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Originally Posted by ReasonableGuy
I have a few suggestions you may have already thought of:
I'm not a doctor, but Reasonable Guy's suggestions seem super reasonable. DK, sorry that medical stuff is making you miserable. Hope you get to a place where it sucks less and then make progress from there.
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Originally Posted by CrazyLond
I am pretty much breaking even at 8-16 lifetime over 500ish hours but I have very good results at 20-40 over a much bigger sample. Escaping the rake trap was critical for me. I do think I could beat 8-16 now because I'm better than I was then. But if you can break even at 6-12 my guess is you could win money in most 20-40 lineups.
Agree with this, as it is also super reasonable.
Without real evidence, I also believe that most people who "should" play smaller stakes rake trap games probably need luck to beat them and get out. Then, once you're a skilled 20/40 player, you could actually go back and beat them... but you'd never really bother. Most of us got lucky to just run hot and win higher. That, or we got lucky in the internet boom where beatable games existed top to bottom for a while.
If I had to give someone advice to get into the mid stakes, I'd steal from JonLocke and just tell people to liberally shot take the softer 20/40 games until they manage to run hot long enough to stick. Having the disposable income to have buyins at 4/8 and 8/16 (or 10/20 or whatever choice you have), seems like almost a necessity. Extreme game selection at the higher limit can really help, if it is possible. Also, be pretty willing to pass on a game that's uncomfortably big if you're not sure you're a winner. OTOH, if you can avoid hit and running 1 rack wins... Could you be 1 4 or 5 racker away from just being a reg?