CARDRUNNERS

So basically I just went on the biggest downswing that I have been on, in about 4 or 5 months. I lost around a thousand dollars in like 3 days, and it was pretty disgusting to say the least. I don't know, I just can't be playing any 100NL, without at least 30BI's in my roll. That is going to be my new requirement, and even then I am going to be extremely hesitant, and only jump in when the games are really good. Because for now it's just simply not worth it, not because I don't think I am good enough or whatever, just because I am not good enough at handling the swings when I am living off my roll, when the money is so important to me. It's just simply not worth it.

However, at 50NL the swings are completely minimal, and my downswings only seem to be break even stretches. Now this is much more manageable, the only problem is when I'm breaking even for like 10K hands I really start to lose my motivation to play. It becomes a lot more difficult to grind it out when I am seemingly not making any money. Then I start trying to win money, and start really forcing it, and this is when I go on my biggest downswings. I just need to focus on things that I can control, how I am playing, how much I am playing, the state of mind I am in, not being emotional ext. That's what I need to worry about, and let the rest work itself out. If I am playing my A game at 50NL it is very simple, I will win money, and that's all that there is too it.

And as soon as I start losing my motivation to play, or start getting a little frustrated, that's when it is time to take the day off. This is how I will try to ensure that I don't let the break even stretches affect my mindset. I only want to be playing when I am in a healthy mindset, and not ever force myself to play. On the other side of the token I might ease up on my restrictions of only playing 2 sessions a day. As long as I am in the right mindset, and feeling good about the grind, I want to hop on there and make my hourly. So here is the thing, the only way that I can play more than 2 sessions, is if I don't smoke for one of them. That should leave me feeling better, and more focused and ready for the grind.

So basically at the start of the month I withdrew 1K to pay for rent, and then proceeded to lose one thousand dollars in the next week and a half. So instead of making money I lost about the amount that I need to cashout right now, and that is why it hurts. But I have to realize that even after all of that my bankroll is still completely healthy, and I still have enough money to cashout for rent next month. Along with that my mental state really hasn't been affected at all, because I haven't checked my results at all over the last week, so I am really happy about that.

Honestly, right now is prolly going to be the complete low point for the entire summer, and I am doing completely fine. I am not stressed out at all, and I am not pressing which is huge. I don't feel like I have to jump on the tables and make all the money back as soon as possible, istead I'm just chilling out, hanging out with friends and even thinking about taking the day off. This tells me that I am in a really healthy mindset, and that I am not letting my poker results affect me, the way that it would many people. So for that I am very proud, and I was to try and take all the positives I can from this. I truly feel that it's only getting better from here, which is pretty awesome because even right now my life seems to be absolutely incredible, and I am literally loving every day that I wake up. So I am going to take this as a positive, and realize that if this is as bad as it gets for me, then I am def one of the most fortunate college students around, and I am remarkably thankful for everything in my life that seems to go so well...what a sick life!

So basically in the last 6 months or so players have gotten much better at playing in 3bet pots. It's not just the good players either, it seems to be that even the fish are getting used to being 3bet so much and slowly starting to adjust. This is not good for me, because I am basically still using a ton of the concepts that I learned about 3betting from a year ago. I think I really need to re-evaluate how I play a bunch of hands in 3bet pots.

Basically my worst hand to play in a 3bet pot is AK. I just get completely owned every time I get 3bet w AK, whether I am in position or out. Playing full ring I am losing about 5BB/100 playing AKs and AKo in 3bet pots. So basically this is ridiculous, and I am going to have to completely change up how I am playing it in 3bet pots.

I just spew money all the time in 3bet pots, so I just need to save myself the headache and start folding pre flop. Just fold, fold, fold, throw in a light 4bet and I am breaking even, so I can't worry about losing money to players who are 3betting me light. Especially at 50NL, I just don't need to worry about it, and only look for spots that I can play profitably. I am not playing any hands profitably in 3bet pots except AA, KK, QQ, and 1010. Those are the only fucking hands that I am showing a profit with in 3bet pots!!!!! So when I get 3bet I have to understand that this is never a profitable spot for me! So this being said I am going to have to start folding a lot more.

I want to just start mucking AK if I get 3bet basically 80% of the time, because my implied odds are terrible, and my direct odds don't justify calling just to try and flop a pair. So if I am OOP w AKs and I get 3bet to 3X I am NEVER calling, and I have to muck 100% of the time if the player has a 3bet% of 3 or under. If I hit my A or K I never extract any value, and basically the only time that I get stacks in I am beat. So this really should be an easy muck for me, and I just have to wait for a better spot.

