Operation: $$ accumulation

yo daven, if you dont mind me asking, why is it you choose to grind a living out of microstakes instead of moving up? i mean you've beat 10-50nl for a very healthy winrate for many years over (i assume) many millions of hands, are you tempted to move up? do you think your hourly is better playing many tables at smaller stakes vs say 14 tables of 100nl?

edit: these questions arose in response to the "still not crushing mid-stakes" point you made

Originally Posted by rpm

yo daven, if you dont mind me asking, why is it you choose to grind a living out of microstakes instead of moving up? i mean you've beat 10-50nl for a very healthy winrate for many years over (i assume) many millions of hands, are you tempted to move up? do you think your hourly is better playing many tables at smaller stakes vs say 14 tables of 100nl?

don't mind you asking at all
there are a whole bunch of reasons, it's one of those how long is a piece of string type of questions. If it was re-phrased 'why are you stuck grinding microstakes instead of small-mid stakes' then a good answer would be 'too much time multi-tabling and grinding and auto-pilot, too little time playing fewer tables and studying and thinking deeply about the game'. Or as red so eloquently put it once (paraphrased) 'everything is because you fucking suck at poker'. Given how much i have learned since he last told me that, and how much i still have to learn, i have to concede that he was absolutely correct.

For context, I've played close to 2million hands at 100nl+ lifetime, so i've spent some time at small stakes. I've also had some pretty big swings. A few times i've decided to withdraw and start over, last time i did that was due to FTP closing down while i was travelling in Europe and it started out great (from $50, i got given shit about doing so and the points were valid). Late last year i was doing a sweat with m2m and talked about my moving up plans, they were good plans. Then i moved up to 50nl and 100nl and ran (played?) really bad for a week or two. Then things got all kinds of weird when i had heaps of distractions going on around buying a house and other life stuff and I decided to just grind the quarters and fiddies for a while, and, iunno, kinda stuck there. Which is pretty gross now that i think about it. I've been playing between all over the place the last two months, with most of the volume being at 25nl.

as for max hourly, i don't know at the moment. I hope to figure that out in the new year again.

Cheers

poker is done and dusted for me in 2012. Results? sufficient to support myself and pay the mortgage and travel some and have a few weeks off etc. Insufficient to be stoked about the year of poker.

It has been a good year in the life
see y'all in 2013.
in 2013 i'll graph in dollars rather than big blinds
here is 2012 - some 10nl, some 16nl, some 100nl, some 200nl, the vast majority at 25nl and 50nl.
cheers.