Thanks for all the ‘gl’s’, really. Was a little nervous putting the post up and it feels good to see to some nice responses. Going to put in a little session now but though id just stick up a reply first to clear up the whole ‘Is this a level or not’.
What sites are you playing on?
I will pretty much be playing exclusively on stars for now just because I’m a supernova there still and have some good bonus’ half way cleared. In the past few years most of my play has always been split pretty much equally between party, f-tilt and stars due to how easy the software is to use and there being plenty of traffic at all times, that’s what usually puts me off the euro site.
I’ll be playing under the name DesperadoGM on stars, I suppose I may as well out it now since it has been already =D. I just didn’t want this thread easily google-able for everyone who I have/will play against lots since I was planning on posting odd hands, stats and thoughts. Keeping alias’ out of hand histories will probably keep it hidden enough I guess.
How much do you have to take out of your roll for living expenses each month?
I tend to just take chunks out of my roll for expenses at a time rather than month by month, with each month spending varying hugely. I guess I can survive on 1k a month for a little while without it affecting my life happiness too much as I shouldn’t have any major expenses coming up (hopefully). Though I do plan on booking a summer holiday soon but FPPs should be covering this.
why not just get staked to play 1/2?
As someone who is also terrible with bankroll management would you not consider staking? It's definitely right for me.
Typically I have always declined staking when offered. I tried it once and just felt a huge pressure on me to succeed for the staker, some days more stress than losing my own money even if I was up overall. It also felt kind of tough to be accountable to someone who was looking over hands played and knowing that they will often disagree with decisions that you have made. I just hate letting people down and the end result is that it probably affects my game and maybe my life happiness even more to lose someone else’s money than my own. Maybe its something I need to get over. Definitely something to think about and perhaps if I can’t work things out on my own I will take somebody up on it.
Online staking would probably never be much of a problem since I am more known to online players than live ones and it’s pretty easy these days to prove yourself a winning player online given so many databases etc. Live staking might be harder to find as honestly I have never proved myself live (being a loser over the last ~2months). Also I don’t feel that I even played as well as I could/should have so probably nobody should put their money behind me anyway. A few people may take pieces of my in games or put me in smaller live games but with the number of hands I can play online coupled with the bonus’s I would probably need to play a decent sized £1/£2 live game if I was staked in order make it worthwhile doing right now (and the variance is going to take a lot longer to balance out live).
Also, what is your name? Do you know any of the many DTD blonde regs?
My names Ged, think I may have played some 2/5 at DTD with you and Pete.C once if you are Kos(?). Not really sure who are the DTD people on here but I know Mitch and Jakally (Neil) who have posted. I think I know george2 loose as well if it’s who I think it is.
I have one question already. You say you're not rolled for anything more than the 25c/50c games online, but feel you have a big enough roll for the £1/£2 games at DTD. They can be very swingy, and isn't playing under-rolled a recipe for disaster.
Would you not consider playing the £.50/£1 games and grinding a profit on them - or do you mix it up between the two?
I don’t have the roll to play 1/2 at DTD anymore for sure. I did have for a while but have lost ~£15k over the last month between online and live (damn £2/£5 is unbeatable!! :-P... sigh). I’ll probably jump back into the £1/£2 if I can get back up over £10k again.
Again with the .5/1 games, I’m just not sure it’s worthwhile to grind for 8 hours a night if it’s only getting something like 30 hands an hour. With them being capped buy in of £100 at DTD and the rake being so high the profitability vs. short run variance doesn’t look too good considering it would probably require a similar bankroll as one that could allow me to play $0.50/$1 online.
Did anyone else read the title of this thread, see how it started off and think is this Blatch?
Haha, defo not Blatch. Hopefully that will be the last thing that ever causes confusion between the two of us.
thanks Neil, will do
on with the thread.....
Thanks Tight and Neil .
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