Quote Originally Posted by !Luck
Thank you for your quick replies. Before I started playing online games I was doing quite well in home games I would buy in for 10 and usually be able to at least make triple or 5x my money with 6 people there. The -150 caused me to go 28 down over all so I am still not hurting. I am college student but I can afford about 200 more before I really have to change my life style which is the one thing I do not want to change. By the way how much would you recommend to buy in. is 50 dollars enough to handle the swings in NL 25 or should I just buy 100? I guess with the strategy you suggested I could easily just deposit 50. Once my midterms are over I will give it another try. As always thank you all for the great advice.
$250 Minimum bankroll for $25 no limit. I regularly take $100 hits before comming back. Dropping $25 on a hand isn't uncommon, my worst was $50 (set of Kings took down my set of 8s which were the second best set out.) But then again I'm far from the best player on the board and just recently moved away from the $12 buy-in strategy that rebuilt my bankroll from $250 to $500 and learned some hard lessons about when to make the big laydown.

Given your current budget, you might want to rethink your current ablity to handle swings and stick to the home games for a while...