Poker levels
The common wisdom in poker is to make sure you can beat the game at a certain level - be it the stakes in a cash game, or the buy-in fora tournament - before you move up to the next level. And damned well make sure you have a big enough bankroll to ride the bad days and still be able to go back.
I don’t like the common wisdom.
I took out out a large amount of my bankroll to cover Xmas and have generally been broke since then, so I was left with a measly $50 in my account. Playing on micro-stakes cash games and small tournaments was pushing that up, but two tournies in a row with no winnings pushed it back to $40. On 1c/2c tables I was finding it very hard to make it back (was, in fact making a loss), as the players are so bad and the games are so dull I generally 4-table it. So I moved to 2c/5c 6-seaters, which was better, and then accidentally sat on a 5c/10c table which was very nice. People were playing actual poker for amounts that seemed to actually mean something. So in 20 minutes I’d made back today’s losses and more besides.
I’ll probably stay at this level — the game is far more interesting and I can play it better.
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