Tips for .10 .25 NL at ultimate bet

[RHCNNN]

I deposited $25 on ultimate bet and played the .10 .25 NL ring games recently. I was up to $170 after a short while, I've cashed out $125 of my profits already since my first experience on party poker where i blew a huge profit on tilt.
I am a pretty competent player at these games (this level), but I do seem to lose my profit quite frequently leaving me back at even. Although I'm still up a lot total, I'd like to be keeping more of my profits.

Any tips for these micro limit ring games at ultimate bet? (other than just becoming a better player over time?)
thanks

[whileone]

take a peek at the bankroll management thread at the top of this forum.

this rule helped me a bit: if you loose 10% of your bankroll in a day, stop for the day.

[AllinLife]

could you elaborate on the reason behind you cashing out 125$?

anyways here are 3 general rules that helped me

1) no read no bluff
2) everyone is a pussy until proven otherwise
3) bet/raise is only button you press with AA/KK preflop

[RHCNNN]

I'm still learning a lot about poker, and I can use the $125 more efficiently in other ways than possibly blowing it all (like i did when I was that far ahead on PP). When I signed up I was willing to possibly lose $25... but 125 is money i can put to good use elsewhere . I'm still playing with other money i have in my account.

[littletrogdor]

I play a good amount of .10-.25 and .25-.50 ring games on UB, and I find it really easy to make money over time. There are quite a few fish around if you are patient and keep good notes at the tables.

Usually for me the biggest factor in not giving back my profits is knowing where to find a fold. Top pair top kicker looks great most of the time, but theres no telling what garbage the fish are playing. (Party Poker is much worse for this, at UB you don't need as much caution) Sometimes its better to just give it up and wait for a better opportunity.

Also as said earlier, NEVER limp with the big pairs. Theres no point in doing anything fancy at the lower limit tables, the players will not appreciate your actions if you try to check-raise or be deceptive about your hand. I've seen many a trainwreck with 104 beating AA.

I wouldn't be so quick to cash out your winnings. No limit is a high variance game, and bad beats happen. Also its hard to move up in stakes down the road without a bigger bankroll.

Hope that helps.

[Hubris1]

Personally I think 125 is a minimum bankroll for playing .10/.25, you should have at least 500 times the bb in your bankroll, if not more , for your stakes.

I track my statistics and I've had almost 1000 hands where I had gotten AA once. That's almost 5 times the statistical variance, moreover my pocket pairs where at about one every 50 hands, or more than 3 times my odds, almost 4 to 1 odds.

Most of my hands during that period were garbage, so statistically speaking my blinds were actually somewhere around a dollar or a dollar 25.

And to be honest, that's nothing, there's plenty of players that have documented similar streaks over 2000 or 4000 hands. I remember a guy that posted saying he had 1500 hands and had never seen AA on his current bad streak.

And thats not even counting bad beats. More than 1 in 10 times you push with AA you're going to get a bad beat and lose your stack. If that same bad four or five times multiplier applies to your AA you're going to be losing your stack almost half the time you push it. Check out the guys post that has something like 12 straight losses with pushes on AA, he's even posting his KK hand histories now too because he's getting busted on those as well. And none of those have post flop game, they're all him getting his whole stack in the pot when he has the best hand and getting busted by a far inferior hand. Think he had one caller against AA that was 8 5 or something goofy.

Hold Em is about long term profitability.