Moving from $100 to $200

[Jager]

What are the main differences between the players at these 2 levels?

[TerryToma]

What are the main differences between the players at these 2 levels?

good question.. *bump*..

also whats the standard bankroll to play 200NL fullring?

[Fnord]

Short stacks have more money.
LAggs are more likely to have a clue how to play post-flop.
More multi-TAggs and TPs.

[aislephive]

There is almost no difference in limits until you go from 200nl to 400nl, IMO. The players generally get a little smarter, and there becomes a slight increase in regular multitablers, but nobody is really all that impressive and the best players are generally moving up quickly.

[Cocco_Bill]

There is almost no difference in limits until you go from 200nl to 400nl, IMO. The players generally get a little smarter, and there becomes a slight increase in regular multitablers, but nobody is really all that impressive and the best players are generally moving up quickly.

How many hands have you played at 200NL? Want to share your winrate?

[Jager]

I recently have been moving from $50 to $100. Would have done so if I hadn't tilted last week. I recently switched to the Monster $100 tables and have been tearing them up, plus I hit a table share for $3800 to boost my bankroll. Now I am close to being rolled for $200.

If there is no difference between $100 and $200 then when do the diffences start showing up?

[r8ed]

I think it's harder to get paid off and it's overall more aggressive. People seem a bit smarter too.

Tilt at any level is bad - my worst tilt sessions occurred at 200NL and I lost lots of $$. I moved down to 100NL until I can avoid tilt and get my bankroll back up. I'm rolled for 200NL but I find 100NL less stressful and I have leaks that will get exposed at 200NL. I think you should stick around 100NL for 10k+ hands and if you are satisfied with your winrate and your game then you should then move up.

[johnny_fish]

It depends on the site. Prima and FT 200NL are very tough compared to Party 200NL. I didn't notice a huge difference in skill between Party 100 and 200. A bit more multitablers, a little less short stacks, less rocks. In general it's a bit more aggressive.

Party 400 is a lot tougher in my experience.

[The Izebox]

Moving up to any level means an increase in the skill level of your opponents. Going from nl 100 to nl 200 is not as big a jump in terms of difficulty as from nl 200 to nl 400, but it is still a jump. If you have been beating the nl 100 tables consistently for a long time then you can beat the 200 tables. You should have at least 4k in your roll, preferably 5k. The bigger your roll the less damaging to your confidence stacking off a couple of times will be. Believe me, the first time you lose two buy ins at nl 200 itll suck a lot more than 2 buy ins at nl 100 (duh mr obvious).

But if you do decide to jump you should already be dominating nl 100, and ease into the nl 200 tables. What I mean is if you quad table nl 100, then pick a nice, easy time when there are a lot of casual players (sunday evening?) and play one table. I think youll find that youll get the handle of it very easily.

The main thing is, make sure you are bankrolled. As I said earlier, I would never play without 25 buy ins. IMO. Good Luck.

[Miffed22001]

There is almost no difference in limits until you go from 200nl to 400nl, IMO. The players generally get a little smarter, and there becomes a slight increase in regular multitablers, but nobody is really all that impressive and the best players are generally moving up quickly.

totally agree. At least on party anyhow.

It depends on the site. Prima and FT 200NL are very tough compared to Party 200NL. I didn't notice a huge difference in skill between Party 100 and 200. A bit more multitablers, a little less short stacks, less rocks. In general it's a bit more aggressive.

Party 400 is a lot tougher in my experience.

prima 200nl is softer than the 100nl. Ive seen this posted and spoken in a few places. That isnt to say prima 200nl is an easy becasue it isnot but if you stay away from the 5-10 good players who mulitable there it is very beatable. 100nl is just a nit-fest.

btw, i use a 6k (30buy in) roll for 200nl but i dint actually move up until i had 10k simply because i found at multiple sites 100nl was a real easy game to beat. But that was entriely due to what i was doing with poker at that time.

[bigboy5540]

IF U CAN SMASH 100NL U WILL BE ABLE TO BEAT 200NL NO PROBLEM. JUST DON'T TILT.

[WhooFleuryScores]

I'd say the players are slightly smarter as well; and second the opinion of more multi-tabling TAG's and Rocks/TAPS (my PR Omaha 8 games are a good example).

All things being equal I agree the real skill jump occurs at the 400/500/600 level.At that point you really either do have it or don't.