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[Dire]

The PokerRoom $100 NL tables are much much softer than the PokerRoom 2/4 tables. I don't really like playing 1/2 so my only options were to quit PokerRoom, play exclusively 3/6 or change games. I'm addicted to the PokerRoom bonuses and there aren't enough 3/6 tables for that to be my exclusive game so I tried out the $100 NL games.. and I'm happy again.

[RiverCascade]

Cool, Dire. I agree, sadly, about the bonuses. Don't want to give them up, even though the tables have definitely changed. Btw, I must finally ask-- what does $100 NL mean? It sounds ghastly. It can't be the blind(s) if your limit game is $2/4, I wouldn't think. Does it mean the largest amount you can sit in with? If it does, what are the blinds?

[checkmate]

I think the NL $100 game has .5/1 blinds with a max buy-in of $100.

I only made it to the $10 NL game where the blinds were .05/.10.

[RiverCascade]

Thank you, Check. I'm glad I finally asked. I always thought it was the amount of the bb, and even $10 NL sounded terrible. If the blinds are .05/.10, that's pretty cool. Maybe I'll give it a shot.

[Dire]

Like checkmate said, it's 0.50/1.00. The standard max buyin for NL is 100xBB. I'd be pretty happy if I could afford a single buyin at a NL table with a $100 BB.

The $100 tables really make poker fun again. It's not terribly uncommon to find tables with $30-$50 average pot sizes with > 30% to the flop. I can't say enough about these tables. Poker Room bonus chasing is becoming fun again!

[checkmate]

Poker Room bonus chasing is becoming fun again!

Put a beating on the fish for us.

[maddydog]

Thanks for the advice.

My playing time has been severly curtailed recently and I'm greedily trying clear bonuses as quickly as possible instead of picking and choosing.

I've tried $1/2 previously and did find it fishier (and more costly ) than $2/4.

I've also played at least 5,000 hands of $3/6 and indeed found it easier to beat than $2/4, my only problem is I'm too risk averse for my own good which means I will play too passively after losing too much money in a session.

I'm really hating poker at the moment and the only fun I've had recently is the LAdbrokes chase where I could LAG it up from my usual play (basically play better poker and achieve over 3/100 BB!)

[RiverCascade]

I'd be pretty happy if I could afford a single buyin at a NL table with a $100 BB.

lol... I always thought... man, you guys are pros! Well, pro though you (all) may be, it no longer means you're milllionaire pros.

I can't say enough about these tables. Poker Room bonus chasing is becoming fun again!

Very interesting. I should be playing nl. I just can't bare the of starting from scratch, again. ~wanh wanh~

Maddy:

I've also played at least 5,000 hands of $3/6 and indeed found it easier to beat than $2/4, my only problem is I'm too risk averse for my own good which means I will play too passively after losing too much money in a session.

I hear ya, and am the same. I went back and forth for a year (I'm guesstimating, but it was a LONG time) between $3/6 and $1/2, 75-80% in $1/2... until someone, finally, and oh-so-politely, pointed out I had accumulated the br for... think it was almost $10/20, maybe $8/16 (and earned almost solely at $1/2 . Well, that was tighter than even I could bare... so I made the move fully into $3/6 and haven't looked back. I now dabble in $5/10. If I hadn't slacked off on my routine, daily study, I'd be moving there, now... by the end of the year, for sure, even if I have to put out the S.O.S. for a kick in the tush.

I'm really hating poker at the moment and the only fun I've had recently is the LAdbrokes chase where I could LAG it up from my usual play (basically play better poker and achieve over 3/100 BB!)

If you've earned the requisite bb's at your current level, and have acquired the br for the move, there's nothing like moving up a level to cure that. Increase in money, and sharpening of attention due to our mutual "adverse risk tolerance", is just the ticket for the boredom/dislike... 'least that's how it works for me.

Good skills to you, Maddy. Look forward to hearing of your progress,

[maddydog]

RiverCascade wrote:

I hear ya, and am the same. I went back and forth for a year (I'm guesstimating, but it was a LONG time) between $3/6 and $1/2, 75-80% in $1/2... until someone, finally, and oh-so-politely, pointed out I had accumulated the br for... think it was almost $10/20, maybe $8/16 (and earned almost solely at $1/2 . Well, that was tighter than even I could bare... so I made the move fully into $3/6 and haven't looked back. I now dabble in $5/10. If I hadn't slacked off on my routine, daily study, I'd be moving there, now... by the end of the year, for sure, even if I have to put out the S.O.S. for a kick in the tush.

Lol I've earned a BR to play play at $15/30 (mostly chasing at $1/2 and 2/4) but it still blows my mind to dump $300/400 in a session (which has happened at both 2/4 and 3/6). I start badly and then expect every hand to lose which is what inevitably happens! . I don't tilt in the usual aggressive manner but certainly tighten up and miss value bets and stealing opportunities.

In a perverse way my over-respect for money has crippled my progress through the limits as I am still unable to look at money in terms of BB rather than spendable $'s even though I've probably played 90k hands.

May'be I should learn tournament HE instead?

[WhooFleuryScores]

Where are you playing now Whoo??

Why ya hunting for me lol?