Quote Originally Posted by Monsieur_chat
I'm confused Robb. You say the opposite seems true, and then you seem to agree with my original proposition than things are slower but less swingy at the higher stakes...? Hummm.

Sorry to hijack the thread I'm just trying to figure out how I was crushing the micros in the manner you described yourself for a few k hands but now for some reason I seem to have stalled. I'm not tilting off tons of BIs, I'm breaking even... It's very frustrating, and I wanted to ask as I've read back over your blog and you seem to have been on a similar journey to the one I'm in the early stages of...? I think a leak finding session is in order... non?
All the small/medium pots are MUCH less swingy at 50nl than they were at 10nl. But the BIG pots at 10nl - I was generally nearly 3 to 1 at getting my money all-in as a big favorite there. I could stack off with the worst of it 3 or 4 times per session and recover THAT session because of the donks willing to stack off with air.

Somewhat at 25nl and very much at 50nl, the small/medium pots are stable, reasonable - what you'd expect from TAGG's. So less swing, less variance. But when you play big pots, you're up against a much stronger range, typically. So instead of getting my money in as a big favorite 75% of the time, I'm trying hard to get my money in good half the the time. Fold equity helps, but I'm not winning even 60% of the big pots at 50nl.

That's where the variance is. You know you're playing well cause you're winning your share of small/med pots and, whenever you get to showdown, you find you had a reasonable plan - but so did the other guy. You know you're playing fine, and getting your money in good against his range, but there's not free stacks lying around all over the place like there are at the micros.

So the game is "stable" but has big swings. The hands at showdown are much closer in value than they are at 10nl. So you can pretty much guess what they have by the river. That's the "stable" part. But then you have to actually be able to beat it. That's the "swingy" part.