So I started by playing 1 cent/2cent NL ring games . . . terrible poker. People don't fold to five cent raises. So I sat down with $2, and quickly got down to $1.75. I decided it would be better to play short stacked at a higher table.
So I ventured over to a 2cent/5cent NL table. Did a bit better here. The people surprisingly played reasonable poker, and after an hour I worked my stack from $2.50 to $3.76. Yes, you read that right, in one hour I made $1.26.
This is going to take awhile.
My early reflections are this . . . this is a TREMENDOUS task, and the bulk of the work is done early on. When I was tinkering with the percentages during my play last night, I realized that I will not graduate to a higher table until I have about $200 dollars in my bank roll. That is light years away! I really didn't realize what I was getting myself into, but I am really starting to see the importance of it. According to these principles, I should not sit down at a $1/$2 NL table at a casino with $200 (my standard procedure) unless I have about $10,000 in my poker bank roll (thats laughable). This really put things in perspective for me. Playing session number two comes tonight . . . this is way more interesting than I thought it would be, and I will have to learn to harness my chi. Always end with a rhyming couplet.
Day One ending bank roll: $16.12 . . . ugh.
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