Full House
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: England
Posts: 1,053
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I think one of the problems, if you can call it a problem, is that hands like 22 up to say 66 just make me too much money at the micros when I do limp in in early. It's almost like I'm hearing "stop doing that thing that makes you money", probably because it will lose me money at higher levels. But at the micros, hardly anyone notices that I limped utg and then called a x5 raise, and then c/r a three handed flop of 259r. They just see their jacks, they do not think about what I have. Anyone who has been paying attention to my game over a large enough sample of hands will make notes and probably run a mile when they see this kind of play from me, even with jacks on this flop, but we all know that the vast majority of people at 2nl are not paying attention, and there is also a higher pool of players, so finding people we have a good sample of hands on is not an easy task. I got 4k+ on a friend who I often share a table with, after that I rarely see someone who I have more than 100 hands on. Therefore, the same must be true of my opponents, very few will have a large enough sample on me to get a good idea of how I play my hands. I don't imagine there's many dataminers at my level.
I appreciate these comments, because I'm trying to trim my hand selection like all the time, I want to be better at poker. It's hands like broadway and suited connectors that I was playing too much oop, these are the hands I'm dumping now, but I just can't do it with 22-99 utg at 2nl unless someone raises too much or the stacks don't give me the required implied odds. PPs are gold dust at the micros, sets are my biggest earner.
Are you guys folding 22 utg? What about if the table is full of loose passive fish and donks that go mental on any flop they vaguley hit? Ie like the average 2nl room at stars? In that event, is a raise better than open limping?
I know 22/9 isn't wild, because I see people who play more hands also making money, but I certainly see tighter players getting paid off when they do hit their set. I don't want to become one of these ubernits that raise JJ+ AK, limp 88-TT and AQ, and fold everything else, because that is not going to make money at higher levels where everyone is running a HUD, plus I'd die of boredom. But I don't want to be a LAG anymore, I want those days behind me. I want a good, solid, profitable game. I got the profitable bit at the moment, but I don't doubt it could be more profitable.
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