Grinding 25nl

All of you grinding 25nl, what is your approach? I started 2 weeks ago with $500 and am currently at $1100. I grind 8k hands a day at 9max on FTP, mostly for the rakeback. By doing this, Im hoping to move up to 50nl next month.

Keep it real bro , nice work

My approach is as follows:

I started one month ago with $550 and am currently at $860. I grind 5k hands a week if I'm lucky at 9max on PS, mostly because of the allure of exchanging my FPPs for free T-shirts. By doing this, I'm hoping to move up to 50NL before my 30th birthday in 2009 and ingratiate myself with the Salvation Army by giving them a lot of T-shirts.

what do you mean "whats your approach"

everyone grinding nl 25 has the same approach, they are multi tabling nits feeding off worst players and rakeback until they can move up and maybe later eventually improve their game after hitting a wall or quit poker because they blame the games. and some will have the occasional luckbox and become rich

my approach as follows, lose BIs at 25nl, cry in a blogpost, grind 5nl, grind 10nl, lose 20 BIs at 25nl, rinse, repeat

8k hands a day is monstrously awesome. If you want to do more than tread water at NL50 however you need to incorporate 4 tabling sessions as well at 6max :D

lol no 50nl is easily crushable with 9tabling skillz

On July 22 2008 02:35 Loco wrote: everyone grinding nl 25 has the same approach, they are multi tabling nits feeding off worst players and rakeback until they can move up and maybe later eventually improve their game after hitting a wall or quit poker because they blame the games. and some will have the occasional luckbox and become rich

:O truth.
I am hitting that wall hard.

On July 22 2008 03:44 Silver)Z( wrote: Show nested quote + On July 22 2008 02:35 Loco wrote: everyone grinding nl 25 has the same approach, they are multi tabling nits feeding off worst players and rakeback until they can move up and maybe later eventually improve their game after hitting a wall or quit poker because they blame the games. and some will have the occasional luckbox and become rich :O truth. I am hitting that wall hard.

you're evantair? hi

i dropped down about 3 days ago, ive gotten in about 5k hands nd am up about 300$, its so simple all you need to do is play somewhat nitty, and make good value bets

I dont think I've ever played 8k hands in a single day

6 tables find out who is overaggressive (make strategy vs overaggressive), who is loose passive (value town), who is weak tight (bluff until getting reraised). I guess thats how most of ur opponments are gonna play.. Figure that out then u can -> 24 tables = success

nl50 full ring is about 6 times more difficult than nl25 full ring

On July 22 2008 09:45 Roald wrote: nl50 full ring is about 6 times more difficult than nl25 full ring

coz you won't get paid so often

yeah and people play aggressively way more often. At nl25 you can make good money just aggressively value betting your big hands and showing down weaker hands cheaply. NL50, people will not call those 2nd and 3rd value barrels and will start punishing you for trying to show down cheaply. Position is immeasurably more important as you move up

nice brag post flibber

6 tables of 6 max, play LAG and own peoples souls, pretty standard.

Thanks for the replies guys. I guess my main question was how you guys are doing at 25nl. Are you crushing the limit? If so, how are you doing it?

On July 22 2008 10:46 gdlucksir wrote: 6 tables of 6 max, play LAG and own peoples souls, pretty standard.

.. yea and im sure your gonna be stuck at .10 .25 for a long time trying to play like CTS.
Just play solid tight aggressive poker. The lower limits arent about winning a bunch of money before showdown, its about having the best hand the most times at showdown.

I think most of you at microstakes grossly assume that you can't play lag profitably at microstakes because in all actuality you lack the skills to do it as a general group and assume it isn't possible when in reality the more hands you can play profitably with the fish the more your winrate can reach it's maximum capacity.

Crown. Of course, if a good midstakes player came down to micro and played lag they would crush the limits.. But the simple truth is, if your playing micro stakes, and you didnt suffer financial issues like Day(9), your more than likely learning the game, and you do not have the post flop ability nor the hand reading skills to play lag profitably.

im playing 25nl omaha...such a blast

On July 22 2008 02:35 Loco wrote: what do you mean "whats your approach" everyone grinding nl 25 has the same approach, they are multi tabling nits feeding off worst players and rakeback until they can move up and maybe later eventually improve their game after hitting a wall or quit poker because they blame the games. and some will have the occasional luckbox and become rich

wtf STOP STALKING ME

hahaha

i don't find a lag style being too profitable at micro stakes FR.
even midstakes grinders like wcgrider didn't exactly crush 25nl, not saying he's a super lag or anything but still

i grinded 25NL fr and went from 500 to almost 1100 over the course of 10k odd hands. It was the first time I took online poker seriously, being a pretty consistant winner at live cash games. Any relatively decent player can beat 25NL, you just have to eliminate some bad tendencies. You have to assure that you don't get too spewy(a problem I had early on) which is why TAG style is much more fitting for a relatively unskilled player at 25NL. To play LAG down here you have to be good enough to know the difference between good LAG play and spewing chips. Also, you have to eliminate the hero calling at this stake and just make the high percentage plays and put yourself in good spots. It sounds basic, but just thinking about it in this sense helped alot: try your best to play in a way that you leave yourself in a position to make the hands that you beat call you while losing the minimum when you assume you may not have the best of it. There's so many opportunities to outplay these donks that you really don't have to put yourself in marginal spots all too often.

Oh and if you get 4bet when u have QQ, fucking fold

Stop showing off FLiP. We all know your a ><>

LoL....this is Chris bTw. Looks like LP will be my new poker posting forum. Someone needs to teach me how to post my hands on here....you guys should get a kick out of my misfortune. Praise the rakeback gods.