This thread delivers!

Honestly I'm up over 60 bucks from showdown winnings at 2NL in only 16000 hands. But my profit is only like 16 because my redline is AWFUL. Why is it awful? Because I bluff multiple streets. A few things to think about.

I think one problem that a lot of us micro-players have is that we see these other higher stakes hands and videos where there is talk about double barreling, range balancing, and opening up your range. Honestly, I don't feel like most of that applies to at least 2 and 5 NL. There is really no point in opening a hand like J9 on the button if the blinds are 50/4 players like so many micros are. Sure, at the higher levels J9o, QTo, Axo are acceptable button and CO opens in 6m but at 2 and 5NL unless your blinds are running like 10/2 opening is probably not going to be b/e. I think tightening opening ranges is paramount and then like everyone else has said, Cbet only really obvious Cbettable flops if you are stealing and viciously valuebet when you flop a hand. A final thought, vs those extremely passive fishy players who are like 35/2/36AgFactor, there is not a hand besides the nuts that is too good to fold to their annoying min-raises.

I can attest from personal experience of the last 4 days. The first 2 I ran quite well but I also only played hands when I had them and was very tight otherwise and I ran about 60BB/100 for 2k hands for about 15 or so buy ins. In the last two days I got overconfident in my play and started up with the ol' FPS terribad poker. Yes, I ran worse, but my redline (winnings without showdown) which had been about break even for the last two or three days, dropped a good 5 or 6 buy ins over around the same sample size even though my blue line (winnings with showdown) continued to steadily climb.

Lesson learned: Stop trying to out play people who are too bad to be out played. You just end up letting them out play you even though they don't know it.