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Originally Posted by otatop
I've never understood how it's more enjoyable to lose $200 than it is to win $2.
Of course there are, but even terrible 25NL players are better than most people just starting out, which is why the advice is always to learn to beat the worst players first then move up from there.
Well, I'm not saying go up to 200 NL, that's just crazy. Also why I started learning with 10 NL and 25 NL online vs. 200 NL live....yeah 200 NL live is equivalent to 10 NL online but why lose $200 when you can lose $2?
I'm not saying someone who has no clue about the game should start at 25. I'm just saying if they've studied strategy, read Harrington's on cash games, whatever and they have a reasonably solid grasp on the game then I don't feel they should have to grind up a bankroll from 10 NL to play 25 NL.
For what it's worth, I just finished a short session at 25 and there were 2-3 fish on each table. Yeah, there were competent regs, but I just avoided them unless I had a good hand that I wanted to play with. Easy enough to do. Even at 10 NL you'll have a few regs at each table so I don't think it'll make much difference at either stake. This is obviously site dependent I'm sure...Carbon will play tougher than Bovada and both of those are softer than Stars from what I've heard.