M
megl
Enthusiast
Silver Level
After grinding out 36 bb/100 at 2NL FR cash games on Stars for a couple of weeks, I moved up to 5NL, and it seems to me like 5NL is a noteably different game than 2NL. Anyone here has the same experience? Even though it's still the lowest of the micro levels, it seems to me that the 5NL tables are much tighter than 2NL and it's much harder to get action on premium hands - even if I'm generally playing something like 21/9 in a FR game, people still fold most of the time when I raise preflop with my aces or kings. I only have a couple of thousand hands at 5NL yet, but my winrate so far is noteably lower than it was at 2NL. I found that going from 2NL to 5NL I need to 3-bet more (my 3bet % was too low anyway even for 2NL) and be much more selective when c-betting and 3-betting - I find this level takes more postflop skills to beat, can't just play autopilot postflop like I did on 2NL. Actually I found it easier to use agreesion to bully people off pots at 2NL than at 5NL, which is opposite of what I would have expected!?
Question: I feel I need to tighten up preflop after going from 2NL to 5NL - but then, that's what the opponents are doing, so would it be more profitable to do the opposite and loosen up a bit PF instead?
Anyone with recent experience from these micro limits - your advice is much appreciated
Question: I feel I need to tighten up preflop after going from 2NL to 5NL - but then, that's what the opponents are doing, so would it be more profitable to do the opposite and loosen up a bit PF instead?
Anyone with recent experience from these micro limits - your advice is much appreciated