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Originally Posted by RyanAA44
I've been playing 1/2 at about 3-4 times a week for the past 5 months. I recently started having bad swings. Before it was, I would win 6-7 times out of ten (even if some wins were only a hundo or like 60 bucks... Still profit) but the last 3 weeks I've profited like 2 times. I know I can't always win, but I've been really contemplating my style. A lot of them have been bad beats or where I just simply can't get someone off a hand (been bluffing too often in frustration I guess)... ANYWAY, my buddy suggested stepping up to 5/5 since there are less fish and you're less likely to get called down with bull**** or have that gutter hit the river after dumping 300 in the pot. Good or bad decision? (I've taken a week and half off recently to cool my ****)
Not good, not bad, but
awful. The problem is not that other players won't fold, it's that you are making moves out of frustration. Moving up in stakes will only make those mistakes more expensive.
Also he's not saying 1/2 is literally the same as 2/5. He's saying people tend to overrate the skill difference and that it's very similar. But of course 2/5 is still harder. If you are having trouble at 1/2 moving up will not make it easier.
I also can't understate how alarming it is that you are casually comparing "bad beats" to "villain won't fold". The two are not even remotely similar, and brushing off a serious leak like it is something that can't be helped signals that you have a long way to go with your mental game as well.