Thoughts on Microstakes

pretty cool red line for nl2 lol

I didn't know you started a blog here.

GL

lol wat a donk nj man

On December 24 2009 23:18 hellokittery wrote: pretty cool red line for nl2 lol

I wish I had a cool blue line too =(

go c avatar man wtf is wrong with u

Happy Christmas! With your thinking you seem like one of those newbies who will definitely get to stakes that you can comfortably live off.

you win without showdown. Seems like your not a nit

i see potential

On December 24 2009 23:44 Acckerman wrote: go c avatar man wtf is wrong with u

I know I know x(
I'll take 4 BI and go see it on the 26th. sheeesh.

On December 25 2009 00:06 Oly wrote: Happy Christmas! With your thinking you seem like one of those newbies who will definitely get to stakes that you can comfortably live off.

Merry Christmas to you too! And thanks for the vote of confidence haha. The transition between live poker and online poker was VERY difficult and it's so different! I'm hoping I'll be a better poker player in general as I keep improving my poker game.

On December 25 2009 00:26 traxamillion wrote: you win without showdown. Seems like your not a nit i see potential

I feel like my showdown graph should(/could) be higher though, especially since I'm playing a pretty tight preflop game. Any comments?

Calling too much when you're beat? It would make the redline up and blueline down..

On December 25 2009 02:03 mikeymoo wrote: Calling too much when you're beat? It would make the redline up and blueline down..

not that i would be good enough to give any advice, but that was one of my biggest leaks, and since i worked on it, i dont have that fancy redline anymore (not as fancy as before ) but i finally have a somehow ok blueline so i think ur right

Hmm Mikeymoo I think it's my c-bets/not folding to flushes or sets when i hit top pair when I'm holding AK. At NL2 I usually assume they're calling me down with a worse kicker or their stacks sizes are so small that their over-the-top raise is usually a minraise or so and I can't fold that.

And I can't really apply this:

http://archives1.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Number=10397012

to microstakes... Dx

I can usually, in live cash games, put people on a hand or range of hands and I'm finding it really difficult to do the same online, especially while multitabling. Any suggestions?

I made the assumption that you were using the HUD from HEM when you said you had it, but I remember it was slightly complicated to get it working so maybe you aren't using the HUD. I suggest you set it up if you don't have it running already. I know there are players that don't use a HUD and can keep track of what kind of players are sitting at there tables, but for a beginner like me the HUD helps a lot. The stats from the HUD help immensely with hand ranges. If you look at your own VPIP, it can give you a good idea of what kinds of cards that other players with similar stats play. Then you can adjust up and down for higher and lower VPIP's. At least that's how I do it.

A tip for the HEM trial. I've been using the HEM trial for well over a month. I have the luxury of keeping my computer on 24/7 and I just haven't closed down HEM since the day it expired. I don't know if you can still start up HEM after the trial is expired but it keeps working if you never close it. I'll probably eventually buy it, but I'm not going to pay 90% of my bankroll for it just yet!

use pt3 until u can afford to actually buy it. give u another 3 months freerolling a hud. gl and nice redline man

only 4xbb for setmining ? You know there's somewhat another way to chase sets : just don't fear to call any raise up to his stake / 10 (8 to be exact) Assuming your opponent is likely to get allin.
At least that's what i'm doing, except that sometimes when i know some of them isn't likely to get his entire stack in i don't call 5xbb or something unless i've good odds obv.

Feel free to correct me.

On December 25 2009 02:03 mikeymoo wrote: Calling too much when you're beat? It would make the redline up and blueline down..

calling too much would only make your blue line go down, unless ur taking it away on later streets.

On December 26 2009 20:22 RaiZ wrote: only 4xbb for setmining ? You know there's somewhat another way to chase sets : just don't fear to call any raise up to his stake / 10 (8 to be exact) Assuming your opponent is likely to get allin. At least that's what i'm doing, except that sometimes when i know some of them isn't likely to get his entire stack in i don't call 5xbb or something unless i've good odds obv. Feel free to correct me.

Hmm...I don't think this is entirely true. Not every hand you catch a set, they'll likely be willing to put it all in for you. Even supposing they have AK, if its a low board and you catch a set, I hardly think they'll shove or call a shove.



Also, I've just been finding places where the board shows major draws or full house opportunities and a light check raise usually takes the pot down if they've been betting something like top pair. Also, if I raise preflop with premium cards I usually raise 5x and a c-bet more often than not also drags the pot down.

An impressive NL2 graph. Keep up the good work.