50NL

[shamdonk]

Why can't I seem to win? after 5k hands I'm at -.32bb/100. I do real good at 25nl with 13bb/100. I always seem to lose two big pots and that throws off my entire session. Could it just be an awful run of cards or variance catching up with me?

[MVPSPORTS]

Are you posting $50NL hands...? Does losing a stack knock you into tilt...? I used to play 1/2NL pretty regular, but losing a couple stacks would send me into a tailspin... I moved down to the $100s and $50s, and don't let the hits bother me so much...

5K hands seems like a lot of hands to be showing a negative profit... Maybe try playing 1 or 2 $25 tables at the same time as one $50 game...

[shamdonk]

Well today I figured I should try 50NL again and I got stacked 3 times; AA and KK twice. I ran into sets all 3 times. It makes so much sense after the hand is played out, l try to take something from each beat, but so far the only think I'm taking is my lumps. Today I was firing on all cylinders until that happened. I mean I was stealing and raising then BOOM $150 gone. Is this just 50NL telling me, "No its not your time"

[MVPSPORTS]

I know it sounds crappy, but it may just be... For whatever reason, every frickin time I pop my head back up to the $200NL game, I win a hundred or so...I don't see the players as that much better... I'm feeling confident and sailing... and then BAM!!!!! A nice metal toed boot right in the nuts...

I make a nice profit playing $100NL and $50NL, so I'm content with it for now... And, then every now and again I'll poke my head in and see if I can survive again...

[AlexMR]

Shamrock,

I am sorry to hear we are through the same here. I think it s just a bad run. Anyway it is a very good idea to pass this bad run in the smaller tables $25NL. I am almost sure you are ready for the $50 tables. Game quality is the same. After my first 5K hands there I was down at -2.something PTBB/100. That sucks! but I know I wasnt playing bad, so there was nothing I could do.

Did you read the "Are we lucky?" thread.... go there and read it, make the exercise and you´ll know if you a re throwing away money or in a nothing-you-can-do bad run.

I went to bodog and have played 4K hands and I m at 8.9PTBB/100 there. I always win there. I feel I could bve way more up but the bad beats are nonstop, not as much as UB but I am not winning a "FAIR" amount of pots.

AlexMR.

[T-Rod]

Shamrock,

Don't really know enough about your game to comment. However, my game at party 50NL really started to take off when:

1) I started checking a lot more turns ( I used to fire on every street)
2) I expect to be "sucked" out. It happens, I charge, I move on.
3) I realized that most 50NL party guys want to wait to do their betting on the river. So they have a hand, you check the turn, now they bet 3/4-full pot on river you can fold easily. On the contrary, you've checked the turn and they bet 1/2 pot on the river, you can CR that a lot of times (more than min) and they will fold.
4) When you have the nuts and you check the turn and go all -in on the river, you will get an amazing amount of calls. The weak looking turn followed by the super-strong river sreams bluff to most $50NL guys. You'll get called with TPTK quite often.

TR

[shamdonk]