Advice needed from all you small stakes grinders (PLEASE).

[valdiesel]

Hi gang,

I visit this forum on a daily basis trying to read as many posts as possible to improve my game. Reading the posts here has really helped me geat better and improve rather quickly, and I would like to thank you all for that.

Before I start I just want to let everyone one know that this is not a post crying about bad beats and variance. So I moved up from NL50 to NL100 in March of 07 and playing part time I was able to build a roll for NL200 in a short amount of time. So I continued to play NL100 because I wanted to crush it before I moved up to NL200. Well, In July I had a huge downswing and lost about 12 buyins playing. I reviewed ALL my hands and realized that about 4 of them were because of bad play but the rest were just tough situations ( -4buyins all in preflop with KK vs AA yada yada yada). The trend has continued in August and I've gotten to the point where I have lost total confidence. I've even gone as far as moving back down to NL50 and I can't win at it.

Any advice on what I should do to regain my confidence and grow my roll again?

Thanks for the help,

Val

[thac]

Switch sites, I'm serious.

[valdiesel]

yeah, its all been on FTP. How do I know when its right to return?

Besides that any other advice?

Im actually doing decent on stars but no rakeback offered there.

[bubaloo]

take a 1-2 week break. play no poker, but review your game and make sure you have the fundamentals in perspective.

this really helped my game a lot (especially after running/playing bad + lack of confidence) hope this helps.

[valdiesel]

thanks for the advice.

[blah-blah-blah]

pokerstars FPP's are basically rakeback

[Hince]

Really analyze your data for about a week instead of playing. Find your holes, and your opponents holes.


And tighten up for a while. You can beat SSNL by being a nit (although you might not win much).

[Tony Montana 22]

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Switch sites, I'm serious.

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Hey Thac, why?

[mookboi]

Tighten up and move down. Just because you have the roll for something, as you pointed out in OP, doesn't mean you have to be playing it. The way things are going at tables, 12 BI downswings are kind of common nowdays.

Move down to 25 until you win 20 BI. Move up to 50 until you make another 10 BI there. This is all for self confidence issues primarily, because I'm assuming your bankroll isn't the issue.

[xd40]

played a decent amount of hands? per limit/overall?