I Fail At Life

Started the New Year off with a $200 Poker bankroll for fun to challenge myself. Made $1200 in profit and used profits to pay bills/food/gas/etc. Last night pretty much depleted my goals and will have to try again later.

the 2 - 5 BI swings was supposed to be 20 - 50... I must've been tired when I got home last night.

bankroll management imo

u need moar monah for these games.

nice little thread to read and nice graph to read aswell. Looks like the swings of poker are catching up on ya. Stick to BRM if u dont wanna deposit another $200 again soon lol.

It's a good strat wut ur doing but most ppl will bust and have to reload again. Not much fun reloading innit?

Yeah, title should read: Fail at BRM

If youfailed at life you wouldbe selling yourhouse to play or something.

Sean,

You are a good man. You are passionate about poker and a damn good player. I imagine you put your heart and soul into everything else you do too.

In my book, that means you are a success in life and always will be.

Results are reliably going to vary, that's just how life is. Highs and Lows in Lotus Land is what I always say. Results are not a reflection of who you are. How you handle the tough times (bummer results) is the true reflection of success or failure.

Your BR will be back on the plus side in no time.

Thanks for the kind words LarkMarlow. Too kind.

KC, Monoxide, ukaliks - You are correct. This was not an excersize in BRM at all. The goal was to start my live poker bankroll at $200 for the new year and just make it grow and grow and grow. I profit when I play against "card players" I seem to lose and get sucked out on by recreational players and "gamblers" But my challenge to myself started out well, started out really well, and last night shattered my challenge.

I just don't understand. the hands I played we're always 80/20's with me being a favorite. Or at the very least 60/40's. I had KK on the button raised PF flop came J 4 6, CO raised I reraised all in, folds all around, CO calls with KJ and turns another jack. My whole night was like that. Should have left after losing 1 Buy-In but I was thinking to myself "I know this game through and through my reads have been 100% spot on and these luck boxes are going to lose"

I've just never had a live night like last night where every hand I was favored to win got sucked out on, on the river.

Grr....

^^^^ You still dont get it Sean. What you are setting yourself up for is a boom and bust cycle that will eat your bankroll every time.

All your rationales and explanations aside, its a simple BRM problem. You will never grow a BR playing way over yr limits.

Might start an ulcer though...

great graph did you use a software for this or did u just create a basic one in excel? IO plan on this this similar goal but instead im saving up for a $1200 bankroll to start playing more live cash/tournaments starting in April. In the meantime i have a small online roll just to "feed my need" to play poker in the meantime.

also wise words LarkMarlow i felt like sh!t when i depleted almost all of my roll and went on a horrible tilt and depression. It reflected on my game as i always felt i was beat or was going to get sucked out on

Makwa said:

^^^^ You still dont get it Sean. What you are setting yourself up for is a boom and bust cycle that will eat your bankroll every time.

All your rationales and explanations aside, its a simple BRM problem. You will never grow a BR playing way over yr limits.

Might start an ulcer though...

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I don't want an ulcer... lol. I'm rolled for $1/$3 NL don't worry, I have $6000 in my savings strictly for poker, I was just trying to see if I could turn a profit from playing starting the year with $200. Don't worry man, I got BRM covered. Just wanted to see if I could roll myself up for another 20 BI's from $200 which seemed feasible to me. I may just add on to my bankroll for cards and just try to roll it up so I can play $2/$5 or $3/$6, tourists and calling stations don't play there. The $6000 in savings is supposed to be poker money but it's also an unexpected expenses account, so it's not technically a real 20 BI roll for $1/$3

NYRebirth said:

great graph did you use a software for this or did u just create a basic one in excel?

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I do web design. I used html to make the table, but had to make a screen shot of the page and merge the two sections together because I can't post html on the vBB boards.

Speak of the devil, the fedex guy just brought me my $950 bodog check!

If you were trying to start a playable bankroll from $200, why did you add on to your bankroll when you had $450. You doubled your bankroll after playing 4 sessions, why did you addon?

Plus, why are you giving people gifts out of your poker BR?

A failure at life would not be able to put together such a nice graph and keep track of his/her money. Just keep playing solid and smart poker and you will come out ahead in the long run. The bad beats will happen but over let's say a year the percentages will go in your favor. If your feeling depressed know that their is always somebody in the world who is worse off than you. A remedy for the blues is helping people. That is the secret of life in my book.

Is that a site or program you use for the daily summary?

Looks nice

jordanbillie said:

If you were trying to start a playable bankroll from $200, why did you add on to your bankroll when you had $450. You doubled your bankroll after playing 4 sessions, why did you addon?

Plus, why are you giving people gifts out of your poker BR?

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I added on the $250 from my weekly pay check which I was initially planning to do. So the add on is $250 from pay check at work. Because that's what I've been doing for every paycheck I get I put 10-25% of each check into my poker bankroll. Also, added on the $250 because there was potentially going to be a $2/$5 PLO game at my casino that fell through the cracks and I wanted to prepare a full 100BB buy in for that.

skoldpadda said:

Is that a site or program you use for the daily summary?

Looks nice

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It's just basic HTML. :smile:

Steves22 said:

A failure at life would not be able to put together such a nice graph and keep track of his/her money. Just keep playing solid and smart poker and you will come out ahead in the long run. The bad beats will happen but over let's say a year the percentages will go in your favor. If your feeling depressed know that their is always somebody in the world who is worse off than you. A remedy for the blues is helping people. That is the secret of life in my book.

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Thank you.

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Overall, my challenge to myself was to build a BR with $200 without having to touch the money in savings, but would require a lot of discipline and playing Tight. Which I was on a roll with doing, and had it not been for the 17 suck outs in my 5 hour session, If my 80/20s and 60/40s held up I'd have a profit of $600-$1200.

this is the definition of an fish just try to play lower stakes generally dont play a game where the buy in is more than 10% of the bankroll at most. Usually just play someone below 5% of your roll.

If you really want to make a profit from 200 without pulling from your savings wouldnt it be a good idea to go to a level you can really crush like 1$/2$ and grind out a mini BR?

Aw, Sean Pilgrim...knew you must be doing some sort of experimental thing when I read the OP...I've seen your other posts regarding how you're managing your bankroll & read you as being pretty disciplined overall in that area...such a character .

NBA2K10ROCKETS said:

this is the definition of an fish just try to play lower stakes generally dont play a game where the buy in is more than 10% of the bankroll at most. Usually just play someone below 5% of your roll.

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whattt?