Moving up the limits.

I spend a lot of day in chat with the other mods, and Grumbledook keeps us posted on his adventures on the rings. I also watched him play for a while on a 5/10 table and I just couldn't believe the way folks were just throwing money around and hoping to catch. A long time ago I wrote a post about people with more money than sense and it must be true a lot of the time. I played a little 1/2 over the weekend and nobody at the table respected a raise at all which made you wait for a premium hand and hope your callers didn't get the suckout...

I logged on to Paradise half an hour before Pokerstars tourney on Friday, and won $80 on $1/2 table in just half hour. Was a 5 person table - 3 of the players called absolutely everything, and the other was only slightly more choosy. To give an example, I was first to act with A2 with rainbow Ace flop. I bet, hoping that the others would fold, knowing I would be on loser if one called. All 4 called! I checked down to river, and won hand! They had ALL called with Ace on board, without having an Ace themselves - How can you call with nothing, when FOUR people had already called i'll never know!!

I've had 2 more sessions on 1/2 5 player tables at Paradise without much success, but when you can hit dream table you can make a killing. There is nothing worse however than being in a mega-loose table and never getting a hand to attack with.

I posted a message on here a few months back about the difference in quality between $1/$2 and $2/$4

There is a big difference in the amount of hands people are willing to play. I find in anything loswer than $2/$4 players, especially the blinds, will call practically anything hoping to get lucky. So basically the luckiest player on the night walks away happy. In $2/$4 you tend to find only premium hands get played, with the obvious steal evey now and again.

I would never go below $2/$4 now and only play this limit if I am not playing too well or if the deck is cold on me

Well done on the gains though, its always nice to make the step up and start off well

looool, I wonder what he had?

Not sure but this guys had re-raised on the river several times prior to this and induced folds. He raised pre-flop so i figured him for a medium ace A9 ? Or a pocket pair or 67 ? (if he had that he would have called my re-raise). But for my first pot i was laughing my head off at the time.

Well virtually every limit at every site online has loose players. Generally speaking, as you move up limits there are just fewer bad players. The main reason you find a lot of bad players at 1/2 online is because of the wager requirements most sites have on their comps or bonuses.

Looking at some of the stats for Omaha on some sites, it looks like there are some pretty loose players on all of those tables - you can find tables at all stakes where well over 60% of players are seeing the flop, even at $10/$20 stakes... so I'm pretty sure that with the right table selection you can find a nice loose table to profit from...