I'd like to say i'm a veteran at playing poker, as much as my age will allow me, an intermediate at studying it, but somewhat of a novice to online poker, and a complete newcomer to FTR forums, and I had some observations.
I've found that in terms of finding the easiest and most profitable games, the 25NL is easier than the micro tables, the 100NL easier than the 50NL, and the 1000NL easier than the 400NL and 600NL.
I still play a wide spectrum of the games, including the micro, depending on how wily I feel or if I feel like blowing off steam, and have a hypothesis concering this observation.
It occurs to me that 25NL, 100NL, and 1000NL seem to be "entrance points" where people will come online and feel like throwing money around, and directly at you ideally. 25NL because that is the minimum on most servers, and 100NL and 1000NL because they are nice round numbers for the more wealthy to throw money around. The games in between seem to be filled with players who have "moved up" and are serious students of the game, playing much more conservatively, but not weak. I was wondering if it might not be better advice to players to not look at moving up in games as a precise mathematical formula, or to stay put at a limit where you are comfortably beating it, assuming you are a serious student of the game but don't have pipe dream aspirations of becoming a poker millionaire.
Has anybody else made these same observations? And if so, do you share my same hypothesis as to why?