Allthough I'm following this forum for about half a year right now, this is my first actual post. Because I 'know' alot allready of/from all the regular posters on this forum and because it might stimulate you to give some feedback, it seems fair to give you an idea of who I am and what my pokerplaying looks like.

I started playing 'play-money-games' in april 2006 and discovered freeroll tournaments as a way of winning real money. After some hick-ups of winning some and losing it all again in ring-games I started to apply a proper bankroll management strategy in august/september and have now worked my way up from several bucks to alot more (hey, it's my first post, so let me get comfortable giving 'confidential' information and maybe I'll let you know how big my bankroll is exactly...lol). I did this by playing mainly 10 nl, first at Purple Lounge (prima) and now at pokerstars. An occasional MTT-win also boosted my bankroll a bit. I feel really comfortable playing 10 nl now.

Recently I started playing 25 nl, and feel really good when winning (it goes alot faster) but when losing 4 buy-inns it really hurts. And (for now ) here is what I need some advice about. Should I just swich completely to 25 nl and improve from there getting comfortable with the bigger pots, or should I first get the max. out of it (stats wise) at the level I feel really comfortable right now?

The way I play at 10 nl is multi-tabling up to 7 or 8 tables. I don't know how I could call my playing style, but basically what I do is playing all pp's mainly for sets (as mentioned in a recent post) betting the crap out off AA and KK pre-flop. Further I play strong aces ( AK/AQ, AJ mainly from LP) and limp sometimes with stuff like KJ suited, suited connectors etc when the odds are favourable (BTW, what exactly are favourable odds to limp with, say, 78s. What odds are you looking for to complete the SB with 89o? Maybe another topic...). I think, from what I've read here, that I might be, you know, ... a nit. My VPIP is about 14, my PFR 4-5 and W$ASD about 58% (last 50.000 hands). And allthough it works out fine (8-10 BB/100 over the last 50.000 hands) at these stakes, maybe I should get more experienced playing less strong holdings before I move up to be able to play through all the bluffing and goofballing at 25 nl with less than the nuts. At 10 nl the betting seems fairly straight/weakish and I can put opponents on a range of hands, whereas at 25 nl everyone seems to hit a bigger monster than mine or really needed the scarecard on the turn to complete some sort of draw, while in fact they might be bluffing a bit more and my play might be just to weak.

And yes, that 4 buy-inn drop happened last week, when I decided people were bluffing and my AA or KK would be good while they actually were serious about it, lol. Won most of it back at 10 nl though and my bankroll can take it. Maybe I shouldn't worry about stats and playing style and just play. But I feel if I play the same at 25 nl as at 10 nl, I'm not really comfortable making the occasional bluff, or calling down with an overpair if I think I might be beat but opponent could be goofballing, because it costs 2,5 times more when it goes wrong... (Have some examples if you need them). But on the other side, if it works at 10 nl, why wouldn't it work at 25 nl...

So, quite a post. And thank you if you came here reading through it. It's just a general question but if you need more detailed info about my playing, hand histories or whatever to be able to give advice, I'm happy to post it.