Quote Originally Posted by XxStacksxX
You CAN have a mixture of both making money and improving.
Yeah, that's where I find myself at now - where I can either play for optimum $/hr which is ~$20, or I can play 2-4 tables and pay more attention to the game, and think deeper about it. At 8+ tables I can't do that.

But this is the BC. I don't think making money fast is really the main objective. You have a lot of time for plugging holes, learning to deal with variance, learning to handle tilt, work on hand reading, equity, pot odds, stealing, exploiting aggressive players, exploiting passive players, exploiting maniacs, go busto to experience first hand why you need BR management.

If you're trying to push your $/hr early on I think it will bite you in the ass later. You might move up to 50, even 100NL pretty fast, but you'll make it up in break even streches later on if you haven't gained a solid idea of what you're doing in the process.