Comments on: $200 Experiment = Busto (The End)

By: Marios (Administrator)

Marios (Administrator) — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:17:58 +0000

It’s OK.
Time is not a problem so far.
I will have more free time (I think) from the upcoming week.

By: Jeremy Shupac (Fellow Poker Player)

Jeremy Shupac (Fellow Poker Player) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:00:11 +0000

Lol, ya HU is crazy.I lost my stack to boat vs. boat.He flopped it and I turned it lol.Then other one was I flopped a straight and he flopped Top Two and he rivered a boat after we got it all in on the flop.Then I kind of tilted and left lol.Hes a best friend so its all good,he is a gambler and kind of paid me back afterwards by buying into 1/2nl and said here you go whatever you make off this buy in you can have,so I made about 150bb in a hour there,so all is good.He knows how much I play poker so now hes got the bragging rights of telling me he beat me anyways lol.

Well mario we should make a time to play considering were pretty much 12hours time difference lol.And Ill log into my old school UB acct. and we coud play.

By: JimD

JimD — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:08:32 +0000

Good write up Jeremy. It is too bad that you ended up busting especially because the reasons you busted really were not really in the spirit of what you were trying to do.

I actually think that the reason you busted is fairly common among poker players. I think it is fair to say you were not disciplined enough in your bankroll management. Jumping to play heads up at a level that was far beyond what your bankroll dictated was not a very good idea (I have done it myself as well so don’t feel bad!). The way you responded to your poor heads up session also is another fairly common mistake. You were chasing your losses by playing higher stakes. Again, playing outside your bankroll.

I really do not know much about your skill level (and mine certainly has a long way to go) but I know the biggest leak that I used to have in my game was playing outside of my bankroll. This is clearly what occurred for you and it illustrates exactly WHY we need to set good bankroll limits (to protect ourselves against coolers and bad beats aka the variance).

When you do end up reloading and trying the experiment again I hope you stay within your bankroll. It will be interesting to see how the experiment works out with strict bankroll management. Good luck!

By: Marios (Administrator)

Marios (Administrator) — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:21:02 +0000

Wow… Jeremy.. That’s sick!
I mean.. You have made so much work to study your opponents and focus more on your game and then boom!

Heads up is a sick game.
Are you gonna start again with the same approach to the game? Same stakes?

Buy the way… We can play some time with other two poker-scholarship.com guys on Ultimate Bet
Of course in private table NL2 or a SNG for cents (I don’t want us to play for money).

Good luck Jeremy!