$50NL Begin Again
It's been a fun trip down memory lane. Since the start of the year, having laid off the game for 6 months before then, I got my feet wet with $25NL, moved up to $50NL the week before cash games were slated to drop 50bb max games, and as of yesterday I've managed to make over $1,500 at the tables. This time around I'm playing more tables, too. Between all the hands logged, making over 30 buy-ins, and just the number of fish I'm seeing at the tables, I've decided to go ahead and start adding $100NL tables when I see good games.
My win-rate at $50NL was 3.55bb/100 starting from the first full day of no NEW 50bb max cash game tables. My entire graph year to date:
I'm not too far from my original 5.62bb/100 win-rate when I last came up through the ranks. This time around, the games are tougher, I'm playing more tables, and I'm coming off a 6 month absence from the game which will account for some bb/100 loss. Moving up, I've beaten $100NL twice for over 30 buy-ins in the past: once on Stars and once on Full Tilt. Obviously this time around with the always increasing difficulty of poker, there's no guarantees. I just hope there are enough fish to go around and game selection is reasonable. If I can continue to improve and get better, the rest should take care of itself. I'm going to continue to work on my game and plug my leaks. At the moment, I'm paying a LOT of attention to "fold to steal from the bb". I had an 84% fold rate from that position when facing a steal, which LeakBuster gave an F+ grade ... eek. My original philosophy was the blinds are just bad spots to put money in the pot because you're always out of position, but I've realized I may be taking it too far. I'm trying to look for opportunities to lower that percent and develop strategies to exploit different players in that situation.
I haven't logged a ton of hands in April and I'm looking forward to the VPP point boost to help get me to SuperNova by year's end. I won't think about moving up to $200NL unless or until I am able to win 30 buy-ins at the table or $3000. And, unless I have good reasons or evidence to the contrary, I'll probably move back down to $50NL exclusively if I end up losing 10 buy-ins @ $100NL.
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