My third day NL5 SH started weirdly. Before I even setup my tables I had to deal with this hand (10AM, 30min after I woke up)
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So I am like huh? what just happened?
And on my other table, huh whats that?
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So I was like omg whats happening dawg I started focusing a lil and my biggest SH hand so far arrived.
One guy threw money at us, the other one was very loose and has been very aggresive before that, doing crazy bad ass bluffs.
And I decided to play with him, when I believed I had even the slightest edge. Hence a call with 88 and funny hand.
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I continued in this trend of playing with the loose guys, with TAG style around 17/15.
But when you play with them and many hands with many people in pots, variance is inevitably going to increase.
And I unfortunately found out I can't handle it. I started being creative again, and soon after that I started playing 9 tables at once. Disaster was not far, and I went from $210 to $167, which would mean I'd have to decrease my $7 buy-ins.
I have been losing money for last 22,000 hands and I managed to go down over 1/3rd of my bankroll. So I made the decision. I needed some upward curve, I needed some confidence, I needed TO MOVE TO NL2 AGAIN
So I did it. I went for standard 20table grind which shot me up to NL5 over two weeks and 36,000 hands ago.
And it felt great. Not only I played the standard AQ+ nitting, but I actually used stats to steal blinds where possible, and I my c/bet success rate was around 90%.
After the experience on higher limits NL2 feels like a childs play. So I grinded for couple of hours and I was easily back at $200, reaching my regular NL2 slope I had with 4 tables while 20 tabling.
I was so exhausted, but I was back at $200 and the psychological level I needed to be able to play NL5 SH again.
The NL2 Grind taught me a lesson. I should NOT try to outplay 50+VP Fishes with only marginally better hands. So many of them enter the pot and I realised how I was beating the limit - playing with only extremely superior range against the opponents range.
So I decided to take this lesson to NL5 SH. I approached it like NL2 FR, played 12/10 rock style, showed others some very strong hands which I played with extreme safety like here:
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With this image, it is so easy to pull a medium size bluff here and there against non-retarded oponents, and also mix in some hands I would play all the time before, but now they are almost perfectly disguised.
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The PF raise was not supposed to catch this idiot, but good for me 
So yeah. I will continue with the rock style play and image building with couple cheesy alterations here and there, at least until NL25, which as I saw in some PS videos starts to have a decent proportion of LAG/TAG players.
Gl at the tables,
LemOn
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