you have to be truly comfortable with the $ involved - a good reason to play off a deep bankroll relative to stakes being played.
You also have to watch lines as well as numbers - especially starting out when your sample sizes that form these numbers are tiny.

Quote Originally Posted by KillsAids
and after having thought and hoped of getting to that limit during my "career", it makes it a big deal to be there. Last year when I was a break even 2NL player, I looked up at people playing 100NL and think they're playing with so much money that they just have to be that good,
I had the same thing happen to me... i reached the 'big time', and realised that it isn't. Then I dropped back down to toy with some ideas of poker, and now I'm moving back up knowing that even most of the better regs suck at least as bad as I do...