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$1/hand is more or less unattainable for all but the elite MSNL players. how many people really make 8.33 ptbb at 3/6 or 5 ptbb at 5/10? i think most people have a tendency to look at their best month or best 30k hand stretch or whatever and assume that's their winrate. looking at that big db opened my eyes to this. so many of the 3/6 and 5/10 regulars on party winning 20 cents a hand taking pretty big variance when they could be winning that much with no variance at 200NL. bbv has glorified the idea of moving up as fast as possible, or whenever you have x buyins, rather than when you're ready. i think we're going to see a lot of peoples' egos cause them to get buried with these new, tougher games when they can't admit to themselves that they're marginal winners, and wind up getting swallowed by the inevitable 40 buyin downswings that we're going to start seeing, even at midstakes. just like all those 1000+ BB downsiwngs we've been seeing from limit players



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This is why I play 400nl now. used to play 3/6 with some 5/10, but ran/played horrible late in the summer and lost a lot of confidence. Started playing some 2/4 to regain confidence, and my hourly is higher and stress is lower. Desire to play poker is much lower since its much more of a grind, and less of a challenge. Only plan on grinding for now while future of poker is uncertain for US players. Will probably work on taking shots if poker stabilizes.

Quick brag: I did manage almost a dollar per at 2/4 last month. 32k hands, $29.5k