As for the AQs and KQs type hands that just look so pretty, and I want to see a flop, NO CHANCE YOU FUCKING FISH!!!! What the hell type of flop are you looking for?! If I catch top pair and get any money in I am crushed, if I flop a draw and get the money in I am never a big favorite. So it's like why would you want to just give your opponents money?

And now that I know how difficult it is to show a profit when you get 3bet, I really need to keep looking for really good spots to 3bet IN POSITION!!!. If I just 3bet a guy IP with basically ATC I should be able to show a proft. When I think a flat call is the best option, it rarely is, so just reconsider all of your options, and the more that you fold or raise, the more money you will make

So I just got done taking my last finals this week, and I am out for my summer break which is very exciting to say the least. However the unfortunate side of that is I am completely cut off from my parents, and on my own. I'm thinking that I am going to get a job, just so that I have something to do with myself other than grind the internet pokers. I think that will probably help keep my sanity which will be the best part, and I will also get some extra money on the side which is pretty cool. However I still expect poker to be my main source of income.

My hourly rate at 50NL is about 35-40$/hr, which is obviously triple what I would get working any summer job. So what happened is I built my roll up to 50BI's for 100NL which is what I have been trying to do for quite some time now. However at 100NL my variance is a ton higher, and my hourly is only a little bit higher. So I made the decision to cash out a little over 1/3 of my roll and just grind it out at 50NL, and take shots at 100NL with a 30BI roll only when the games are too good to pass up. This will def keep the stress levels down, and will hopefully keep this an enjoyable experience.

I also decided to finally open up a Cake Poker account with rakeback. So in the next couple of days I am going to deposit 600 onto Cake, and try to grind out the bonus. Hopefully I will be successful doing that, and then by the end of this month I should be rolled for 50NL of Cake. Ideally I won't have to WD any monies from Cake and I'll be free to grind that up. I will use aggressive bankroll management and try to take advantage of the soft games.

So basically since poker is going to be my job for the summer I want to start taking it a lot more seriously. Not only putting in more hours at the table, but putting in hours aways from the table as well. The key to improving my game is obviously to work on it as much as possible, and I have not been doing a very good job of this as of late.

So my goal is to work on my game away from the tables at least 1 hour every single day. This means blogging, posting hands, watching vids, talking to others about hands ext. I absolutely have to be doing this stuff at least one hour a day if I want to improve my game and take it to the next level. I am really going to try to start going over hands a lot better after each session. I want to locate each hand that was questionable as to whether or not I played it properly. Even if I think that I could have played it right, but I am not absolutely positive, I want to go over the hand and seek out the help of others.

So hopefully all goes as planned, and I'll be able to grind it out at 50NL and still be improving my game so that I can grind it up on both websites. This would be ideal, and it's just up to me to work hard.

So as usual I have decided to keep my blog updated much more frequently, and I hopefully I do a lot better this time. I am going to living off my roll come in about a week, and this means I am going to have to take the game a lot more serious. 

The most important thing for me to do right now is to devote at least 1 hour every single to day to studying the game. I need to be posting hands, talking to members of my group, making blog entries and being very critical of my game in general. I think this is the best way for me to achieve the highest win rate, and keep my love for the game.

Basically I want to be grinding 50 and 100NL this whole summer, where I have a very good hourly wage. Over the past 115K hands I have beaten these two limits for a combined 5.42PTBB/100, mostly 10 tabling which is an hourly rate of about 37$/hr. My goal is to play about 15-20 hours a week, which would add up to about 40-50K hands a month. This would profit me about 2.5-3K a month which is very achievable.

I basically want to be playing whenever/where ever my hourly rate is the highest. Since I am going to be playing for an hourly rate I am going to quick keeping track of my results, and instead log the number of hours that I have grinded it out playing my A game.

If I feel there were spots that I wasn't playing my A game then I won't count that towards the running total, and if I was tilting I have to subtract from the total. This should get me much more focused on things that I can control, instead of letting outside factors drive me insane. My hourly rate should be about 30-60$/hr if I am playing my A game, and depending on what limit I am playing. So I can approximate how much I made in that session, just by the amount of time that I play, anything other than that is just variance and I do not need to pay any attention to this.

Now I feel that I am really on the verge of breaking through this phase in my poker career. I am ready to start playing poker for the long term results, and I am starting to realize that the short term results are insignificant, other than it can drive you crazy. So I want to quit messing around with this, and just focus on factors that are under my control.

