Brief:
I have a full time job which varies from 10 - 12 hours/day but I love it so I don't mind. However it makes grinding poker a little difficult when I only have a few hours in the evening. I recently deposited £50 just to mess around with in the evenings and weekend to get my poker fix. Since I didn't really care whether I won or lost it, I decided to take a very aggressive approach to BRM. Here are the results so far:
My plan is to be as aggressive as possible with regards to BRM and see how high I can get. I tend to play a bit each evening and a fair amount at the weekends, however this is likely to be about 40k hands/month (thanks to Zoom). I started this year on Bronze star since I always used to play on iPoker, so I don't have any rakeback.
I'll post interesting and funny hands as well as some review hands and talking strategy. The ultimate goal would be to play a hand of $10kNL and win a 200bb pot. This thread isn't intended to be taken too seriously, it's more about seeing what can happen if you take a risk at every opportunity.
My BRM plan at the moment is basically to move up once have 10 buy ins for a level and then move down if I lose 2 or 3 buy ins with a 3 buy in absolute stop loss. I moved up to 50nl recently and had a few small winning sessions, I played 2 sessions tonight. 1st session I won a bit and 2nd session I lost 3 buy ins so moved down to 25nl and won a little bit back. I will continue at 25nl until I win 2 or 3 buy ins and shot take 50nl again.
Since my last post, I lost a little bit at $50nl and had to move down. However I managed to grind it back up and do well at $25nl and $50nl. I am now all set to shot take $100nl tomorrow night with 1 - 3 buy ins. I also did that classic thing of playing a stake purely because it was in the red in my PT4...and then proceed to lose 5+ buy ins. Despite being massively over-rolled for it now, at some point I will play $16nl and get that stake into the green!
Clearly on a bit of a hot streak! Anyway, I started this bankroll on the 15th May 2015 with £50 and now i'm over £650 and ready to shot take $100nl. I only initially deposited to mess around with so it will be interesting to see where this goes.
fold, fold, fold, BTN raises to $1.50, Hero raises to $5.50, BB calls $5.00, BTN raises to $11.50, Hero raises to $18.00, BB calls $12.50, BTN raises to $52.88 and is all-in, Hero raises to $81.00 and is all-in, BB calls $36.78 and is all-in
Flop:($162.44, 3 players) 2 T 5
Turn:($162.44, 3 players) J
River:($162.44, 3 players) 5
Hero shows A A (Two Pair, Aces and Fives)
Main Pot [$158.64]: (Pre 66%, Flop 46%, Turn 0%)
Side Pot#1 [$3.80]: (Pre 80%, Flop 50%, Turn 0%)
BB shows Q T (Flush, Queen High)
Main Pot [$158.64]: (Pre 16%, Flop 44%, Turn 83%)
Side Pot#1 [$3.80]: (Pre 20%, Flop 50%, Turn 100%)