You should consider you BR, your experience, and your skill to make things happen at the tables. I believe experience and skill are two different things. As far as the level you play at is the one that will protect your BR the best. For example, if you have $100 to start with, you could play at 10nl, but even with that amount I would start at 5nl first to see how you do, but if your BR is lower, I would play at 2nl for awhile. For me, I had $50 and started at 2nl and I worked my way up. It took a lot of time, but I made it to my level at 10nl with a lot of patience. Like at 2nl, if I won $2 or $3 a day, I felt that was pretty good. This is something I done and it may seem stupid, but I made myself look at the pennies like I would if they were dollars. So that way I could ask myself if they were dollars, would I call, raise, or move all in if they were dollars, and it worked and helped me keep my BR, which I still have to this day. During the time I was learning and slowly moving up, I was asking a million questions a day and getting 5 million replies with the advice I needed badly, and I used all that advice without question. That has been going on for 3 or 4 years. So you can see it takes time, but if you get into learning to improve your game from the members here, it will become very important for you to come on here everyday and find at least one thing that will help you. GL to you