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I've been playing mostly micro limits on PS and FTP about 8 years ago. Mostly full ring NLHE cash games and an occasional 6-max NLHE. I've been quite successful with a winrate of 8 ptbb in about a half a million hands. I was playing a mass multi-tabling ABC poker. I was slowly building my bankroll but later cashed out and left the game.

I've recently returned to pokerstars EU and it seems like the game has gotten a lot tougher. I guess people read the books, forums, watch videos and so on, because of the popularity of NLHE. I am currently guessing myself as my current run has not been great.

I'm not here to go pro or anything. I play this game to exploit stupidity. So I wonder. What is the current trend regarding soft games? Is NLHE still the game to be in? Should I be playing something else?

What is currently considered the weakest and most profitable game to be in? Should I move to tournaments? SNG? HU SNG? Fixed limit? Omaha?
 
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Its still very beatable but we have to keep coming up with new strategys as everyone plays as we do now.

I mix 6 max and 9-max I target bad players in 6 max as there are so many tables you can keep searching you find yourself in a game either going your way or full of dead money.

I use the 9 max tables to just wait for strong hands in position, or exploit lagtards in good spots.

I play mainly 50NL some 100NL for my smaller sessions.

In general yes it is harder, but if your build yourself a nice solid image start off targetting easy money 30 mins later you'l gain credit from the regs who you can later exploit repping strong hands if the board pans nice.
before leaving that table for the next..

I try not to play with the same regs to often, if avoidable. however its not the end of the world if they do know you well
 
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PS excuse that number I was just writing something down whilest on the phone :/ its not my contactor anything. lol
 
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NLHE can still be beaten, but there are WAY more fish in other games. I haven't played on PS since black friday, but my experience was that the more obscure games had the most fish. This should be no surprise since there's less instructional material for these games too. I found that I didn't have to be very good at games like single draw and badugi to have a bigger win rate than I did in NLHE because the games were so weak. I'd say just try some new games out and see what you like and where you find the weak players. It's a fun change from just playing NLHE also.
 
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The player pool is smaller with all the U.S. fish out of the game. Most fish are just not interested enough to find a game not restricted by stupidness.
 
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weakest game is difficult to define, but if you mean sustainable win rate?
then i think it goes kinda like this :
1. mtt
2. hu sng(deep or other non standard high edge formats)
3. sngs(full ring turbo/super/hyper or low edge formats)
4. cash
 
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you do have sky poker, william hill poker and 888 poker as well.

all of which are far worse than pokerstars
 
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Thanks guys for all the answers.

What I ment with weak games is that in the past the game used to be a lot looser and a lot less aggressive. You could easilly steamroll over fish with playing a simple TAG game. It was valuebet all day every day.

From my limited experience this time around (around 30k hands so far). I've noticed that simple ABC might not be enough. And tbh I'd rather learn solid omaha and play it against weak players than trade blinds in NLHE. I guess that would also mean sustainable win rate.
 
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