I am starting to work out again, along with eating better and taking multi vitamins I think this should have a real positive impact on my game. I want to strive to be the best that I can possibly be in this game, and I want to do everything that is under my control to do this. 

So I was just going over my graph for my recent results at 50 and 100NL and something struck me as really weird. It seems that every time my non-showdown winnings goes up, the showdown winnings goes down, and vice-versa.

Now at first this doesn't seem weird at all, and in fact completely logical, but that is only because most players are losing money in non-showdown pots, so that relationship makes complete sense. However, I have a style of play where half of my profit comes from non-showdown winnings, and I feel that I am not taking complete advantage of this.

If you think about it, the original reason that I play so aggressive, is to establish an image and get players to stack off light, or pay me off my value bets. So when I am winning my most money in non-showdown pots I should have my loosest image, and therefore I should also be able to profit big in showdown pots as well.

The reason that I don't think this has been the case for me, is because I haven't been able to realize this point and capitalize on my image. When I start winning a bunch of money I am sort of like a run away train, that just keeps going faster and faster. I haven't developed that ability yet to completely change gears, and start playing a whole new style of play. In the past my line of thinking has been, "oh he knows I am playing aggressive, so he is going to play back at me, so I need to be a level ahead and stack off light!!!" And I would just keep getting crazier and crazier, and would hopefully log off before I spewed off all of my monies.

So now I want to be able to train myself to sort of get in a rhythm, and know about when is the right time to play crazy loose, and whens the right time to change up gears and play like a nit. I think the better I can go back and forth in between the two, the more profitable I can be.

So what I want to do, basically always and as a rule of thumb for every poker game, is start out playing 100% straight forward, and not doing anything that isn't completely ABC poker. I want to do this until I can get a feel for the table, and know what types of players I am playing against. 

Once I have done that effectively enough I should have a very tight image, and this is the perfect time to loosen up and start making the moves that I want to. Still passing up on opportunities if they are less than perfect, but I have to be exploiting my opponents mistakes in the best way that I know how.

After I do this for a while I will probably get the LAGy image that I am used too, and this is when opponents are going to start stacking off light. This is when it is most profitable for me to be at the table, if I can change gears, and stay ahead of them. The way to take advatage of this is not to start stacking off light myself. but to go into nit mode and start pushing the nuts.

I think this is a wonderful cycle, and would be about the ideal rhythm to get into for basically every session that I play. This would really lower the variance on my side, and could make the upswings a lot bigger. If I can utilize my image properly, my non-showdown winnings will go in an upward trend at the same time as my showdown winnings, and this would be a huge WR, so hopefully I can live rather stress free, while maintaining poker as my main source of income.

So what I have realized is the more money that you put in preflop, the less skill that will come into play, and therefore the less advantage I will have over the weaker players. This is because the more money that is put in preflop, the shallower the stacks become for post flop play.  This makes so much sense to me, but I am just starting to understand this concept.

The reasons for 3betting light are, your opponant reacts terribly to 3bets, or to set yourself up for value later down the road. There really shouldn't be any other reasons for 3betting light, so I have to get away from doing this so much. Players these days are really starting to adjust to 3betting light a lot better, making it a much less profitable play, so therefore it is up to me to try and figure out what the next profitable play will be to replace that one.

So basically the conclusions that I have come to are too

1. Keep 3betting the right players in position, because players still react terribly when they are calling 3bets OOP, and I think this can still be extremely profitable against the right kind of players

2. I am literally going to try and never 3bet light OOP, I will see how long this lasts, but I am honestly going to try and never 3bet light OOP.

3. I still have to defend my blinds, so what I am going to start doing is calling OOP. Since I learned the game through CR, this move has been made to seem as if it is the worst possible play in NL poker, but I am going to start doing it more because I feel that I can play OOP more profitable my flat calling than 3betting light.

What I am going to start doing is flatting from the blinds with hands that have equity and seeing a flop. There are now many different ways that I can win the pot, and I am going to try and do so without c/r'ing. I just think c/r'ing is a pretty spewy play no matter what the holding is. If you only do it w sets this becomes extremely exploitable, and if you start doing it w draws you get in really tricky situations when the preflop raiser flats your c/r and you miss you draw on the turn.

