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from 500s down to 30s?!

hey guys,first of all this shall not be whiningpost, i am just really stumped and don't know how to go on.i am grinding turbo hu sng's for a living at ipoker and ongame for a living since like 30 months. i have started pretty risky with a br of like 7-8k as a reg at 50/100s, but since i just finished school, wanted to do a gapyear anyways and didn't need much money i just tried it out. especially at this time i could earn more money playing poker like doing some sort of easy job, which i just could take, if poker runs bad. so there was no real risk.well things went really good, had some excellent coaching by xscwx and moved up pretty fast, because my shots went good. summer till autumn i had my best time. i was playing the 500s regulary and just had to share the lobbies with 2-3 other regs, since i could make money out of other regs and push them away. but well, in general ipoker/ongame regs are much weaker thant at stars and ftp and this wouldnt be possible there for sure. also made the 18th place in a 500$ ftops after loosing against williams, whom i felt really comfortable to play in an hour long match.but then the doomswitch began. lost 40 buyins in 500s in a month and missed to move down. then i cashed out bigger to have enough money for the cost of livings and travelling and changes my brm to atleast 100buy-ins and therefore i had to move down to 200s. i never put in much volume, because i always only played 1 table, if i couldnt find the some opponent for two tables, so i always played like 400-600 games/month. this year i kept on spending much money for travelling (1 month africa, 3 month southamerica), while i was grinding less and less, but kept on loosing and moved down to 100s.september i came back from my southamerica journey and after enjoying life 3 month at its best i recognized that i have to take poker more serious again. BR was at 12k and i started to grind the 100s again and doing a lot of theory again. 1200 games later it is now under 5k. did a small shot (5 stacks) at 200s, but moved back to 100s pretty fast and finally moved down to 50s in time regarding to brm. tilt is not a problem neither for sure. although i am really comfortable with my opponents, especially the 50s are full of fish but so are the 100s. the good regs dont play me, the bad ones see my stats and only the stats and so i play often some 30/50s regulars who are doing some bumhunting-shots, which is not a problem. but well i keep on loosing and now i am at a point where i dont really know how to go on. unfortunately i dont have a lifetime graph, since i switched the skins very often and only use tracking software a few hundred games.also NOW i am pretty sure, that i must be running hot when i started hu sngs, because i was moving up stakes too easy. i also recognize that the games get tougher. regs got better and fishes are not that common like 1-2 years ago. but then i see sitting the same regs at 500s with the same style crushing these stakes like one year ago, when they stopped giving any action to me, while i have to move down to 30s.hmm and dont really know what i want to reach with this post, but i had to write it down  and probably one of you mid/highstakes regs had similiar experiences or have any advices?!cheers!

Roamus's picture
Can you write down your FTP

Can you write down your FTP and PS account name so we can see ur graph please? I'm kind of curious. Yeah, I've had somekind the same experience but with lowstake hehe, was a 55 reg now I grind the 20$ to build a roll back due to withdraw and downswings... but its nothing compared to your story. Wish you the best of luck, my only advice would be to continue, if you did it once, youll be able to do it twice!

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thanks. like i said there is

thanks. like i said there is no liftetimegraph and ive never grinded at ftp or stars... always played at ipoker/ongame where i switched the skins pretty often and therefore never had more than 2-3k games at one skin.

Pakpatak's picture
Hi, would u tell who u think

Hi,would u tell who u think are the weaker regs at iPoker at 350$+, and who are realy good?

flipstar's picture
puh that really sucks. but

puh that really sucks.but you sure you are not tilting, i cant imagine you are able to play your a game after running this terrible. since you play for a living and you see your br is getting smaller and smaller you get a lot of pressure which puts you out of your comfortzone.

tremonia1909's picture
nah, that is why i already

nah, that is why i already cashed out a larger amount one year ago. i always have enough on the side to make  a good living the next months without taking something from my poker bankroll.i am really interested to hear if one of the coaches got similiar experiences.