Low stakes tournaments sure don't feel like real poker

[dgroes]

more likely players barging in super aggro because of low stakes.

 

[Pokerpoet2]

What I try to remember is, what are deemed to be low stakes by one player, could be a daily wage to another player from a different Country, buying into a game for $3 or $5 for an American, won't even be minimum hourly rate, but for a person playing from a 3rd World Country it could be more than a daily wage rate.
I play low stake Poker for several reason's:-

1. I think most important is the fact that if there are any scammers out there, they are not going to run a scam on a low stake game, it just would not be profitable for them.

2. I feel comfortable playing low stakes, and don't mind blowing off a few Dollars, now and again if I am feeling that way inclined.

3. Poker is Poker and it doesn't matter what buy-in you pay, you will still get good and bad players on-line, and just as many as you get in Live games.

4. Poker is a fun game, and only becomes gambling when you lose lots of money you cannot afford to lose.

I am not a Gambler, I enjoy playing Poker for any stake I am willing to lose, On-line it could be for 1% of my bankroll or sometimes even less, and in a casino where I can see and sometimes read my opponents I may risk a little more. But it is never more than I am willing to lose. Poker is real in all it's different forms and formats even playing for matchsticks in a home game with family and friends, It is a real game with real outcomes, Good players will win, the Poor players will lose, (at least most of the time).
Sometimes Poor players get lucky, and that is what makes the game attractive and fun.

When the fun Stops, STOP!

 

[bertaS1234]

If you play poker, it is important to understand the differences between tournaments due to buy-in. Expensive tournaments are often played by professionals and the game there is serious. Cheap tournaments have a place for fun.

 

[arsenalcho_1]

hi

these low-stakes and freerolls have nothing to do with real poker. What you "eat, watch and learn from better players, you can't use in free tournaments, because there they do what they want and there is no logic, and if you ask them why they did exactly that, they will not answer you at this very moment. nothing meaningful

 

[Decades]

I think the low stakes and freeroll tournaments have less to do with real Poker, because the Players Play every Bad cards and the moves aren‘t very comprehensible for you. The problem is, you have nothing or low buy-ins to lose, so the Players go all-in and See what will Happening

 

[theANMATOR]

I also cant help but feel, that statements like those of OP are somewhat exaggerated. Maybe they would fit some 50c or 1$ tournaments, but OP talk about up to 20$ tournaments. And where do people play, that they find such soft tournaments at that level? It frankly sounds to good to be true.

From my experience on 888 Poker 20$ tournaments are mostly played by fairly good players. If I look some of the opponents up on SharkScope, they have a profile, which makes me assume, they are probably professional players playing on multible sites with buyins up to maybe 109$ or more.

To be brutally honest there are many players in these tournaments, who are better and more experienced than me. I am probably a "bad reg" to them. And as for the COVID-19 induced poker boom, that is largely over. Volume on online poker sites are pretty much back at, where it was before the lockdowns.

Maybe OP should consider limit holdem instead ?