Doing your bankroll

[Oskar]

Hi all, I haven’t been around the forum much lately, had the laptop in for repair (free tip: 1, don’t buy an Acer laptop, they break down A LOT, 2, If you do buy an Acer laptop, try and not take it in for repair in Prague, they take a loooong time to fix it).

Ive managed to stay relatively up to date with the poker posts by looking from work, (some nice wins been recorded recently) but haven’t really been able to play myself, I tried staying till 9pm or so at work and trying to fit a couple of games in but the novelty wore off quickly.

Anyway I finally got the laptop back last Friday afternoon, as fate would have it just in time for a weekend I would be spending out here in Prague, the wife off on a hen weekend and I couldn’t be bothered flying back. As there was nothing else to do (all the rest of the guys I work with off home) I planned a pokerathon, a full weekend playing poker to catch up. I planned to hit the stts, the multis, the satellites and try my hand at the cash tables. And I did.

Friday wasn’t too bad, I managed to stick to the smallerish stakes stts, and I was pretty tired from work so didn’t really get the chance to play for long. I won a few, lost a few more and I awoke Saturday down around 150 (pounds, I would type the pound sign but I have a Czech laptop and there isn’t one). Saturday was worse than Friday however.

I was kinda bored, it was a nice day so I had a few beers and carried on playing poker. I managed to get through 6 cans in the afternoon, and come 5pm got stuck into the red wine. A bottle later I was pretty drunk, I don’t know how drunk but I know I started smoking again (I gave up at the new year) so it must have been abit. I had a bottle of white in the flat so I got into that as well and must have got smashed based on the hangover I had Sunday.

What I do know though is that from checking my betfair account statement that I must have got the idea from somewhere that I was actually a decent poker player, so I should hit some of the more expensive buyins, and I managed to hit a few of them.

My account reads buyins to stts ranging from 50 quid (I usually play 30 max) all the way to 200, 60 quid sixpacs (I hate them), 7 satelites to the 100K betfarir tournament Sunday just gone (7 * 15 = the cost of buying direct, and I still bought in direct at some point as well) and some 1/2 cash games. By the time Id finished Id managed to go through over 1400 quid, I also somehow decided to stick 500 quid on Celtic to win by more than one goal in the Scottish final. I have no idea why.

So there it is, the two grand id built up painstakingly, from the 10 stts where I started, gone in one weekend, or really one night.

It looks like Im having a forced break for a while, don’t feel like playing at the moment, but when I return (as Im sure I’ll miss playing) Im gonna start on the lowest limits I can find, I suppose I’ll be able to look back on this as a learning experience but at the moment it doesn’t feel like it.

By the way, Ive no idea why im posting this really, I cant really tell the lads at work and the misses would probably murder me, maybe its just to warn others or just to get it off my chest. Anyway, be warned, playing poker while ******ed is bad for your bankroll.:(

[Dave Mardell]

Re: Doing your bankroll I played a larger than normall STT while smashed off my head on scotch once. Won it. Picked of every bluff perfectly lol. Dont think that would work out in the long run though :)