Moving from 50 to 100, general concepts questions

[iheartponeez]

Dear experienced smarter people,
Tonight, with my BR crossing over a certain threshold, I decided to take a shot at 100NL. Immediately I felt something...the games felt so much fishier than 50NL. On my first table I lost my whole stack shoving KK on a Qxx flop. The guy turned a Jack for QJ 2pair. Feeling disgusted, I tried to take the night off, but being the degenerate gambler I am, I decided I needed to drop 5 buy-ins or win a little back. At my next two tables I had a guy calling me down with a naked 33, I had people chasing 2 overcards vs. my straight. I saw so many limp-calls preflop it completely baffled me. I couldn't even raise from the SB without a spectacular hand because I knew that 2 of the 3 limpers would call my raise, and one of those guys would call almost any c-bet. I didn't make it all back but I made back a certain amount of my loss.

Was I just getting lucky with tables, or is 100NL attractive to fish? I thought that maybe the fact that it's 1 dollar blinds is so simple and distinct that fishy players can say "Okay, 1 dollar. One dollar is fine, I'll put in 100 and play 1 dollar blinds." It's a round, even number. Maybe I'm over-thinking it, and I just got lucky, but let me know.

Additionally, if there are any tips, beyond what's in the stickies, that I might want to know before taking another shot (I'm sticking with 50NL for a while since getting burnt on that KK really bothered me. I know I'm not ready when losing a stack bothers me.), lay it down.

[Gelford]

Yes there is a theory that round numbers are more appealing to the masses (100NL and 1000NL)


But ...


Don't let a saturday night donkfest blind you, 100NL is tougher than 50NL.

[whyzze]

there is only 1 difference between 50nl, and 100nl.


More regs.


Everything else is your imagination.

[iheartponeez]

Is it just that way from here on up. More regs, more regs, more regs? Until you're playing 3/6 and everyone is just a reg, regging it up with their reg friends, and you just check into the office and call each other "Rob" and talk about what happened on "Lost" last night between hands, and stuff?

[Gelford]

Yeah .. more or less [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[thing85]

More regs, more aggression. Blind steals work less often, cbets work less often, and you will be 3bet and 4bet more often. 100NL is not fishier.

[kav]

I heard NL 1000 is even fishier. Give it a try! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

No, seriously, whyzze said it all.