Time to ask for help

[Talking Poker]

This may be true, but I think a bigger issue is that if you are losing at $.50/$1, it's likely that you will be losing 4 times as much at $2/$4.

As or the BBJ.... all that does is add to the rake. It doesn't really matter how bad your opponents are if you are playing badly yourself.

[Aequitas58]

Absolutely.

Do YOU think that john is right, though? Maybe I'm wrong, but I really don't think the players at $2/4 are that much better than the $.50/1 players.

[Talking Poker]

I completely agree with you (not that I have ever played $.50/$1 - I started at $1/$2).... but I also don't think MB is ready to move up to that level yet, and that's the most important part of this thread.... If you're a losing player, you may as well limit your losings to the smallest limits available to you until you are winning consistently.

[BlibbityBlabbity]

I would say that the play is probably not THAT much better, but you will probably have 1-2 more experienced players at the table and in general have more players that have already moved through two levels of experience to get to the 2/4 level.

I have found that the lowest limit on a site is by far the easiest to beat, as you move up (even from 50/1 --> 1/2) the play tightens "A LITTLE" and you have to be a little more careful.

Mathbabe, if you are losing at 50/1, where you can make a lot of mistakes and still have other peoples more numerous mistakes compensate, then you should use Pokertracker to try to figure it out and FIX whatever is wrong at 50/1 before you move up, IMO.

At 50/1 rake should not even be an issue because you should be winning enough that the worst players at the table will be paying your share as well as their own.

[johnp158]

I realize that the competition at 2/4 is really weak. I guess the point I was trying to make was that it will be a little tougher, and you would never want to move up if you don't know that you're a winning player at a lower limit.