The Psychology of grinding and building a new BR

[Hullcity]

After getting my BR trapped on FT, I stuck 24$ on pokerstars and have been grinding and turned it into 39$ at 1c/2c 9 tabling. I have been able to play disciplined despite it being for such tiny stakes. Its taken me like 13 hours to do this! (using tracking software to help, normally doing other stuff online and play on autopilot unless something unusual happens) I was up to 35$ pretty quick and then hit a downswing and went down to 20$ and now had an upswing and hit 39$ now.

Grinding a bankroll up is very frustrating but I guess a lot of people will need to start again if they had their bankrolls on FT as it seems unlikely we will get it back for a while if ever. I wondered what peoples plan was? Is anybody starting from a small deposit again? I am gonna see if I can get to 100$ quick and then hit the 2c/5c and maybe mix in some 5.50 stts, I would like to try and get to gold on pokerstars this month maybe Platinum if I run hot enough and am able to move up.

[knifeboy62]

[Hullcity]

I was going for the max iron man bonus and cashing out and redepositing a lot would have hit my rakeback, obviously with hindsight I should have cashed the whole lot out as soon as it was obvious they couldnt pay the US players and relocated on another site, I just kind of felt entitled to that Iron Man bonus I had been grinding for. They also suckered me in with the take 2 bonus as well!, giving a large bonus which had to be cleared in a short space of time.

I am up to 44$ now on pokerstars. One thing about 1c/2c is that most of the profit seems to come from the big pots which seems to produce some variance as you encounter a lot of suckouts from donks calling all ins with flush draws etc

[Grumbledook]

I built mine up from 4 tabling limit hold'em with rakeback on a party skin

I can't stand limit hold'em now though

[evelyn]

Wouldn't it be quicker to play the micro sngs like boku87 did in his challenge ? I believe he played the 18s, 45s, 90s and 180s.

[Jagster]

Yes this is what Ive been doing for the last four years.

Oh wait a minute.......

[Hullcity]

when i last played in 2010 on there I had nearly cleared a 10$ steller bonus, they left it as it was and I just cleared it. My BR now stands at $53.44. I wonder if I should switch to the S+Gs. I remember i built a pokerstars bankroll from scratch (15$ deposit) back in 2009 in the 1.10 turbo 45 man s+gs

[evelyn]

That's what I'd do. You could check boku87's challenge for his bankroll management rules.

[Hullcity]

8 hours more of grinding NL2 this weekend! my bankroll stands at 63.18$. God knows how the live pros build a million $ from scratch playing only 1 table at once. Even playing 9 tables with some massive donks on them it can take a while to actually stack somebody. And most of the profit in NL2 seems to come from the big pots. There are some nits around tho surprisingly with stats like 12/8 and a 3 bet % of 2, I 3- bet one with QQ (which was a mistake as he wont play on with a worse hand, should see the flop to either set mine or keep his weaker hands in) without having checking the stats and when he 4 bet and I saw his stats i quickly folded. Im playing 18/15 and a 3 bet % of 6 which is fairly TAG. Hopefully i will hit a nice upswing soon. I may switch to the turbo s+gs soon as was suggested

[pembo]

[Hullcity]

[gandalf55]

[Hullcity]

grinding a bankroll from a tiny deposit is an art form! u need the dicipline of a tibetan monk. You have to deal with so many suckouts its unreal. I mean I had a hand when i 4 bet KK with 100bb stack and he calls to set mine with 88 and stacks me! and then in another 3 bet pot when I had KK somebody calls on the flop with the board reading jq2 with 33 and hit the 3 on the next card. Its the big pots that u have to wait for it seems, like when I flopped a set and 2 donks had top pair and refused to fold giving me their stacks. Of course you have to expect this in NL2 lol

I am curious if anybody here has grinded up a bankroll from a tiny deposit on a site and slowly moved up limits. Back in 2007 on my pacific poker account i went on and had like 50c left from before and i sat at a cash table and spun it up to 10$ and ended up playing 1$ s+gs and then moved on to the 5.50$ ones and then 10+1$ and then 20+2$ and some 30+3$ ones but there wasnt much player volume, i ended up cashing out $880 ish after like 4 months from when i found the 50c there. Back then I didnt know anything about rakeback, I am sure i would have made a lot more if I had that because pacific poker was super soft! but they didnt offer much incentives to the regs

It seems that people on this forum arnt that much into bankroll management they just deposit as and when. When I went on full tilt early in 2010 i just wacked on the full 600$ to get the signup bonus,

[identifier]

I turned 100 euros into 14k once. Took me about six months, but that was a long time ago.

Now all the discipline has gone (not to mention skill and time) it's impossible.

[Hullcity]