My name is Terrance Browning, I Have been playing on poker for almost 5 years now. I play online poker on a website called +PokerStars and I have never really been too successful. I have only placed in a high stakes tourney once about 2 years back and won $160.00 and placed 7th in the tourney. Lately I have been attempting to play poker a little more strategically using the "bankroll management" theory, I call it a theory because I have yet to prove it.
A couple days ago I was strolling on the +PokerStars "private" section for tournaments when I came across a freeroll tourney website call +BankrollMob. It was at this website where I registered for an account so I can have access to there freeroll passwords. Passwords are released 15 Minutes befor the tourney begins. Each month or two the website pays out to members of the +BankrollMob Leaderboard and you can earn more cash. I have made it a goal of mine to stop spending money for a bankroll and create one for free.
On this Blog I will update my Bankroll on the days that I play poker. I will Provide the information of which tourneys I entered where I got the passwords what place I finished in and how much money I received for the tourney.
Joined: Apr '11
Location: Romania
Age: 35 (M)
Posts: 6669
Good luck at those freerolls but you should know from beginning that those are pretty hard to make money due to large numbers of players that are not members of brm.
Anyways good luck on your quest and make sure to keep this blog/thread updated
Day two on blogging my bankroll from my +PokerStars account, I'm midway through a couple of freerolls right now, but I have already played in two today. I was doing well in one, until I was all-in with pocket 10's (I had less than 15 BB). I was called by the table chip leader whom had a pair of pocket 7's. The flop drew a seven and my stronger pockets were beat out by a three-of-a-kind. Well, what can you do.
I was waiting for the next freeroll to start up when I decides to join the cash tables with a small portion of my already small bankroll. I bought into the $0.01/$0.02 tables with a mere $1.00. I played about 2 blind rounds until I hit AQs. I played it strong re-raising a raise when the ace hit the flop. I pushed in half my stack where I was re-raised by the pre-checker. I called, he shows AK off. My first dollar gone, not a great start I think to myself. I jump back into another table where I played with $2.00 and played for about 45Min until I was up after aggressive/ loose style. not too many people called my bets. Now, I know I went against bankroll management by playing with $2.00 but I will do my best to stick to the plan from now on.
Finished the day off without placing decent in any freerolls today and didn't earn any extra's.
I took the day off from playing poker yesterday February 14th for numerous reasons. The clear one being that it was valentines day, so I spent the time that I could with the girlfriend when I wasn't working. Now I apologize in advance to anyone reading this blog today and I hope it does not offend anyone in anyway.
So Far today I joined one +BankrollMob freeroll and lost pretty early into the tournament with pocket Q's to a A6 off-suit he hit a pair or sixes off the flop then hit the ace on the river. I find it very difficult to win anything in the freeroll tournaments that +PokerStars has to offer online for there are so many bad players willing to throw all their chips in on nothing. But at the same time this works out for the better sometimes, just not lately with my last freeroll win taking place three days back when I first started this blog.
After i lost in this freeroll tournament I got a little discouraged with the freerolls so I attempted to join two buy in sit&go's for $1.50 each. There were 10 people at each tournament and 5 places getting paid depending on how many chips they have left. I only placed in 1 of the 2 tournaments winning $2.71 which means I'm still down -($0.29)
I watched a couple videos today on +YouTube with +Rocky Daniel Negreanu the Professional poker player from +PokerStars and got some advice on how to play headsup style poker. I decided to take what I learned today and bring it to the tables. Once again i would like to apologize if this next comment. I joined another $1.50 headsup style poker against a player from Russia. (I feel as though poker players play differently depending on where they live.) This comment is somewhat a stereotype, but I defiantly respond to bets from people with consideration of where they live. Russians are very aggressive betters when it comes to poker. With that into consideration I played my hands accordingly. I won this Tournament to adding +($1.38) to my bankroll.
