Quote Originally Posted by Trainer_jyms
Wish I'd have known this 2 weeks ago when I got stacked a couple of times right after moving up too quickly. I had hit my 20 buy-ins and moved up. As I was killing 10NL I thought, ahh what the hell just go to 25NL everyone says it's the same and this is taking too long. Ya the players are same but the downswings I couldn't handle. I got timid and afraid of losing and almost lost my BR. Got it back to a $100 bucks and got the hell off party to get another bonus, and change it up. This time it's patience, and x number of hands or ptbb/100. Anyone want to try to come up with some figures and maybe we could have an alternative to the std. BR management idea (or an addition), because FWIW the only possible leak in the BR management thread may be that with the wealth of info here, some of us may kill the lower limits too fast and too easily to be ready for the next "promotion". Or maybe it's just me.
If your roll was at $500 and was built up from $10nl then there is no reason you shouldnt move up to $25nl unless it took you like 50k hands to get there. What caused you to lose the money was not following the BR management advice [which you didnt really do], but it was playing scared. You said you got it all the way down to $100, that isnt following the BR guidelines. Im moving up to $50nl today, if I drop a few buyins in a short amount of time I will move back down, if you are going to move up "quickly" [some would say 20 buyins is a lot for the smaller stakes] then you have to be willing to move back down as well.