NL or Limit in the beginning?

[ilovethisgame]

my suggestion is to sit down with the entire $300 at a table. make your screen name, newbie or fish or something. then, first hand, push all-in. instant doubleup.

seriously, play NL if that's what you want to play. i agree that LHE is a way to ensure your money lasts longer.

the easiest way to play NL would be to play SNGs or MTTs.

[AKQJ10]

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the easiest way to play NL would be to play SNGs or MTTs.

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That's a good point -- a $1 S&G gives you a lot of play for not much money, especially if you want to learn to play tournaments.

MTT's in my opinion are too high-variance for a beginner's staple game; you could play for months without knowing if you're a winning player or not. (Admittedly, I keep saying to play the game you want to master. If you want to master MTTs then I suppose you should can just start out playing them. But be prepared for lots of variance.)

[theJoblessWobbly]

Where do you find these $1 SnGs? I've never seen any.

[ilovethisgame]

stars has $1 SNGs. Golden Palace has .10 SNGs.

[AKQJ10]

Full Tilt, Absolute, and Pacific all have them as well, I'm pretty sure. Pac's may still be 45 people or something.

Some sites will charge you something outrageous like 25% vigorish for a $1 + 0.25 S&G, so you want to track how well you do gross and then subtract out a more reasonable vig to tell whether you're good enough to move up. If you can tread water at 25% vigorish, you're killing the $1 level and need to find some external source of bankroll so you can move higher.

[ottsville]

Absolute has $.50 + .10 SNG's

[OziBattler]

Ultimate Bet also have 100 or 200 seat sngs that go as low as 10c +2c rake

[eFe]

Lots of answers, thank you all for taking the time to answer. Someone gave me the suggestion of depositing $500 to party to take advantage of a bonus there. This is what I did and I'm starting out with Limit poker but I'm probably going to try No limit later.

I'm playing with $0,5 and $1 blinds by the way, it's not going great but I'm only down five bucks so far [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[skillzilla]

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Lots of answers, thank you all for taking the time to answer. Someone gave me the suggestion of depositing $500 to party to take advantage of a bonus there. This is what I did and I'm starting out with Limit poker but I'm probably going to try No limit later.

I'm playing with $0,5 and $1 blinds by the way, it's not going great but I'm only down five bucks so far [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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i suggest you start out lower

maybe a 1000 hands at 0.15/0.30

[cambraceres]

Unless you're independently wealthy or in a situation of very good gainful employment, start out in micros, it will hurt less.

Cam