Confessions Of A Donkey - the secret of my success

I had a really bad downswing lately. $100+ at 5NL, and I finally realized why. I suck! But I used to suck a lot less than the players I played against when I had my winning streaks of 10 buy-ins a session, and the reason couldn't be more obvious: weekends!
I used to always play exclusively on weekends and almost not at all during the week. A month ago I had some time to play during the week, and just kept loosing. It was a bit of variance too I hope.
Now I'm playing on a Saturday evening again, and oh boy... You know spending a saturday at home playing poker online spells looser right there, but it couldn't be more literally true. I don't have to do anything here, I'm just waiting for them to give me money.
The difference is just unreal. During the week I constantly leave tables because it folded to the BB a couple of times at FR. And now there's half the table seeing every flop! This is on PartyPoker.
So anyway... if you suck, but you want to beat a game every once in a while: saturday night... 5NL... un-not-beatable!
You obviously have to know how to exploit aggression and calling stations, and you shouldn't be too emotional about bad beats, but if you can then this is a freakin' goldmine.

Had the same experience as you. If your non American playing at iPoker is a goldmine. Only playing 4NL at the moment and my bankroll is about $100. Signed up to the free $10 deposit there with the Bonus plus have another Bonus running on there as well. All evenings there are pretty easy though, but especially weekends liek you said.

Just so we're clear here, wouldn't this be an adjustment? The same type of "adjustment" that people suggest so vociferously that we should never, ever make at micros, because we don't need to? Instead of exercising "table selection" which is what the OP is referring to?

I'd be wary of adjusting too much while multi-tabling
after a while you might start raising anyone with crap cards especially if you've been picking up the blinds on the other tables and you don't notice the guy on the this table is a loose fish

There's a player in NL10 that plays 0% of his hands
it has to be some kind of a refer-a-friend scam or something

The problem I seem to have is how much to loosen up. I think a reasonable balance was to open raise about 30% of my hands. But it's also not so easy for me to switch gears soon enough when the game starts to loosen up. I also think I lost a significant amount of money not being able to lay down TPGK for 1/4 PSB on all streets, when I already knew that that was the standard bet for this guy and he hadn't played a hand in ages. Or I stacked off with overpairs against guys who did nothing but call my raises every now and then and give up on 9 out of 10 flops but push all in on one although I guess I should be putting them on a set and fold my overpair. This gets significantly harder with more tables and I can't keep track of all the nutcampers.
I think there's a thread from last month where I said maybe I should just stop calling altogether - that was why. As long as I keep betting I seem to be fine. During the week if one of them can summon up the courage to put out a bet they usually have a very strong hand.

But no matter how well I play, or how good I run, I can never come anywhere near the profit margin of the weekend sessions.

If somebody wants to make a thread or video on how to beat an extremely tight-passive FR game... I'm all for it.

How can you NOT keep track of all the nutcampers.

When someone has stats like 10/7... what do you think they're doing?

I call very infrequently EXCEPT I call down shortstackers with like anything lol
that and I sometimes call bluffs when I feel like I'm ahead of their range but that's super read dependent

I only have time to play on the weekends anyway, so for the time being I'm good. But no matter how well I play at the tight tables I can't possibly make nearly as much as I do during the happy hours. My stats for the first 10k hands when I installed PT was almost 8BB/100... then I started playing during the week... now it's at a very sad 2,5/100 and the trial is about to run out.
They are definitely beatable, but it's frustrating even if I'm winning.

Okay that's cool, but what's your attempt to steal?

Ok, apparently I don't understand the question.
What is my what again? Could you rephrase that?

Your attempt to steal is how often you open the pot when it's folded to you in either the Co, Bu, or SB. Most individuals will suggest that at FR your ats (attempt to steal) should be around 30% or so.

And you saying you don't want to sit around for just an opportunity to steal the blinds is incredibly misguided. Stealing blinds is so incredibly profitable that you should take advantage of it when you get the chance.

And I'm not going to dispute with you whether playing during the week or during the weekend is more profitable. Everyone knows that on the weekends the drunkards are in full force ready to take their shot. It's apparent the number of fish increase on the weekends and after work hours during the week. However, your concern while at the micros shouldn't be to make the most money as possible so you can get up to higher stakes. It should be to improve as a player and understand the game more fully, and that generally means not running from a situation in which you can't win, but instead learning how to win in that situation.

I'm on linux right now so I can't check PT... Probably more than 30% I won't raise with air, but I will loosen up considerably.
I don't really consider it stealing raising up a top 30% range on the button when it folded to me... I'm likely to have the best hand, and more importantly I have position. Who says you can't make a bet on position?

Change to 6-max Wink

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Adjustments are good. Whacky way off the charts ridiculous adjustments are probably bad.

I personally have no problem with leaving a table full of rocks. Sure it might be beatable, but rarely can I not find a table with at least one ATM to target instead. Why make micros harder than they need to be.

But if you do it 30% of the time you might as well do it with the top 30% of your range. I won't "steal" with T3, 72 type hands. 89, K8... is good enough. Otherwise I'd be raising it up every time it folded to me. That seems too loose even to me. Am I wrong?

I'd much rather play 6 Max! There are no 6 max tables below 25NL at PartyPoker unfortunately. I try to get as much short-handed play as possible, but the tables fill up quickly.

Well if a table full of rocks sees 100 hands per hour, and you can make at least a buyin in at most 2 hrs, then you're cracking over 25ptbb/100 and you should probably table select to play only v's rocks.

Imo is "In my opinion"
And FTW is "for the win"?
right?
So Imo in that case is like "I agree" ?

The thing is that people are very aware of that. I think if anything the micro stakes players are WAY overprotecting their blinds, so I'd rather be ahead of a random range at least.
I think the variance is just way higher. If your opponents are able to lay down TPTK, then you're making most of your money stealing, but it also increases the variance that monster-vs-monster hands create. If you can't extract more than 25bb out of a top pair vs TPTK hand, then the times you stack off with set under set or overpair against set hurt much more.
I just wanted to record a short session, but the screen capture program crashed. After half an hour I was up 2 buy-ins after stacking a couple of retards, after that I lost every big pot that I was in, the blinds started defending with air while the tables stayed mindnumbingly passive, and I went out with a 1$ profit.
I'll really just avoid playing these. If you haven't played micros in half a year - check it out for yourself on a weekday. Just a year ago there was much more action... and there's also a lot more action in the higher stakes - got myself up to 25NL a couple of months ago.
I always say I don't mind playing bad players... I'll change that to I don't mind playing loose bad players.
It's just nervewrecking to make your chips almost exclusively stealing. I had QQ twice today, AA three times - and I got called with one of them once and took it down on the flop.
Where's the fun in that?

Spoon added three words in bold (out of position) to my comment. The IMO (yes, means "in my opinion") in bold meant that he thought my comment was only true if we're talking about AK and 88 oop.

This:

They can both be true at the same time because it did not get them on the Button CO of SB with no limpers when I got them.

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