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What table limits are recommended with a $100 starting bankroll.
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This question is difficult to answer. You would first need to define exactly what you mean by the term "starting bankroll". To be specific, what is your plan if you happen to lose the entire $100? Start again with another $100? Repeat this $100 re-deposit once before giving up? Ten times? Once per month? Deposit another $1,000 instead? Quit playing poker for real money forever?
(Technically, only the last option above would truly make the $100 a poker bankroll.)
For example, someone who makes a first-time deposit into a poker site for $100, but has $10,000 set aside for poker in total, can easily go ahead and play a $100 MTT. Someone whose lifetime poker bankroll is $100 would be foolish to do the same.
Although it's often a good idea, you don't necessarily need to have a rigorous bankroll to be able to decide what limits you should play. However, if you don't want to have a poker bankroll, you would at least need to develop a fairly specific and realistic idea of the maximum amount of money you are willing to lose playing poker during some future time frame (say in a month, over the next year, or 5 years) if you are trying to estimate what limits are appropriate given the amount of money you are willing to lose.
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Should I be playing at 6 handed or 10 handed tables.
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This mainly comes down to personal preference, but I'd give a slight recommendation to 10-handed, where there the play is generally more straightforward, and the effect of the rake is lessened at the low limts.
However, many players who love either 6- or 10-handed don't tend to like the other very much. Often a 6- or 10-handed player will end up playing slightly worse than usual in the game size that they don't have the more natural feel for, and IMO this is going to be especially true when first staring out.
I'd recommend neither of these. Stick with limit Texas holdem while you are still learning the game.
ScottyZ
