Re: Getting past the rake stakes.
Agreed. I averaged over 11 PTBB/100 there despite giving away about half of my winnings in rake. My advice at those limits is to either bet the pot or raise the pot as much as possible when it's your turn to act. (At least if you're on Stars or FT.) At 10 BB/100, it should take you 25K hands (not 200K hands) to make 50 BI.
To be fair though, 0.5/1 is the level where I have the highest winrate, so the rake difference might be bigger than the skill difference in that small jump. Just about every limit you move up after that though, it will be harder to win at the higher level than it was at the one previous.
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