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Calling / Raising Conditions @ Microstakes
I'm just wondering what we should be doing when grinding it out at the microstakes levels. I'm currently playing at Party Poker at .02/.04 ($5)NL cash tables, playing with $25 party sent me for being away for awhile. I cashed out a few months ago, since I didn't have any time to devote to poker, due to a new job taking up all my time.
I find the players at party to be fairly weak tight for the most part, calling way to much and not raising enough. I've been strugging with keeping my aggression factor up recently, but now I'm starting to get into a groove.
At these games, i'm finding that raising in position is taking in way too many blinds. I don't know what's going on. I'm running 18.99 / 7.16 / 2.03 over the last 4300 hands, with BB / 100 @ 10.52.
Now on to my question. Under what conditions should we be calling at the micro stakes limits? If I think I can out play the entire table after the flop, I'll call in position with hands like KTo, and raise if I hit any piece of the flop. If I'm in position with any premium hand, I'm raising / reraisng preflop / on the flop regardless, and seeiing what happens on the turn before I commit any more chips.
I think in the past I was afraid of calling because I was afraid of losing money., Now that I'm playing with "free" money, i can now focus on playing the hand optimally (taking the psychological side of losing money out of the equation).
Any thoughts on calling at the micro NL stakes? I'm liking the attitude of raising as many hands as possible, and stealing in position.
Cheers,
Jerome
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