I keep reading here that a return of 4BB/100 is a fantastic return and that 1BB/100 for most people is a more realistic long term target. Does this hold true for all limits or should it increase dramatically at very low limits?

The reason I ask is the results I am seeing in Poker Tracker are so far way above this.

At $0.05/$0.10 I am around 6BB/100 over nearly 17k hands. This starts at the very beginning of my real money career and includes a large patch where I was incorrectly applying some ideas from SSHE, costing me a (relative) fortune.

At $0.025/$0.50 I am over 16 BB/100 from more than 6k hands. I don't feel I have improved or changed dramatically over this period, although obviously all the experience helps.

My figures at $0.50/$1.00 are also high but the sample size from my brief visits at these tables is definately too low to take this into consideration.

Are these sample sizes too small to draw anything from or is this to be expected at these levels? If the latter is the case, is there an argument for a non-pro like myself staying at a lower limit where the higher BB/100 would mean more profit per hand than the higher limit with its lower BB/100.

I know I am nowhere near being a good player yet, so that cannot be the explanation for these figures. At best I would describe myself as competent I think.

1: sample sizes too small, but not unexpected.
2: the ability to kill games for more than 5PTbb/100 (not normal bb/100) is normal for levels under $100NL...but it's even possible up to $200...just more rare.

Just keep a bankroll strategy and move up according to it and keep constantly working on your game...I was beating NL100 for 5ptbb/100 a year ago and my game is light years better now...even though my ptbb/100 is 7-9 now. So, you can have a great win rate over a lot of hands, but you may be intuitively doing things right, and it's best to 'know'.

I think he's a limit player black, 1 bb/100 is what a limit player comes to expect.

I used to be in the camp of anything over 2 is tough to maintain, but that may change depending on what site you play. I'm running at about 5 bb/100 at stars 5/10 right now over 2k hands, small size but still from the style of play I don't see it dropping below 2 anytime soon.

I never played anything less than .50/1 so I'm probably not the best person to speak on .25/.50 and below, but I'll assume they're really bad. You should be looking to move up always I think, it really is the only way to make a significant profit. Others here will disagree but I think the 300 BB for a moveup is good, then drop backdown if you get to 150 BB at that limit. Just be aggressive, I mean it looks like you know what you're doing from your numbers so far.