Quote Originally Posted by Chopper
and, if you play 6max, i wouldnt count on 25 buy-ins as being safe. if you lose half, will you freak out? i use 40, which is high, but i can lose 10-15 buy-ins without getting scared and feeling like i am going to have to move down a limit.

variance is variance. math is math. guidelines are guidelines. we didnt come up with this stuff, we just humbled ourselves enough to accept them as written by some people far more experienced than we were/are.
Agree totally here. I "took a shot" at NL25, and played well. But I got some horrendous negative variance (after some very fun positive variance), and I'm back down to NL10. It's hard to stay positive and to "be interested" in NL10 when you're having fun playing bigger stakes. But I'm a big winner at NL10, and a break-even NL25 player, so the NL10 hours are $$$ in my account.

I am also experimenting with more tables at once (6+ appears to be - $$$$ in my account, even at NL10). So...I have work to do on my ABC poker. I'm not preaching to anyone else. I need to do this. Me. I'm terrible at Bank Roll Management. But I can get better. Winning at poker is much more fun than losing, and right now I can win a good bit more by playing lower stakes. So there. I will do it.

Good luck to you.