[bozlax]

FWIW, I played waaaaaay more hands of .5/1 than I should have, and I feel it actually slowed my move to 1/2. I got too used to playing loosies and wound up losing a lot of bets with top pair, etc, hands...I call it IATMUYBS (I Am The Monster Under Your Bed Syndrome). (I am now finding, playing 1/2 6max, that IATMUYBS is my friend, but 'Stars 1/2 6max is softer than Tia Carrera's fanny so I'm not putting a whole lot of stock in that.)

I finally discovered that playing .5/1 one day and 1/2 the next for a couple of weeks (and not moving between limits on any given day, regardless of what might be happening to my BR) helped me a lot in learning to identify table texture and change gears. Then came the 15BB Challenges, which further improved my ability to identify table texture and change gears, by teaching me to do so without changing limit/table.