Re: Bankroll and Moving up
 

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Also, I disagree with people who suggest playing a few tables at your regular level and one at the higher level. Mixing levels like that can be really confusing.

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Playing multiple levels totally screws me up.

Re: Bankroll and Moving up
 

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One thing I'll add, for those moving up : have confidence in your game and keep playing your game. Don't feel like you need to make more moves or that you're outclassed

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QFT. This is very, very, very important.

On playing multiple levels
 

I had a good experience playing multiple levels. I usually play 3 tables, leaving me one corner of the screen to have a good look at HH's. So when I moved up the last time from 50 to 100, I started with one table 100 and two 50, and when I'd have some more money, I'd switch another table, etc.

The upside of this is that you can focus better on the higher table, because you're playing 2 tables at your comfortable level where you can do a lot of things on automatic.

And another thing: when I played two tables of 50NL, I could mimic that at the 100. Because I tended to play a lot more cagy (especially preflop) at the higher limit, where-as I'd have no problem raising SC's or KTo from LP at the 50-table (5-max). So, this gave me a solid feel of knowing that I should do something and 'forcing' myself to do it, and slowly getting used to it.

It took quite a bunch of hands actually, but at one point, I saw a buddy at a 50NL table, but I didn't care to play with him, because of the lower limit, and ever since I've played 3 tables of 100nl, and might add another table soon.

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also, already stated by db, try your best to not cash out early on. try to keep as much $ in your BR as you can and the real money will come once you move to the bigger levels in midstakes.

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also, already stated by db, try your best to not cash out early on. try to keep as much $ in your BR as you can and the real money will come once you move to the bigger levels in midstakes.

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quiet, you!

Re: Bankroll and Moving up
 

Something I've been doing recently is following my buddy list people when I see them at the next higher level. That adds a little bit of comfort, psychologically, for me.

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Something I've been doing recently is following my buddy list people when I see them at the next higher level. That adds a little bit of comfort, psychologically, for me.

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Y, good tip. Good thing I have a buddy who plays 100 through 1K!!!

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Y, good tip. Good think I have a buddy who plays 100 through 1K!!!

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Make sure they play just as poorly, though! I have a guy on my buddy list from a time I played NL100 with him, but now when I see him he's always 6 tabling at the 600+ level, so I suspect he was donking it up when I played with him.

Re: Bankroll and Moving up
 

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Also, I disagree with people who suggest playing a few tables at your regular level and one at the higher level. Mixing levels like that can be really confusing.

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Playing multiple levels totally screws me up.

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I've had some moderate success playing both above and below my current level. That is, the last time I moved up to the $100s, I played 1-2 $100 tables and 1-2 $25 tables. I used the $25 tables to remind myself what "pure ABC poker" was so that I didn't get too tricky at the $100s.

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Also, I disagree with people who suggest playing a few tables at your regular level and one at the higher level. Mixing levels like that can be really confusing.

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Playing multiple levels totally screws me up.

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I use to mix up tables when moving up and also found it too confusing. Maybe if you are playing less then 4 tables it is ok, but for an 8 tabler like me I found that I was wasn't time differentiating the different levels from each other and was losing EV.

When I move up I just take the big leap and run all my tables at the new limit. It's worked ok so far.