This is so obvious that you'll probably throw boogers at the screen in an attempt to knock me off my chair, but here goes. One of the main positives of limit play for a newby (like myself) is that you can get away with the occassional bad decision without going broke. In my experience, I feel I play solid poker in the micro games, but there's always a hand somewhere along the line where my inexperience leads me to either make a horrible play, or a bad read, each making me feel that an all-in type move is warranted. In NL, I'd be done. In limit, it hurts, but I'm still playing. Playing solid on the majority of remaining hands allows me to break even, or show a profit. Either way I still have a bankroll. I like to play limit in ring games, and work on my NL game in toruneys that have small buy-ins. Remember, I suck, so don't listen to me.