Minimum stakes worth playing - 25NL?

Originally Posted by Sloomer

A lot of good advice being posted in here.

Regarding BRM, I am going to set a 8 buyin stoploss at 25nl, If I drop 8 I would move down to 10nl and try to grind back from there up. The 8 buyin stop loss rule will apply to 10NL as well. I don't think I'll blow the whole 750 if I am strict with the BRM.

Yeah but is risking these 8BI now in "any" 25nl game which we don't even know if we are winning in worth it when we can just play 10NL and game select 25nl super hard. I mean basically if you drop the 8BI you are FORCED to play a smaller game and you disable yourself from being able to look for good +eV opportunities at higher stakes.

It's kind of like saying hey I'm +eV in this super big game and if I win I'll make a tonne of money but if you lose you deny yourself tonnes of future opportunities in smaller games.

A real life example would be say we have a 10k BR and we see fish123(spazzy terrible fish) sitting @ 1kNL. Okay we have the jesus seat our winrate is 10bb/100! Suddenly we downswing 4BI and now we can't even shot take 400NL in games where we have a small profit.

The real question isn't whether it's "worth it". The question is, is playing this game today and losing thus losing all the future opportunities I would have had worth the risk of the increase I'll gain? Usually the answer is no.

Another very extreme example is like hey we have 1million dollars(our net worth) and we can coinflip it as a 75% favorite but think of all the immediate +eV opportunities we give up if we lose and how little adding an additional 1million dollars to our net worth really gains us.

On the other hand it MAY be worth it for someone to take a 45% coinflip for a million dollars if they need 2 million to save their business or w/e.