[dgoldsmith]

If you are working on clearing a bonus, you want to be playing more hands in order to clear it faster rather than slower. If you go from 2 tables down to 1 table, it is going to take roughly twice as long to play the needed raked hands to clear the bonus.

If you drop to 1 table and go up to $2/$4, what happens if your 'slide' keeps going -- 20BB at $4 is then same as 80BB at $1 (and 20BB down really isn't a slide -- its just part of the game)

Assuming you are playing relatively smart, then I think variance is the key factor here. I'm working on clearing bonuses on Party right now and playing on 3 or 4 $0.5/$1 tables. Last night on 3 tables, I was up 30BB on the first, down 30BB on the second and up 65BB on the third. I was playing the same on each table -- just had a couple of whack-nuts on the -30BB table who kept sucking out.

(1 guy never raised PF with AA,KK,TT but did with 83o,64o -- go figure! [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] )

Dave