Blackfish my MTT graph makes up for a horrible S&G graph, its been in negative since really day one. Until i started moving up the stakes till i felt comfortable it was actually -£82 at one point. I use sharkscope set to £'s rather than dollars so not 100% sure what that would be exhanged.
However Over the last 2 months it shows a steady increase, the odd deacrease.
Bananadog i fully understand what your saying i have a set target of £200 before moving up to £10 DYM's. I had a shot of them while my BR was strong. I think thats a 20BI standard. And i managed to compete well the problem i had then was i changed my game too much, the exact same problem i have in the main event MTT's, i dont play a Don game if that make sence. Instead i play overly basic poker focusing on cashing. This is something i wanted to get rid of hense playing with a huge amount of my BR here.
I cant afford to deposit anywhere near £150 (that would take me around 2 months to do at my budget per fortnight).
As much as worring about cashing is a massive problem for me, i need to get over this fear and think it doesnt matter, i play better poker when i do that, rather than trying to fold into the cash. So i thought a small BR situation was a good way to experiment this, alot of people disagree and i fully understand why.
Ive been working on small parts of my game of late, tilting was the big one, which ive now removed 90% of. Im now working on consistantly playing my own game no matter of buy in level. Next stop is pure BR management. I want to develop into a good player, this is partly why i crave playing good players, also my strenth is playing against good players so this helps. However i do struggle against players who just dont really care less, i get frustrated. This is part of my game i need to work on.
As a result ive maybe focused on improving to much, having a dream of doing well, blinded by being an idiot. Ive got a similar check book to yours, although instead of profit its all about improving my game, working table position, working the tilting, working betting, table image all that kind of stuff, and ive put BR management far too low into the ground.
lol Don, no probs mate, just thought I'd pop down what im doing incase it was useful to you or anyone else as I dont work well when I dont know what to play. My target list also had more stuff on but I've simplified it for on here...I had a minimum number of games to play and also a hit rate percentage and timeline so that I had a better idea of how many i need to cash in and how long (approx) it would take me to get to the next level on each as I get very impatient otherwise and am then tempted to play too high. On PKR I started with $20....I'm not suggesting you try to find £150 at all, it's more of an idea how to write things down for people who prefer to follow a guideline but to be changed to suit different bankrolls. Anyhoo good luck...I gotta take the kids to school now...oh its wayyyyyy to early!!!!
I can understand where you are coming from with the 30p/60p DYM's. Besides cash - 2p/4p (which I am taking a break from after a couple of days of running bad - bad play and losing races) they are the ones I play. They can be a bit of a donk fest at times, but sometimes you get a table who seem more interested in trying to win and so take a more measured response to raises,etc. I would love to play the higher DYM's and have probably got the roll for £1's, but I want to get the roll well into 3 figures before I do. That may be very tight but I've only played for 10 months and only started to come good the last couple of months. I enjoy playing but want to improve, but as I can't deposit much, I am "hoarding" my roll as much as possible until I can afford the higher levels. I see the time spent where I am as a (necesary) learning experience, no matter how long it takes and no matter how "bad" the hits are. People get lucky and patience is necessary, especially in cash. I found the Orford bankroll challenges very helpful in terms of giving me a target. It helped focus me and, strangely enough, almost coincided with a good run in cash. Taking on board people's comments also helped (especially Irishrover's thread - thanks again Irish!) hence the break from cash.
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However Over the last 2 months it shows a steady increase, the odd deacrease.
Bananadog i fully understand what your saying i have a set target of £200 before moving up to £10 DYM's. I had a shot of them while my BR was strong. I think thats a 20BI standard. And i managed to compete well the problem i had then was i changed my game too much, the exact same problem i have in the main event MTT's, i dont play a Don game if that make sence. Instead i play overly basic poker focusing on cashing. This is something i wanted to get rid of hense playing with a huge amount of my BR here.
I cant afford to deposit anywhere near £150 (that would take me around 2 months to do at my budget per fortnight).
As much as worring about cashing is a massive problem for me, i need to get over this fear and think it doesnt matter, i play better poker when i do that, rather than trying to fold into the cash. So i thought a small BR situation was a good way to experiment this, alot of people disagree and i fully understand why.
Ive been working on small parts of my game of late, tilting was the big one, which ive now removed 90% of. Im now working on consistantly playing my own game no matter of buy in level. Next stop is pure BR management. I want to develop into a good player, this is partly why i crave playing good players, also my strenth is playing against good players so this helps. However i do struggle against players who just dont really care less, i get frustrated. This is part of my game i need to work on.
As a result ive maybe focused on improving to much, having a dream of doing well, blinded by being an idiot. Ive got a similar check book to yours, although instead of profit its all about improving my game, working table position, working the tilting, working betting, table image all that kind of stuff, and ive put BR management far too low into the ground.
Back to the drawing board i thinks.
My target list also had more stuff on but I've simplified it for on here...I had a minimum number of games to play and also a hit rate percentage and timeline so that I had a better idea of how many i need to cash in and how long (approx) it would take me to get to the next level on each as I get very impatient otherwise and am then tempted to play too high.
On PKR I started with $20....I'm not suggesting you try to find £150 at all, it's more of an idea how to write things down for people who prefer to follow a guideline but to be changed to suit different bankrolls.
Anyhoo good luck...I gotta take the kids to school now...oh its wayyyyyy to early!!!!
I would love to play the higher DYM's and have probably got the roll for £1's, but I want to get the roll well into 3 figures before I do. That may be very tight but I've only played for 10 months and only started to come good the last couple of months.
I enjoy playing but want to improve, but as I can't deposit much, I am "hoarding" my roll as much as possible until I can afford the higher levels. I see the time spent where I am as a (necesary) learning experience, no matter how long it takes and no matter how "bad" the hits are. People get lucky and patience is necessary, especially in cash.
I found the Orford bankroll challenges very helpful in terms of giving me a target. It helped focus me and, strangely enough, almost coincided with a good run in cash. Taking on board people's comments also helped (especially Irishrover's thread - thanks again Irish!) hence the break from cash.
Good luck