Interesting points, K3nt. Very interesting.

I think I'll meet the situation halfway, get rolled for $50NL and play $25NL.

I have, in the past, played some big pots.

During my "I'm a donk with no BR management or clue wtf I'm doing" days, I won a $300ish pot at $100NL when I flopped a set of sevens on an AK7 board, both guys who stacked me had AK. Guess I was lucky I dodged the redraws but what I'm saying is I'm no complete stranger to big pots. Easy when it's moving over this way I appreciate.

But maybe that's the way. $25NL, at least for a couple of weeks, before moving up.

Nice thinking K3nt, thanks, fella.

Why the screenie K3nt?

You guys are forgetting he is talking about $50 6 max.
I play 32/9 at $100 and have a decent win rate - 4PTBB/100 over last 30k hands.
I'm at 30/9.5 over the last 12,000 hands with a PTBB/100 of 6.

Unless I'm on a table with low PFR's I almost never raise in EP (my UTG PFR is 3% and UTG+1 is 6% - by the button it is 17%) - but I am prepared to call or 3 bet with almost all the hands I limp with. I decide which when I see who raises me and I have more information. As I am embarassingly showing more profit from the first two positions than from the last two (in PTBB/hand) I am certainly not changing this strategy just to get my PFR up to some imaginary optimal stat.

My Vp$iP I've analysed in detail over the past 2 nights - I do need to get that down to about 25% I think as that would add about another 2PTBB/100 to my win rates.

20/6 will be fine and is well in the profitable range for $50 I am sure. If he can add 2 or 3% to his PFR he will have a good 'pre-flop swing' - of course the real question is how is his post-flop play?

I limp push AKo OOP (against any player who raises behind with a PFR over about 8%)and am running at over 1PTBB/hand with it in the first two positions. I would maintain that unless stacks are more than full, the limp push with AKo OOP is better than seeing a 3 bet called with it...by pushing you get to see the 4th and 5th board card for free (if called) and totally negate positional disadvantage..

I dont think 19 / 6 is weak passive. I think its fine, but anyway, postflop play is much more important.

You might be better just taking a loan out from your credit card.

He loans you $1000, you owe him $1600 at the end of three months.

That's 60% interest over 3 months. That's loan shark rates FWIW.

I thought most staking deals run something like he takes 50% of your winnings, 100% of the losses until a certain time frame.

That sounds better to me because if you run into some bad luck from the start, paying out that intial $200 is going to make it tight.

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