Davi's Bankroll Build

Davitomon · Davi's Bankroll Build

Hi everyone,

My name is "Davitomon86" on Pokerstars. After a long break since Black Friday, I finally found the interest of playing poker again. I will pick up where I left the game, and that is grinding HUSNG's. I allready restarted playing since October. But after a false start, I want to regain control over my play and start tracking my daily progress in this thread.

I'll purchase Brokerstar's course this evening and i'll put alot of work in my game so I can consistently beat the low and medium stakes. The ultimate goal would be making a part-time (or even full-time) income of it to support my direct family in these hard recession times.

Goal:

I want to be a winning player at $60 stake before December 21th 2012 or the end of the world as we know it. In order to even play at the "60's", I want a bankroll of $2,400. The natural progression of stakes to reach $60 is $7 -> $15 -> $30 -> $60. My way of analysing whether or not I'm winning is if I show a profit after 400 HUSNG's of a certain stake. How much profit I can show is hereby not important.

Milestones, ambitions and rewards:

* I start off with a BR of about $570. I will use a safe 40x BI for all my HUSNG's. I'm only going to move up at the end of each month if I hit my target number of HUSNG's + if I reached the approporiate bankroll.

* As I'm easy to tilt when going on losing streaks, i'll take small breaks between losing matches. Though, one of my most greatest abilities in poker is to keep away from the tables, when I feel that i'm on a heavy tilt mood.

* My weekly goals are mainly focussed on getting volume in. 100 HUSNG / week could be a very realistic goal, though I'll adjust my goals to every circumstance as new factors come in every day. The standard target for each month is 400 HUSNG. This can be increased or decreased as I get more experienced with this factor.

* I will spend at least 3 hours of analysing tourney's that I played. I will make some post-it note's of tourney's that were interesting to review again while I'm playing them. I will allways review my tourney's on Sunday morning as it's a great free time for me. Reviewing is prior to grinding on Sunday, even If I won't be able to make the target volume that week!

* As for cashout strategy. If I should make enough money to move up in limits and hit my target volume for that month. If I have any money surplus of 50x BI on the new level, I will cash this money out if it's a decent amount to spend. I won't cash-out $5 for example, but this will be decided on my feel of the situation at that time.

I case this won't work:

* If I fail to make a profit at any specific level, I will continue there for as long as my bankroll allows - until I drop down to 40 buy-ins at the level below it - and move down when it no longer does.If this eventually leads to me not being able to reach my final goal, I will make a new plan once this is obvious.

Brokerstar

I find that these threads are a great motivator for getting you to play well.

If you know that you're going to be honest and write up how things are going then I find it makes you less likely to tilt off money everywhere as no one want's to look like a fish Smile

Looking forward to helping you anyway I can too.

Speak soon and run good.

Broker

Davitomon

This is a forum post from another poker forum, I can't remember which one, but I saved it on my pc and printed it out today. It's inspiring to read in bad times. Really solid motivational speaking. I'd like to share it with everyone.

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You are not as good as you think you are.

But that is okay. In fact, it is amazingly powerful if you can truly understand just how much you suck. It's even more powerful if you can understand why you suck.

This is the first step in learning to improve and improving is what this game is all about. I know things have always come easy for you in school and all the way through university. You never applied yourself for more than a few weeks and you did fine. People always told you how smart you are, and how they wish they could learn as quickly as you.

This is the first time in your life that you are facing something that you really have to work at to succeed intellectually. And don't kid yourself... YES! You need to work! ALL THE TIME! Trust me, it's sooo much easier that way.

I know you are reading this, and you think it is for someone else. But it's not.... believe it or not, I am talking to you. I am you! I was where you are right now years ago. Sure, you have had some success at this game, but what if you could do more? I know you've thought about it...but do you really know how to get there? Do you even know the things you need to improve? Do you really know why you lose? Do you know your biggest leaks? Do you have a plan to fix them? Is it working? Do you tilt? Do you know why?

I do...

I know something even bigger about you. You hate making mistakes. It makes me smile knowing this, I wish you could understand why... You hate making them so much, that you justify losses to yourself by saying you ran bad. How many times have you seen people complain about running bad? How many threads have you read about bad beat stories, EV graphs, doomswitch complaints, and chat window beratings? Now think about how many times you've seen someone say, “I have these mistakes, how do I fix them?”

Poker is weird that way... If we were playing basketball and couldn't make a free-throw we would probably ask someone better than us to help us with our technique. We would probably get a lot of weird looks if we just complained about our unlucky free-throw or how bad we run at basketball.

You know this game rewards skill over the long run. But when you are losing, you complain, you grind and you try to win it back in one shot when you KNOW you aren't playing your best... Essentially, you try to get lucky. You don't realize that losing is the BEST thing for your game!

If this game was easy, and you won all the time from the start, how much effort would you put into improving? If you make a big call, suckout, or sniff out a bluff and got lucky you probably won't think twice about it. It would be like school, and you would just coast through. But if you lose and lose and lose, you can start asking questions.

Failure doesn't exist if you keep trying and keep improving. Failure happens when you keep doing the same damn thing, and keep getting the same stupid result until you can take no more and you give up. Mistakes are necessary and are the best opportunities for growth. Seek them out and be proud!! Because when you find one, you can fix it and that means more money and confidence.

You have a long way to go and a lot to learn. But remember, every thing you learn compounds on itself in this game. You don't learn to win overnight, you pick up little things here and there, and eventually, you have built a game that wins and continues to grow.

Your Best Bud,

You.

bridgegunner

very kool i like it and i might save it on my pc to check out. good luck looking forward to great things from u

Jakester1288

40bis is just killing your potential.

Learn about Kelly Criterion IMO.

Davitomon

Well, first update, here we go. I decided to update every 50th HUSNG.

I purchased the course from Brokerstars and I made my notes on the videos. I watched the first three and gonna watch the others today.

For learning purposes I went to a very old account of mine. I knew there was some money on it although I never deposited a dime on this site. It was from some no deposit bankroll site. This site is Victor Chandler Poker. Seems they have moved to the Entraction network.

Also the whole site is in Euro's which is kinda of an adaption for me as I allways played in dollars. There was 19.81€ on it. Because it was free money and I was not affraid to lose it, I just went playing $5.25 husngs. Well it went very good, but the players at the Entraction site are really bad if I compare it on Pokerstars, it's such a huge difference + with the new knowledge I had, I was killing the 5's there.

I played 50HUSNG's now, so I want to put my first graph here. I did play some 10's to feel them out but that didn't went well. It was a combination of running bad and playing bad/tired. So I stayed at the 5's for now.

Also I have a Sharkscope account, and after scoping opponent after opponent, well, I might stay here for a while Smile

. These were my last 5 opponents. Also funny that Sharkscope missed out on some games. Anyhow, I have a profit of 66€ now.

BetMagicMoney

thats nice man Very Happy

also what software gave you that graph out of interest?

Davitomon

Davitomon

After 4 weeks hospital in October-November the last thing on my mind was playing poker Sad

But since a few days ago i restarted my challenge and hope to keep this thread alive in the upcoming year without accidents.

Goal for 2012:

- 3,000 HUSNG's
- Aim for a winrate between 60-65%
- Reach €50 level on VC Poker
- Make use of the course I bought from Brokerstar
- STAY HEALTHY

Here is my graph after 100 tournaments (still struggling on the €10 level, dunno why, competition is soft):