poker at lower stakes

i have been through several sites and it seems no matter where you go, the bad beats are just as bad. i can't wait until i can start to afford more expensive buyins where they are less likely to occur

I've been playing the lower stakes for quite awhile now due to a small bankroll. I have built it up but nothing to brag about. I consider myself a pretty solid player. But I seem to always take them bad beats due to bad calls, suck outs, rivered , you name it. At the lower limits its just going to happen and happen a lot.

Those people sucking out on you are the same people that give their chips to you when u win hands. Sometimes they get lucky and there's nothing you can do about it. I know it sucks when you get dealt a bad beat, but the best thing to do is just know that you made the right move and go to the next hand. If no one was making bad calls how would you make money??

I play lots of hands too see flop and make hands out of nothing To brake all in chassers with nuts so loosen up and have fun but dont bet the farm

I like this sentence a lot, yea because soon as the buy in gets over $100 the cards magically change and bad beats don't happen.

You gotta learn to take those beats. It don't get much better higher up. The donks will still call and the more skilled players will beat you more often. You'll get it from both ends so to speak. Play good solid poker and you'll be ok. The streaks will even out over time.

If you keep losing you may not play as well as you think. Or you may be under bankrolled. If So you should consider moving down.


Or maybe you're just having a bad day.


goldog

There are bad calls and then there are ridiculously bad calls. Its one thing when someone chases a flush and maybe was a tad bit below the right odds to do so, and its something else when they call you with nothing and hit a runner runner something.

While there are bad beats at every level of poker, usually some people will put some thought into it when there is $200 invested in a hand, instead of $2 and someone who just can't click the fold button.

yes i play low stakes and some of the calls u see are unbelievable,but bad beats also happen at higherstakes but not as often as better players do not chase the draws so much.

come now storm, you know what the OP was getting at, sure the badbeats will still be there, but at the higher buy-ins they will be less frequent because the quality of play will be better.

At the lowest stakes where I play people can be so unpredictable it's often impossible to put them hands.

I know I was just being....um whats the word? oh yea ME.

So let me get this straight, u dont want people calling your huge bets when they must catch runner runner to beat you?

I think it was Sklansky that said that he actually liked being on the receiving end of a suck-out (or a session full of suck-outs). Why? Simply, because it indicated to him that he was able to beat the table: you need to enter with a superior hand to suffer a bad beat, wich means that the opposition calls you down with worse hands, wich in turns meand you have outplayed them and just got unlucky. This scenario is very much +EV in the long run.

Bobby Baldwin said the very same thing when he said the better you got, the greater the chances of someone sucking out on you since you will put your money in the middle only when you are clearly a favorite (make the right decisions). Don't be so result orientated.

Plus, there are bad players at every levels.