Building a Bankroll From $500 - Heads Up Cash

[deadlydaveLDN]

A week ago I was the most motivated poker player on the planet. I was doing everything right in terms of preparation and play, and the results were good. The last few days I have probably got a bit arrogant, stopped preparing properly, and started playing worse. And tilting, either by playing worse, or moving up levels. And the results have been bad. So, in order to return that discipline to my play, I'm going to start a challenge in here (and I absolutely promise that this one, unlike so many others, won't be aborted within a day or two :lol) It's quite simple - I will be attempting to build a bankroll from $500 playing NLHE Heads-Up cash games. I will be using this thread to regularly post HEM stats, graphs, hands, and basically anything that I feel is interesting/useful to me - hopefully some of you might look at it too. What is the target I hear you say? Don't laugh. $250,000. I said don't laugh. One of the problems I've had in the past is that I've set myself low targets, and when I've achieved them I feel like I've proved myself, and earned the right to mess about in higher stakes games/formats that I don't play very well. So, I'm aiming high. There will, of course, be smaller targets along the way. Which is where my bankroll requirement table comes into it.

Stakes	Bankroll	Move Down
$0.25/$0.50	$500	-
$0.50/$1	$1,500	$750
$1/$2	$4,000	$3,000
$2/$4	$12,000	$8,000
$3/$6	$27,000	$18,000
$5/$10	$65,000	$45,000

Those bankroll requirements are a little bit out, since I will also be making withdrawals along the way. To play a new level, I will have to withdraw the previous levels bankroll. For example, to play 100NL, I must have a bankroll of $1500, but I must also withdraw the $500 that I started with, meaning I must actually have $2000 in my poker account to move up. When I reach $5/$10 I will have withdrawn a total of $45k along the way. As long as I don't go broke from the first $500 deposit, and manage to make it up to at least 100NL then I will break even at least. I will post more details later. I plan to start this sometime either tonight or tomorrow.

[Nade]

Re: Building a Bankroll From $500 - Heads Up Cash Sounds awesome, really looking forward to this :notworthy Love the goal you've set of 250k, it's definitely attainable with discipline and skill. My goal at the start of the year was to just play a lot with the sky being the limit, i really think it's possible to make 100k+ a year so i'm confident you can get to the 250k and far beyond. I'll probably look to you for HU advice too. GL :ok