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spyderracing

04-24-2006, 07:18 AM Post subject: Micro-stakes, best strategy?

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Join Date: Apr 2006

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I just recently made my entrance into the world of online poker. Great site you guys have here and this is my first post so I'd just like to say hi first off.

I started out with 5$ SNGS and I'm still relatively break even, bubble play is my weakness I take the agression too far (however I am improving as of recent, read HoH 1 a couple times and am halfway through vol 2 and they definately help). I'd like to get into some ring play but I'm definately not rolled for 10nl, and since that's all party offers outside of the beginner area which I've locked out of after the grace period.

I played some 10nl on the prima network (lowest stakes they offer) with the 10$ bonuses but variance kicked my ass. The last hand I remember that made me go busto went something like:
Dealt to me AJ, raise in MP 4xbb.
3 callers.
Flop comes Jxx, so jack rags, no straight or flush possible.
I bet pot, get 1 caller. I put him on Jx maybe J10 or better, it's been a fishy game so far with people pushing on TPGK/TPWK all over the place.
Turn comes, another rag which kills any flush draw. I bet the pot, guy pushes, I call, and damned if I'm not right he shows J10. Still one card to come though....
10 falls on the river, he laughs it up and calls me an idiot.

So I figure I'll move on to stars and do the microstakes tables with 20$. That's 10 buy-ins at what should be some incredibly fishtastic games. I'm thinking the best approach here would be to use the 19 hand approach because all of my good hands should get paid off at these tables (note this is how i was approaching the 10nl tables, but again lady luck is a bitch, took beats like the one mentioned above for my roll when I made a good read, stuck with it, and got sucked out on). Any incite on where to start would be great.

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Staresy

04-24-2006, 10:56 AM

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You've pretty much summed it up yourself.

The strat for low/micro buy-ins is play the top % of hands (the 19 starting hands is ideal), bet hard when you hit, learn to get away when you're beat and play the odds (i.e. only chase when you're getting the right price, bet to offer bad odds for opps when you put them on a draw).

Don't look to get cute or try and execute elaborate bluffs/moves etc on people who simply do not understand what it is you're trying to accomplish, it just ends in heart and head aches!

You will suffer a few suckouts/bad beats along the way. Unfortunately, this is inevitable. Over the long term however, you will crush this level playing this way.

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Big Dazz

04-24-2006, 03:48 PM

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Join Date: Mar 2006

Location: Portsmouth, England

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Over the long term however, you will crush this level playing this way

Absolutley dead right!!

I've recently started NL and play at Paradise $2 buy in. I started with $2.36 (left over from limit) and now have $55. Take Staresy' advice and you will win.

The hardest part is that they are so loose it is nigh on immpossible to put them on a hand. Therefore you wont gain much XP at this which may prove a problem when movin on up.

All the best.

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