Scottish Dave's Bankroll Experiment

[Scottish Dave]

Quite simple really, if you really need the money, you won't mind filling in 5 forms to get a substantial overdraft, rather than just clicking 5 buttons.

Unlikely to ever happen, people spending money they don't have on frivolous things is good for the economy, and the repayments are good for the financial institutions.

I think at the very least, there should be a little bit of debt awareness lessons in school to 16 year olds.

  100% I too am one of the frivolous ones- I'm not long out of uni and in quite a bit of debt- nobodys fault but my own, but what I can say is that when I first started uni I wasnt exactly the maturist of people and when you get all these institutions throwing money at u its hard to resist- indeed I only joined the Natwest bank because I got a free £50 joining fee- now I've got a 2 grand overdraft that I pretty much blew on curries and nights out- who's the stupid one now, hmm the bank for giving me 50 quid for nothing or me for takin out an overdraft that essentially was booze tokens- they're certainly not daft them banks.

Precisely!

[Robert HM]

Reverting back to STT results. Further lesson leant, don't play when your over tired or feeling cocky:

Date   Finish   Profit
03-Aug   1   $8.40
03-Aug   1   $8.40
03-Aug   1   $8.40
03-Aug   1   $8.40
04-Aug   1   $8.40
04-Aug   2   $3.00
04-Aug   6   -$3.30
04-Aug   5   -$3.30
04-Aug   4   -$3.30

[Scottish Dave]

Reverting back to STT results. Further lesson leant, don't play when your over tired or feeling cocky:

Date   Finish   Profit
03-Aug   1   $8.40
03-Aug   1   $8.40
03-Aug   1   $8.40
03-Aug   1   $8.40
04-Aug   1   $8.40
04-Aug   2   $3.00
04-Aug   6   -$3.30
04-Aug   5   -$3.30
04-Aug   4   -$3.30

Judging my the profit / loss amounts compared to the buy in, i take it these are 6 handed STT's?

[Robert HM]

yep, looks awful

[thetank]

Can't win em all Robert.

[Sark79]

I have been playing lots of STT on pokerstars over the last couple of days.  I took a chunk of cash out of betfair and was going to redeposit into pokerstars.  The re sizable tables are easier to manipulate than betfairs big tables and it avoids clicking all over the place.   My pokerstars BR has grown by $32 playing tiny STT ( $3) over the last couple of days .   I don't feel I need to re-deposit now and plan to contine to play the tiny STT until I get over $150.   At that point, I will employ tanks Pyramid Strategy to STT.

I was wondering if STT is a good way to learn games other than Hold-Em.  I keep planning to learn new games, but in the end always go back to hold-em.  My last leap into other games resulted in the reason my pokerstars BR is so low now ( $2/4 Stud= pain ).  The opportunity to play other games and learn using a $3 STT looks appealing.

Is STT a good way to learn other games or is low limit cash games the way to go?   Any thoughts would be appreciated.  I know tank and Wardonkey are the resident STT experts, did you folks ever use other games to build your BR? 

[Graham C]

Sark, have a bash at the 18 man sng's.  The games aren't any harder and the prize money is that much greater.  I think the 18 mans are mainly turbos which you may not be fussed about but they are a good game and a great way of boosting the bankroll.

[Sark79]

ok, ty Graham.  I will try them later. 

[Ironside]

turbo on stars are about as fast as many sng on other sites

[thetank]

I'm not so proud that I can't admit my advice was poor.

Pyramiding = pisch.

Sark, I'm sorry. Anyone else who has wasted time with this "seemed like a good idea at the time" system, I'm sorry too.

[Swordpoker]

I quite liked it.

Used it for some hu matching to practice my hu play for sng in-the-money sections. With hu I could only play 1 table at a time so it worked quite well for me. I agree that it's not much use for multi-tabling though.

[Sark79]

Claire, I played your even eviler twin on pokerstars earlier. Claw99, she knocked me out of my STT.  I went all in with AA, she called with 2,2 and then hit two 2's on the board.

[Claw75]

Claire, I played your even eviler twin on pokerstars earlier. Claw99, she knocked me out of my STT.  I went all in with AA, she called with 2,2 and then hit two 2's on the board.

mwahaha - wasn't me, honest!

[mikee_j]

Sark, have a bash at the 18 man sng's.  The games aren't any harder and the prize money is that much greater.  I think the 18 mans are mainly turbos which you may not be fussed about but they are a good game and a great way of boosting the bankroll.

i started playing these the otherday. i played about 8 in a row and didn't make the cash in any?!?!! i kept getting outdrawn ALL the time! was ready to smash my laptop. these 18 man STT are great fun and at $1.50 they are the cheapeast STT on stars i think. although they do go up to higher limits, my BR can't afford any higher.

also been playing loads of $3 STT turbos on stars. Deosited $50 and see how far i can go with it. Using Wardonkeys strategy is really good, i used to play a similar strategy but his is perfect! for me at least.

[Sark79]

I can't seem to cash in any of them right now.  I had eleven cashes in a row.  Now I have gone 14 without cashing.  Every time I get Kings, he has Aces, etc.  I am getting outdrawn big time.  To be honest, I think I have the ability to control the cards using my mind.  When ever my opponent needs his card to win, I just know it is going to fall for him.  I think I might be mentally controlling his cards and giving him goods ones. I will probably be in X-Men 4 and live in Charles Xavier's school of excellence with Hallie Berry