Do you have any advice for table selection?
If you start moving up the stakes without constructing ranges you'll face a steeper learning curve and end up losing a lot more while you work on constructing these ranges.
on higher stakes good constructed ranges are important, but nl2, nl5? some time ago when I started to experiment with balanced 3bet, 4bet, cold call ranges, defending ranges vs 3 bet I just started to earn much less money. Why? because people there are so tight preflop, postflop that most of the actions just don't work. and I don't blame them for that because good tight strategy is actually working pretty well. You will say that everything is about adjust and we create ranges vs unknown players and not being much exploitable. Ok, but who cares about being unexploitable on micro if you can earn more by playing not balanced at all. You can create 3bet, call ranges but many times your 3bets, calls will not be maximum EV plays because many calling stations, "allin guys", nits, even rake is important factor. And your hand which is actually in your created call range won't be the best option to call, because on micro there are too many different players that it would be better to 3bet it or just fold. And people follow those ranges without thinking that maybe it would be better to fold a hand. For micro players when they are not so much expierenced it would be better to play less tables and focus on every decision. And think if that hand should be in call, 3bet or maybe fold in particular situation. It's hard but it learns people to actually play poker with cheap cost.
When you start your poker career then created ranges can kill your thinking aspect. It's not about opening ranges because they are pretty important. That's what you can create.
You have to have some structure to what you play at every level, ranges provide this structure. And your problems with 3betting are more likely to be because of you weren't understanding that at the low stakes you can't play those type os plays against fish because they simply won't fold any marginal hand. Even at the lowest stakes you need to make opening ranges and several of the more common range ranges or you simply will never gain much traction. Now that goes to say you shouldn't be using the more complex play ranges (3betting, cold calling, 4bet etc.) because theses plays are mainly useless in the micros. For you specifically I'd suggest looking into how fish play and fancy play syndrome which is basically when you try to play above your skill level and suffer some big losses against people that just won't fold to those plays. That might help your struggles with losing so much in the micros.
I don't know why do you think that i'm a losing player on micros. I only said that exploative style brings me more money than using created ranges. Becuse with created ranges I missed a lot of things because players on micro are really different and often we play with them once a life. Of course there are micro regs but best thing to do to make your winrate bigger is avoid to play with them too much. This is not only my opinion. Me and my friends from poker group worked a lot on ranges and compared things in our database. And there was always a problem when we started to complicate things and play like we would play from nl10+. There are more important things about how to crash nl2, nl5 than following created ranges. They are helpful but micro players should learn how to think in poker because it's a better lesson than create preflop ranges and not making best +ev decisions and find yourself in many complicated spots.
My bad you kept talking bout losing a lot of money which I thought meant you were losing. But what you said about complicating things is literally the exact same thing I said which if you read my argument I said that you need ranges to structure your play at the micros because of how others play. If you play a set of ranges you maximize the change that you'll be making +EV plays on every street. Basically you'll just saying them same thing I am with different words :laugh: