No matter how much you know it's going to happen, it's always shocking how the swings of this game can take you all over the place.
I made $1450 in the first 2 weeks of Feburary, then I lost $1376 in my last 4 sessions of Feburary, mostly in the first and last of the 4, and then, in the next 4 sessions to start the first week of March, I pulled back $1000 of that.
I'm now playing a lot of 1/2, so with the buy-in at $200, I guess technically these swings are not that large (7 buy-ins), but it still feels that way since I'm just really starting to play at that level.
When I started playing cash games to begin the new year, I was playing some 25PLO8 and 50PLO8 at PokerStars. Then I migrated to UB for a bit, to see what is was like. The problem (which turned into a benefit) was that there were 50PLO8 games and 200PLO8 games, but no 100PLO8 games, which is where I had played in the past and where I thought I should be playing now. So, I started playing 50PLO8 tables with a table of 200PLO8 on the side. It turned out that my style of play was better suited for the 200 game than it was for the 50 game, so I slowly phased the 50 game out.
It's still hard to believe that 5 years ago I was playing 2PLO8 (0.01/0.02 blinds) trying to build a tiny little bankroll and wondering when I'd play the 25PLO8 games. Now I'm playing the 200 and 400PLO8 games and winning.
Now I need to sustain that level of play and win consistently.
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Moving on up! Me too, although I have focused on limit holdem obviously. And I have now played as high as 100/200 and I play the 40/80 regularly. When I started off way back in 2002 or so, I started off at 3/6 and 4/8, where if I lost a couple of hundred I was devastated, now I can lose a couple of hundred in a single hand and not even bat an eye.
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