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Cash BRM
Mohican
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I've decided that I'm going to play cash and play it properly when it comes to BRM and moving up the levels. I've played 5p/10p before and was comfortable playing there but a couple of coolers/bad beats/bad plays would eat up cash and i'd vow never to play cash again. At the moment, I'm playing 3 tables at 2/4p with a BR of £62, whether this is the correct roll for this limit is neither here nor there as it's what I've got. My question is when would it be correct to move up to 4p/8p interms of big blinds? I've heard that you should have 20 full buyins for the level you are playing, so in this case a minimum of £80 but is that for one table only? Or do I need extra for each table I'm playing? I obviously I will be increasing the number of tables as and when I feel comfortable doing so.
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I think what you've got now is fine to be playing 4NL and as you say,it's what you've got in there, so it'll have to do (I'm sure it'll be fine).
I wouldn't start playing 8NL until you got to the 20BI mark (£160) to be honest. I'm being tighter than that but I'm a massive nit, and I'm 6tabling. Sure you could go and play 8NL now and may do fine, but a handful of coolers and you could be crushed. In the early days of me starting my cash again I got mass-coolered when I first started and was down about £25 at one point, which if I'd have chosen to play 8NL instead would have been £50, which I know for a fact would have 100% sent me on tilt with how small my BR was.
Kinda depends on how tilt-proof you are, and how good you are, but if you wanna be safe, and give yourself enough to be able to learn as you go (I assume you aint just gonna jump in and start crushing) then, it's better IMO to do it right, and do it first time, than to be more gambly and possibly have to reload.
BRM is deffo a personal thing.
20 full buy-ins for 4p/8p is £160
the way i look at it is this;
if u move up when you reach the £160 mark,and if say playing 1 table you lose just 2 buy-ins which is £16
that is 10% of your b/roll
if u are playing 2 tables and lose another 2 buy-ins there that's £32
that is 20% of your b/roll
if u can go to bed and not give it a seconds,ok 5 minutes then,thought then you are playing at a level with the correct b/roll for you.
if however it does effect you,which i would suspect in this case it might,then it tells you,or should tell you that you need a bigger roll for that level.
as for myself ,slightly different i know, because i'm playing DYM's,but i like 100 buy-ins minimum b4 i move up levels,
so each game i lose is only 1% of my b/roll.
this may not be applicable here for you i know,but any less than £400 for nl8 (50 buy-ins) would be my absolute minimum
as even with that amount,every £8 you lose is still 2% of your roll.
gl anyway,
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there's no rush though and I am a good example of this!!
nl4 can be a bit swingy if you are not careful. sometimes you get days when it just isn't working
good luck
In cash, generally BB/100 or BB/hour is standard. (you usually get about 80 hands per hour)
Obviously you won't be able to get an accurate picture until you've played quite alot of hands, but they generally say if you're winning 10BB/100 then you're crushing it. So that's 40p per hour, say you play 3 tables, £1.20 per hour.
However, at 4NL I think much higher win-rates are acheivable than ya average cash game. I know someone who had a win-rate over a long period at this level of 16-17BB/100 which is pretty sick.