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FT NL50 seems snugglesoft in comparison(is that the FT doomswitch I hear) to NL100 where we all seem to have hit a bad run of variance (I get that impression).

Coinicdence or are there certain changes required for SSNL?

(FWIW I've only played 7k hands net +3buyins after a 6buyin swing and lost my confidence so went back to NL50 to recover it)

Any advice or should we just play more hands and get through it?

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The games really are not that much different imo. Slightly more aggressive players, slightly more thinking players. It wasn't until 200nl that I really had to rehaul my game to deal with all the pretty bad TAG's that play poorly postflop.

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I'm with orange on this one 100NL *is* a bit of a jump it's the first time I've started getting 3-bet preflop regularly and to combat that you need to be able to read hands well.

I'm at 8K hands +2.5buyins my graph is *very* swingy but I'm improving and learning much faster than I was at 50NL and am way too stubborn to move down.

Emc:

The money doesn't matter (no i am not sending you a transfer [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]) - I mean of course it's a lot of cash but I don't think of it as money - I think of it as chips and BB's. It doesn't actually exist as money until I cash it out and it gets to my bank account. It took me a good while to get past this but now I have and am playing like the money amount doesn't matter (being properly rolled helps here a lot) I am playing better and can thnk more about poker decisions and less about "zomg that pots nearly a weeks wages I need to push here and all I have is a combo draw so if he calls this is a coinflip!!!" e.g. Yesterday I get limp re-raised all-in by some idiot who's posted UTG+1 - I have QQ. I instacall he shows AK - I celebrate. I lose the hand when he flops a K and turns an A for good measure but if I keep getting the money in as a favourite in the long run I win - and the more money I can get in the middle on thin edges like this the more I will make (55% of $200 is better than 55% of $100) I think no worries I played it OK it doesn't effect my game I play another 100+ hands at this table and leave table eventually with a $300 stack - up $100 on the session - not to long ago I would have monkey tilted after losing a hand "I should have won" and played worse as a result - it's only BB's tho - it doesn't really matter and I have a bankroll for exactly that reason.

I've really tightened up in the last week I looked through my db and noticed I am playing way too many hands from EP making frequent small mistakes preflop that are landing me in tricky spots postflop. at $100NL it's the first level I've played at where some players really put you to the test can a) pickup on your mistakes and b) know how to exploit them. That just never happened at lower limits I was making bad preflop mistakes all the time (limping with speculative rubbbish from EP for example - badbadbadbadbad) and getting away with them, partly cos I was outplaying everyone postflop and making up for some of them and partly cos the other villains didn't notice/know and couldn't exploit them) so didn't I notice I was making so many.

I am not moving down till I hit an awful downswing - I seem to be getting varianced lots and nailed with 3 outters - and sets have dried up - and less idiots overplay TPTK and call off stacks

BUT it's not *really* that much harder a lot of this is shell shock and just getting used to the new limit. Running good would be nice [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Maybe the 100NL level is more aggro now that Frist has done his thing, a little tougher maybe but I have nothing to base a comaprison on so don't know.

I do know that since moving up has forced me into improving a lot more I'm more confident now that I could kill 25/50NL for easy monies I'm sure that after I move from here to 200 I'll think the same about $100NL.

BW:

great well thread - [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]