Quote from: thsceptic on December 26, 2021, 03:31:22 AM

I will be taking this one-week bankroll challenge from now on. Let's see how much money I can make out of it playing poker for the whole week. I will be playing on two Indian poker platforms (no need to mention the name as I am not promoting them). Both run freerolls worth 15$ -30$ frequently throughout the day.
Below is the screenshot of my initial balance.

AFTER DAY 1 session 2 BANKROLL = 605 INR

So after winning freeroll I decided to play cash games and sat down at 3 tables with max buy-in (50 INR) blinds were 0.5/1. I played exploitatively and trappy. This session can be summarized as me trapping a big fish with almost 500 bb starting stack. As I have only 4 buy initially I played super tight and waited for a strong hand with fish. I managed to trap him for almost 373 bb pot but he hits his lucky turn and I lost all which I grinded. But I bought in again and started grinding again and slowly building my stack again. Then again I trapped him but guess what he again got lucky for a 300 bb pot. At this moment I felt so tilted but somehow controlled myself and bought again for 50 bb. I knew that I am playing good and it is just a matter of time that he will hand me over his entire stack. So I keep playing and after some time I trapped him again and this time he could not get lucky and I won 251 bb pot. I knew now he will play more aggressively and I have to just wait for strong holdings which happened soon and he lost 451 bb and 134bb pot after that he was completely tilted and got busted soon. Below are the screenshots of hands against him;

While I congratulate you on trying to produce content for the community here, it seems like this is doomed from the very beginning. Most amateurs have a very hard time learning poker - first because the house is taking a cut of every hand and second because you are swimming with sharks. The majority of people you'll play against on poker rooms are hardcore skilled grinders and the best of them have the ability to multi-table effectively. If you stand a chance against them you first need to play at a certain basic level and secondly you need a bank roll that can tolerate variances. Most of us have swings in play with a few bad losses, but if you've wiped out 2/3 of your initial deposit on the first day then it seems like you're setup for failure. Maybe take your remaining money and run. Your initial bankroll needs to be 50-100x the buy in of whatever tables you're playing.