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 Originally Posted by sil693
even thinking about levels of thinking at microstakes will more than likely result in you leveling yourself. think of ranges ranges ranges.
ABC all the way.
Thinking beyond level 3 in most cases will.
Originally Posted by WillburForce
is there a need to adjust at micros???
just wait for a hand. Bet it.
Yes, we must adjust at any level. But we know our opponents aren't adjusting so we can play straightforward.
Originally Posted by Taicho
What confuses me is all this talk of "static ranges" in the micros...from my experience, many micro players will play any two cards and call raises with a wide range.
I try to get a read on a player and figure out some sort of range but ultimately it comes down to "I hope he didn't call with Q3 this time."
What I meant by static ranges is that the average player we meet at microstakes plays the same range all the time no matter what the position or table dynamics and never varies.
Whether they are weak tight or weak loose, they never adjust and this makes it a lot easier to figure out their range/playing style... sooo we never need to worry about them figuring out what we are doing... there's no need to ever readjust. Once we adjust to their style we seldom have to vary from what's effective against them.
Example: After 50 hands I look around my table and see...
Player 1:50/0/.5
Player 2: 80/50/5.0
Player 3: 40/2/1.2
Player 4: ME in the God seat
Player 5: 15/3/1.6
Player 6: 8/0/0.0
So now I have an idea of how people at my table play.. and I've adjusted to their play to maximize my potential profit. I know after 500 hands these guys stats probably won't have changed much.. sure some of them might have been card dead or had the deck hitting them in the face.. but typically, you can figure this out by betting patterns and not just stats alone.
So I valuebet player 1 and never bluff him, laying down to any aggression without the goods. I isolate player 2 and call him down with any piece, picking the right spots to trap. There's really no need to 3-bet this guy as the money can go in post flop anytime I want anyways and we have no fold equity. I play straight foward against player 3 since I know his cards on every hand. I steal relentlessly from player 5 and 6 and hope they pick up a "playable" hand when I have the nuts.
The whole point of this that believing our opponents are manipulating us or cultivating an image is ridiculous. We should take things at face value and play accordingly.
Another example: We have been stealing from player 6 every time for the past 4 orbits. We pick up AQs on the button and he 3-bets. We go into the tank and think about what happened the past 4 orbits and how we been playing 35% of pots.. hmm this guy saw us show down 108 for a weird straight against player 2 three hands ago.. he MUST think I am weak here and is 3-betting a huge range to "shut me down"! So we call.. the flop is Q-3-3. The money gets all in when a blank hits the turn and our opponent flips up KK. We have just leveled ourselves.
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