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Message: [QUOTE="MisterLongFace, post: 2033146, member: 93028"] i play only omaha ring and here is my take on what i saw when i moved up to higher stakes, and i am pretty sure there are general similarities to moving up in holdem. there was a time a few years back that i had a decent roll built up from microstakes on PS and I decided to try my hand with it on the $1 and $2 tables. I had been watching the tables for some time and came to the unfortunate conclusion that a lot of the play at those levels was much crazier than the micros and looser and therefore presented a nice opportunity. it took a while but eventually lost everything and I felt beat up and dazed, I didn't know what hit me. the play was so different that it totally took me out of my game. betting was way more aggressive, it was in a different league, and I tried to adjust, but because of the constant aggression, I had completely lost my read if I was ahead in a hand, maybe up against the nuts or got outdrawn on the river, something i normally prided myself on. It seemed other players knew too often if i was sitting real strong, and i was paying off too much too often which i don't normally do but the aggro betting was sucking me into too many hands i couldn't get away from. the conclusion i came to was as you go higher in the levels, the players are much better and even the ones that may not be winners overall are more difficult to take advantage of. I have not figured out a way to effectively compensate for what i experienced but I do plan on returning at some point and giving it another try. the one mistake i made that is obvious in hindsight but at the time I did not have the experience that I do now, was jumping multiple levels from where I was normally playing. currently i will do it one level at a time. [/QUOTE]

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