Cash Games Suck...
 

Well, at least mine suddenly does.
I got fed up with myself playing too much 5/10 and 10/20 still. All the regulars there have played prob at Least 15x as many hands as I have. I really shouldn't even be trying to compete with them.

I came up with a new plan, but it might be kinda dumb.
I'm gonna play 10k hands at a bunch of levels: this will get me to start getting more hands in, and see which levels I can dominate and which I can't.

I'm starting at 1/2 NL 6 max. Play 10k hands, if i have a good bb/100 after these 10k hands, and felt I played good... I can then move up to 2/4 and repeat the process, all the way up to 5/10. At 5/10 I will have to play 25k hands to prove to myself if I can win there, if doing well there, finally were at 10/20.
If I don't have a good bb/100 at a particular level, i will have to re-do 10k hands until I feel I have accomplished that level.

Make sense? Anyone see any problems, ways I could make it better ?

sounds like a good challenge, gl with this, hope you dont get frustrated dropping down to 1/2.

Practice makes better. Seems pretty simple. GL.

Good idea -- it require disipline though

Could you really play the same at 10/20 and 1/2 though? Or would you be making more calls with medium hands if you have a feeling your opponents weak, being aggressive with drawing hands, seeing flops with a wider range of hands etc ("eh its just 200 bucks")

I know once I moved from my live 1/2 Game (which plays like a 2/4 online) and moved to the 5/5 game (which plays slightly below 5/10 online) it was hard as hell to switch. Occassionally there wouldn't be a 5/5 game goin on when I'd be there and I'd sit and play 1/2... the play is so different and the players are too.

To be perfectly honest, 1/2 and 5/5 are two different games. When things are only 12-17 preflop for example, (about what a standard raise is there) players treat it differently than if it was 30-35 preflop (standard 5/5 raise). Moves work differently, value bets are different etc.

Switching between stakes could require some adaptation.... You up for it?

That's another reason I like the challenge, def. requires alot of disipline, which i need some work on.

Ya, i seriously expect, and almost Always do, lose a few buy ins my first time moving to a new level, just getting used to the play takes some time, after that I usually can make a pretty good recovery.

Barry Greenstein suggests in his book, Ace on the River, to buy in for the minimum when you move up levels. I don't know if that affects how you play, but just something to think about. It seems kinda obvious, but who knows.