In a thread shamelessly stolen from 2+2 I am going to try the Party $100 challenge.

If anyone doesn't know how this goes, it works as follows.

Assign $100 as seed money.
Buy into 4 Party $25 tables
Play til you have $200 (4 buy-ins at the next level)
Buy-in at the next level ($50).
If you drop down to 2 buy-ins at $50 (ie $100) go back to $25 tables.
Otherwise when you get to $400 move up to $100 tables...

The idea is to keep going until you make the $1000 tables! ($3900 profit)
It also means that you get to try the waters at higher levels than you might otherwise with minimum risk..

Party have $100 reload bonus (and Eurobet a $25 one). on at the moment - to ease your passage on the way up..

I have opened a new PT DB and am good to go..anyone with me?

Well recovered from the wipeout to end my first session up a whole $11 (whoop). 4.6PTBB/100 and 100 hands off my $25 Eurobet bonus that will make up for the tip I just gave PokerAce for developing PA HUD (GT+/PV replacement software - most excellent btw).


This might take some time but it is fascinating to start right at the bottom again...there are actually some good players down there too (goodness knows what they are doing not playing the $50's - one solid player had amassed 7 buy-ins in his stack)

it is incredible isn't it - I really begin to doubt myself after a week of $25NL - am I actually down after 600 hands

Last I call a raiser who raised in EP to 3xBB. I had KK. I thought OK - just make sure no A on the flop and I'll be fine.
Flop 772 rainbow. He checks I bet pot, he pushes. I really can't believe that he has hit and put him on overpair and call. If he has quads or AA then I'll pay him off..

Turns out he raised from EP pre-flop with A7o..nd hit trip 7's ..

What can you do

I have also been gulity of overpushing out of frustration - you can't bluff bad players..- I will chill out and try to do it properly but I left nut-peddling behind a long time ago and I'm not too good at re-learning it..

1/3 of BR sounds bad

I've been doing something like this on another site, just for grins. It goes something like this (micro stakes):

Preflop
* Bet the pot (or 5% of max buyin, whichever is higher) with AA, KK, QQ, JJ, AK (suited or otherwise). If anyone raises, push in.
* Limp with any other reasonable holding (reasonable being "loose" as defined by most BTP'ers), right down to unsuited connectors in late position.
* If you're going to limp and someone mini-raises ahead of you, bet the pot. If they re-raise, usually fold. Your goal is to control the table (by disallowing weak raisers) and to determine if they have a strong hand before you start putting real money into the pot on the flop & turn.

Flop / Turn
(Assumes there's light or no action to you. If action to you (pot sized bets or higher), play intelligently)
* If you have a hand that is at least the second-best category possible (i.e. on an uncoordinated flop, trips is the best, so push with 2 pair), push in.
* If someone mini-bets, bet the pot. Again, you want control and no weak betters. You need to know if they have a hand before putting even more money in.
* If you bet the pot preflop (not in response to a mini-raise), bet the pot.
* If you get re-raised, play intelligently.
* Unless your hand is already clearly beaten, call or raise a min bet.

River
* How the hell did you get to the River wthout folding or being all-in? You played it wrong, that's how!


I pretty much always lose my first buy-in within the first cycle of the button. Then something amazing happens. I rocket up to 4-10 buy-ins in the next 4-8 cycles of the button.

In all of this, I almost never see that a call of a pot-sized bet is a show of strength. It usually means they see a single card of the same color as the two in their hand on the board, or that they see an ace or a face card in their hand.

The one caveat to this is there is invariably one intelligent player at the table (aside from yourself, of course) and he's looking to trap you. Learn who that is and understand that his "trap" is almost always a set or a high pocket pair. Don't get aggressive at him on the Turn unless you have a set or better and the board doesn't show one card to beat you (4-flush, 4-straight).

I'm thinking about trying this out on my usual site, but the variance scares me a bit right now...

OK brief update - played my way out of $25NL tables and now running fine at $50NL (just started tonight).

Overall just over 11PTBB/100.

Also bought into Empire reload bonus so that should speed me on towards the $100's..

Hey Excession, what is the code for Empires reload bonus. I play there.

TR

Empire Poker Reload Bonus:


50% up to $100 max (Must deposit $200 for max bonus)
You must enter code '50JULY' when depositing
Valid from July 10th to July 13th at 11:59 PM ET, and only as a first deposit in bonus period
Must play 10 raked hands for each $1 in bonus money.
Bonus terms must be met 10 days from the time of deposit.

You should get into the habit of checking out the front page of
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every couple of days