I've played over 4000 fifty50s.

a few notes:

Already the games are what i'd call unplayable most times of the day with 8+ regs per table.

I have been on 2.2k+ downswing when i was playing $20-$50 games.

I'm awesome.

Juk

"most times of the day" may be an exaggeration, I used to play 2 times of the day, now 1 of those times (1AM+ GMT) is basically too reg filled to play. I always look at the lobby of the most filled $100 and it's usually 6-8 regs regged with no fish yet.

In general would you guys say surviving or building a big stack is more important in these. I ask because i make the top 5 around 80 percent of the the time that i play but i'm hardly making any progress as far as profit is concerned.

I'm guessing you haven't played many games?

you would be correct but my question still stands

building a big stack seems more EV after the 1,5k or so ive played of them. Since with a big stack you usually can start abusing. Often I started with a 3,5K stack with 7 left. With constant abuse its not rare you can steal it up to 6K before the game ends, thus getting you one extra buy in....

well my ITM is <60% at the $5s over 700 games and I'm doing ok 80% is very high and still not making money must entail an average chipstack of

well 1k games at $5.24 = $5240
800 games $5 back = $4k
$1240 = a buck fifty five per ITM game at 6 chips per cent = 930 chips average finish at 80% itm to break even after rake before FPP etc

which is not very many

i have another general question shouldn't we be playing push fold in these? I read at another site that unless you have over 20xbb you can't really afford to raise fold because it takes to big of a chunk out of your stack.

Where did you read that? That's stupid. Opponent dependent imo.

it was actually on a v
id by a guy named krcdmc at a site called holdem crusher 101
On the vid there is a hand where one of the players bet calls with jj and he says the dude made a horrible error and that he should have just shoved if he was will to felt with the hand.

never heard of it. It might have been an error. It depends on stack sizes and how you expect your opponent to react.

20bbs seems pretty deep to go into push fold mode though.

I'm not qualified to judge the guy but his general theory is if you are willing to felt a hand you should be the one shoving. Or if it is a bluff you still need to shove because raising then folding eats away at your stack. It's in the brb series so i'll try to find the exact hand but i have like 7 hours of video to scan.

mehh, tried cashgames but tilting is to costly there

has to play smth to maintain nova... you saying its so bad at 20-30$ ? cose I wont play 25$ 9mans untill they reduce freakin rake
mehhh

that push/fold comment sounds way wrong to me. I'm still new at these so maybe i just play bad, but i definitely don't play strictly push/fold at 15-20bbs.