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Originally Posted by joeri
I would go the other way around. I would work hard on my game and try to improve a lot.
@ hoopman, i think the skill level required to beat 25plo is much much lower compared to 200plo.
Yes, I agree with you, but you need to do both. You need to keep your head down and study, play a lot and not spend a lot of money.
Let's say you start out with 5k at PLO 50 and you want to move up to PLO 100 with a 100 buy-in rule and your winrate inlcuding rakeback is 10bb/100 (I think this is the only way to think about winrates at these stakes), then you need to play 100k hands on average in order to move up. This is before any expenses and expenses will be fairly significant in these games.
I mean let's say this is all dollars and we need $750 a month for expenses which is very modest (depending on your living situation and what country you live in) and we play 50k hands per month (which is a lot if you plan on studying a lot too, also depending on how many tables you can profitably play). Then we would make $1750/month on average $5000/$1750=2.86 months so we could move up in roughly three months.
To reiterate, this is assuming you can actually spend $750 a month and are winning 10bb/100. I also think you want to protect yourself from variance, so this means more study and more playing. If you want to move up within a reasonable time frame and you have to cover expenses, then it's not that easy.