| Posted by: skoldpadda at April 30, 2007, 1:24 am | | Topic: More about Ferguson's $0 to $10000 Forum: Card Chat |
Ok, thanks for the clarification. I have been playing 2/4 cent limit hold 'em the past 2 days since I won my buck and have built to $4.05 so far. I look for high % of players entering pot and high pot average. Since I'm ultra-tight in my hand selection, when I enter and get a good flop I stand to earn the most the most quickly.
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| Posted by: JimboJim at April 30, 2007, 1:08 am | | Topic: More about Ferguson's $0 to $10000 Forum: Card Chat |
Quote: Originally Posted by skoldpadda
I don't quite understand this. For example, I recently won a buck in a freeroll. If I sit at a cash game, I'm supposed to get up if I have more than 10 cents in front of me or $1.10? How can you increase a bank roll from a measely starting amount. I read this article a month or so ago... it's just being reprinted with a more recent date.
First off:
I'll never buy into a cash game or a Sit & Go with more than 5 percent of my total bankroll (there is an exception for the lowest limits: I'm allowed to buy into any game with a buy-in of $2.50 or less).
I won't buy into a multi-table tournament for more than 2 percent of my total bankroll and I'm allowed to buy into any multi-table tournament that costs $1.
And he ment that if he's winning he'll leave if he has won $7 on the table and only a $50 Bankroll. When you are first starting off there are pretty much no rules until you have a bankroll that can at least suppor... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: hott_estelle at April 30, 2007, 1:07 am | | Topic: More about Ferguson's $0 to $10000 Forum: Card Chat |
Quote: Originally Posted by skoldpadda
I don't quite understand this. For example, I recently won a buck in a freeroll. If I sit at a cash game, I'm supposed to get up if I have more than 10 cents in front of me or $1.10? How can you increase a bank roll from a measely starting amount. I read this article a month or so ago... it's just being reprinted with a more recent date.
Yes, you are, if you're going with the ery conservative BR management rules (like Chris Ferguson is here). This method allows you to minimize big pots, or chances of losing big pots, and makes it more likely that you will end each session with a profit. It requires a lot of patience to do this at the micro levels, but if your BR can only sustain that much, then you have to deal with it. This is why I avoided the ring games in online poker, until I had amassed a BR of around $1000+ in order to begin to play the $50 Max tables at the least. It's easier to make a decent BR through SnGs with a small BR than ri... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: skoldpadda at April 30, 2007, 12:57 am | | Topic: More about Ferguson's $0 to $10000 Forum: Card Chat |
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If at any time during a No-Limit or Pot-Limit cash-game session the money on the table represents more than 10 percent of my total bankroll, I must leave the game when the blinds reach me.
I don't quite understand this. For example, I recently won a buck in a freeroll. If I sit at a cash game, I'm supposed to get up if I have more than 10 cents in front of me or $1.10? How can you increase a bank roll from a measely starting amount. I read this article a month or so ago... it's just being reprinted with a more recent date.
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| Posted by: smd173 at April 29, 2007, 12:00 pm | | Topic: More about Ferguson's $0 to $10000 Forum: Card Chat |
Quote: Originally Posted by alan1983
How much time has he given himself to reach 10,000?
Honestly if its gonna be a lot more than a year, then its not THAT impressive of a thing to do anymore lol.
I think it's just a year.
$10,000 online in a year is more than a ast majority of people make. Even if it takes him 13 or 14 months, it's still impressive, especially since he started at $0.
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| Posted by: alan1983 at April 29, 2007, 10:54 am | | Topic: More about Ferguson's $0 to $10000 Forum: Card Chat |
How much time has he given himself to reach 10,000?
Honestly if its gonna be a lot more than a year, then its not THAT impressive of a thing to do anymore lol.
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| Posted by: jayneseo at April 29, 2007, 6:38 am | | Topic: More about Ferguson's $0 to $10000 Forum: Card Chat |
Ferguson Goes From Zero to Hero
Chris Ferguson
April 27th, 2007
I'm almost a year into an experiment on Full Tilt Poker. I'm attempting to turn $0 into a $10,000 bankroll. With no money to start with, I had no choice but to start out playing Freerolls. Starting out, I'd often manage to win a dollar or two, but I'd quickly get busted and have to start over again. It took some time but, after awhile, I was eventually able to graduate to games that required an actual buy-in.
Even today, people don't believe it's really me when I sit down at Full Tilt's small stakes games. They ask what I'm doing down here, and often tell me stories about how they turned $5 into $500 or $100 into $1,000. Usually, these stories end with the person telling me that they went broke. There's no surprise there. These folks tried to quickly build a bankroll by gambling. They'd play in a game that was beyond their bankroll and, if they happened to win, they'd move up to a higher limit and risk... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: hott_estelle at April 28, 2007, 10:38 am | | Topic: More about Ferguson's $0 to $10000 Forum: Card Chat |
This inspired me to post my experiences, ery similar to what Chris Ferguson is trying to do.
hott_estelle: BR updates, from $0 to $1,300+ and more
Oh and this is ery good advice, to most novice players, the BR management thing, is like organic chem. in college--no clue what it is. BR management it key to making a profit in poker.
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| Posted by: jayneseo at April 28, 2007, 9:55 am | | Topic: More about Ferguson's $0 to $10000 Forum: Card Chat |
Just found this article in my email
He's giving basic insight to his plan, mostly about the importance of BR management.
http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/tip-ema....php?utm_id=89
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