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 Originally Posted by OngBonga
But I doubt many 5nl'ers would notice if you only cbet when you have a hand, and those that do note it and adjust effectively won't be at 5nl for long enough to rape your br.
The more often you raise PF and cbet the flop, the lighter you'll be called down, especially by fish. I guarantee it. Again, the thought process behind it might be so thin that we might hesitate to call it an adjustment, and the adjustments certainly aren't going to be good ones, but the result is just the same: if you don't keep your ranges under control, then you're going to bleed chips.
If anything, I would say that the reason 5nl'ers don't need to familiarize with this concept has more to do with the fact that they play weaktight/ABC poker than it is because players don't adjust at 5nl. In other words, seven-deuce's training wheels aren't the fact that his opponents suck; his training wheels are the fact that he would never dream of iso'ing a 40/10 fish with K8o. Postflop play probably doesn't warrant *that much* dissection when you always have a pocket pair, TPGK, or strong overcards. It becomes much more difficult to know when to check or when to bet when you can't just auto-bet every flop and assume that you're winning money in the long run someway or another.
Cliffontes: I don't think the difference between playing big boy poker and playing lolmicros poker (or to put it in FTR terms: playing SSNL poker or playing BC poker) is the opponents you face. To even get as far as beating 40/10s exceptionally well, you have to start leveraging the myriad advantages you get in a poker game beyond just the occasional strong preflop holding and even more occasional postflop monster. And in order to do *that*, you have to learn how to vbet as thin as you can get away with/recognize hands where you have SD value/play draws intelligently/manage pot size/run multi-bet bluffs/etc.
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