Whoops! Well I had been sailing close to the wind for a while. Running the bankroll down to the bare bones and spinning it up was bound to come and bite me on the arse sooner or later. I'd been running okish on the $200 HU games for a few days just showing a small profit from being up 3 or 4 games each day and managed to work off the cash loss from early October. Then the wheels came off, I saw a player that I'm well up against sat on the $400 tables and proceeded to drop 4 games on the bounce, I then went into freefall.... I could not win a game for love nor money and as the red mist settled I was looking at a £2k loss for the day and not an awful lot left in the tank. The next day started pretty much as the previous one had ended and I had to reserve £1k to pay the bills. By 7pm I had £53 left in Betfair, £2.50 in Hills and £1.73 in Bluesquare. So technically not bust :)
Now this left me with a tough decision. I've always said that if i lost the bank roll I'd go back to work full time. Having said that in the past 30months since I went 'semi pro' I've ploughed thousands out of the poker fund into the 'house keeping' fund. There's also the family aspect to consider. Jack is 17months old now and a total terror! I've spent so much time with him over that period and no one will ever be able to take that away. I've got friends who leave the house at 6am and return at 8pm monday to friday and never see their kids grow up. Shell is also still working 3 days a week, so income is low. Neither of us want to give up the lifestyle we have at the moment but the bills need to be paid.
I've had few quid rakeback come in for various accounts and this only adds up to about £1k from not much play in October. With the agreement of the Mrs (mainly cos she does not want to go back to work) for the first time ever I've nabbed £3k from our 'rainy day fund' to create a £4k bankroll starting November the 1st. I've started a new Profit and Loss spreadsheet and the aim is to keep the stakes low, focus on paying the bills while slowly building up the roll to is former glory.
So far so good.... not played much since November started but £600 up from solid play on the low stakes HU games (mostly $100 and $150s).
It's really is time to stop dicking about, get back to basics and earn some money. Failing that the Mrs will have to go back to work :)
3 years ago
5 comments:
Come on Jim, don't go going back to work now. It would shatter my dreams! You can do it! And put $250 aside for CR and watch A LOAD of them. I'm still crap but a whole lot less crap. Good luck mate - Benny T
good luck wonky.
got to exercise brutal brm now. now fcking about at $400 huh? grind it out low to gt the income.
gl mate. no pride, just money.
I've gone through the same situation. You just have to drop limits and grind. Also, analyise your game with pokertracker and plug those leaks.
Ya fish, simply drop down in stake and learn to multi table heads up. Didn't realise you really were busto, you need to have a set poker bank that you never ever use for anything other than poker. A decent player like yourself can always worst way make £200 a day, surely thats enough? If you need any help feel free to ask me.
Cheers for the support u lot... punterz thinks im a decent player! Not quite sure what to say! :)
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