move to $10nl?

i was advised to move to $5nl when my br was $80 (and only buy in for $5). things went well. should i try $10nl when br = $150?

my goal when moving to $5nl was to play 10k hands and see what happens. br = $143 after 6500 hands $5nl 6-max, so, should i play 3500 more hands (regardless of br) or move up when i hit $150?

or maybe i should wait til i get to $200. i dunno, what do you advise?

Moving up is always tricky. Sometimes you'll hit the ground running and it'll be no problem; on other ocassions it'll hurt and you may have to drop back down.

A good safety margin is 20 buy-ins, so $200 is good for $10NL.
That said the games are not very cuthroat and so it's not too risky to take a shot. You can play $10NL with 15 buy-ins, but you'll have to realise that you can only lose about $50 before you have to move back down.

As you move up you'll begin to see that losing 5, 10, 15 buy-ins in a run is not uncommon, but at this level you'll probably be okay.

I'd say if you're comfortable at $5NL then sure, take a shot, but be prepared to move back down if things go against you, even if it's "just variance".

Originally Posted by Anosmic

As you move up you'll begin to see that losing 5, 10, 15 buy-ins in a run is not uncommon

I think 15 is very uncommon. I don't know many guys who went through that many. My record is 12, and it was during a period of amazingly bad situations. In one night I held KK 6 times when an opponent held AA, and the same night I had several set under set situations.

Anyway, I say move up at $120, drop back at $90 for 10NL. That game's pretty low variance if you play nitty...and it's still not going to take long to advance. GL.