I want to ask you guys how you study cash game strategy/poker in general?
I usually watch videos and analyze tricky hands I get into. I used to read a lot of articles, but that was mostly about basic concepts that I understand now (if you know of any semi-advanced articles applicable to the microstakes, feel free to point it out). I also take notes both when watching videos and analyzing my hands. How do you like to study, and do you have a special routine for it?
So far, so good. You might want to try Ed Miller's
Poker's One Percent. Don't take everything he writes about literally, as he does exaggerate sometimes.
Also wanted to ask if anyone have watched The Poker Bank on Youtube, and if their older videos made in the years 2011-2014 are still good to watch?
The Poker Bank is good, and, yes, the older vids are worth watching. Valid information is valid, and the game itself hasn't changed. It's more important to figure out how your opponents are playing
right now, get a line on their play, figure out where the exploits are when you're playing a pot with them.
I play a lot of 25 NL & 50 NL on WPN.
It becomes very tricky at those levels versus good players including many Russians. You really have to start being able to calculate range equities on the spot to stay competitive.
Never played on WPN, so I can't say one way or the other. 25NL and 50NL on Carbon play exactly like 10NL, the only difference being that the fish at 25 and 50 have more to lose.
The fishiness of the play -- if anything -- is even more horrid at 50NL than what I've seen at 10NL. This applies especially to players who overplay over pairs and top pair, even if they don't have a decent kicker. I mean all-ins with these hands, and for deep stacks. Also, clueless players. I've seen the nittiest players come away with far more winnings than they were entitled to. They'll stack off against that guy, you know, the one who hasn't played a hand in two hours and now wants to bang it in. What do you think he has? Nuts, of course, or very close to it, and they'll just hand him their whole stack.
As for good players, I count two (excluding myself).
I have yet to get a good cash game strategy. I do well in tournaments however after winning a small bankroll in the free-roll tournaments I go to cash side at .01/.02 and loose within an hour. Any ideas?
Over how many hands/sessions? How are you getting beat? Are you getting out played, or are you losing stacks to suck-outs? If call all-in with a pair of aces after a (Q,T-o) that flopped a pair of queens with nothing else to go with them bangs it in deep and he binks a ten on the river, that's nothing. Just hope he keeps coming back and he never runs out of money. That's not a prob. If
you are that guy, then there's a big problem. Keep overplaying pairs like that and you've got yourself a one-way ticket to Tap City.
Runbad can last a lot longer than you'd like. Last May, June and July positively
SUCKED -- lost over half my 'roll. Flop straights and flushes and lose to runner-runner miracle draws, GII good with aces or kings and lose to flopped sets, lose every coin flip. I didn't fully recover until October. It happens, and there's nothing you can do about it except play through it while making certain you're not contributing to your misfortune by tilting.
If you are playing against a group of people that are folding constantly and not splashing around in pots... LEAVE ASAP! There is no honor in battling other good players. The only true winner is the rake.
No. You steal, steal, steal until they figure it out (if they ever do)
then you leave. What you're describing here aren't good players, but weak, passive, nit-fish. I'll gladly stack these types, one big blind at a time. The rake is irrelevant if your site uses the no flop, no drop rule.