After Jagsti mentioned how relaxing it is to play the micros, I played some 1c/2c yesterday. I played 92/80 and lost $21 in like 100 hands.
And I didn't find it relaxing at all. The fact that people called my triple barrels with bottom pair right after I had sat down (i.e. with no way of knowing how much of a maniac I am) just tilted me out of my mind.
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And I'm not even kidding. The money involved really shouldn't matter to me, but it made so angry how you cannot make them fold anything. So I started making my opening raise sizes anywhere between 20c and 40c. I got action pretty much every time. I was so longing to flop second pair so I could valuetown them to death, but I never flopped anything. Then, when I finally had AA, of course I got called for 30c preflop by one player. But then he folded to my c-bet! Like wtf. C-bet success up until that point had been 18%. I mean wtf.
Then I shoved Q5s for $5 (250 big blinds) over someone's preflop raise. He called me with A7o and I sucked out. Yay! This gave me new confidence. Then this happened:
I open-raised QTo to $0.40 (20 big blinds) and got called by both blinds. The flop came:
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5
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SB checks, BB bets $0.20 into $1.20. I had top pair good kicker, i.e. the nuts, so I raised to $1. Now the SB called and the BB shoved for $3.32. I had not been very aggro postflop (obviously, cause they called everything and I never had anything), so I figured my hand can't be good. I folded, and the SB insta-called it off.
SB showed 5h Ah (a pair of Fives) and won $7.66 ($4.33 net)
BB showed 2h Ks (a pair of Twos) and lost (-$3.33 net)
So yeah. Second pair and third pair, but excellent kickers. After this I concluded that beating these stakes for 90ptBB must be a piece of cake if you play 15/10 and open-raise to 20 big blinds every time. Of course, I wanted to play loose as hell, so I gave up.