4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Jenks, OK
Posts: 3,477
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Regarding some of your other points/questions:
A good rule is to move up when you have 20 buyins for the next level. So for moving to $10+$1, you want $220. You should be well covered for the swings you hit at the $5+$.5 level, but if you drop below $50 and don't want to redeposit, you might think about moving down. UB and Pokerstars both offer varieties of $1+$.1 games, should you need them (but hopefully you won't). I'll also second the guy above who said to avoid $5+$1 games. There's no reason to pay that extra $.5 in rake, and it will add up (after 11 tournaments, it's cost you the price of your 12th one!).
Regarding the slow cards in your ring game, it's very possible that you just hit a run of bad cards. It's just as possible that you were playing out of your element and made some mistakes. There's really no way for us to know without having more information. "Was I playing too tight?" is impossible to answer when we don't even know what hands you played/folded.
Both plays in your post were decent at face value (without knowing stuff like stack sizes, position, having reads, etc.).
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