Micro Cash Games On-line

Hi all.

I am reasonable new to this site so please forgive if am I reposting the same stuff.

I am looking for hints on playing micro cash games up tp 25/50c blinds.

What is the best site?
Is there a certain method of playing that suits these games?
What is a good bankroll?

I have played some at FT and Stars but have not been very successful and I am hoping to improve.

If there is somewhere on this site or another that you could point towards that would be great.

The Muppetteer

My tips

The average micro stakes player isn't paying any attention to images. They will pick up on if you are a nutjob player, but they don't notice a tight image. Plus, with many players changing, setting up any image isn't worth it.
For the most part, you will be very profitable just playing tight the whole way. You should never make a 3rd bullet bluff at this level. At worst, you can raise pre, make a c-bet, and on a drawy board that misses, bet again on the turn. After that (or if you are raised) you need to bail. Bulffing again and again at this level is spew, since so many players just can't fold horrible hands, and it only enboldens them to stay in when they call you down and they were right.
You should be making very few fancy plays at this level, and you should have tons of reasons to explain why you pulled that off.
As an excersise, just play a session tight. When you do anything that is even a little loose, you should be able to justify it. Keep notes as you play on why you raised with that hand (it was AA or this player is a good player at this level), and justify why you strayed from being tight. If you are doing it a lot every session, maybe you need to tone it down.
Remember, you can't bluff a bad player.

Some more thoughts just came in my mind. Anything up to .5/$1 NL cash games are hugely crushable just by seeing flops in raised (esp multiway) pots with small pairs and to a lesser extent, suited connectors (these actually lose some value because of the # of times you'll find yourself outflushed by guys who will call raises with any suited AKQ.) As soon as you flop a big hand or a big combo draw, lead out, reraise, etc until all the money is in the pot. Slowplaying is pretty much never useful unless the board is completely crippled by your hand (Eg you flop quads on an AA6 board.) bluffing is pretty much never useful unless it's a small bet in pos in a heads up pot, or a 3-way pot against the blinds. And even then, it's only worthwhile in like .25/.50 and above. That's just my opinion anyway.

And just remember, everytime you felt someone's AA when you flop a small set...it's only profitable if you don't donk it straight back when someone flops a set against your AA. Pot control. Play big pairs as fast as possible pre flop and then slow it down postflop and just pick off a cpl streets of value.

Micro Stakes Guide

ChuckTs posted this extensive guide to micro stakes cash games that it really great stuff.

It should help you out.

As I recall, ChuckT wrote a lot of good info, but didn't touch very much on one thing that keeps quite a few people from winning / winning more at the micro tables. That's fancy play syndrome. Quite simply, there's little need to make fancy plays since people will give you their money anyway. So when a play works, you just win money you would have gotten eventually anyway, and when it doesn't. you lose money you didn't have to.

ok well i try to do these things.....until I went to cake poker and bodog.....they are the softest tables I think Ive ever seen (cake even more than bodog.).....there were so many hands where no one would call a bet, much less a raise....I could have rags 70 percent of the time and not get called even on a raise to a bet when i led out betting the previous five hands....the problem is that its hard to build those pots....Its almost like its the opposite end of the spectrum compared to ultimate bet, where I grew up on poker (if you will)....but how are you supposed to stay tight on completely passive tables?.....next question....why is it that I consistently loose my money?.....I think its my bankroll management....when I start to get low....I get nervous and look for one hand to reinstate my bankroll at the $1/2 NL tables....do not ever do this....you will end up broke and a loser for sure in the end.....

Is there any way cardschat would consider making sub forums for strategy based upon the limits and online and b&m?...that would make it a lot easier for people to learn, playing JJ's with negreanu is a little different than with donkmaster1102.......just a thought