[DJMaytag]

I'm back on here looking for answers after a pretty horrendous run the past few months where I had $320 on UB and about $100 on Paradise and now I have less than $50 between the two.

On UB I had a terrible stretch of not cashing on about 25 straight $5 SnG's and a rough couple days on the .10/.25 tables where I was getting sucked out on some really rough hands (lots of sets on the flop and getting called down by flush and str8 draws that hit). This was back in early March and I stopped playing regularly after that because I was getting really frustrated.

I returned for a few short sessions here on the lower levels on UB (mostly .05/.10) since then now that they finally added more nickel/dime tables and kept losing my buyins fairly quickly (and often doubling up and then losing it all). In that time I noticed that the games are getting wilder and wilder and regularly seeing the games devolve into total crap shoots (ie 4 or more people all in preflop or on the flop) with tons of family pots of 6 or more.

I know that many of you may be drooling at the idea of loose wild games like this, but going up against that many people that often, I get bit often by someone sucking out on me.

I know that one thing I have to work on is knowing how long to stick around. In a wild game it's often hard to leave when you've doubled up since the prospects of doing so again is very enticing, but I see others hitting big pots and splitting immediately and find that to be lame. I guess I have to balance the pros and cons of that aspect to determine how to choose when to leave.

The other thing is that I found play at the .10/.25 tables more to my liking as there were fewer players in a raised pot (3 or 4) and a good bet with an outkicked hand might win me a pot or two (NO bet will be laid down on the nickel/dime tables it seems). I'd LOVE to get back to this level, but I no longer have enough to play at this level (as I write this, I'm down to my last $1.26 after having he unfortunate luck of pushing with KK when someone had AA... which is typical of my luck in this streak...).

I kinda pride myself on the fact that I only ante'ed up $25 and took that to $600 before cashing out a couple hundred bucks and splitting the remainder up amongst UB, Paradise, and Party. I made it a point to be sure that I wasn't ever going to deposit any more into any sites, that my $25 was going to be all I'd ever put into gambling...

If I do manage to justify it, should I put in enough to comfortably play at higher levels? It seems as if the wildness just doesn't work for me at the pennies and nickel/dimes, while the .10/.25 seems like it's close to being right. I do play .25/.50 at home games with freinds with VERY short stacks ($10 buyins) and do well there, but it seems like I'd have to drop a load to have enough buyins to play at that level.

Just curious as to what some that are playing at these low of stakes are feeling about the games these days...