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Billfunk1
Rising Star
Bronze Level
I used to play online about 15 years ago and would frequently win low stakes micro tourneys ($5 - 50 man was a favourite) against American players. Coming back to poker after a while I notice 888 and pokerstars have no American players and are filled with super tight, super aggressive Russians, Germans, Brits and Brazilians. I am playing 50c to $3 tourneys and am profitable, but only marginally. So I have two questions:
1. I know there are American sites like Bovada and ignition, but these won't let me sign up (I am a UK citizen). Where on earth I am supposed to go in order to get a tourney against them? It feels like they are in their own protected little fish tank. I thought maybe getting a VPN might work though I expect I would need an American bank account also?
2. Are there any proper players here who could comment on the standard of play on the micro stakes tourneys on either PokerStars or 888? From my experience there appears to be roughly one third fish/drunks who are rapidly outed early on then two thirds who are at the very minimum tight and super aggressive. I have pokertracker and the typical holy trinity stats are like 14-20/10/6 (very roughly). People are very happy to 3-bet, go all-in and call all-ins. hands rarely get to the river as the aggression has been brought forward to an extreme degree. I try and play tight-aggressive, steal often, 3 bet at every opportunity, check-raise post flop, defend blinds as much as possible, and raise borderline trash from Hijack and later. Yet I am often left making GTO Push/Fold decisions beyond half way into a tourney with typically 8 minute blinds. Most of these people appear sober, intelligent and well read. It's obvious a Pro would have an edge here but compared to a decade ago the standard seems exceptionally high for such tiny tiny stakes!
Comments and advice welcome. Are there any good video examples of Pros crushing 888 or PokerStars 50c - $3 MTTs?
1. I know there are American sites like Bovada and ignition, but these won't let me sign up (I am a UK citizen). Where on earth I am supposed to go in order to get a tourney against them? It feels like they are in their own protected little fish tank. I thought maybe getting a VPN might work though I expect I would need an American bank account also?
2. Are there any proper players here who could comment on the standard of play on the micro stakes tourneys on either PokerStars or 888? From my experience there appears to be roughly one third fish/drunks who are rapidly outed early on then two thirds who are at the very minimum tight and super aggressive. I have pokertracker and the typical holy trinity stats are like 14-20/10/6 (very roughly). People are very happy to 3-bet, go all-in and call all-ins. hands rarely get to the river as the aggression has been brought forward to an extreme degree. I try and play tight-aggressive, steal often, 3 bet at every opportunity, check-raise post flop, defend blinds as much as possible, and raise borderline trash from Hijack and later. Yet I am often left making GTO Push/Fold decisions beyond half way into a tourney with typically 8 minute blinds. Most of these people appear sober, intelligent and well read. It's obvious a Pro would have an edge here but compared to a decade ago the standard seems exceptionally high for such tiny tiny stakes!
Comments and advice welcome. Are there any good video examples of Pros crushing 888 or PokerStars 50c - $3 MTTs?
