One of those bankroll questions again........

[rjacobs003]

So you're grinding up from NL2 using the 20 BI rule and you move to NL5....when do you move to NL10 if BI for NL5 and NL10 are equal. This is more a question about what the common approach has been.....

[geekylucas]

What site are you playing on?

Generally the max buy-in for NL5 is $5, and NL10 is $10.

If your poker site is making you buy-in for $10 at NL5, then I would skip NL5 and move to NL10 (assuming you have a $200 bankroll).

If your poker site is making you buy in for $5 at NL10, then I would change poker sites.

(Note: You generally want to buy-in for the max amount)

[rjacobs003]

Playing at Stars. Built my roll up from $100 at 1c/2c and just shy of the $200 mark at the moment. Should I just jump straight to 5c/10c then?

[Mundy]

I'm assuming you play on stars rjacobs?

5NL and 10NL play pretty similar on stars IMO so I would just skip 5NL but there is nothing wrong with playing a couple thousand hands at 5NL though just for the sake of adjusment purposes.

[rjacobs003]

Yeah thanks Mundy. Might go with building up to 30 BI at NL5 before moving to NL10. Will be slightly over-rolled but I reckon that's ok

I moved to 0.02/0.05 (10NL) with 100$, then move to 0.05/0.10 (10NL) with 200$, move to 25NL with 500$, move to 50NL with 1200$, move to 100NL with 3000$. worked for me.

Also, you will probably loose when you move up a level. for example, if you moved up to 25NL with 500$, stay there until you have lost and are down to about 350$, grind back up at 10Nl to 500$, move to 25NL again etc ... until robusto. GL

[rjacobs003]

Thanks cleaner. Yip that's my plan as well. If I drop to 30 buy-ins' at the previous level, I'm going to drop down and grind back up to 20 buy-ins at the next level before moving up again. What's your take on skipping 0.02/0.05 given that I've ground up to nearly $200 at 0.01/0.02? Also, how many hands did it take you to make these level-ups....quite curious. It's taken me around 20k hands to get to almost $100 up at 0.01/0.02.

[monkeymaps]

question I play 10NL on stars but never have payed much attention to 5NL what do peoplle buy in for the 10 bucks or mostly less? just curious if this game played deep then could be better than 10NL lol.

[rjacobs003]

No idea. Only found out yesterday that there were 2 levels of NL10 on Stars. Bit odd but interesting question on the deep stacks play.

I would not skip the 0.02/0.05 level. When I was playing them I asked myself the same question. 0.05/0.10 plays different since when buying in full you are 200bb deep in the first one and 100bb deep in the second one. first one it`s easier to make money, since most of your oponents play worse postflop and you can stack a lot of donks with sets etc, but you see the flop cheaper. Once you have the bankroll you should switch to 0.05/0.10c 10NL to adjust to being 100bb deep, wich is the same you will encounter from then on ... 25NL, 50NL etc. Feel free to pm me with questions. GL