Through all the bad beats and the swearing, through all of my anger and despair, somehow, someway I grinded my way up the food chain and here I sit staring at my bankroll.
I’m staring at $501.72 and I can’t believe my eyes. Just one month ago my bankroll was $100 and now it’s five times higher. Just one month and I’m already halfway to my goal of reaching $1000 by the end of the year.
Don’t get me wrong. I knew I could do it. I just didn’t know that I could do it so fast. Three years ago when I was in college and working as a waiter to support my family, I’d have cashed out my bankroll at least twice by now to pay bills. But things are different now.
Now I have a good job that pays the bills and a great side business as a freelance writer (a side business that could soon eclipse my “real job” in terms of income). I don’t need to use my bankroll to pay bills anymore…and that means I have a decision to make.
I’m going to subtract $100 from my total since that’s money I earned clearing my bonus and I don’t think it should be included in the money I earned. But even without that money I’m still at $401.72. According to my bankroll rules I can start playing the $20 Sit N Goes now, hence my dilemma.
I haven’t really made an honest push to break into the $20 Sit N Goes before. Sure I’ve played a couple with mixed results, but I’ve never immersed myself in that level of play. I’ve heard a lot of talk about how different $20 SNGs are from $10 SNGS and I’m a little nervous.
My trepidation is enforced by the fact that the $10 SNGs weren’t exactly good to me. I took a lot of bad beats at that level and even had to pull out completely and grind the $5 SNGs for a couple days. But eventually the bad beats subsided and I was able to return to the $10 SNGs with a vengeance and a week later, I I’m looking at a bankroll that says it’s time to play the $20 SNGs.
I’ll probably easy my way into it the way I usually do when I move up in limits, but that doesn’t change the fact that I’m nervous.
So I guess what I’m asking is, what have you heard about the $20 SNGs? Should I be nervous? Should I work on my game a little more or should I treat it like any other SNG level?
No matter what happens, this is definitely a turning point for my game.
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