Quote Originally Posted by Trashcona
Quote Originally Posted by bigspenda73
...and may not be a good player yet***
This is where I was trying to go with my OP. I hear all the time that 100NL is just as easy as 10NL-50NL,
This is a fallacy that is spreading just too damn fast. No one in their right mind will seriously claim that $100NL is as easy as $10NL. If they do they know nothing. (They can, for instance, say that they FIND it as easy which isn't the same thing).

Quite simply there are better players the higher you go, but that's not to say that all the players are better, nor even that the worst players are necessarily better.

What has been said, and I would endorse, is that there's a fairly straightforward way of playing which will make you a winner at $10NL and will make you a winner at $100NL.
Above that you MAY have to add extra levels of thinking to your play to get by. Maybe.

But the fact that the same play beats both $10NL and $100NL doesn't mean it beats it to the same degree. And what is of more significant for a beginner is that $10NL players in general tend to punish mistakes a loooot less than $100NL and therefore you'll make more while ironing them out.

As for BR management I do like the idea of taking shots early and making the definitive move a little later.
Spenda's 30BI suggestion is just about the best strategy for handling the nightmare that is moving up through the micro/low stakes.