New Challenge
Published Thursday, June 08, 2006 by DorsetBlue | E-mail this post
I have recently been pretty successful on
Pokerstars, as I head slowly towards the conclusion of the WSOP bonus (currently 74 more FPPs to go) and I am currently set to double the bonus with my additional winnings - currently primarily from STTs.
Yes you read it right, I am back to success in STTs after my months of drought. I am placing in nearly every NL Holdem STT I enter and even managed to win a PL OHL STT as well.
However I am starting to feel that I should really be trying to make a successful bankroll from Ring Gaming. I have been by far the most successful at Omaha H/L and I am overall far above the 1BB per hour rate for all sites I have been playing on. So I decided to set myself a challenge - I would deposit $25 into a site and work my way up in bankroll and also game stakes. My original plan was:
Bankroll | Game Stakes
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Bankrupt <-> $50 | 0.50c/$1 |
$50 <-> $100 | $1/$2
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$100 <-> $150 | $2/$4
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$150 <-> $200 | $3/$6
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After a little consideration, I have decided to have a $25 profit margin e.g. when I get to $75 bankroll, cash out $25 leaving $50 and then go up to $1/$2. Of course if the competition is rough and I go down in bankroll, I will subsequently drop in stakes as well and try and work my way back up again.
My next problem was what site to go to. I do play on Pokerstars a lot but the OHL action is not guarenteed there by any means. Every other site I have gone on also rarely have any OHL action at all. In the end I was left with:
EmpireParty PokerPokerstarsTitanI discounted Empire because it is now Party without the extras. Pokerstars also got dropped because I did not want to mix this exercise with any bonus clearance. That left Party Poker and Titan, so I thought I would log onto Party and see what the action was like.....only to be met with a $25 free money (after 250 raked hands) bonus offer. Well that clinched it (sorry Titan) as I could now put my plan into action without even depositing any money!
I have been playing on Party for four to five days so far and have been killing the 50c/$1 games (with a little software glitch which prevented me from getting on a table for an hour excluded). With 36 raked hands still to go, I have currently around $73 in my bankroll. This was primarily thanks to an aquarium of a table I went onto for an hour yesterday where people were calling maxed out river bets against my nut high hands (with no low possible) or where I got 3/4 pots (High and Split Low), and took $68 off of a $25 buy-in table. I have only ever bettered that one time on a $25 NL Holdem table where I took two buy-ins off of the same guy.
So hopefully on completion of the bonus hands I will move up to $1/$2 and see if I come unstuck.
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