So what I think might be the best play in the gams nowadays is to flat OOP and lead the flop, on a bunch of different board textures, and even in multiway pots. Cause when you flat pre, and then lead you taking back the aggresion in the hand, and he now has to react to you. I find many players will just go ahead and fold to this bet, and this bet causes most players to play fairly straight forwardly. The pre flop raiser usually will only raise if he has a big hand, at least an overpair or better, and I can proceed accordingly. Most players nowadays seems to react so horribly to the "donk" bet, that I think it could be the next line that starts becoming extremely valueable. So I am going to start doing it, and try to completely merge my range so that opponents have a really difficult time putting me on a hand range.

Here are some examples, if an aggresive player opens in late position and I have KJ suited in the BB. I am going to flat and then lead out on a ton of flops. I will lead out with top pair hands, I will bet/3bet with big draws, if the board comes down A high I will almost always lead. Or if it comes down super dry I will go ahead and lead, and then bet turn also and this usually gets a ton of folds.

So I think I can definitely flat call suited connectors and one gappers and pocket pairs profitably from out of position. I don't have to win the pot every time, but I think that I will be able to make enough moves, and not c/f often enough, for this play not to be profitable. And it also looks so much stronger, say an aggro player opens in the CO and someone flats on the btn (anyone but a loose passive) and I look down at 54s. Usually I would think this is a great spot to sqeeze, but this play just literally gets no respect, and it probably isn't profitable OOP. However I just flat call and the board comes down AXX,  KXX or even QXX, I'll just go ahead and bet into the preflop raiser, and this puts him in a really tricky spot. With someone left to still act behind him if he has JJ or lower there isn't much at all he can do, unless he has the top pair. So I'll just bet into him and pick up the pot a good majority of the time.

So I am going to try to bring as much skill into this game as possible, which would then lower the variance as much as possible. This is a goal that every winning poker player strives for, and I am going to go about it by trying to not put to much money in the pot when I am OOP, and keep the stacks as deep as possible, so that I have as many opportunities as possible to make the correct decisions. Then when IP I will just jam as much money into the pot as my opponent will let me, and I think I will be able to make much better decisions with a lot of money in the pot when I am in position. It always sounds soooo much easier than it really is, so hopefully this works out as planned, and this should smooth my transition from 50 to 100NL.

I think I have spotted one of my biggest leaks that has been haunting me basically since I started playing cash games. One of my biggest problems is trying to win every single pot, and having trouble realizing that I can't win every single pot that I enter. 

If I come in the pot with a raise I basically try as hard as I can to win that hand, and have trouble noticing when it is just time to give up. I think this might be why I have been so much more successful with more players at the table. My WR is higher the more players that are at the table, which seems counter intuitive, but I think this leak in my game probably explains that.

At full ring games players are much more passive and much more likely to put me on a big hand when I bet, and lay down their hand. However the less players that are at the table, the less respect my bets get. So players, especially good ones are not near as likely to lay down their hand to my bets. And I try harder and harder to win every pot, getting crazier and crazier, like a runaway train.

This line of thinking has caused me too, C-bet way too much, 3-bet more than the maximum profitability percentage (if that makes any sense at all) and most importantly it keeps me from getting away from certain hands once the pot gets too big.

Instead of just getting away from a neutral EV spot, I am way to afraid to lay down the best hand and I get my money in bad. I have to remember the age old saying, "If you don't fold the best hand sometimes, then that means your calling too much." I can't worry about just giving up and folding, and when I actually do that, I am extremely amazed at how stress free and seemingly easy the game can become.

Like for example earlier today I open the SB w AQs and got 3bet by a nit that I only had 30 hands against in the BB.
Now AQs is at the very very top of my range for opening the SB, so when I get 3bet I feel that I should be able to go with it. But when I look at it more closely and realize that OOP, against a nit this hand plays pretty terrible, and even if I am slightly ahead of his range for 3betting the BB, it is going to be tough to play a big pot OOP w this hand, and I am not giving up much by folding.

That's what I have to ask myself...Am I giving up too much here by folding??? The answer is almost always NO and I can make a really good laydown.

*I am pretty sure that there is a very strong corrolation in my game for how big my WR is, and how often I am folding.

When I am folding a lot and getting away from situations where I would otherwise call, that is when I am almost always booking big wins. I keep saying this over and over again, I don't have to win money in these games, I just have to not lose it.

As long as I am not losing money, I am almost certainly winning money. These games are so incredibly soft that I can literally win 5/7 days, and go on some pretty ridiculous streaks, as long as I am not losing the money myself.

