So for as long as I can remember myself trying to take shots, I have been going about it drastically the wrong way. Basically in a nut shell what I will do is take a shot whenever I am feeling it, and as soon as I take that first shot I try to make it stick wayyyy to much. I don't got back to playing the previous limit until I lose the number of BI's that I have put aside for that shot.

Once I do lose those BI's I can step back down to the previous limit, so the problem is never putting my BR in any sort of risk, it's just the potential earn that I am costing myself my going about taking shots the wrong way. I should just be looking for when the games are good at the next limit, and not be afraid to take a one time shot.

Take that shot because you know that you are a huge favorite to win money in those games, and if you get unlucky in the short term variance then you can easily grind back it back up the previous limit. However, if I do happen to win in those games which I am a huge favorite in, this does not mean that I am ready to move up to the next limit and start playing it all of the time.

Just because I made that extra money at the higher limits when the games are good, does not mean I should be entitled to donk it off when the games are no good at all. Remember that I was just taking a shot in that game because it was a good chance to make money, so once you do, go ahead and go back to the daily grinding until the next time the games are good.

I am not going to make the limit my regular limit to play at until I have 50BI's in the roll, at which time I am comfortable taking shots at the next limit up from that. So if I start taking shots with a better mind set I think I will be able to take them more aggressively and move up the limits a lot quicker than I have been.

Because the other way that this has been hurting me up until now, is after I do lose those BI's at the higher limit, I struggle to play my A game at my regular limit for a little while afterwards. I got used to playing for more money, and it hurts my ego a little dropping down, and I have noticed that I almost completely switch up my game plan. Instead of playing good solid small ball poker at the lower limit, I start trying to play big pots.

I feel less stress playing for half the money, so I am more ready to get it all in. I think that if I am ever going to make that money back at this limit then I have to play some big pots. Uggghhhh it's so gross and it goes against anything that is my A game.

If anything I should be learning how to play better at the higher limits, and be able to increace my WR at the lower level. I should be MUCH MORE scared at the lower limit to create a big pot than I am at the higher. The logic for this is simple, the higher you move up limits the more aggressive play will play, the lower you move down the more passive it will be.

So when facing a raise from a WP at a lower limit is much more scary w AA on the flop than it is an aggro player at the higher limit. However, I have never looked at it this way, and even thought about it the reverse. So this has been killing me this month, and I am down about 500 so far.

My goal for this month is to finish 2,500 in the green and be fully rolled for 100NL by the begining of next month, and ready to take my first shots at 200NL full ring soon after. I will not be afraid to take any shots in which the games are good and I am a large favorite and I'm not putting my roll at risk. It'll be good to be able to play my A game at both limits in the same day. I look forward to the challenge, but I think it should be a lot more fun, and a lot less stressful doing it this way from now on...