zek
Rock Star
Silver Level
If durrrr never took shots he'd never be playing the games he is now.
If durrrr never took shots he'd never be playing the games he is now.
I might have used the wrong term to start the thread. I'm stuck between conflicting rules. I set a bankroll rule at the beginning of the year that I would not start mixing in a new limit until I have at least 40 max buyins for that limit (cash tables) and 100 buyins for SNG's. The problem is that as I start to approach the next limit and 40 buyins for it I start also breaking the only play with money you care about rule. For example lets say you're playing for $10 in dimes and have $900. The limits above say don't start playing the $25 buyin for quarters until you have $1000, but when you have $900 you start to not care if you chuck away $10 here and there. Is it taking a shot? Is it reasonable to start mixing in some tables but not playing all the tables at the next limit until you have at least 40 buyins?
Well, if you really want to take shots, you really need to set a stop loss. Even at stakes that you beat by a significant edge, it's not entirely unusual to have downswings of 10, 20 buy-ins. Needless to say it's a lot more likely when you're playing stakes above those you're used to.
FWIW, I consider that I'm taking a shot when I play with less than 50 buy-ins for the stake. And I don't think that's a really clever thing to do unless there's a huge fish at the table.
Do you ever doubt your poker abilities when you get those 10-20 buyin downswings? I lost about 8 buyins last night and it made me wonder if I'm playing bad poker or if I was just on a bad run of cards.
Do you ever doubt your poker abilities when you get those 10-20 buyin downswings?
So while it doesn't meld with perfect BRM, I think "perfect" BRM is somewhat overstressed and can stifle the growth of other poker skills. Each person has to find their own, right, balance
So while it doesn't meld with perfect BRM, I think "perfect" BRM is somewhat overstressed and can stifle the growth of other poker skills. Each person has to find their own, right, balance
I'm the same. I don't even have to go through a downswing. I'm constantly questioning whether I actually have an edge at the tables.All the time.
Stu, your looking at it fairly basically, BRM can vary vastly from player to player.
While I consider being "rolled", for a game 100 buyin's, the wisdom out there is that 20 buyin's is enough, (really it isn't but whatever).
Taking myself as an example, I'm playing nl$50 with 150buyin's, and going by my own rules I'm under-rolled for nl$100. That is not going to stop me taking shots at a nl$100 game with a fish that I spot, or indeed stop me playing nl$200 on a live table. For me that's what I define as "taking a shot".