Joined: May '08
Location: Lithuania
Age: 40 (M)
Posts: 10090
well first of all: Good Luck! moving onwards- nice to see a goal that is realistic, also nice to see a dude who just plays for a few hours a week, not forgetting that there is life besides poker. hope you will be able to achieve your goal and don't forget to keep us updated.
Joined: Feb '09
Location: Serbia
Age: 45 (M)
Posts: 59
Posted by thefly131:
I play +/- 3 hours a week so that s why the goal is not that big.
Man playing +/- 3 hours a week is very, very low. That's probably only one day a week . Where is the practice , learning...... I Will be honest with you. You will probably lose all your money. Therefore I think it's better to play tournaments 1-5$ buy in. Maybe you will hit something .
So you want to win 300 EUR playing 3 hours a week for 52 weeks on NL10. That is 3000 big blinds in 156 hours of play, that is 19.2 big blinds per hour.
Say you play 100 hands/hour per table => You'd need to average 19.2 BB/100 if you play only 1 table, so that's not an option (that would be a very high win rate).
You'd need to play 6 tables at a 3.2 BB/100 winrate to achieve this. I hope you are good at multi tabling... I don't think it is an easy goal to achieve at all! Good luck!
Joined: Oct '08
Location: Estonia
Age: 49 (M)
Posts: 462
There have being several time, that i felt like starting thread like this. Later i found out, that it was upswing and im still not winning player. I have evolved from losing player to slowly losing player, but so far thats it. But i wish you luck. Keep us updated and also advice from personal experience - make sure you set limits to cashtables and SnG and MTT buyins (actual settings in pokersite, not in your head, they dont work so well PS - maube its my personal probelm and you dont tilt.
Joined: Jan '10
Location: Indonesia
Age: 61 (M)
Posts: 1875
Good idea, I hope with make this blog motivate you to play better.Maybe you good in multi tabling , just remind in bad mood ( after play few hand ) consider to not play too many table. Good luck. Waiting good news from you.
Joined: Oct '08
Location: Canada
Age: 67 (M)
Posts: 2423
Good luck on this quest, i'll read here every once in a while and see how your doing. there have been a few of these threads, but most have not been able to do it. Be nice to see somebody make it. Good Luck
Joined: Jun '10
Location: Belgium
Age: 52 (M)
Posts: 1457
Posted by bowie1984:
Posted by thefly131: was playing on 4 tables and after +/- 30 min was down 19 euros. could climb back a little and after 2 hours of poker left the tables with 191 euro
Out of the two hundred you started with? It's just not clear that you had 191 euro profit or 9 euro loss. Good luck though. This thread should be a blog instead.
could climb a little means I had 191 at the end, if I would have won 191 euro s it would not be a little
------------
Posted by rogan11000:
Posted by thefly131:
I play +/- 3 hours a week so that s why the goal is not that big.
Man playing +/- 3 hours a week is very, very low. That's probably only one day a week . Where is the practice , learning...... I Will be honest with you. You will probably lose all your money. Therefore I think it's better to play tournaments 1-5$ buy in. Maybe you will hit something .
I play poker for +/- 10 years so I think I know the poker basics. even if I only make it till 300 euro s at the end of the year it would be Ok fo me. The target is 500 but that still means any profit is OK.
For the calculators ... 300 euro profit in 50 weeks is 6 euro a week, which is 2 euro a hour so on 4 tables it is 0.5 euro/hour per table.
Joined: Jan '10
Location: Indonesia
Age: 61 (M)
Posts: 1875
Posted by thefly131: Little update
just played for +/- 1 hour and made little profit
I think ending a session with profit is always good
I agree, if you discipline with that principle and not play too much ( just in good mood or lucky moment play longer ). Stop play when make some profit, even small. I am sure you will make your goal ! Good luck .
Joined: Mar '09
Location: Greece
Age: 48 (F)
Posts: 14196
It is always good ending with profit, no matter how much that is. Even 1 cent The purpose is to climb up the ladder with less up and downs. It helps in your game too, mentally and psychologically. Better luck in your next sessions.
Joined: Jan '10
Location: Indonesia
Age: 61 (M)
Posts: 1875
I wish you are not lost your patient after play few days and not make profit yet Patient is most important factor in poker, right. I am sure one day you will get boom....upgrade your bankroll. Good luck
Joined: Jun '10
Location: Belgium
Age: 52 (M)
Posts: 1457
Posted by Serpang: I wish you are not lost your patient after play few days and not make profit yet Patient is most important factor in poker, right. I am sure one day you will get boom....upgrade your bankroll. Good luck
Well its time for a new poker session and made up my mind
Gonne play the 0.02/0.05 tables and try to collect some money there.
Joined: Oct '15
Location: Croatia
Age: 35 (F)
Posts: 9
dude sit on 2 tables with 25$ on 10 25 cents and you have for 4 rebuys... run it up to 500 = 20buyins or bust.... and then you play 10 25 trying to make 1500 for 25 50... 5 10 cent is cockroaching
Joined: Mar '09
Location: Greece
Age: 48 (F)
Posts: 14196
I dont know how you can do this, but so far i have never played a single poker game to relax It is quite the opposite. And if there is a bad beat in the way, then that word is out of my dictionary
Just follow the play style you are feeling comfortable.
