Conflicted :/

I'm a little conflicted about my game at the moment and looking for opinions or advice.

A little background may help explain my problem.

I started out playing for play at absolute and doing the freerolls when I could, eventually I won $5 there and used it to play some of the $0.50 sng's until I rolled it up to around $20 then deposited $25 of my own when I saw that I could play a little. From there I built it up to around $100 playing the $0.10NL and the sng's still before moving to Bodog. At Bodog I worked off the bonus and then was stagnating so decided to pull out and put my last $8 into an MTT which I came 3rd in and pocketed about $1k.

The problem is, since that time I have moved back to Absolute and stagnated again, I can't seem to move past $1190 (though just came off a slight rush and am finally over $1200). I have moved up to the $6+1 SnG's and won a couple of them, I can sit at the $0.10 and $0.25NL and $0.25/$0.50, $0.50/$1 LHE tables and win, hell can even play the low stake MTT's and cash but I can't seem to do it consistently enough to move past breakeven play.

I have a feeling I can play good poker, for example in the bodog MTT I came back from a 2k stack on the final table to having around 120k, last night in a qualifier at Absolute I came back from around 900 chips to win, so I know in myself I can knuckle down and play smart or play aggressive but I can't seem to translate that at the table in ring.

I have a feeling that it maybe because I am playing at limits I can afford but didn't get the skills in them that I would have if I had of grinded the micro-limits if I hadn't of done well at Bodog so my question is really the following:

Should I just keep playing the limits I am at with my BR and pay for my education through breaking even rather than winning or should I withdraw most of my BR, play with say $100 and grind my way back up through the limits to try and learn that way?

I don't mind the grinding, for instance at the $0.10 table just now I sat for like 2 hours and played 2 hands (and wasn't nut camping, was getting constant trash like j2, 24, etc) before playing a rush of 55 setting, KK, AQ, QQ, KK, AQ but I find that often I will either hit a rush and play it wrong and just lose any profit I have made, or I'll just get totally missed by the deck all night.

I think the major lesson I have to learn (apart from how the hell to play LHE well, just can't seem to get past the fact I can't push people off their hands like I can in NL) is how to minimize losses in hands properly so am interested to see what people think is the better way to learn that.

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Just going over PT stats, and fairly bad metric since I only have around 3.5k hands in it since the crash, I think I may have found a leak in my game I need to fix

Originally Posted by Knytestorme

I think the major lesson I have to learn (apart from how the hell to play LHE well, just can't seem to get past the fact I can't push people off their hands like I can in NL) is how to minimize losses in hands properly so am interested to see what people think is the better way to learn that.

When you try to push people off their hands you tend to maximise their losses. Try playing for a month of only playing when you think you are ahead (or you are cbetting). Dont bluff for an entire month and see what happens. I suspect you will find yourself becomming more profitable. The step after that is learning the few specific occasions when a bluff is correct.