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I don't know if this is going to help but I feel like typing it anyway.

For the last two months or so, I have devastated an otherwise great bankroll for my limits (2/5 - 10/20) by playing nuts super lag bad (i.e. I've had no discpline in my game). I have been playing like a total moron and it isn't an issue of running bad, it's an issue of playing bad. I used to play a game where I would buyin short (at least for the game - about 500 in 2/5). When I first started out I was playing ubertight when I didn't have position and doing well, as I slowly doubled through people, my stack grew. When I had a big stack, my game changed as I became more aggressive and started raising a lot more with position, picture this over one session. A lot of people at the table didn't realize that I had totally changed gears and it was amazing how many other big stacks I managed to stack because they were giving me credit for AA with a raise rather than 78s, since 3 hours ago, I was only playing 1 hand an orbit if that. Despite being up, I remained tight without position and still didn't coldcall raises with garbage (i.e. 87o) As the roll grew, I began buying into games deep right from the start thinking I could just use my stack to get me out of poor preflop decisions. I also started calling a lot more raises preflop trying to out play/bust people. I totally gave up on position (if we all have 5k and the blinds are 2/5 who cares I thought?) It doesn't take long to lose a lot of money this way, the smart short stacks were in heaven when I and others would play like this against one another. While you can't buy in deep online, even with 100xBB I still find myself calling a lot of raises I shouldn't, paying off a lot of value bets that I should be folding to and things of that nature.

Recently, as depressing as this is, I decided to put myself on a leash for online games, I buyin for 50xBB, so 1000 in the 2k game. People give you incredible action for the size of your stack because of the "why no max buy in this game?" All of your decisions are easy, and I payoff a lot less now. I hope one day I will have the discipline to buy in reg. online, but for now, this is working. Diablo and Flynn have mentioned this in the past about an easy way to play NL online, because all your decisions are so easy. I'm going to stick with it online and see how it works at least until I manage to control my LAG urges...I'll keep you posted on how it works. I wouldn't buyin for 5 at the 2k game, that's too short I think, I think your money is better off in the 1k game with 5, but this is just what I've been messing around with for the past week. Sorry for hijacking your thread, just wanted to get this off my chest.