Moving between limits - question for top players

[Lucky]

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It is impossible for me to do this. I do not understand how you people can do this.


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You should really get ready for this. If you think you're on a smooth escalator to Greensteins game, you're wrong. You'll drop down at some point. And if you drop down from the 1k/2k to the 100/200 and it feels like play money, you may be in trouble.

[KaneKungFu123]

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I know 2 off the top of my head that play 50/100 and 5/10 regularly....you do too. Maybe they could weigh in here.

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ok. i can explain this:

the 50/100, 25/50 games are only going so often. and they are only good sos often.

players in highest stake games are action junkies. (edit: alot of players in this game are under bankrolled. 10000 today, 400 tommorow.

the win margin in 50/100 vs 5/10 is alot smaller then in 5/10 vs 1/2

[hit_the_set]

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And if you drop down from the 1k/2k to the 100/200 and it feels like play money, you may be in trouble.

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I am just curious If this is just a downswing thing? Do you drop down even If you are doing well. Maybe I am just running good and the statement I quoted from OP was in that context: "Dropping down while running good"

[captZEEbo1]

Any full buyin 2/4 and above seems astronomical to me. The biggest purchase I have made in my life has been my dell 2001 fp (I think, maybe it was my computer?). One hand of poker being +/-400 is pretty significant compared to that.

I play poker to win money, not to get a rush from the stakes I'm playing.

Furthermore, I don't use pokertracker or any other SPECIFIC record keeping data, so I don't know which limit is my most proiftable/hr, I can only guess.

[Lucky]

I think AZK plays a lot at prima, where there arent many games going so 4 players could be playing at the same games: a NL 10/20, 5/10 and two 2/4, etc.

[greg nice]

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Furthermore, I don't use pokertracker or any other SPECIFIC record keeping data, so I don't know which limit is my most proiftable/hr, I can only guess.

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how do you plan on paying taxes?

[Ulysses]

I play 5/10, 10/25, and 25/50 regularly. What I play is based on a combination of the following:

What games are going
How I have been running
How I have been playing
How I am feeling
How the games are playing
How good the games are
etc.

[flawless_victory]

well, ive never played 50/100 (although im clearly a "top player, ahem), so i dont know that im qualified to respond, but...
im a very competetive person. in poker, $$ is how we keep track... even when the $$ isnt super signifcant, i still wanna win. i hate to lose at anything. besides the smaller games you mentioned are not played for negligible amounts of $$. my record for internet 2/4 in one session is 6K. thats significant for me.

[whitelime]

Right now, my main game is 5/10 nl. I definitely know that I would not be able to take .5/1 nl seriously. However, if I jump up to 50/100 and play in an especially juicy game, I don't think I'll have the same problem jumping back down to 5/10 nl when 50/100 is tough or not running. Two main reasons for this:

1) 50/100 does not run regularly enough for me to regularly find 4 good tables to play. One good table is hard to find. As a result, playing anything over 10/20 as your 'main game' is going to be pretty hard to do right now.

2) Unlike .5/1 nl, 5/10 nl is still serious money. 4 Tabling it, it's not too difficult to pull in 400-450/hr. If winning this kind of money is not good enough, go spend it and enjoy it. Take your girl out to a nice dinner. When you get the $100 check, tell yourself it only took you 15 minutes to earn that. $400/hr or $800k/yr (40 hr week) is a lot of money.

[IHateCats]

Just keep track of netteller/whatever withdrawls. Much as I value pokertracker, I'd never count on it for tax purposes.