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Originally Posted by turtle82
11k is definitely way more than enough to take a shot/move to 2/5, especially since you have a full-time job/separate life roll.
being too comfortable with where you are and being a bankroll nit is a life leak imo. once upon a time i had a 4500 roll for live poker playing 1/2, took a shot at 2/5 and never looked back
the bigger your edge/winrate is, the less the standard bankroll guidelines apply to you. GL!
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Originally Posted by CallMeVernon
If you have a full-time job and are only playing for recreation or side money or whatever, then $11k is WAY over the roll you need to have to be taking shots. For what it's worth, I took my first shot at 2/5 when my roll was still under $6k. I only felt comfortable doing it, though, because I didn't actually rely on the money in my roll to pay for necessities--otherwise that wouldn't have been nearly enough. $15k-20k I would consider to be over-rolled for 2/5 (for someone who has a full-time job as well). In fact, my roll was in the $20k-25k range the first time I sat in a 5/10 game.
Do you think it's possible to be over rolled from a BR perspective but under rolled from an "experience" perspective? I have ~700 hours experience at 1/2, though 350-400 of those came in my "dark age" period when I was routinely playing drunk before I took 4 months off to reassess and retool my game.
I think my game has taken a big step forward moving beyond ABC. I'm doing a lot more adjusting. playing the player, making some well timed bluff-raises when I think my opponent's range is capped. But some of the things I am doing now at 1/2 I don't think I would be able to do at 2/5 due to the potential swings/variance.
The reason I am trying to delay 2/5 is because I want to be absolutely
MURDERING 1/2 before I make the move so that my game translates seamlessly to 2/5 and the only thing I have to worry about is geometrically increasing my bet sizing rather than playing a watered down lower variance ABC game than what I am developing now.
I've gotta say, 1/2 is starting to get REALLY REALLY fun. And I think another 300-500 hours would serve me really well there, but that would realistically take me through the end of 2015. Is it really a life leak to continue cutting my teeth there? I just turned 28 - I feel like I am entering my "poker prime" and I wanna enjoy the journey and see where it takes me, but I just don't want to move up prematurely.
There is also a 1/3 game I could go to (a bit farther drive) with a $500 max buy-in. I think I may try that out in the interim.