When moving up to 50NL I found myself very timid and scared because of how accumsomed I have become to 25NL playing it for a month straight. This is crazy since this is basically the first time in my life that I have had close to a 30BI bankroll.

So I decided to "De-Sensitize" myself to this my jumping straight to 100NL to prove to myself that 50NL is not that hard. When I sat down I told myself that this is just to learn and if I loose up to 1BI it's ok as long as I learn from the experience. So I played really tight and just didn't make any moves. Value bet when I had a strong hand and tryed to fold as much as possible and never push the call button, eventhough I could have done a much better job at this, I don't think things could have gone much better for me.

As the matter of fact I broke my old record for making 4BI's in 705 hands and made the four buy ins in exactly 554, only this time it was at 100NL. Thats right I made 4BI's at 100NL in less hands than I ever did it at 25NL.

While I obviously ran incredible, I need to take this as an eye opening experience. The difference between these levels is not as big as I make it out to be, and there can be a lot more money won at the higher limits. So I am going to try and post my first graph for today, and I hope it works, here goes.

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I hope that worked, if it did you can tell that I cracked the 4BI's in under 500. I obv. had to run like God to do this, but I really don't think I ran quite as good as it appears...I only had one pot where I won a BI and that was when I flopped an o/e straight draw and the 2nd nut flush draw. I got really lucky to win that pot, but other than that the most I won in one pot was 60 dollars, and I only really sucked out once.

So ya I ran really good, but I think the key here is that I din't bluff off any money like I have grown so accustomed to doing. I feel like I would have made 4BI's at 50NL on my first try in about this many hands if I didn't just get completely owned in 3bet pots when I was bluffing.

So I really reall really do need to take this seriously and start playing for value. If you wanna bluff play heads up. If you wanna play fr, win money, and don't piss it away.

My game has improved astronomically over the past 5 months and 275K hands, and I am nowhere near the same player that I was back then. I really do fee like I have a really solid A game, and it is good enough to beat 100NL. I am not going to look at it like some sort of quantum leap from level to level anymore. I wasn't good enough to play in those games back then, but I am better now and feel that I can.

So from now on I am not going to just play one limit, I am going to be a NLHE player that plays from 25NL-100NL, depending on where the games are good. Check them all out before making a decision. Anytime I get stacked I am going to be posting that hand on a forum, and other than that I will be replying to what others have posted.

It's time to start taking this game seriously and moving up through the limits instead of standing still. Take Patrik Antonius' advice and challenge yourself to get better and move up through the limits by playing with the best players at those limits, becaue there is a lot more money to be made in the long run if you can quickly move up through the limits, rather than just grinding out a profit at the lower stakes.

That being said I will be obv. very dedicated to table selection and even moreso, seat selection when playing in the bigger games.