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Originally Posted by Obscured
Why try to make $500/mo at cash when you can make $600/mo doing play money?
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Originally Posted by PokeherTee
BTW.. why try to make $500/month when you seem capable of $600 @ fak'n play-money.. with no ROR?
Good question...I guess I'll keep playing the play money tables and see how much I can get.
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Originally Posted by Vishus90
ZOMG, how long did it take. you got to weigh up the decision now, if it didnt take AGES, i would keep playing play money, its almost no risk and big reward for you, well except time, again depending on how long you have spent.
the other thing is, being good at play money doesnt make you good at real money at all (IMO anyway). but the thing is if you are in fact good at real money, which i believe you must be with patience to play 'play money', it means that you have lost money that you could have earned by playing real money (opportunity cost, etc...).
you have a huge roll, more than i could dream of starting off with. try out MICROS, the lowest buyin, basically the problem is your roll doesnt represent your skill. i would start from the bottom, ie, 2NL cash, or if you like tourneys, then the $1 or $2 buyin ones.
due to your large roll, you are able to experiment with different games, as play money doesnt have lots of different game structures and stuff. so have a look around and see what you like, to be honest, you wont be great at anything in the beginning, so once you find something you like, you will have to stick to it and work on it.
Great post that echoes a lot of lessons I learned. I'd have to tweak and learn a bit to switch to real cash. I was thinking of going to cash so I could keep bumping the stakes up though...play money has a ceiling for the stake level.
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Originally Posted by nuisance
How did you obtain $6K in FTP by playing with play money chips?
I don't just play play money. I've played 30k hands of 5NL and probably 30k hands of 2NL and 10NL and over 500 micro cash sit and goes (had a $60 profit and a 6% ROI which I think is good considering how little strategy I knew). I just kept playing play money while I was doing that also.
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Originally Posted by IcyBlueAce
How did you manage to obtain that much and how long did it take?? I hate playing playmoney everyone goes all in with nothing! I get pwnd with pocket AA KK QQ JJ so many times!
You're at the 1000 chip buy-in. Just keep getting it in with top pair and big pairs pf, and then keep moving up and up.
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Originally Posted by Ali Gator
+1. Post should be in BBV!
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Originally Posted by Nostalgica
If you are serious and not just bragging (this is a solid brag, actually, if true, which I am unsure of), then you will want to tell us what you plan on playing, and what you have played to win your play money, so we can give you useful suggestions.
Like I said, heads-up and 3-handed NLHE isolating against particularly bad players. Re: BBV, I didn't intend to brag, I actually expected to get flamed for mentioning play money in the first place...and who knows what would happen in BBV. It seems like they bash everything.