Quote Originally Posted by Ultimate George
So do you think I should skip NL200, NL400, and NL600 and go straight to NL1000?

I actually did notice this with the move from NL25 to NL100...I basically skipped NL50 because the game seemed a lot more difficult there.

Well, you still want to have the bankroll to play comfortably, psychologically comfortably, at whatever limit.
And most important, i'm fairly new to the online poker phenomenon, and have a limited variable pool from which to cull this data, they're more loose observations than anything else, I'M not giving concrete advice to anyone!
The psychological hit you can take from losing $75 at a NL1000 table from tossing around a few bets can be enough to tilt you off your poker skill, if you're not used to throwing that type of money around. It's like, $75 is a nice session to make at a 25NL table, but you just lost that with a PFR that you had to abandon. Likewise when you win a $200 pot at this limit it can be equally unnerving. What I'm saying is that I noticed the different limits aren't as rigid as moving from JV to varsity in a sport, as some posters on this forum seem to dogmatically adhere to, and was wondering if anybody noticed. I didn't notice a significant difference between NL400 and NL600, and noticed some incredibly fishy plays at NL1000, which I thought could only be chalked up as whale behaviour.
A prime example is that I posted a bad beat hand somewhere around here that I took at NL10, because it was so incredible and amusing, and was somewhat foreign to me, in the sense that these are plays you'd very rarely see at a B&M or even home games i've played in. Though i'm sure everybody is aware, unless their play has been strictly online, the "lottery ticket" phenomenon, %100 percent seeing a flop and five way showdowns is something bizarre.
I was even just thinking that these players who've said "working my up in 5NL or 10NL" might even be hurting their game seeing so much of this.
Just some thoughts, I apologize for the verbosity.
The "entrance point" hypothesis was merely based on the notion fishy players or whales might flock to powers of ten. There is no NL10000 that I've seen but that would be a hell of a thing, maybe Mark Cuban or one of the "girls gone wild" guys would throw his pocket change to you if you could comfortably stake it.