BRM question, moving up a level
Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 131
I started playing NL6 at the beginning of the year and I've now played 20K hands making a profit of $120. When ever my roll has been over $200 I've had a shot at NL10 and I'm down $74 over 3600 hands. I don't think I can really suck this bad at NL10 while beating NL6 for 10BB/100
What should be my tactic for making the transition? I know I need a larger sample size but at this rate getting 100K hands at NL10 is going to cost me over $2,000.
At the moment I have been 6-tabling NL6 untill I have $210 and then opening up 2 tables of NL10 when I feel I'm playing well.
Should I be expecting to lose a few buy-ins at a new level while I gather stats on the regs, learn how the games play different etc. I was considering getting my roll up to $300 instead so that I have more room to lose a few hands without too much worry.
Also is this the right forum for this sort of thing? I notice most threads are just "how should I have played this hand?"
Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 676
use 30bi rule for a limit.
when you take a shot put yourself a stop limit, like 5-10 buy-ins.
when you loose them come back to a lower limit and rebuild.
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 2,124
I don't know if this thread is going to get locked or not, but here's my take on the jump from NL5-10.
There's definitely a discernible difference in skill -- lot more multitabling nits, aggro regs...but still plenty of people that don't really know what they're doing (3betting too light, calling 3b too wide, other general dumb stuff you see at NL5 and 2). Just be patient and they'll soon spazz and make a mistake.
Your sample size is nothing...you're either running bad, changing your game too much or psyching yourself out. Play the same game -- if you were profitable at NL5 you'll be profitable at NL10. That's all there is to it. NL25+ is where you'll definitely have to start really plugging leaks or you'll be breakeven or worse, losing.
My rec would be to get your roll up to $300 and make a slow transition to NL10 by slowly replacing NL5 tables with NL10. Or, you could get your roll back up to $200 and play one table of NL10 and slowly phase out NL5 tables. Either way would work if you're not spewing like crazy.
