playing $2nl 6max cash, moving up once I have 20 buy-ins for the next limit. Once I hit, $125 I will start incorporating $1.10 buy-in MTTs and playing $5nl cash. Once I hit $250, that's when I'll be shifting my focus to only playing MTTs (maybe some cash sprinkled in from time to time) with 100 buy-ins as an average. Once I start progressing, I will become a lot more conservative with my BRM, probably shifting to at least 200 buy-ins for $11+ and more so at even higher limits.
What to Expect:
Hopefully, a lot of binks, profitable months, sick graphs, sweet HH's and solid strat discussion. I'm playing under the name GLUIPERIG again, so feel free rail from time to time. Also, seeing how P2P transfers are allowed on WPN, I may be incorporating some freerolls for followers so keep an eye out for that as well.
That's about all I got. I'm super stoked to get this started and to succeed. Hope you all decide to give me a follow and enjoy what you read. As for now, going to go rail Jaime Staples on Twitch while I finish up my work day and hopefully will chat with all you later!
GLUIP