Time to focus on cash games and building my poker bankroll
Posted by: Travis Johnston / Category: Bankroll, Cash Game, OnlineYou may have noticed my post in the past have been a little all over the place. That is because I have been into a little bit of everything in poker. Although my result online have been steadily improving over time nothing has been even close to breakout. The problem is I sit down each night and open 2 tournaments windows followed by 1-2 sit & goes and 2-4 cash games. This is lot of fun for me as I usually make it into the top 30 in at least one of tournaments, cash in one of the sit & goes and often double up in one of the cash games. The time investment in those tournaments is huge though and I believe I could make a lot more in the same hours in a cash game. Also by spreading myself that thin in so many different types of poker is not allowing me to learn quickly at any one of them.
Time to focus. I am choosing to only play cash games until I am at the $5-10 level and have at least a 15k bankroll. After that I can go back and focus on sit & goes and multi-table tournaments. I am giving myself 2 weeks for each of the 6 levels from .01 – .02 until .5 – 1.0. Then 4 weeks for the remaining 4 levels from 1-2 to 5-10. 28 weeks in total or till Feb 15 2010. This means proper bankroll management of never putting more than 5% of my money into any one game and getting up when I have 10% of my money at any table ( through double ups or massive losses at other tables ) .
Let you know how it goes. If anyone has been through this run before and has any tips I would kill to hear them.
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Tags: Bankroll, Cash Games, Poker, Texas Holdem
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