Ok, OK I said I'll contribute so here goes. I really enjoy this thread, but I was a little weary about putting my experiences on here, mainly coz I didn't want to put this kiss of death on my roll
. At the end of the day it's about sharing experiences and support, and my long term goal would be at some stage to create my own blog so this maybe the stepping stone I need.
So I'll just give a little brief on how I gained my roll. I deposited $200 on Stars last April and built it up on SnG's. Got up to playing the $30 regularly and occasionally the $50's. It got really swingy though and my roll took a heavy loss. I switched over to cash last October and went straight into the deep end at the $50nl and $100nl 6max. For 50,000 hands I was break even
. Ended up dropping down to the 25nl and I have been grinding it out since and built my Stars roll upto around $1870 on the 20/01/08.
In early December
partypoker decided to credit my dormant account with the sum of $35. Well I went on a run that you can only dream of. I played a $33 sng and finished 2nd, roll stood at about $75. I then played $25nl ( I know, BRM, but tbh I wasn't really that bothered whether I lost it as I was messing around ) and built it up to around the $500 mark within 2-3 days. I then qualified for the Sunday $300k and finished in the money for $400 ish and my roll was at $900. A week later I finished 4th in the $8k for around $600 and I progressed up to the $50nl 6 max games. As of the 20/01/08 my Party roll was $1685 for a combined total of $3555.
So my roll is almost equally split across 2 sites. I suppose theoretically I'm rolled for $100nl, but I want to get both accounts up to $3000 area before I venture onto that level. I still rate my stars account as my main playing account, I love the VPP/FPP and am at Goldstar level. My 1st goal for this year is to reach Platinum asap. But the level of play on Stars is much harder that Party, Party is a total fishfest
. I supose in the near future if all goes well I will be looking to take advantage of bonus and rakeback at FTP but we'll see.
So Day 0 100% ($3555)
Day1 105% ($3718) Played solely on Stars today, about 1200 hands, as I'm trying to get to Goldstar.
Day2 111% ($3959) Played both sites today for around 2800 hands and a winrate of 8.5ptbb/100.
Day3 111% ($3943) Just Stars today for 1000 hands, reached Goldstar
.
Day4 113% ($4028) 1300 hands over both sites.
Day5 112% ($3997) Wow sick night. Started playing Stars last night and dropped just over 4 buy ins over 1400 hands and thought sod this. Opened up Party and over 800 hand I won 4 buy ins to drag my ass out of the fire. Could have been a really bad day. BTW Party have a promotion on at the moment, If your Aces get cracked they give you some money back, at the levels I was playing $50nl it was $10 I think. I must have got AA at least 6 times last night and every time I thought I'm gonna get cracked here, thankfully it never happened. GL all.
