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My first suggestion is to NOT move back down unless or until you hit $100. If you started $5NL with $150, then you need to give yourself a full shot to succeed or 10 buy-ins. Moving down too early to try to make up losses only stymies your progress. It takes a while to earn 3 buy-ins @ even $2NL to make up for one lost buy-in @ $5NL. You don't know if the losses are luck, bad play, or whatever. That's why you move up when you have 30 buy-ins so you won't move DOWN until you have 20. If you're just going to move down when you lose a couple of buy-ins, you could have done that @ 22 buy-ins or whenever. You're not "taking a shot" and having to worry about moving down. You're playing $5NL because THAT is where you should be and you don't need to worry about $2NL until you drop to $100 which would still be 50 BUY-ins @ $2NL.
Next, EVERY time a player moves up in stakes, it feels different and harder. For whatever it's worth, I found $5NL easier than $2NL, although I started off down a few buy-ins, too. It's all in your head due to subtle differences that add up. Just because something is different doesn't mean the games are harder or a lot harder.
If your normal play is to "nit up and hope", then "nit up and hope", but I recommend focus playing the same style of play that brought you success @ $2NL and play THAT style while still learning and making adjustments as needed. If you start to play different out of fear of losing, then you will surely lose.
I think your biggest problem is the psychology of losing. It's clear to me that thought of losing money bothers you. You have an attachment to what you have already won and it's causing conflict in your decision to move up, move down, and to play your normal game. Work on overcoming that and you should be fine.
Good luck.
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Originally Posted by Dash
