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Originally Posted by browni3141
In theory, you should move up and down at the same number of buy-ins. If you have 3000BB, take a shot and lose 1BB, you should move back down if you've decided 30 buy-ins is the optimal point to move up. Of course in practice this excessively wastes time by constantly jumping up and down in stakes and having to start new tables, so find a balance. I think a 10 buy-in gap is way too much. Moving up at 30 buy-ins and back down at 29.5 buy-ins seems pretty reasonable if you're single tabling. 10-tabling or something maybe move back down at 27 buy-ins.
Deciding which point to move up/down depends on your edge and variance of the game you're playing. I'm not sure who told you 40 buy-ins was standard, but the correct amount is going to be different per the individual. Post stats including standard deviation and win-rate, and briefly describe your risk tolerance.
Part of the difficulty with poker is that stats change as you move up in stakes or even at the same stake over time. This means we should tend towards the conservative side with respect to what's theoretically optimal.
Thanks browni3141,
I wish I could have the stats, but all that is allowed is that the site tracks your number of hands (up to 100k) and offers individual hand histories, not downloadable you have to view them one by one. This is on Global, btw.
My risk tolerance is that I intend to move down whenever my roll falls to 20 buyins at a current stake, and 40 for the lower stake. This is just my preference, not a recommendation. My style of play puts a 100bb stack at risk several times a session. I want to always know I have plenty more stacks than what is in front of me.
The 10 buyin stop loss is just from the worst downswing I have had in the first 42k hands. I want to know that if this should happen soon after I move up I have a chance to stay at the higher stake. I don’t want to jump around any more than I have to.
I know I could just robot brm and have nearly zero chance of busto, but I am going through each stake to learn the skill level at each stake.
Sample size is lolsmall, but NL4 was 30bb, NL10 was 25bb per 100.
Wrt the jump to NL50, did I get that right if my intended tolerances are a given?
-Rob