If your tilt factor is high, i wouldnt play NL un less you have 20+ buy ins. Also try to start on a fishy site. Dont get your feet wet at Nl500 on stars. star small and read as much as you can. Hand values are alot diffent and that seems to be the biggest difficulty for me. You cant just say oh well ill call him down and take a note. Might cost you your whole stack.

You have to read alot better to. Some people think tpnk is a strong hand and play it so. Knowing what your oppents consider a good or bad hand means more then what you do.

Limit wont die and neither will nl. However i think in the next few years we're goin to notice a decline in the oveall popularity of poker. It was a fad to 50% of the "new" field and it done now. We ganied some great players and a huge influction of fish. Unfortunatly many of the fish that became decent playes ruined it. I see so many wna be pro's that badger and belittle their weak oppents live and online. I really think this scares alot of them awa from poker, as it gives off a "secret socity" type of vibe, that most casulal player (our bread and butter) dont have the time or energy to join, so they just give up.

I bet the WSOP in 2008 is going to be drasticly smaller then the past3 years.

as far as poker diening though....fish are fish. They are gamblers who think poker is just a game of luck. they will always be around to make the games good. if anything i think online poker will die waaay before B&M poker does.

just play the game you like to play. Keep learing, as long as you dont stop learning, youll never be behind the curve.