Try to stay away from micro tables that have a high plrs/flop percentage. Anything >50% is a table you need to avoid unless you develop a "feel" for those crazy plays/players at those levels.

Originally Posted by mek882

Try to stay away from micro tables that have a high plrs/flop percentage. Anything >50% is a table you need to avoid unless you develop a "feel" for those crazy plays/players at those levels.

Really? Those are just the tables I look for. The more players calling, means the more garbage cards I'm up against. All you have to do is sit there, be patient, pick your spot and take all their money.

It's almost offensive to the game what some people show down with. I mean I've had hands where I was practically crapping my pants thinking I had the lower boat when guy flips over second pair at the showdown. Why would you want to avoid stuff like that?

Sure you lose a buy-in to some piece of trash hand but in the long run you will come out ahead.

(As always speaking from limited, but recently consistently successful, experience)

"Try to stay away from micro tables that have a high plrs/flop percentage. Anything >50% is a table you need to avoid unless you develop a "feel" for those crazy plays/players at those levels."

These tables normally have a 5 person waiting list for a good reason, they are absolute goldmines. Saying that, never play a cash table that makes you uncomfortable I guess.

I don't play cash tables, I play micro SnGs and MTT's. Totally different to play money. All play money can teach you are the basics of the game, you won't learn much strategy from them. When I played play money at party poker it was just a matter of calling the all-ins with something decent. I ended up with 2 accounts, one had 23 million and the other had 85 million.

I went to real money at FT (Never again) and PS. I won $5 in an APPT qualifier at PS and have moved it to $75 by being patient with my tight aggressive game.

The thing is that BR management is all-important. At FT, where I first went to after deciding to try my hand at real money, if I was donked a few times I'd get annoyed and dive up a level or two to $5 or $10 and try to win back what I'd lost in one hit. It didn't work.

At PS, I've worked the opposite way, just kick the wall and moved on to the next one. I'll move up to $1 ones when I reach $100 bucks.

I like it because I get to play a shitload of poker and the dream of playing for big $ is always still there.

My experience with online micro limits is be careful and play tight and you can make some money but you have to sit for long periods of time. There are alot of people that only play for a short time and want to make some money those are the ones that play super loose ...

Jerry in Minnesota.

Originally Posted by ColdHardMetal

Really? Those are just the tables I look for. The more players calling, means the more garbage cards I'm up against. All you have to do is sit there, be patient, pick your spot and take all their money.

I understand what your saying, but I meant that you'll lose with bad beats and coolers in the short run playing NL micro games. Stick it out for the long haul and you'll do ok with a modest bankroll.