Wonderland's OP (at last): TEN NL --- Move up and STAY UP

gaaaah!! quit poisoning my op with talk about business school... jeez, fuck sake. That's like garlic to a hammer horror vampire.

let's just take the excellent point made and keep it poker oriented. Play for the love of playing. Good concept.

Robb made a good post on the BRM for folk with balls, that he would just keeeep on going through a stake until he felt very comfortable and could multi-table, go all-in when necessary, bluff when necessary etc. all having fun and earning well. As opposed to being on scared money. I have fun when i drop down, so it's interesting to note. Get more than rolled and have some poker enjoyment where you're not constantly BR watching.

*say like william shatner* The whole point of poker, for me, is the dream of the lifestyle. Earning money from home and having the potential to get stuck into a casino game with a wad of confidence. Vegas, and all the greats who have played there. The promise of glory.

*record scratch* NOT. Office work. Besides, i'm an artist, my earning potential is sheeeit. But i digress.

Yeah, stacks, i guess that's about right, let's see here...

2nl - beat in about 10k hands
5nl - beat in about 15k hands
10nl - currently 7.5k hands in but got a LONG way to go. 26 buy ins left to grind @ about 2 a week if that.

UPDATE

Current BR = $345
WR = 3.41 BB/100

Graph - total hands. Mixture of 2, 5 and 10:



Graph - just 10:



After playing today i feel like i'm slowly getting some confidence at this stake. I owe it mainly to folding. Decided to throw away so much shit, stop limping in small blind. Stop open limping. Just get the fuck rid of it. And also, if i can't continue with confidence, i tend to also throw my cards away. This is probably sub optimal but is still good for beating the stake until i gain more experience of those tricky spots.

Latest insights have come from links in Robb's op. There's so much on FTR it's unreal. Anyway, let's get constructive here people. Only about two buy-ins away from finishing this op.

Yes Do you thing Rafa Nadal's pre-occupation when learning to play the incredible, near faultless tennis that he does was the financial rewards he now enjoys?? No! He did it by being fascinated and obsessed by tennis and winning at tennis.

Ok. So... this is the end of my op.

Had a killer session last night where i decided to sit down for 3 hours and just play solid 10nl NAG style poker (nit-aggressive lol).

I've decided that is the style to play 10nl. Other levels, maybe not 25 but i guess 50+ people will adjust and notice you're folding in certain spots but you get away with it at 10. That said, last night a 35bb stack sat down and 3bet shoved my 6x AKs raise and i called. I usually hate AK in those spots, they're often shoving medium/big pp so we're pretty much flipping, but i called and he had 92o! So i'm not an uber nit.

But yeah, i fold in marginal spots usually, and bet nice solid amounts when i'm ahead. Fold a ton of hands, playing around 18% and getting rid of a shit load of hands in the small blind. Seek out those fishy tables and ditch anything less. This is how i've started to come out of my 10nl swings and start showing progress. Also, i can't even say i blind steal anymore, there's never nits in my blinds and i'm getting called like 2/3 of the time or more and whiffing flops with my medium hands. My button range is still around 25%, just leave it, wait for better hands.

Current BR = $366
Win rate = 4 PTBB/100
10k hands down, probably another 25k left.

So this OP was, as you know, about getting stuck into 10nl and staying there and so i figured somewhere around $350/$360 and i start looking ahead to beating 10nl realistically then looking toward 25nl.

Thanks to Robb, Stacks, bjsaust and others for their help in this op. I will post a full stats monthly review around June 1st.

Laters!!

EDIT: just checked, i'm playing 20% in bb, 16% in CO!

Congrats buddy, this op has brought up some really interesting discussion. I demand a sequel for your journey to 25nl!!

i second the demand for a sequel

now please sir, supply

O and of course nice work!

Originally Posted by wonderland

But yeah, i fold in marginal spots usually, and bet nice solid amounts when i'm ahead. Fold a ton of hands, playing around 18% and getting rid of a shit load of hands in the small blind. Seek out those fishy tables and ditch anything less.

Open up a bit more in position and you'll own up to and including 100nl without doing much different. I think you get it now, pokers not that difficult when you do those things eh?

...and you'll own up to and including 100nl without doing much different.

oh you're too generous, sir. I have much work to do before i can even think about 25 i feel.

that said, exciting notion to propose to me

I keep saying it but i can honestly say i owe my recent developments mainy to one thing: folding.