I haven't played a whole lot of 25 or 50, but from what I've seen, the play is actually worse at the 50. A lot of the newer players who are at least *Trying* to be good play the 25, and lots of decent players will play too because of how famously soft it is. At 50, you're slightly less likely to see someone throwing their money away, but there are plenty of people there playing completely textbook game. Raise with good hands, fold band hands, etc. I think a good player will make a better BB/100 hands there, with far less variance. Not gonna see someone calling preflop with 67o against your raise all-in raise with AA.

That's just what I've observed from a few sessions of both, though.

I disagree to quite a large extent with this set of responses. The play is bad at 50NL for sure, but it's no comparison to 25NL. IMO the 25NL>50NL is about the biggest jump up in quality in all the NL tables at party. The 100 games play very like the 50s just with less total fish, but the 25NL tables are frequently so much looser and crazier than the 50s. Look at it this way, average pots in the 50s rarely go above $30, but in the 25NL games you can always find five or six tables at any time of the day with an AP in the $20-25 range.

There are bad players and good players at both levels, just a few more trashy ones at 25NL, as far as I've seen. I've never played 25NL until the last month, when I played a couple of sessions for a bit of recreation. I was genuinely surprised how much weaker the games were than the other NL tables i've played online.

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