Should I move to NL10?

I've just recently built my br up to $175 by playing STTs and MTTs on FT from 0. I've always thought about moving to cash games because of the variance with sngs and mtts and I am kind of bored with them. I just wanted to know how the play was at that level and if the adjustment over is easy.

The play is terrible, high variance style poker at low limits. If you can tie your shoes and count to 8 you are a possible candidate for beating 10NL. Just dont be mad when you raise to .50 with your AA and you get 6 callers and get them cracked.

Honestly you shouldnt have difficulty beating it, raise large pre to encourage less players on the flop with your premium hands, this applies to FR because its so cheap you can get 5+ people to the flop. Your goal at 10NL is to make good hands and extract as much value as you can (not too hard). Forget mixing it up or trying an elaborate bluff however, most of the time you will get called down very light.

Does the high variance style poker mean that its harder to beat consistently even though they play is bad?

Just played about an hour of NL10 and I am down $1.50 due to cbets on missed flops. Didn't really focus on table selection as i just sat down at a random table.

10NL at full tilt poker has an indecent rake of 10% (double of what pokerstars rakes). From my experience, that amounts to about 9 ptbb/100, so you really need to beat the other players by a huge margin to be profitable there.

Of course there is so much fish at 10NL that it's still possible. Just a bit harder than on other sites. If you have access to an easy way to move money between sites like neteller, then i would advise playing 10NL somewhere else.

Yeah, I find $10NL at Full Tilt, and even $25NL trickier to play than at Stars, and I think that it's a result mostly of the fact that $10 is the lowest cash game so you get a really wide range of playing abilities. Plus there's that high rake at $10.

BlackJack said:

I've just recently built my br up to $175 by playing STTs and MTTs on FT from 0. I've always thought about moving to cash games because of the variance with sngs and mtts and I am kind of bored with them. I just wanted to know how the play was at that level and if the adjustment over is easy.

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If you are on tilt then don't move until nl25 since the rake is highway robbery. But on any other site moving to nl10 is fine. So i'd either switch sites, or play sngs until you are rolled for nl25.

The major adjustment you have to make from sngs --> cash is learning to play deepstacked; the most important of which is learning to fold. Since the stack:blind ratio is so much smaller in tournaments than in cash, you have to be able to let go of hands alot easier in a cash game. In a sng it is rare that you will ever fold tptk but you have to be able to do so in a 100bb+ cash game. Basically, you can stack off with a much wider range in sngs/mtts than in tournaments. I think alot of people don't realise this for a little while, and just bleed money in all in pots when they make the transition (i know i did it for a period when i first switched to cash).

asianpride54 said:

I think that you should cash all of that except for like 10 dollars because once you lose all that your going to kick yourself in the head.

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What would your reason be for going this route?

I enjoy playing at FT and don't feel like switching to stars anytime soon. And plus i have rakeback which should help the high rake at FT a bit.