25NL More Profitable than 50NL?

Lately, Im starting to think that it is more profitable to play 25NL than 50NL. It seems every 50NL table I sit down at is all 18/16, 25/22 type players with maybe one bad player if Im lucky at the table. At 25NL the table will have atleast 2 players that have over 40% VPIP. Maybe my table selection is just bad at 50NL? I always choose the highest percentage to the flop and largest pot size when choosing a table but then when i sit down at 50NL, it seems everyone is good.

I know the sample size is small, but I am running at 12 PTBB/100 over 25,000 hands at 25NL and only 2 PTBB/100 at 50NL over 8,000 hands. Is the skill gap really that high between 25NL and 50NL??

online poker is getting tougher by the day bro, it sucks but thats the way it is.

just play whatever level you make the most money at. if you sit and the table is full of tags find a new table, if you cant find a good game move up or down a limit or find some other shit to do lol

If you really wanted to know this definitively you'd really have to have an equal number of hands with the sample size. Whenever you move up there's a learning curve and better players, but I can say on FTP I see about 50% of the same people at $25nl at the $50nl tables. I'm not playing $50nl but i datamine now for help in the future.

Maybe 38's advise is right though - first online players ARE getting better everyday. Second - table selection is huge. Third - play where you make money *and have fun*!

It sucks but online poker is def getting harder and harder, thank you politicians.

Because of the difficulty in getting money online, you have a lot fewer people that are just doing it for fun trying to kill some time. There are fewer and fewer fish online, every day. The glory days are over, at least in the US.

You have to play the game you can win at. Naturally the higher the stakes the fewer fish there will be, but online is skewed. What you can do is try to play poker on foreign sites that aren't dominated by American money. There are lots of European sites out there.

The bottom line is you have to make your self profitable, and if you can't do it at one level, you have to find the level that you can before the bankroll drys up.

bw07507 said:

Lately, Im starting to think that it is more profitable to play 25NL than 50NL. It seems every 50NL table I sit down at is all 18/16, 25/22 type players with maybe one bad player if Im lucky at the table.

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Maybe we have different definitions of good/bad players but I'd say more like 2-3 max at any 50nl are what I would consider good. 25nl it was common to find tables where I wouldn't consider any of them good.

bw07507 said:

Is the skill gap really that high between 25NL and 50NL??

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Yes, 50nl is where you start to get decent players who know what they're doing. The fish aren't as fishy, but there are plenty out there, and the good players are better, you just need to learn who they are and either learn how to beat them or just avoid them.

This is all just my experience, Stars btw.