My personal battle.
Last time you heard from me I was complaining and offering my ideas on how to play against the shortstacks. For me that was probably 30-40 thousand hands ago. I would like to talk about my recent battle to build my bankroll to a point where I could level up to higher stakes or add additional tables.
First I would like to give you some quick background about my game. My bankroll started at $300 on Ultimate Bet. With the help of Poker-Scholarship.com and Marios training sessions I have been able to consistently grow my bankroll playing at the NL10 tables. While these are very very low stakes it has been quite a grind. One other strange thing that Ultimate Bet offers is a max buy-in of 200BB for all their ring games. This is twice what most other sites will allow you to buy in for.
As my bankroll grew and I became more comfortable with my game I started to add more tables. I went from one to two, two to three, and then three to four. I grinded away playing four tables at once for quite some time. In the back of my head I needed to get to $750 in order for me to level up to 25NL. The reason why I had $750 in my head was because that would represent 30 buy-ins which is what I started 10NL with.
After one of my sessions Marios gave me a new plan. Once I was able to reach $525 I would be able to try the 25NL tables but with stipulations. The rules were I could only play one table, and I had to play with only 12$. If I busted twice I would go back to playing 10NL. So, I gave it a try and within 30 minutes I was back to $10NL. What went so wrong for me? I thought my game was solid but now I questioned it a little bit. What I came to realize was the level up, while it was meant to be very conservative and protect me from losing a huge part of my bankroll, was not the right kind for me. I went from playing 4 tables with a full stack (200BB) to playing one table with only 48 BB. I really was unable to play my solid game, I was out of my element and was faced with choices that were no longer second nature to me (like after a continuation bet I would find myself pot committed). After discussing this with Marios we decided that the next time I leveled up I would play with a buy in of 100BB (or 25$). Once my bankroll reached $550 I started playing 25NL. I also decided I would play two tables rather than the one. It went fairly well this time. My bankroll climbed to $575, then $600, then $625 and then $650. I started to add my other tables back and was feeling very comfortable at what seemed to be my new level.
Then I had my first wave of big (at least big to me) swings…
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BAHHHHHHH! I think multi-tabling is an okay factor in poker, but only under one condition.
That condition is that you feel comfortable at that limit, and you are a winning player at that limit, and ready to move up.
I think everyone should ONE table until they are a constant winning player at the limit they are at.And want to move up,and know the situations of there current limit and are really comfortable.Multi-tabling can increase your hr/rate,and increase your bankroll,so you can move up to the next limit faster.But I just dont like that robot style, you will take when multi-tabling unless your comfortable.
The UB dbl buy-in feature is crazy kind of good but kind of bad to lol.I would almost make sure I got a couple more buy-ins for the next level.But if your punishing the level before iam pretty sure the next level up should be a little easier.Just be a couple more TAGs.
Just wait for part 2. You will see more of my logic!