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[QUOTE="Retouraupasse, post: 1287855, member: 60309"]
[b]how NOT to manage your bankroll[/b]

A friend transferred $50 to my account to get me started. I figured that was enough for me to try the 10-cent stud hi-lo tables.
 
After about 10 minutes of playing one table to get acclimatized to Full Tilt's interface, I tried two tables. There was an adjustment period but eventually I got the hang of it. Over about two hours of play I won 43 cents.
 
After that I downloaded Poker Tracker Stud and read some of the documentation. Then I played for about one more hour. Over 101 hands I won 70 cents ($1.14 at one table and a corresponding loss at the other). It looks like my play rate at two tables will be about 100 hands an hour. Assuming four hours of play a day, that's 12,000 hands a month for an expected profit of $12.
 
Realistically, I find the players at the 10-cent stud tables to be below my level of ability and competence, so I'm expecting my returns to be much healthier than that. But until I've got at least 5,000 tracked hands I won't be comfortable making any predictions.
 
The one hole in my game I see right away is sticking with iffy two-pair combinations too often--low-low, low-medium, and medium-medium. I tend to get hosed a lot by opponents with AA22 and backdoor flushes. So I'm going to work on folding those marginal two-pair combinations, especially since two pair is a universal sinkhole in poker.
 
Stay tuned.
 
Retouraupasse
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