Well, I couldn't get any lower. :)I'm an experienced poker play, studying the game seriously for the last 14 years and playing various forms of poker for most of my living during that time (It's been all of my living the last 3 years.). I am brand new to correct HU poker strategy, though.I started an experiment nine days ago when I joined husng.com. I estimated what my eventual possible ROI at each stakes would be, and I started with a $0 bankroll. Well, not really $0, but I have been playing microstakes $2.20 buyin tournaments and acting as if my BR started at zero.For each higher level, I calculated a 1% Risk of Ruin based upon my estimated eventual possible ROI. At $2.20, this was 20%, which seems extremely doable, as I've run at a little over 15% and I still don't know what the hell I'm doing.To move up, I need to earn the complete BR for the next level, starting over again at $0 BR. If I lose so much money that I lose the difference between the necessary BR for the next smaller stakes and my current stakes, I will drop down again to build my BR. In this way, I will always maintain a maximum 1% risk or ruin. I cannot cash out my previous level's BR until I accumulate an entire BR for the next higher level.At the $5.25 stakes, I estimated 15% ROI, so my necessary BR is $68.25. I achieved that today, so I'm MOVING UP! haha.My next goal is $157.50 for the $10.50 stakes. I estimated ROI at 13%. As I said, this is my eventual expected ROI and not my current ROI, so I think that's reasonable.I have not been playing so many sngs. I am focusing and studying vidoes and reviewing my matches.Once I get going, I believe I'm capable of easily playing 50 regular speeds a day. I'm sticking to regular speeds until I can develop better opponent-reading abilities.
Sounds like you know what you are doing. the roi you mention seems achievable if you are a very competent poker player which it seems like. Nice run, hope you can continue the good progress!
Woah, I'm really impressed - impressed by the amount of discipline you're showing when learning a new kind of poker !From what you wrote, you must be a very skilled player and not only mastered the theoretical, but also the psychological parts of the game (ie. tilt) very well, or you wouldn't have been able to play for a living for such a long time.I wish I've had that kind of patience to start completely from zero in a new game. I'm only playing since 3 years now and always struggled so far because I always wanted too much in a too short amount of time. And when I played lower stakes (I'm on $55 at the moment), I never had the patience to learn and study, I always tried to play as much as possible, making as much money as possible - and once I reached the mid-stakes, I always failed miserably, forcing me to restart at zero again.So I really like your plan of starting at zero and focusing on learning and improving - I think many of us, including myself, were happy if they had this kind of self-discipline.All the best for your HUSNG career and good luck at the tables :-)
Honestly, I don't have nearly as much "skill" as I should, as I've spent the last few years mass multitabling, earning a good, but not great income, at lower stakes. Up until recently, there has been a definite formula you could apply to those games, with a little adjustment here and there to increase your profits pretty substantially. I was playing a very weak-tight game, and was on my way earlier this year to achieve Supernova Elite on PokerStars.I switched to cash games 2 1/2 years ago, and before that time I was 20-28 tabling $6.50 two-table tournaments with an 18% ROI over tens of thousands of games. So, I never advanced to the mid-stakes and when PokerStars switched the cash buyin format, games suddenly became much harder and I couldn't earn enough money to live on anymore.After about four months of going nowhere, I decided to give up the game. But somehow, I ran across a 2+2 thread with a post by Rypac and others in the thread asking if his site was live yet...I decided to check it out. My poker coach had switched exclusively to cash HU earlier this year and I was interested, but didn't have a big enough bankroll to learn cash HU.I had scoured CR and DC looking for HU sng videos because I figured that would be a great way to learn, but the ones they had were terrible.I always enjoyed playing HU sngs and have done reasonably well up to the $30s (with a small sample size) considering I didn't know a thing about HU strategy. Well, I new a bit, but just couldn't bring myself to keep churning out the button raises with hands such as J9o.I never go on "major tilt", which is a good thing about my game. Every hand is a new game. My poker coach pointed out though that everyone is susceptible to tilt in subtle ways that could affect the bottom line moderately.I'm still in the $5.25s...The first 20+ games I played, I only had questions about one of the tournaments and all the opponents were easy to read. Since then for some reason, I feel lost in sooooo many situations and about half of the tournaments I am very unsure of how to adjust to my opponent. But I'm working on it, and yesterday I hit the halfway point for advancing to $10.50s.I always seem to have a good handle on what my opponent is up to, but seem to choose the wrong spots to combat him. Sometimes I am sure I over-adjust.How long have you been a member here and how often do you study the videos?