Quote Originally Posted by PlayToWin
Quote Originally Posted by Micro2Macro
I'm going to be grinding 5nl....
OMG, not 5NL. That's where I play! Well, at least your playing FR and I'm at 6-Max. I guess I'm safe, lol. There's probably enough fish for both of us.

Are you playing differently at 25NL than you did as you crushed 5NL & 10NL? I know your game must have evolved along the way or are your stats similar?

GL with the rebuild.
At first I think I played 25nl differently. I played too aggressively and I constantly 3-bet steals and 4-bet anyone 3-betting my steals without giving proper credit. This led me to losing 1-2 stacks with QQ/JJ preflop that I otherwise shouldn't have.

After the first 2k hands or so I realized I was being spewy, so I backed down to 10nl for a few k hands to work on some things. I felt great after toning it down a bit so I went back to 25nl and I was playing SOLID poker. Like, really solid. I reviewed my sessions and I was making some decent moves without getting too tricky, betting for fat value, making some thin bets in position vs the fish - all the stuff I wasn't doing right when I first moved up.

Then I run into a series of 2 outers and huge coolers. I lost 4 buy-ins with AA, one being a 91% favourite, the rest 80% (all in preflop).
Everytime I had QQ I'd town myself against 2 pair - I even had set/set for 100bb on the flop on top of all that. So I lost maybe 5 buy-ins to coolers, but THEN I tilted off 2-3.

Winning small pots here and there helped keep me around even, until my final session where I refused to leave a table where I KNEW there were 2 colluders (won't get into the details), just because they were huge fish I wanted to stack them, but all I did was chase my losses and ended up feeding them 2 stacks.

So yeah you could say -variance had something to do with it, but the way I handled it was horrible. I take full responsibility for not being above $0 at 25nl because I've gone back and added up numerous calls I shouldn't have made and numerous value bets I failed to make - in other words, I made too many mistakes to possibly dig myself out of the hole I was in.

My stats have actually gotten 'better' if anything. I ran about 13/10/2.8 with a 3.1% 3-bet at 25nl, was c-betting less (too high right now) and stealing was OK (27%) though I'd like it to be 30%. (it's alot higher at 6max :/)

I just ended up spewing in a few spots postflop that I shouldn't have, which ultimately caused me to move down to 10nl.

This is was put me on mega-tilt. Here I am at 10nl thinking I have to win back $100+ that I lost. So I start playing too loose/too aggro, trying to steal too many pots postflop..and well there goes 6 buy ins.

"I don't understand the drop to 5NL.

You have 72 BI for 10NL. Over Double Rolled"

I hope you understand a bit more now. Because my skill of maintaining composure has deteriorated, I'm unable to play where my bankroll says I can. I basically will just continue to lose until I fix my spewing problems and I feel the only way to do this is to move down to a level where the money is completely meaningless so that I just focus on playing good poker. This will allow me to regain the confidence I had before and prepare me to play my best. I'll also build my roll back up the way I should - slowly. There is no quick fix in this game, I'm going to do the best I can not to rush things.

Hope that all makes sense. Thanks for the support guys.