I mix mine up, I play 1.10 tournaments all the way up to 109.00 tournaments. Here's the difference, when you play little tournaments most people don't care to lose a dollar or couple dollars they move in with nonsense/ or play looser so it's easier to profit from these. The bad part is you can play awesome poker in these tournaments and still lose when you have AA and some donk goes all in to eliminate you with j9 or some other garbage. It'll happen, but if you can get past the late registration I think you'll be fine. Now as for the bigger tournaments, the players there are very tight, yes there are loose players/fish/donks etc in there but for the most part they play solid You'll see the donks/fish they'll be the ones raising with Jack crap and rebuying every five minutes lol. Anyways if you play in these always have your A+ game on. These bigger tournaments are what will make you a better player cause more people play solider, wiser, so you'll have great compition. There's a lot of benefits to these tournaments as well. For example: if you buy in a 1.10 100gtd you'll have probably 100+ people in the tournament, but play in a 33.00 or 55.00 tournament and you'll have 25-35 players. Cause a lot of people don't want to risk higher amounts of money they'd rather play in 20 1.10 tournaments then one big one. So I guess what it boils down to, is you have to play in what you feel comfortable in, if you win a 5.50 tournament and feel comfortable playing it again go for it, wanna play higher...well you can, and that'll test your skills Even more. Just follow your gut instinct, your first instinct is always your right one 75% of the time. Good luck on the felt!!