Anyone else play on ignition in the 25nl ZONE pool? I played close to 100,000 hands at 5nl ZONE winning at 8bb/100 and recently moved up to 25, and I'm finding the level of play to be insane. It's like the wild wild west. Players cold calling 3bets out of the blinds, 3 betting and then calling 4bets with any 2 cards, I was 5bet jammed on with pocket 3's the other day. I've played 30,000 hands so far and I'm down 15 buy-ins. I feel like there are more rec/fun players in the pool than 5nl, and the variance has been insane. I'm just wondering if anyone has any input that moved up the stakes on Ignition and whether I should just skip 25 all together and move up to 50 If I have funds. I realize a lot of this could just be negative variance/downswing whining, but it just seems impossible to win at this level with this kind of craziness.

Yeah it's impossible to win against bad players, better move up to where they respect your raises!

Hey thanks for your help man. Really appreciate it. What a helpful community, can't wait to ask more questions and get even more helpful responses.

Stupid questions tend to yield stupid answers. Also, take a minute and read your wall of text which has no punctuation or spacing whatsoever. The gist of it is that you're asking whether or not you should move up stakes because 25nl is "too wild". Also, you're attempting to ask a question, but there isn't a question mark anywhere except at the very beginning which isn't particularly useful in any case.

lol

And yeah, you sort of got poked fun at because of it. Embrace it for a minute, because this is the internet. Try and collect your thoughts and make a better well written and thought out post with some punctuation and a specific question and I'm sure you'll get a more useful response.

Yeah that's kinda what I meant

Here's a useful response.

If you can't beat NL25, you'll get crushed at NL50. Does Ignition not offer NL10 zone? My advice would be to move down, not up. And post some trouble hands (not coolers) to get feedback on your play and thought process.

GL