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Building a bankroll playing double or nothings?

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  1. StackOfOnes StackOfOnes is offline

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    Oct 16th, 2009 (10/16/2009 2:18am)

    I have a 100 dollar bank roll I am going to use for this and play 1 dollar DON's until i get enough to move up in limits.. i plan on running 10-16 tables at a time. Any thoughts if this could be profitable or not.. thanks
  2. ChAzZz18 ChAzZz18 is offline

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    Oct 16th, 2009 (10/16/2009 4:08am) in reply to StackOfOnes

    Profitable? Probably
    Boring? Definetely
     
  3. tom44411 tom44411 is offline

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    Oct 16th, 2009 (10/16/2009 4:12am) in reply to ChAzZz18

    interesting concept stanley. can i call you stanley? good. well if we poker stove it then we can prob get the proper equity equations of what we should do here. remember to carry the 0! now after we do this, we have to factor in varience so take off 7.9% off of your number and then take off 12.1% for every 12 hours you will not play per week and we should have a result and definate answer. hope it works!
     
  4. MastaP89 MastaP89 is offline

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    Oct 16th, 2009 (10/16/2009 4:21am) in reply to tom44411

     
    Originally Posted by tom44411 View Post

    interesting concept stanley. can i call you stanley? good. well if we poker stove it then we can prob get the proper equity equations of what we should do here. remember to carry the 0! now after we do this, we have to factor in varience so take off 7.9% off of your number and then take off 12.1% for every 12 hours you will not play per week and we should have a result and definate answer. hope it works!

    boi what do you smoke and where can i get it??
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  5. dtxm21 dtxm21 is offline

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    Oct 16th, 2009 (10/16/2009 4:24am) in reply to tom44411

     
    Originally Posted by tom44411 View Post

    interesting concept stanley. can i call you stanley? good. well if we poker stove it then we can prob get the proper equity equations of what we should do here. remember to carry the 0! now after we do this, we have to factor in varience so take off 7.9% off of your number and then take off 12.1% for every 12 hours you will not play per week and we should have a result and definate answer. hope it works!

    R u slow or just a level? i think both!
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    Oct 16th, 2009 (10/16/2009 4:26am) in reply to StackOfOnes

    id prolly rather diagf
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    Oct 16th, 2009 (10/16/2009 4:29am) in reply to dtxm21

    when i was a small boy, cruising the farms of the old country i was hit repeatedly by a door. i didnt know at the time y i was being hit or how it kept knowing i was there but alas it left me with a severe learning disability which is no laughing matter
     
  8. Mournval Mournval is offline

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    Oct 16th, 2009 (10/16/2009 7:26am) in reply to StackOfOnes

    It's definately doable. I'm 12 tabling turbo DON's now and then. Never tried 1 dollars only 5-50. The variance is not huge in these so i suggest testing it at 1 dollar, but if it works for you then move up to 5 dollars and maybe keep the table amount down a bit(8?) until you reach like 150 and then up to 10-12 table 5 dollars.
     
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    Oct 16th, 2009 (10/16/2009 7:56am) in reply to StackOfOnes

     
    Originally Posted by StackOfOnes View Post

    I have a 100 dollar bank roll I am going to use for this and play 1 dollar DON's until i get enough to move up in limits.. i plan on running 10-16 tables at a time. Any thoughts if this could be profitable or not.. thanks

    ahhh, this brings me back. thats exactly how i got started, after a few quick runups and cash out on ft, i moved to cake for the rakeback, and i started with just $100 playing only the $5 don's. after about two months of that, only 3 tabling, playing maybe 10-15 a day, i had a starting br for 50nl 6max.

    just neat to see someone else doing exactly what i did when i started. good luck to you sir. and yes, the $5 dons (at least on cake, im sure pretty much on any site) are profitable. if you have a good understanding of very basic icm, of don payout structure, theres no need to start at the $1's. theres less variance in dons than in other sngos, so you dont need as many bi's.

    nonetheless, good look sir.
  10. Nuggett Nuggett is offline

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    Oct 16th, 2009 (10/16/2009 8:07am) in reply to StackOfOnes

    If your confident/competant enough to be running 10-16 tables making good decisions then dont play $1 games.
    You'd be better off playing $5 games(its not strictly BR management but still 20 buyins), less tables, concentrate on making the right plays and improving, if your any good you'll win.....
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    Oct 16th, 2009 (10/16/2009 11:03am) in reply to StackOfOnes

    i built my bankroll up initially through DONs, playing about 4k $5-10 games. it should be relatively easy to do, but i would suggest moving up to the $5 games as soon as possible because

    a) they arent that much harder than the $1s

    b) the rake is much more reasonable. the rake at the $1s is ridiculous

    btw i played solely on pokerstars, im not sure how the games are on cake. honestly once you hit $150-200 id move to the 5s and hope you dont run so horribly you have to move back down
     
  12. StackOfOnes StackOfOnes is offline

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    Oct 16th, 2009 (10/16/2009 3:09pm) in reply to Goldenad

    thanks for all the advise ill post my results.. :)
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  13. islanderalum islanderalum is offline

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    Oct 16th, 2009 (10/16/2009 3:14pm) in reply to StackOfOnes

    Are you planning on playing turbos or regular? Regular gives you better chances for obvious reason plus if you can trap ya a fish for his stack early on you can pretty much nurse that $3000 stack to the end of the tourney.
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    Oct 16th, 2009 (10/16/2009 3:50pm) in reply to islanderalum

    personally with a $100 roll i would definitely play something besides $1 dons to build it. GL tho
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    Oct 16th, 2009 (10/16/2009 5:17pm) in reply to Mournval

     
    Originally Posted by Mournval View Post

    It's definately doable. I'm 12 tabling turbo DON's now and then. Never tried 1 dollars only 5-50. The variance is not huge in these so i suggest testing it at 1 dollar, but if it works for you then move up to 5 dollars and maybe keep the table amount down a bit(8?) until you reach like 150 and then up to 10-12 table 5 dollars.

    Even tho the DoNs are less swingy, i think 8 tables with 20bi is way to risky, he should 4 table till 150 then 6 table then at 200 8 table. basically everytime you get another 50bucks in your br add two tables until you reach your max tables you want to play.... and this is different from player to player. My max is 8-12 tables. but basically the point im trying to make is that if you want to multitable effectively then play less tables the smaller your br is and as your roll grows add tables. There is no hurry just focus on playing good and building, because one bad session is almost half your roll.
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    Oct 16th, 2009 (10/16/2009 5:23pm) in reply to sixburgh0509

    my buddy plays 20 dons at once, 50$ level with 4K roll... gives him a hourly of about 50$hour
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  17. TMLMS13 TMLMS13 is offline

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    Oct 16th, 2009 (10/16/2009 6:27pm) in reply to ChAzZz18

     
    Originally Posted by ChAzZz18 View Post

    Profitable? Probably
    Boring? Definetely

    this
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    Oct 16th, 2009 (10/16/2009 9:14pm) in reply to TMLMS13

    i use to play dons alot, and HATED my life, really you should honestly think about doing something else, its really frustrasting, try regular sngs or play cash, cash is the best imo micro stakes are easy
  19. n8dogthegr8 n8dogthegr8 is offline

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    Oct 16th, 2009 (10/16/2009 9:16pm) in reply to StackOfOnes

    Definitely look at Jennifear's articles on D or N if you haven't already:

    http://www.pocketfives.com/poker-art...aments-3898341
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