8 Rules for Crushing Microstakes Cash Games

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to everyone in this thread.

 

[lukaszkrzi]

Leave the table or have regular breaks.
Play in position
if players are tight steal blinds
if the yare aggressive play TG or just leave table.
don't play with all your money
if you have big stack just leave before its washed away when you start loosing and don't be to ****y with trying to play all hands.

 

[billswafford88]

hi im new to cardschat and trying to get better at cash games. currently i can rin deep in mtts and win sngs most of the time. i wouldnt consider myself a beginner, more of a hobbyist trying to make poker into a full time gig. i primarily play on bovada and i have much respect for the site and how its ran even after so many blogs ive read and facebook posts in a couple forums im in about possible rigging. i dont believe this to be true. what im trying to learn is how to be a more profitable cash game player due to the times spent in mtts and sngs not paying up to par. ive came in first in a few mtts and i spend most of my time on sngs stacking my br. any advice to me on how to be a better cash player overall? for those of u that tend to do well in both, which of the two do u tighten up more for? and why?

 

[Stalfos]

Useful tips and good reminders thanks.

 

[BentleyBoy]

Great thread. I read these tips somewhere else recently and have to agree that they are generally solid tips, and the additional advice that follows all kind of rings true when you replay in your head, or actually sit at the tables of these games and you can see the benefit of them all. I guess the plan of action is to ensure that you put these tips into play and make sure you get the benefits from them. I particularly like the proposal to stop playing if things are going bad (don't chase your losses) and keep grinding when things are going well......at all other costs ( you will notice when the game shifts against you at which time you should walk away.

 

[BogdanStark]

The list is very helpful. Especially the third barrel of a bluff. Very often, it carts me. As well as calling flush and straight draw on the turn. To tell more precisely, you need carefully calculate the odds.

 

[Lostmyhouse]

SUX, but sometimes you just have to give them credit, and that's better than giving them cash. You can't put fish on a range reliably because they will do some of the damnedest things for some of the most bizarre reasons. I had a similar situation come up. Raised from an early position with pocket aces, and got a call from the button. Flopped ( 9, 9, 2 -rainbow) and felt pretty good about it. Turn brings nothing special, nothing threatening, and this fish bangs it all in, and had me covered. I gave him credit for the nine, and folded. He slams down pocket deuces and curses his bad luck in not getting paid. The player next to him asked why he'd call with that, and he said he always played pocket deuces to the river.

I doubted that since his call was slightly +EV. Later on, he did it again, and the next time he called pocket deuces all the way; it wasn't +EV at all that time. He really did play every pocket deuces all the way, come hell or high water. Maybe he "thought" they were lucky? They'll show down beats with the one hand you couldn't ever put them on if they were the least bit rational. Maybe he had his "lucky" card? Who knows?

Who knows why that fish stuck 1/4 of his stack in there on pocket treys? Fish certainly aren't considering SPR, or anything else: they think "range" is an appliance you cook on or where cowboys work, and "equity" has something to do with real estate. They don't know, they're not paying the least bit of attention, they don't care.

How much does this cost: https://youtu.be/RAo24ENlQR4? It's a free download. Last weekend, it cost this fish in my game $800. When he was out, this is what he was doing instead of paying attention to the game. He actually was concentrating on Candy Crush Soda more than on playing Poker!

Don't ask me why they do this: I can't explain it.



That's something you need to work on, and it's a part of tilt control. Patience is a virtue, and well worth cultivating. Learn to see stretches of card deadness as a blessing in disguise. When better to study your opposition while you're sitting out pots? That's when you want to get a line on their play. It's not easy, and why do you think most poker rooms have all those TV sets going, showing the "bog game" (whatever it might be) all the while they're open for business? To keep the clueless fish distracted between hands, of course.

Learn how to read one table well before muiti-tabling.

Maybe its because 22 are so small so other player wont expect you to have it so when you have it they don't expect you to have it and therfore 22 becomes more powerful than AA.

 

[Drtanner]

thanks for the tips tried them and failed theres always next game

 

[deceptionist99]

?? Oh boy I'm loosing brain cells reading some of these post throughout card chat

 

[pokervike]

End up in the 'joker to the left and clowns to the right' situations in a 3-4 way pot. with JJ or better FIRE off the first round when action comes to you no matter what the board is.
AT&T are always getting dealt into micros and sleep better when they call, call, call. Reads get harder when the only action is calling from two or more players so extend your read to action on the flop.

3b pre has become the crack of poor to downright bad micro play adjust accordingly while trying to organize bet sizing on the river.

 

[ViresIntus]

Good points, I like your "Dont try to win every hand". I began playing a different strategy this past month and I have already started folding premium hands more often because Im reading the table better. Most who would get AK QJ or even AA would go all in or make large bets, but unless you hit it on the flop, good luck on the turn and river. Im saving more chips just by knowing that even my premium hands can lose to the big dog at the table.

 

[SnowedIn]

Good points, I like your "Dont try to win every hand". I began playing a different strategy this past month and I have already started folding premium hands more often because Im reading the table better. Most who would get AK QJ or even AA would go all in or make large bets, but unless you hit it on the flop, good luck on the turn and river. Im saving more chips just by knowing that even my premium hands can lose to the big dog at the table.

so you're not happy to go all in or make large bets with AA pre...

 

[Udeeera]

6. Don’t try and win every hand

Yesterday i'm finished 3rd in a freeroll with 5k players and on one hand i've fold KK p-flop because the villain was very tight and on UTG raises 5x.

 

[Justin Bloomquist]

I will try this and see if it works for me.

 

[pauloandre100]

Nice tips, ty for sharing. It is always good to remember these points that you have described.

 

[inflmara]

thanks, I will take it to heart

 

[NoETdrizzle]

Look for ways to tilt your opponents at the microstakes and make them into a spewing ATM.

 

[NeoBandit]

What i have learned playing micro stakes poker

I play a lot of micro poker everyday. People at these stakes don't know much about poker and most if they have a pair will not fold. If you don't have top pair with good kicker "better if you have two pair or better" don't continue. I get beat consistently with top pair when villain catches second pair on the river calling with bottom pair from flop. I believe if you don't get to wild with betting play good poker if you don't get a good hand don't continue, I learned this the hard way. don't try to bluff these guys cause you can't bluff people who don't understand what your even doing. If you want to beat micros you got to play very sound poker. you can't bluff these guys and can't win with mid pair you need to realize that these are beginners and don't understand the fundamentals or even think past the fact that they are beat. they don't bluff if they have AA they will go all in because hey can't understand they can be beat. same thing with KK. don't underestimate these players they will make you pull your hair out with their dumb luck. I you don't get a handle on your own poker skills and understand that you need to play good sound fundamental poker than you will be the "fish" at the table. Most likely these people haven't read a book or studied poker. Never been to a forum. All they have seen is wsop on tv or youtube and that is where they get their idea of what poker is about. Please Don't Underestimate these fish. Become better to beat them. Work on your own game, study, look over your past hands and learn from them. These fish can cost you your bankroll. they do not know what poker really is and will do weird stuff. I go over my hands every morning using equilabs to find out what i did wrong and right. you will learn so much by looking at your hands and studying reading books and the like.
good luck guys and go fishing

 

[Gambit123]

My tip what helps me from being a break even to winning at mircos.
Be a bit more looser then the rest.

Lag is most profitable in cash games.But forget about styles . Just a bit looser with position awareness and there's your edge Vs nits / tight players.