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Originally Posted by Clonexx I swear....
I started my online bankroll very small, $25. I worked it up to $120 playing .05/.10 cent limit on Pokerstars. I have tons of hands logged and pretty much have this level beat.
Whenever I move up to .25/.50 I play like a total ******* and I am not sure why. I start refusing to fold hands, even when my brain is screaming im beat, I still call down. I can not figure out why the hell I do this.
I also seem more scared of the money outlay into the pots. I shouldn't be, because the money really isn't anything I need, it's not like I am playing with money I can't lose. I just don't WANT to lose it, so I think I become either overly aggressive trying to win pots or I become too passive.
I end up losing money then dropping back down to .05/.10 and go back to playing well and destroying it. Then I move back up and once again I play terribly. The level of play between the 2 limits can NOT be that far off from each other.
ARGH....help =( Heh |
This is my problem exactly. I started with $25, played in the .25/.50 limit games for a month or two (minimal multi-tabling) and wound up with around $230. Not bad, I'm feeling pretty good. I take a break for three weeks, study some new reading material, get back to the game, and things are going fine. I decide to move up to .50/1 and get destroyed. I move up again ($1/$2) to see if it's just reckless players that's beating me. It didn't seem to matter how good my cards were, I just wasn't winning. Much like you Clonexxx, I couldn't get away from hands. I knew I was beat, I could tell by the way people were betting, etc. I knew the foundations, but I wasn't able to stick with them. I was ready to quit playing online and stick to live tournaments.
I guess what happened was I started to care
too much. Now that I'm back in the basement (back to my original $25) I've started to play a lot more aggressively, not worrying so much about the money, and focusing more on playing strong hands well, instead of playing strong hands poorly. Plus, I found that limit just destroys people on the river. Especially in low-limit, it can be very profitable to stick around with junk in the hopes of hitting your money card. People will play just about anything for a quarter!