When I was in the fifty50 tournaments I was talking about in the first paragraph I lost one tournament so I joined a Cash table. The blinds were set at [$0.01/$0.02] and I joined the table with $1.00 and left with ($1.25) only after paying for 2 blinds. +($0.25)
Alright, I'm done playing poker for the night. I joined 2 more $1.50 fifty50 tournaments and ended up winning first place in both for an accumulated total of +($4.38) profit! Great news for me and if anyone is following!
My current bankroll is (11.63) +(5.72) from my last post
Joined: Feb '11
Location: Slovenia
Age: 33 (M)
Posts: 109
Great job!
Nice project. Bankroll management isn't as much of a theory as it is one of the two most important ingredients for this game to work. Another is, you guessed it, strategy.
Nice goin with the roll so far, if you're capable of multitabing I'd suggest you start playing their $0.25 90-man SnG - same prizepool, less people. Pokerstars is a big room, so you will find both harcore grinders at the micro levels, as well as a critical mass of idiots, that don't know when to fold. It's alright, as long as they don't suck out
Joined: May '11
Location: Canada
Age: 34 (M)
Posts: 979
i found when i had a relatively small bankroll just playing the 10 cent 360 man SnG's to be quite enjoyable and semi-profitable if you can call it that, but good luck with your grinding, im also trying to make something out of starting with nothing myself this time around
Joined: Feb '11
Location: Slovenia
Age: 33 (M)
Posts: 109
Posted by pochui:
Posted by KowKain: a critical mass of idiots, that don't know when to fold.
i like the sounding of that
'Tis nothing but the truth
You really don't need more than $10 to grind up a small Broll. In the beggining of this month, that's what I had had, and look at me now - im sitting on a $160 pile of dough. Minus the deposit I made - $64. Still something, aint it?
Joined: Feb '13
Location: Canada
Age: 34 (M)
Posts: 54
Friday February 16th Hello fellow Poker enthusiasts,
I Didn't take the day off from poker yesterday I was just too busy to blog my update. yesterday I had a lot of poker action without much success. Here is a list of tournaments that I entered yesterday with there buy-in amount and other information.
1.$1.50 fifty50 NL [TURBO] with 10 people ---------------------------------------------- Lost 2.$1.50 NL [TURBO] with 9 people ------------------------------------------------------- Lost 3.I joined 2 cash tables [$0.01/0.02] at once with $2.00 at each table. only left with $0.08 at one. 4.Current Bankroll @ $6.71. I join $1.50 fifty50 NL [TURBO] with 10 people ------ Won ($3.93) 5.$1.50 fifty50 NL [TURBO] with 10 people ---------------------------------------------- Lost 6.$1.50 fifty50 NL [TURBO] with 10 people ---------------------------------------------- Lost 7.$1.50 fifty50 NL [TURBO] with 10 people -------------------------------- Placed 4th with ($2.80) 8.$1.50 fifty50 NL [TURBO] with 10 people -------------------------------- Placed 3th with ($2.75) 9.$1.50 fifty50 NL [TURBO] with 10 people -------------------------------- Placed 4th with ($2.53) 10.$1.50 fifty50 NL [TURBO] with 10 people -------------------------------- Placed 2th with ($3.06) 11.$1.50 fifty50 NL [TURBO] with 10 people ---------------------------------------------- Lost 12.$1.50 fifty50 NL [TURBO] with 10 people ---------------------------------------------- Lost 13.$1.50 fifty50 NL [TURBO] with 10 people -------------------------------- Placed 5th with ($2.27) 14.$1.50 fifty50 NL [TURBO] with 10 people -------------------------------- Placed 1th with ($3.63) 15.**$3.50 fifty50 NL [TURBO] with 10 people ------------------------------------------- Lost 16.**$1.50 fifty50 NL [TURBO] with 10 people ------------------------------ Placed 2th with ($8.03)
