played 100 games at the 6.25's at a 15% ROI... Moved up to the 11.50's and am now 66 games in running at 16% ROI... I know these aren't meaningful sample sizes- but I feel that I'm significantly better than the competition so far.I'm EZ game rolled to play up to the 34's atm.To be really clear my strategy is to play 100 games at each level and move up assuming my ROI is 10+.
Your samples are tiny but, you know that. If you have the bankroll for it you may as well go for it. A lot depends on what your other poker experience is. I switched from 9 man after playing thousands of them so I have a lot of hu experience even though I have played only about as many husngs as you have.
Wow the guy posted this question twice and you answered him twice - that's awesome :)
yeah sorry for the double post... somehow I tried to edit the first one and ended up posting it again?
I follow this rule now, basically if you have 30 buyins for the next level move up, if not stay where you are
It's actually better to have a set of buyins for the level you're at and then work toward earning a separate set of buyins at the new level. For instance if you're at a level and then get 30 buyins at the new one you don't just want to play out those buyins at the higher stake. At this point you have no idea if you can beat this level and you don't want to risk your entire roll to find out. So for instance if you're comfortable with 30, then keep that for the current level and then when you get to 40 we'll say, set 5 aside for the new level and if you can keep things there, work for the 30+5 at the new level where you're looking to move up again. This will have you risking dropping down, but the idea is to do so where things may not be looking as great as you hoped and you want to build some safety in there. There are many variations of this, anything from 10 base buyins and a single higher buyin on up, a lot of this depends on how good you are and if you're crushing where you are now you can be more aggressive with this. The key is to get something that you're comfortable with and you do want to be fairly patient but not scared. If you take little shots like this the mindset you need is that this money is gone, invested in the moving up project, don't lose a couple and lament over the additional losses at the higher level, just go for it and see how things work out and if it doesn't then you can reassess and take another shot later when you're more prepared.