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Message: [QUOTE="Naked Welder, post: 1173041, member: 51606"] I guess I will put my .02BB in. I'm no pro or anything but, I have taken a step up to smarter level of playing and moved out of donkville. For me personally, I believe in starting at the smaller tables with a small buy in because you are going to have your ass handed to you many many times until you learn how to play. I believe in winning your way up to the next level rather than buying into it. I started with a $5 buy in at a .01/.02NL. Once I doubled up I made the move to .05 until I hit $15 then I moved to .10. Then things opened up a little bit and I hit about $30. I took $20 of that to a .25 and started to really turn it on. I earned about 50 something bucks and decided to brave the .50NL I had been having trouble with. I only bought in with $20 though. IMO .50NL is where you start finding the realistic players and you can then rely on poker skill since most of the donks are weeded out. So I took a seat and waited for a BB to pass me so I could take a look at the game play at the table a bit. Then I started a pretty good run for me personally. I hit an all in after flopping the nut straight and got called a riverpuke. After stealing a few blinds and buying a few pots I got that guy again and left him with a penny. I blocked the chat so all I could see were ***. I could only assume things didn't work out the way he wanted. So now I had about $73 and I suddenly noticed that I had established a table image because everybody folded to me. One time I decided to test the strength of my image and 3BB'd with an 84o. Fold, fold, fold, fold, call. I doubled that on the flop. Fold. I made it up to $160 that day. All off of a $5 buy in. I guess the point of all this is the fact that I felt differently about playing with earned chips rather than purchased chips. If I would have bought in with $100 I would have been very paranoid about calling a $5 bet because I hate losing my dough. The mentality I had was the fact that even if I lost my whole stack to stupidity, I still only lost $5. The reward I got for this experience was comfort at the .50 NL level. Something I didn't have before. So my amateur advice is to start at level one, .01/.02, and earn your way to the bigger tables. I just believe if someone can't play at the lower tables then they have no business at the bigger ones where you can lose money faster than you can win it. Just my .02BB [/QUOTE]

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