How long did it take you to manage your BR properly?

[assassinkgb]

I've been playing for two years live and one year online...BR management is definitely the biggest obstacle I face. I take my wins and try to jump stakes before my BR can handle it in hopes of seeing big jumps in BR in a short time (paradoxically leading to huge drops in my BR in a short time). I think most of it comes down to air-tight tracking and unwavering self-discipline (I have problems maintaining the latter :-\ ).

 

[micalupagoo]

BRM is a crucial part of a long term successful game,
that being said, after 10 years,
I still break the rules sometimes (and usually regret it)

if you dont want to be a repeat depositor or rely on freerolls, learn BRM

 

[timfbmx]

Well from the start I knew BRM was a very important part of poker. If you don't impliment it into your game, you won't succeed. So I learned very early on that I needed to manage my poker money very carefully if I really want to take this stuff seriously. It is probably the #1 most important thing in my opinion is BRM.

 

[thatgreekdude]

It took me a good few months to truly grasp it but even now I occasionally play a game above my limitations which is fine, you just need to know when to quit.

 

[vinylspiros]

still havent managed to manage my BR correctly. It seems as though the more i have the greedier i get.

 

[exostenz]

I FAIL

I start out disciplined and then it all goes wrong. Sometimes i manage to go several weeks of good bankroll management but then it all gets messed up for me as in a tourney that I am doing well on sees my AA get busted by some ridiculous hand and conveniently at the same time another tourney on a totally different site goes the same way it gets me mental its as though its happening by design.. even though i know it is not the case

 

[exostenz]

I FAIL

I start out disciplined and then it all goes wrong. Sometimes i manage to go several weeks of good bankroll management but then it all gets messed up for me as in a tourney that I am doing well on sees my AA get busted by some ridiculous hand and conveniently at the same time another tourney on a totally different site goes the same way it gets me mental its as though its happening by design.. even though i know it is not the case

 

[Sil3ntness]

I'm probably terrible with BRM. This is tournament section, but I play mainly cash now. I jump from 4 NL to 10 NL to 25 NL all the way up to 100 NL.

I could lose a whole buyin at 100 NL and be fine, but it wouldn't be a smart thing for me to do. I was tempted to play 200 NL, but I slapped some sense into my head. (This is full ring BTW) I couldn't dare enter a 200/400 NL or 300/600 NL 6 max table. The regs would immediately realize I'm new prey to the table.

 

[n3rv]

Took 2 or 3 months and 2 or 3 big hits. Still not perfect of course - overly conservative at the moment.

 

[Riceman1681]

Hmmm...well I think its not so important so long as you have some disposable income if you go busto. For a pro of course, and for amateurs who do not have a refillable source for their roll it is the number 1 consideration if you want to keep on playing. So far I am a big $ loser in this game, although in the 180 games I play as a reg I am marginally profitable. Where I have lost the most $ is a) in the year I started out and b) in MTT buyins, where I am yet to score big. But as I have a job when one roll runs out I just refill it from my own pocket. I think of playing outstide of my roll as a kind of cheat...in that I am trying to take a shortcut by binking an MTT I can't really afford in BR terms. So...if you can never afford to go busto its a hugely important factor, but if you can afford to now and then its one possible path to quick success...or to the bank to request an overdraft extension.

I am sure there must be huge degens who the minute they get $1000 in their roll they play five $200 MTTs...obviously this is never going to end well. With a $1000 roll a normal day for me would be 20 or so $8 180 turbos with a sprinkling of $15 180s finishing off with a big $11 and a $27 KO MTT. If I had a very good day and made $1200 I might treat myself to a Big $55. And even this schedule is well outside good BR limits.

But I know it will come round in the end...that big MTT score will only elude me for so much longer.

 

[JohnCPoker17]

On every hit I make, I try to take time to develop my a game a slight bit more before moving up. Lately I haven't been playing the best, and of course BRM has a large bit to do with that. I feel I can play with $50-100 in my account and be profitable in $10BI (refilling when I lose), but from a psychological viewpoint I feel the $100 is too small, so I always end up losing it. Again, I feel my brain cares less about the game if it's any less than that BI. I need to deposit enough roll in order to reinforce my speedy habits

 

[Riceman1681]

On every hit I make, I try to take time to develop my a game a slight bit more before moving up. Lately I haven't been playing the best, and of course BRM has a large bit to do with that. I feel I can play with $50-100 in my account and be profitable in $10BI (refilling when I lose), but from a psychological viewpoint I feel the $100 is too small, so I always end up losing it. Again, I feel my brain cares less about the game if it's any less than that BI. I need to deposit enough roll in order to reinforce my speedy habits

I hear you. Another reason I lost soooo much in the first year of playing was because I started out with the $8 180 stars turbos. It is only after playing these for a couple of years that I began to realise that some household names in poker are total regs in these games, esp. the $15 180 turbos. About the first thing my coach said to me was "do you realise these are some of the toughest games online? Period".

Well, I cannot say I paid too much heed. Only a few hours with the guy turned me from a reg loser to a reg winner in these games, and I knew if I learned to beat these I would be well conditioned for the MTTs I play, and which are my first love in poker. And also as JohnC points out, I have to play a stake that maintains my interest in the game. I dropped to the $2.50 180 turbos for a while and my win rate went through the floor. All that work and thought and rungood and I win $125? Forget it. Not interested. I kept trying to tell myself that if I could take a single game's winnings from a $2.50 after playing 25 a day, this was so much better than breaking even in the $8 games. But they simply could not maintain my interest. Which is quite possibly pretty stupid thinking. As they say..."10% of something is better than 100% of nothing". Hmmm...maybe I'll take another look at those $2.50s!!!

 

[milka1605]

I've never been a loser. I play only freerolls and tournaments very rarely with micro Bain. Is why any BR does not bother me. The money , I spend on poker is not. Let the , I win a little, but are always in ++++.