Quote Originally Posted by dreamover
You say DONT BLUFF, but I have had some sucess bluffing, Im playing right now at .5cent .10cent NL, and I just semi bluffed a pot from early postion with two players in.

At low limits semi-bluffs are -EV unless you play against really weak tight players. Why bother semi-bluffing if you are playing with fish who have trouble folding (I don't know if you are or not but if you play low limits then you probably are). All you are accomplishing is building a pot where you have the worst (a drawing) hand.

I don't do allot of full out bluffing,

Good. Bluffing is -EV.

but I do allot betting the pot when I have second pair and a good read.

Against one opponent with a good read perhaps. I usually don't bother getting even this fancy because I find it ends up in me digging a grave for myself unnessecarily. Reads are over-rated when you can beat 6 tables at once without them.

It sounds like your saying to play tight, and play the nuts big when I get them because people dont know when to back out ?

Exactly. This is the key to beating low stakes NL consistently. Play loads of tables and nut camp.

What about playing hands like A(anything) suited in middle or late position, even early ?

Fold them everywhere. If you want me to explain why I can. Trust me, fold them.


I try to limp in with allot of different hands, any two cards over 10 suited or non,

I play a minimum of QJ. I fold AT, KT, QT everywhere. Keeps me out of trouble.

Ax suited, Fold
suited connectors over 8, Fold untill you get really good at poker and you get to tables where stealing pots and playing players becomes a winning strategy

any pair. Play for sets and stack people

I found at the penny tables its easy to limp with anything but now at the .5 cent .10 cent it gets a little harder, allot more preflop raising, so I'm having to adjust and tighten up slightly. Thoughts ?

Fold more hands in EP, stuff like QJ and KJ. Save your limp in blind for a time where you wont get raised off it.

Actually I wonder if Im playing a little too loose and simply spending all my winnings on inferior hands ?

Thats exactly what you're doing. Well done for finding the biggest leak you'll ever find.