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Originally Posted by pucmo
A few years ago, when I played plo10 to plo20, I played with 10 (1000 bb), but I played short stacked (as a start, and left off with a double, or up to like 166 bb, depending on my site roll) in good games with a rakeback. Never came near to bust my site roll, but I did have my 10 (500 bb) up to daily losing streaks.
Since then I have short stacked nlh (20 or 30+ bb starts) (for tourneys practise. I have been playing 50 to 100 bb starting stacks before that already) with about no roll (and didn't bust) and I have had 20 buyings starts for good value tourneys (average field some hundreds, counting out the smaller sites that have small fields, though not sure it makes a difference to variance, as I play also some turbo S&Gs with tens of players and I like having more roll then, although my scores don't agree, and anyone else might vote the big MTTs needing the most roll, more so when they are turbo or faster -- the turbos are often like normal in MTTs), and haven't come close to busting yet (I beat like 55% of the field and counting out one site, haven't made my share of the top 1 to 3 positions, when there are players that have made them up to 3x their share, but they haven't scored better on average, my luck being on making good enough money more than my share).
When the games are easy (and controlled, lower variance perhaps, or big value), the roll needs for a start, or in tourneys even long run, are much smaller than what the tougher games need (you can throw those recommendations out the window).
It is always possible to move up and down accordingly (if it makes sense). It tends to become an issue only when one moves up to some relatively tougher games, and in that case, one makes shots (about no roll needed), more or less mixed with one's usual play (a limit lower), making it pretty painless (well, not psychologically).
I lost:
AQhh vs TT with 30bigs shove.
Open AK flop top top met up J2ss btm two
Limp 32o in sb, met btm 2 ran into middle set 3 on btn
Hero bb Q4 top n btm overaggro shove into 55 for a set
Had KK against 9Thh villian had me on turn flushed me I had Kh, river came a straight flush for him
Had AA against flush as well
Etc
I just couldn't help myself but click the bet and then ran into bigger bigger hand.
Update:
Lost 2 buy ins in a few hours (1 table)
Gonna move down stake to regain my confidence.
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