Quote Originally Posted by Irisheyes
1) Play some play money poker. This ain't good for much but It'll help you realise when there's straights on the board and you'll miss them less. Also I think that a lot of the lower limits players do play with similar traits to the play money opponents. Especially when you get $10 free for signing up, a lot of players come in and go all-in with crap..
I would advise against this. You can play microlimits without losing that much, and playmoney will probably even hurt your game. If you want to use play money to get used to a new site, that's fine, but that's about it.

Quote Originally Posted by Irisheyes
2) Play tight and passive. I know when you read this sight you get the idea that loose aggressive play is the only way (at least I did anyway) but I rekon its the wrong approach against low limt messers. You can't bet them off draws and re-raise them out of pots because they won't respect you when they dont realise what your doing..
I think Tight/Aggressive is the style most here would advocate. There are plenty of Loose/Aggeressive HH's all over the boards, and you can play that way succesfully but it takes more experience and talent.

Quote Originally Posted by Irisheyes
4) I think its useless tryin to get reads on players who play every hand regardless, go all in every fifth hand and call pot size bets on a gutshot. I don't bother but I'm practicin with a few of the regular players on the site.
What you've just described is a read, probably a loose/aggressive and/or a maniac. The more you play the more your reading ability will improve. You want opponents who will call with bad pot odds like Mr Gutshot.


I haven't played much microlimit, and I play more SNG then ring, but isn't 7.5xBB a bit excessive for AQ UTG? On the flop, after you bet and get a re-raise and call, you should probably lay it down as you mentioned.

You might pick up one of the recommended limit books, it's definitely a different animal then NL.