Slow and Steady...

Stick responded to my last post by suggesting that I move to the 1c/2c cash games to make the grind a bit less... grindy.

It's a good idea, and if the point of this whole bankroll strategy was to just make money as fast as possible, I would. I think I was a bit unclear on my reasoning behind what I'm doing, though, so let me clear things up a bit:

The point of all this isn't to make money, not yet. If I was trying to increase my cashflow, I'd deposit a bit and skip the micro stakes. The reason that I'm doing this, however, is because I don't think that I'm ready to move past the micro stakes. I want to follow a strict bankroll strategy, one that will reward good play in the long term, and then to just follow it until I'm playing well enough to make enough money to play higher stakes. It's a way for me to instill good bankroll habits within myself as well as a way to make sure that I'm really able to handle higher stakes.

The way I look at it is this: If I can't get past the grind to make it to the $1 sit n gos, and then the $2, and then $5, and so on, with this strategy, then I'm probably not ready to move up yet. Because I'm only doing sit n gos with such a low buyin proportional to my bankroll, the only way I can move up is to beat the games consistently and do well enough that my long term results propel me up into the range I need for the next level buyins.

It's going to be a grind, and it may get boring, but this way I'll know for sure that I'm able to handle the levels I'm playing at. It should help me hone my skills as I move up the levels, and it'll get me away from thinking about the money when I should be thinking about the cards. I think that, in the long run, it will improve my play tremendously, and then I'll be able to be successful.

Eventually, I may do a similar 'challenge' for cash games. Right now, my focus is on SnGs.

Also, while I could consolidate my bankrolls onto one site, I left a little on pokerstars so that I can just fool around in some random games without worrying about messing up my 'roll from time to time. The grind WILL get boring after a while, and sometimes I'm probably going to just want to mess around in a cash game or something, so I'll have my pokerstars account for that. Before I made that decision, I lost around $2 between a cash game and an MTT on UB, and I realized that it was messing with my SnG project, so I decided to leave all that to the pokerstars account.

In other news, as far as the actual progress on my UB project, I've been mostly playing the 'ultra-turbo' 6-man hold 'em SnGs. I've had some decent success so far, and I'm back up to $7 from the $4 that I was at after the aforementioned cash game/MTT. I'll post my views on the Ultra-Turbos in another post, though.