omg, that is so ****ing true. F*ck, if only you wrote that post 2 months back!

so split what do you think of shot taking higher up? is it odd that i dont really like to play 200nl and keep coming back to 100nl because i hate having 1-2k swings in the matter of 2hrs?

Holy ****, would you mind posting a hand or two I'm just kinda curious? I'm a super nit when it comes to playing deep and have prob only won a 400bb pot a couple times lol.

+1

This is so true for me. I've decided to increase my bankroll requirement for shots from 25 to 30 BI's, hopefully that will help a little. But I know I'll still be thinking 'there goes twice as much as I would have lost at my regular level' when I lose.

Garon

This is the big difference between $50 and $100 for me. I have an insane number of buy-ins for $100, and I still cringe every time I get stacked at $100. $100 just feels like "real money," to me, while I can shrug off getting stacked at $50.

The other thing that bugs me about playing $100 and getting stacked is that stacks are harder to come by at $100. So when I lose one, I know it will be harder to come back from that loss.

I was 8 tabling rush for a while (1600-1700 hands/hr) and recently went back down to 14-16 normal tables (1100-1300 hands/hr IME) and it feels so much slower. I have time to think, and make quality decisions now, and i'm no longer just super auto-piloting.

I think 4 tabling rush would be a lot different than 8, and you'll probably have more time for each decision. I'd make sure to get a HUD that is responsive, and to work on your deep stack play (stacks get super deep sometimes in rush).

+1 to winning stacks being harder in general at 100. Seems to be a theme as you move up. The importance of set-mining and cracking overpairs goes down a ton

tbh, this is why I play more 50NL now a days than 100NL. I realized that I hate $1K swings regularly, and it seeps into my real life and makes me angry. I am much better with it now, and will probably start playing some more 100NL and 200NL in the future though. You just need to keep working on your desensitization to money and creating a huge disconnect between money and value...if that makes sense.

10 BI swings are really that common? That would tilt me for sure.

F. Ill never make it to 100.

All this sounds crazy to a 25NL player. Maybe I'm just not desensitized to it yet.

i hit an interesting run of cards last week in an hour and swonged 7bi in the positive in about 800 hands (100nl). that can happen the other way too. i mean they arent THAT common, i have had a few months where i dropped 4-5bi at the most (running decent) but in december i had 3 -10bi downswings at 100nl and still won at like 2.2ptbb or so. i have a pretty good winrate at 100nl (even though you wouldnt know it from sne attempt...do not suggest unless you have a high mental fortitude) so i have yet to have like a 20bi downer there. and this is after 600k+ hands.

the first -2k session i had at 200nl hurt a lot lol. even though i should have forced a stop loss. but 200nl is aggressive as **** depending. or nitty. it's very weird regardless.

but you def shouldn't be afraid of moving up or whatever. it's still just poker fundamentally.

thanks, this was re-assuring as others have said. For me more so because I'm hoping I don't freak out and that I can maintain a decent wr still moving up.

One thing that always helps me to forget about the money value is this:

"I only deposited 25$ dollars, so if I lose my whole BR, then I theoretically only lost 25$... and the time. But the time was fun, and if I didnt use it for poker, I'd play World Of Warcraft, which is way less educational for IRL."

Although, given that I am pretty strict @ BR management, I dont usually think about losing the BR :P

I am so glad I quit that, aren't you?

yea me 2 but now Starcraft 2 is almost out

Yeah and APB is on the way as well. This year isnt good for former gaming addicts. (And yes, I am glad I quit WoW, but now I hear Cataclysm is reaching us soon, so...)

P.S. I think we are derailing the thread a little bit. So what was your winrate like in WoW?

Starcraft 2 is just coming out? Isn't the first one like 15 years old?

LOL, in work at the minute but i'll dig some out, i posted a 500bb hand in
micro full ring february BBV, where i had AA v KK & KK for a 500bb pot.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/78...=#post17161804 LOL

I'm playing 5NL and 10NL Rush having previously played nothing but 25PL/NL full ring, and i just find that because the average player at micro Rush stack off so lightly there's loads of value to be had by playing super deep.

I've played like 25k hands of 5nl rush and my wr is still at 20bb/100, pretty sure it'd be maybe half that if i kept starting off with 100bb stacks everytime i got pretty deep.

I only take off when i get to around 600bb as i'm pretty sure i wouldn't like losing 6 buyins in one hand.

Lol, well lets say I was in top 100 in world for every boss kill since Molten Core til Sarth+3 in this current expo.

Back to winrates, largest downswings? Just had a almost 15 buyin downswing over about 30k hands.

18BI for me. longest BE stretch was 170K

had a 14BI DS and a 10BI DS last month. Pretty painful but still pulled out a decent month

I have a tough one for ya

What is projected hourly winrate for 5-5 PLO (at fallsview casino)?

Since 5-5 NL is like 50$, im assuming at least 75$/hr right?
buyin is 100-500

i have no idea on normal PLO WR's, nor how the game plays. so no idea

On avg PLO winrates should be higher just because there are less players that know wtf they are doing...particularly live. But not sure it would be that high.

Is 5-5 NL really $50/hr?

the toppest range of players will do $50/hr at 500NL (assuming at least 100bb stacks are standard)

more normal is like $35/hr

Why exactly do you think WR are that significantly bigger at a live PLO game as opposed to a live NLHE game?

Did you make any adjustments to your game or did you just write it off as variance when you were going through this stretch?