By not losing money, that means absolutely minimizing the times that I call, and spew. If I am remaining tight, and keeping a descent amount of respect at the tables then I am just going to be crushing it for a huge WR. The key to raising my WR is folding and checking more.

Don't think that you have to make money from these mediocre spots, just don't lose more than you have too!!!

After I went ahead and folded that AQs earlier today I realized, Wow that was easy! Because I knew that no matter what flop came out my life was still going to be hell, but for whatever reason I wanted to win that pot cause I had AQs and opened in the SB.

That is not how to think about poker, and quit getting so damn attached to your hand, and take a step back to consider what their hand range consists of. If it is crushing you then it is a very easy fold, and if it's 50% againt your hand, then you are not losing any money at all by folding.

So please QUIT TRYING TO WIN EVERY POT!!!!!

So my spring break went really well all except for the poker that I had planned. I didn't get the chance to play as much as I wanted, which is OK because I was having a really good time during my spring break. Unfortunately when I did play I ran like an asshole. Nothing seemed to go right and I dropped close to 700 dollars which was not the results I was looking for.

What sucks the most is I took that whole time off playing internet poker in hopes that I could make enough money playing live to pay for my trip and cover some expenses. Well that didn't work out well I was forced to make a big cashout of 1,500 dollars from my bankroll of 4,000. This left me bankrolled for 50NL with enough to take shots at 100 only if the games were really good. This was a bummer because of how close I was to making the full time jump to 100NL.

Then today on Sunday afternoon I saw some great games going at 100NL and couldn't resist. Some more bad lucky coupled with some ugly play left me down a quick 4BI's. Now this is extremely frustrating, and really puts a dent in my roll. My roll is now 1/2 of what it was a week ago and I haven't hardly played any poker so this really kind of sucks.

But I knew that this could easily happen when playing underrolled and I accepted these consequences because I knew that I would have the discipline to drop back down and grind it out. It's just extremely frustrating because it seems like each of the last 4 months I have had basically the same goal, and have repeatedly failed to acheive it.

My goal has been to beat 100NL and make it my full time game, and I really thought I was going to do it this month when I had my roll up to 4K only 1.5 weeks into the month. However, yet again it did not work out and it shouldn't be a problem dropping back down once again, and starting all over again.

So my goal for the rest of this month is too grind back the four BI's that I just lost at 100NL and have 50BI's for 50NL. I have to be completely rolled for one limit before I start taking my shots at the next, so once I grind back my losses I can start looking to take shots in really good games again.

And my goal for the month of April will yet again to be rolled for 100NL and comfortably beating it. So in April I was to profit a minimum of $2,500 and then in May I want to double that to $5,000 by playing 100NL. This would leave me taking shots at 200NL by this summer, which has been my goal for quite some time now. 

I am taking shots in a different manner than I ever have before. I will sit in the game if I think it is a very +EV spot and I know there is no chance of busting my roll. I think this is the best way too take shots, but there will be plenty of times where I lose close to half of my roll to do so. This is completely OK as long as I played well and it was a very +EV spot, and there was not chance to go busto, and I have no problem dropping back down and grinding it out. This is I have to do right in order my maximize my chance to move up stakes. Remember you keep score in poker by who is making the most money, so to be the best I must put myself in the most profitable situations possible.

Ahhhh, so I just got done with the study group for this week, and now I'm going to take some much needed time off from internet pokerz. I have only taken like one day off in each of the last two months so I felt myself starting to feel slightly burnt out, and decided that I am going to take Spring Break off from playing IP. I am really excited about it, and in the mean time I am going to be grinding out the live scene down in AZ.

Im working w a really short roll, but if I can just have a good first day then it should be smooth sailing from there. The game is ridiculously soft, and I am confident that I would come out of there on top 8 out of 10 times that I went if I played my A game. So I'll hopefully be able to juice my life bankroll, and put some in savings and not have to cash out too much from Pstars before this summer.

I have to say that life has been great lately all things included. After I switched my major to philosophy and dropped my soc. psych class I have been loving school. I love waking up every single day, and look forward to what that day has to bring me, and that is honestly the greatest feeling that anyone can ask for. I must be sure to be thankful because I seem to be running really well at life, not to mention killing it since I switched over to full ring.

Since I'm taking some time off I'm gunna go ahead and go over my results for the past 6 weeks since I switched back to full ring, and just compare them to the goals that I had set for myself when I decided to make the move back to fr. I'm still a computer donkey and don't know how to post any graphs, so I'm just going to do it my way and post some numbers that relate to my hourly and what not...


