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Message: [QUOTE="white_lytning, post: 1077463, member: 39455"] I think the biggest thing with moving up in limits is to understand the people that are playing those limits. I think you are basically right in your learning curve graph idea. The difference between having a good understanding of a game, and not knowing the ranking of hands will make the learning curve look like you have suggested. The hard part about moving up in ranks, is that you have fewer and fewer people that don't know what they are doing. Lets take a typical 1/2NL game at any random casino. Out of the 10 people at the table there are usually 3 or 4 guys that are "good". The rest of the table are usually "not good" (for what ever reason that may be). At the 2/5 generally you now have 5-7 "good" players and fewer donks. At a 5/10 there will be fewer donks and so on. As you move up in limits there are fewer and fewer people making the bad decisions that are prevalent in lower limits. Because poker is a zero-sum game, people benifit directly from others poor decisions. Because there are fewer of these poor decisions being made at higher limits, it is harder for the average player to benifit from them. Its not to say that there are no fish at high limits, there are, but they are in much less of a concentration than at lower limits. So the people that regularly play higher limits must have better game selection. They need to pick their games more carefully and try to keep themselves playing at a table where they can succeed. Game seleciton is a huge factor in all games, but I beleive its importance is directly related to the stakes. As you go up in stakes, the game selection has to get better or you will have a very hard time succeding. I'm not following [/QUOTE]

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