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Sheetah Yugoslavia. Oct 09 2007 15:08. Posts 196

(For those who missed) About ten or so days ago I've got some crazy ideas and thought of a 'grand plan' to move up in stakes rapidly - at least it was properly named: Bank Roll Monkey Adventure.

At first I had little swings but pretty quickly moved to NL100, when sick cooler hit me. As it usually goes, hand in hand with Mrs Variance goes Mr Tilt and after (this time magnified) swings and swongs I'm back where I started: $80. During the operation people here couldn't stop berating me for my weird BR model (rightfully) and I kept promising to not give up.

However, after coming back to break even I took a good look at stats and accidentally clicked 'show in BB' or something like that. And the results were - Hero is like 3 buyins up. Wtf? My first impulse was that I probably accidentally picked different range of hands, but after rechecking there were no doubts: I was 3 buyins up into break even (!?) ... WHAT THE FUCK !?!?

Several minutes later after scratching my head trying to figure out the enigma it suddenly hit me: "Of course! Why didn't I think of that before!? It perfectly makes sense!".
Let me illustrate: imagine that you take for ex. 3 BI shot at NL100 and you lose and have to drop down to NL50. You are break even, right? BUT, those $300 were 'made' at NL50 which is 6 buyins. Even though you didn't win anything, technically you are 3 buyins up. And my BR model was ba<x>sed on taking 1 BI shots (ouch). Blinds are blinds, stacks are stacks, everything is proportional no matter how much $ BB really is. And this only the thing that matters. And this is by far the most important thing I learned from all this mess. Needless to say, BRMA is officially canceled.

After failing I decided to break a routine and turned to the game that I was always doing well at: limit holdem. Back 2+ years ago when I got addicted to poker, limit was the main game and naturally that was what I learned first. Then NL exploded and slowly I turned to NL, like everyone else especially since limit multitabling grinders learned preflop charts too well and most (used to be so juicy) low limit games turned into a nit-fest and it became obvious that with rakes as they were LL games became a massive EV- for anyone in it. As the time passed, all good limit pla<x>yers figured that out and one by one moved to NL. Surprisingly LHE was left 'off guard' - cause just a quick glance at 1/2 2/4 3/6 tables was like: "WOW, where have all the nits gone!?" So I sat in two 2/4 tables. After 15min I started to remember old limit-only lines like 'play', 'ram and jam' and after (pretty normal for limit) swinging a little I ended a night with solid ($100+) profit - with ABC-I'm-rusty-a-little game.

Not that I intend to move back to limit or something, NL is still my main game. But from now on I'll keep an eye at limit tables. There's plenty of good money waiting there.

In fact, the only reason I'm still at Stars are my FPP points, cause I need just a little more to get enough for two (for limit) awesome books:
1) Stox's "Winning in tough holdem games"
2) Chen's "Mathematics of poker"
Then I'll unload my Stars moneyz and combined with some other money from elsewhere, load my newly opened Rednines account and grind w/ rakeback.

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