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01-11-2010 , 09:21 PM

jesus105

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Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 57

I started at freerolls on full tilt 3/4 months ago, ended up winning a seat into the daily dollar and cashing for $3. I slowly built that up to $212 bankroll after watching a ton of the academy videos and improving my game (plus two lucky final tables). Two months and one sick down swing later and I am at 80 bucks in my account.

A few options I have:

1. Deposit around $200, earn my 100% deposit bonus then re-evaluate

2. Stick with no investment and grind out the micros until I reach a larger bankroll

3. $80? who cares? Sit with all at one table and take my shot. Zero investment zero risk right?

Any opinions on what one I should do?

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01-11-2010 , 09:44 PM

nuisance

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grind it back up if you can grind $1 to $212 you should be able to grind $80 back up.

Do the same thing you did the first time.

DO NOT put it all on one table, unless you really don't care about re-depositing $200

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01-11-2010 , 09:47 PM

Lenny-T

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2, ainec.

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01-11-2010 , 09:54 PM

Hippy80

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Grind, Grind, Grind.

I've just turned $10 into $84 in a few $1.10 90 man SnGs (and some fun at the Shanoobs game on saturdays). It's not that hard at the micros, just be prepared to have a lot of suck outs

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01-12-2010 , 08:39 AM

jesus105

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Ok thanks.

Another thing, I have 2123 FTPs right now, any idea what the best way to spend them is? I was thinking on spending half on entering the big little tournament but that's a massive longshot. Should I wait until another promotion comes around or is there currently a better way to invest them to try and improve my bankroll?

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01-12-2010 , 08:42 AM

Ben1113

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I would use the FTPS to try to win small tournament sattellite tokens honestly, probably your best shot.

As far as what you should do, if you really feel that you are good enough to beat the games, than maybe depositing would be better off. It will take you a while to grind the 80$ back up, whereas with an extra 200 you can safely play bigger games. However, if you are having BR management issues than I would do this as a challenge. As it is, you should have never dropped this low, as you should have been moving down games if you were getting cold cards.

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01-12-2010 , 08:54 AM

jesus105

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Originally Posted by Ben1113

I would use the FTPS to try to win small tournament sattellite tokens honestly, probably your best shot.

Ok I'll check a few of those out

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As it is, you should have never dropped this low, as you should have been moving down games if you were getting cold cards.

My management is fine imo, I was playing $0.05/$0.10 for a while when I was up at $200, I never put more that 4-5% of my roll on a table at a time. I also dropped down to $0.02/$0.05 when I was around $160 I think. Like I said, just a sick down swing. I would have played it all the same every time, but that's just the way it is

EDIT: grammar

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