Quote Originally Posted by Micro2Macro
One more thing, Robb are you saying that once your winrate is solid and your play is really good that when your bankrolled for say 100NL then thats the time to add more tables because you'll be making some real cash - and of course loyalty programs pay off volume. This sounds pretty logical, earn the skills down low, and then once honed move up to a larger game. Once beating the larger game add as many tables necessary to increase profit and voila, $$$. Is this long term plan along correct lines of thinking?
I'm saying that winning at 2.5 ptBB/100 6 tabling at 100nl FR will earn you about $25 / hour, so who cares if you can earn $6.25 an hour 16 tabling 10nl? The big hourly win rates are at the bigger stakes (with more rakeback, faster clearing bonuses, etc). So it makes the most sense to play fewer tables and learn MORE faster so that long term you'll be at the small/mid stakes faster.

From your description of where you're at, I would say you need to stay at 10nl playing just a few tables for the sake of learning poker discipline. You'll need more discipline to be successful at every level higher. I have a well-chronicled history (here on FTR) of bouncing back and forth between 10nl and 25nl, never getting any better, and doing stupid-ass things like trying to 16-table 10nl in an effort to "build a roll and move up."

I guess I'm just saying that if you learn to play poker, you'll soon have plenty of roll and plenty of success moving up levels. What you do when you get to 100nl will be to continue whatever things you've found in the previous 3 levels that made you a success. If that's adding tables, or playing 6max, or whatever.