My first session's graph is posted below. It was a short session, I only played about 600 hands, but I was multi-tabling with a MT Ratio of 9.24, so an hour and a bit of play.
It was all 0.05-0.10 LIMIT holdem, full ring games.
I made
$3.41 this session. I felt like I played ok, but its late and I'm tired so I probably made a few mistakes this session. I didn't really table select or wait to post blinds or any of that, at these limits I just open up every table PokerStars has available and play.
I'm currently running at 5.46 BB/100 but I think that I may be over expectation, I'll have to play more hands to find out. Also, my plan is to stick with 0.05-0.10 LIMIT holdem until my bankroll reaches $100. However I may decide to mix in some 0.10-0.20 LIMIT tables when I reach the $75 mark.
Just a note on Bankroll Management: When playing these micro-stakes limit games, I plan on playing limits where I have no less than 375 Big Bets in my bankroll, and will tend to stop playing a limit once I reach 1000 Big Bets for that limit. Obviously since I started with $50, I'll probably only go half-way with this goal for the first blind levels (+50 --> $100) before I move up.
Not very impressive, especially the big swings at the beginning, but its hardly a large enough sample size anyway. I definitely think I can do better in November. As for the stats:
Again, not really a large enough sample size to make this relevant, but I wanted to show it anyway, for completeness. As you can see I netted $19.43 for the month. This brings my starting balance to $59.67. Still a little bit to go before I can move up to 0.10-0.20 LIMIT!
I definitely have had great results (and more consistent) when I 8-table or less. I may stick to this for the time being if the results keep up the way they are.
I took a break for a while, but decided to come back later in the evening. This time I only 8-tabled and was using my laptop monitor 10.5" (as opposed to my 21" LCD). I put in about 1 hour and 20 minutes of this and started to feel tired, so I stopped for the night. I did very well this session and made $8.22. Just a note about the graphs: The scales are adjusted automatically based on the max/min values of the graph. So while the loss above and the gain below look somewhat similar, the gain below is about 4x as high as the loss recorded above.
A good night indeed.
This was a 15-tabling session BTW. So I think I finally got the hang of it (just took some getting used to).
This session puts me back in the green, but I'm still behind from that horrible session a couple days ago. Still grinding away...
I'm a little rusty I'll admit, but this seemed pathetic to me. I could tell that there were times when I couldn't properly make a decision due to time constraints. I definitely won't try this many again until I get some more practice. This session cost me $8.55. Yikes!
