im very afraid of putting my money into online games. maybe it is because i dont trust 100%. not that they will still my money, but how the hands play. i just watched on you tube the 10 craziest hand on poker that was transmitted on tv. and you see some incredible hands. but thats doesnt happen all the time like it does online. sure, we play more hands, but common!!!
so one thing i can say its that if i deposit a amount would have to get a bonus or something that i can first gamble on that bonus and than i can touch
so one thing i can say its that if i deposit a amount would have to get a bonus or something that i can first gamble on that bonus and than i can touch
I am playing poker since 14th August 2016 on 888. I won $52 on 888 on 15th August then in September I won $550. I had to deposit $10 to my poker account to withdraw the money I won at that time. As I am above level 100. So I have a lot of freeroll to play in and whenever I move above $50 I withdraw that money.
My initial deposit to Pokerstars 4 months ago was 20$ to take advantage of the nice welcome package. I now have a bankroll of about 135$ at Pokerstars mostly from playing freerolls and low buy-in SnG.
I make initial deposit 5 Month ago to 888 poker of about 50$. This has now grown into 270$ also from mostly freerolls.
I have not deposited on ACR yet, but already have 10$ in the bankroll..I may make a 50$ Bitcoin deposit in order to take advantage of the welcome package they offer.
I feel I must study and build my skill up for a minimum of 6 months before I attempt to play NL2 cash games and other low buy-in games.
Maybe this is over preparation for the micro-stakes, but I want to make sure I know what I am doing before risking my bankroll.
I make initial deposit 5 Month ago to 888 poker of about 50$. This has now grown into 270$ also from mostly freerolls.
I have not deposited on ACR yet, but already have 10$ in the bankroll..I may make a 50$ Bitcoin deposit in order to take advantage of the welcome package they offer.
I feel I must study and build my skill up for a minimum of 6 months before I attempt to play NL2 cash games and other low buy-in games.
Maybe this is over preparation for the micro-stakes, but I want to make sure I know what I am doing before risking my bankroll.
The day I chose to play online poker I made two deposits to two poker sites... Fulltilt $175 & Stars $100.
I had no real clue about Bankroll Management but at the time I figured I would deposit this one time to see how I would do. If I lost it all I would re-assess and probably not play any longer.
I thought I'd like to play $2 & $3 games to start out so I surmised that $275 would be an adequate amount to give me a taste of it. (very first night I took 2nd of ~1,000 entrants for $114 in a $1 MTT 'The Ferguson').
With what I know today, I'm very pleased with the amount I chose to deposit and IF I were doing it all over again (based on my level of skill at the time), I would pick around this same amount. I think anything less than $200 is unreasonable. (unless you want to only play freerolls??? or want to continue depositing).
A strange thing for me back then (& still to this day a bit), for some reason I value my online poker account money soooo much more than money irl. I would think nothing at all of playing a $300 to $500 mtt on any day of the week.. but to coin out for a $100 mtt online... I treat it like it's the wsop MainEvent. (it's like $20 online is equivalent to ~$200 irl). Maybe because I only perfer to deposit for bonuses/promos and not because I am losing.
I had no real clue about Bankroll Management but at the time I figured I would deposit this one time to see how I would do. If I lost it all I would re-assess and probably not play any longer.
I thought I'd like to play $2 & $3 games to start out so I surmised that $275 would be an adequate amount to give me a taste of it. (very first night I took 2nd of ~1,000 entrants for $114 in a $1 MTT 'The Ferguson').
With what I know today, I'm very pleased with the amount I chose to deposit and IF I were doing it all over again (based on my level of skill at the time), I would pick around this same amount. I think anything less than $200 is unreasonable. (unless you want to only play freerolls??? or want to continue depositing).
A strange thing for me back then (& still to this day a bit), for some reason I value my online poker account money soooo much more than money irl. I would think nothing at all of playing a $300 to $500 mtt on any day of the week.. but to coin out for a $100 mtt online... I treat it like it's the wsop MainEvent. (it's like $20 online is equivalent to ~$200 irl). Maybe because I only perfer to deposit for bonuses/promos and not because I am losing.
MatMackenz said:
Sounds like you're doing something right to be able to be building up those accounts!
I'd advise to NOT hold yourself back! I did this after having played for ~1yr., instead of forcing myself to increase the buyin levels I was playing at. A big part of this was fear of failure. I was winning at the levels I was playing at and didn't want to risk it going the other way.
Honestly if you want to get good enough to beat the micro stakes (ie. 2nl) then you REALLY need to just start playing them! As well as studying, the best thing you can do is to just DO IT! Getting oneself to stick to freerolls is only going to carry you so far in other games... games that you'll likely enjoy MUCH more!
Maybe you need to find a mentor to help give you that push & to build up confidence?
Good luck... don't hold yourself back. I have a feeling that online poker will only get tougher as time goes by. There are PLENTY of bad players still playing, waiting to hand you their chips so perhaps get going while the going is still good?