After All these tournaments spending on average 25 minutes at each one playing four at a time my Final Bankroll for yesterday is BANKROLL: $11.90 +($0.27) from my last post
Today I made a big win in the $100k Privilege Freeroll on PokerStars Here are the results of my finish: you can watch the last 5 hands that I played in this tournament at this +YouTube link that I have compiled to make it easier.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?edit=vd&v=vF3D9PI-6u8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PokerStars Tournament #682420910, No Limit Hold'em Freeroll 25000 players $1000.00 USD added to the prize pool by PokerStars Total Prize Pool: $2993.20 USD Tournament started 2013/02/17 10:00:00 ET
Dear RFIDchips,
You finished the tournament in 127th place. A USD 1.61 award has been credited to your Real Money account. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ After the above tournament I was pretty exhausted so I got out of my chair and cleaned up the house for the girlfriend and the night. (Sunday night Poker). We have a couple people come over and play some fun poker have a couple brews and listen to music. good times. After cleaning the house I updated the blog with the tournaments that I entered from the day before. . . . I In This Tournament I wasn't playing as tight as the above tournament but I was still semi-successful
PokerStars Tournament #682420966, No Limit Hold'em Freeroll 25000 players $1000.00 USD added to the prize pool by PokerStars Total Prize Pool: $3057.10 USD Tournament started 2013/02/17 15:00:00 ET
Dear RFIDchips,
You finished the tournament in 721st place. A USD 0.76 award has been credited to your Real Money account. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After playing in these tournaments for a very long period of time (nearly 5 hours altogether) I decided join a couple of sit& go's and finished off the day with my BANKROLL at a successful $17.23 +(5.33) from my last post.
------------ THANKS BRM FOR THE FREE $10 on PKR So today I was approved for the $10 Free on the PKR.com website. I jumped on and was very successful here are my results from playing
-------------------------------------------------------------------- OUT ------ IN------BANKROLL BALANCE 19/02/2013 02:36:32 Got up from table 49082230 ----- $43.87 $43.87 19/02/2013 02:28:22 Sat down at table 49082230 $39.87 ----- $0.00 18/02/2013 22:08:16 Bonus Payment ----- $5.00 $39.87 18/02/2013 22:08:16 Got up from table 49056512 ----- $34.87 $34.87 18/02/2013 21:52:42 Rebought at table 49056512 $13.51 ----- $0.00 18/02/2013 21:52:13 Got up from table 49079398 ----- $13.51 $13.51 18/02/2013 21:50:49 Sat down at table 49056512 $8.60 ----- $0.00 18/02/2013 21:41:08 Got up from table 49079818 ----- $3.22 $8.60 18/02/2013 21:32:50 Sat down at table 49079398 $17.65 ----- $5.38 18/02/2013 21:24:39 Sat down at table 49079818 $5.00 ----- $23.03 18/02/2013 21:06:08 Got up from table 49079050 ----- $10.38 $28.03 18/02/2013 20:58:39 Got up from table 49079398 ----- $17.65 $17.65 18/02/2013 20:16:27 Sat down at table 49079398 $8.34 ----- $0.00 18/02/2013 20:02:19 Got up from table 49074911 ----- $8.34 $8.34 18/02/2013 20:02:14 Sat down at table 49079050 $6.00 ----- $0.00 18/02/2013 19:57:57 Got up from table 49075983 ----- ----- $6.00 18/02/2013 19:31:53 Sat down at table 49075983 $2.00 ----- $6.00 18/02/2013 19:25:23 Sat down at table 49074911 $2.00 ----- $8.00
What a Great day, I like the set up of this poker room. THANKS TO BRM for the free $10!!
Edited by RFIDchips (19 February 2013 @ 03:25 GMT)
------------ alright so I've taken a brief break from my pokerstars account to work on my PKR Bankroll. After another couple of successful days on the poker site my curret bankroll is at $69.84 Thanks BRM once again!
Edited by RFIDchips (20 February 2013 @ 23:13 GMT)
