Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Nu Zuland bru
Posts: 939
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Wow, I dunno when poker became so much stress for me. I'm taking the rest of the afternoon off playing to de-stress. I've been pretty much operating under the assumption that 25NL is kicking my butt, but I guess I don't know if it's not me kicking my own butt, so I'm going to move down to 10NL for a while (at least 5k hands, is the wee thing I set myself) to try and see which it is, and to regain some confidence and lower the stress levels.
To be honest I'm putting some serious thought into withdrawing ~$500 and moving down to 10NL for the foreseeable future. Let's break down my finances. I'll do it in US dollars so it's consistent with poker, so it'll be a bit approximate but here goes:
I have $950 in savings in my bank and $720 in my pokerstars account.
By my count there are seven weeks until the end of the year, and I'm estimating I'll need $300 over that time (christmas, living etc.).
Which means as at the beginning of next year, I'll have $650 in savings, and since I'm moving out I'm estimating weekly costs of $150, with poker as my only source of income for nine weeks, and then a student loan of $120p.w. after that.
Iunno, this has gotten kinda rambly, but if I withdrew $400 now then I would have enough money sitting in the bank to last me three months, is basically what I'm saying. Then there'd be two weeks where I needed to have $150p.w., and after that my student loan kicks in and I only 'need' $30p.w. and even then if I don't get it it just means no beer/coffee/etc., I can still make rent and food.
So yeah I think I might do that (withdraw $400, move down to 10NL again for the duration) just so I have the money for three months' expenses sitting in my bank account, for my peace of mind.
Thoughts, anyone? I'm gonna wait a day or two to think about it, so let your opinions be heard if you have 'em. 
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