So basically my goal was to be crushing 100NL by this summer as close to 5BB/100 as possible. My goal is always to be the biggest winner at the limit that I am at. It is always good to strive to be the best, in my mind there is literally no point in working at the game if I'm not trying to be the absolute best that I can possibly be.

So at 50NL full ring I have only gotten in 51K hands, but over that span I have crushed it for 6.2BB/100. This isn't a very big sample, but I had a 100K sample at 25NL with a higher WR, so I really believe that if I were to continue grinding out 50NL for another 100K hands a WR of 6BB/100 would def be attainable, because I feel that I would only get better. This has been basically 10 tabling for the most part and my hourly was $33 over 97 hours. I am very satisfied with that because I feel I can take all the shots that I want and I can always drop back and make that hourly.

At 100NL full ring I have recently changed up my shot taking strategy and now I am only taking shots when the games seem to be at least as good as the 500NL games. Over 25K hands I have won at 3BB/100 which I def think I can improve on. I haven't always played my best, and I have noticed some leaks that I have in big pots. So my hourly here is basically the same as at 50NL at 32.5$/hr. 

Once I get back from spring break I am going to be extremely focused on improving my game. I am going to get another lesson, I am going to keep up w the study group, and there are def some vids that I am going to watch. On top of that I am certainly going to maintain my blog more regulalry. It's always annoying to keep having one really long post every couple weeks.

I am going to get really focused on acheiving my goal of beating 100NL for 5BB/100 by this summer. I def think I am on the right track and I look forward to the next couple of months.

From now on my mind is off internet poker, and I gotta figure out how to dominate the live scene. If I get the chance I will post an update from AZ, and hopefully I'll be running hot!!!!

So for as long as I can remember myself trying to take shots, I have been going about it drastically the wrong way. Basically in a nut shell what I will do is take a shot whenever I am feeling it, and as soon as I take that first shot I try to make it stick wayyyy to much. I don't got back to playing the previous limit until I lose the number of BI's that I have put aside for that shot.

Once I do lose those BI's I can step back down to the previous limit, so the problem is never putting my BR in any sort of risk, it's just the potential earn that I am costing myself my going about taking shots the wrong way. I should just be looking for when the games are good at the next limit, and not be afraid to take a one time shot. 

Take that shot because you know that you are a huge favorite to win money in those games, and if you get unlucky in the short term variance then you can easily grind back it back up the previous limit. However, if I do happen to win in those games which I am a huge favorite in, this does not mean that I am ready to move up to the next limit and start playing it all of the time.

Just because I made that extra money at the higher limits when the games are good, does not mean I should be entitled to donk it off when the games are no good at all. Remember that I was just taking a shot in that game because it was a good chance to make money, so once you do, go ahead and go back to the daily grinding until the next time the games are good.

I am not going to make the limit my regular limit to play at until I have 50BI's in the roll, at which time I am comfortable taking shots at the next limit up from that. So if I start taking shots with a better mind set I think I will be able to take them more aggressively and move up the limits a lot quicker than I have been.

Because the other way that this has been hurting me up until now, is after I do lose those BI's at the higher limit, I struggle to play my A game at my regular limit for a little while afterwards. I got used to playing for more money, and it hurts my ego a little dropping down, and I have noticed that I almost completely switch up my game plan. Instead of playing good solid small ball poker at the lower limit, I start trying to play big pots.

I feel less stress playing for half the money, so I am more ready to get it all in. I think that if I am ever going to make that money back at this limit then I have to play some big pots. Uggghhhh it's so gross and it goes against anything that is my A game.

If anything I should be learning how to play better at the higher limits, and be able to increace my WR at the lower level. I should be MUCH MORE scared at the lower limit to create a big pot than I am at the higher. The logic for this is simple, the higher you move up limits the more aggressive play will play, the lower you move down the more passive it will be.

So when facing a raise from a WP at a lower limit is much more scary w AA on the flop than it is an aggro player at the higher limit. However, I have never looked at it this way, and even thought about it the reverse. So this has been killing me this month, and I am down about 500 so far. 

My goal for this month is to finish 2,500 in the green and be fully rolled for 100NL by the begining of next month, and ready to take my first shots at 200NL full ring soon after. I will not be afraid to take any shots in which the games are good and I am a large favorite and I'm not putting my roll at risk. It'll be good to be able to play my A game at both limits in the same day. I look forward to the challenge, but I think it should be a lot more fun, and a lot less stressful doing it this way from now on...