**Official Micro Stakes Madness 5NL,10NL,25NL Focus Group**

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eNTy said:
Just depressing that half of my poker career is this run bad/lose money stuff.
that's why I'm thinking of quitting, if I can't handle this stuff and spew off more money there's no point you know.
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Another idea like Stu's ... take on a new game at baby stakes. )5 and 10nl were making me sad so I switched to 02 PLO8 and fell in love. Now I am up to 05 and 10 PLO8 and hardly play NLHE.. I bet when I come back I will remember why I liked it.

cAPS
 
Getting hand histories from all poker sites?

I’m a regular at the following sites:
PokerStars
Party Poker (Just started)
Titan Poker
Pacific Poker

Now PokerStars obviously saves all my HH to my HD as does Party Poker I’ve just discovered. Importing these to PT3 has given me no problems so far.

Titan Poker – Saves my HH as .xml files to my HD which is useless
Pacific Poker – provides no HH at all.

I just wanted to hear from you guys before I contact the customer service departments for both of the above. Not that I’m using PT3 I would much rather only play on sites that I can import my HH to PT3.

Has anyone used/played Titan or Pacific and got around the problem I’m facing at the moment?

Any suggestions?

Keen to hear back
Cheers
 
dg1267 said:
Second, is there a reason why I'm coming in so far below EV?
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im going to go out on a limb and guess, luck??? 😛

cAPSLOCK said:
Another idea like Stu's ... take on a new game at baby stakes. )5 and 10nl were making me sad so I switched to 02 PLO8 and fell in love. Now I am up to 05 and 10 PLO8 and hardly play NLHE.. I bet when I come back I will remember why I liked it.

cAPS
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fwiw if you ever want any hand review orsession reviews for o8 get in touch with me
 
im going to go out on a limb and guess, luck??? 😛
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I'm confused??? Is being below EV a good thing? I was thinking it was a bad thing. It sounds like a bad thing. LOL
 
Okay, I think I found my biggest problem. I started letting more hands go where it really wasn't clear that I was beat, but the villain was trying to help me make the decision to fold. Doing so resulted in this at the end of my day...😀😀😀 Can you tell where I changed my plan?
 

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dg1267 said:
I always forget to post that. It's 5/10NL 6max.
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Actually it's 0.05/0.1 nl 6max or 10nl.
5/10 would mean you're playing with $1000 stacks and $10 blinds. 🙂
 
I think all this madness about betting ranges is useless to micro players. If you consider how people think at a microstakes table, overbetting can only be used as a means to gain more from a better hand. If a player is willing to call a raise of 3 blinds (being 1 blind to call and 2 more on top), they're are going to call a raise of 4 or 5 blinds anyway. This defeats the purpose of the bet unless you have aces really.
 
MATelford said:
I think all this madness about betting ranges is useless to micro players. If you consider how people think at a microstakes table, overbetting can only be used as a means to gain more from a better hand. If a player is willing to call a raise of 3 blinds (being 1 blind to call and 2 more on top), they're are going to call a raise of 4 or 5 blinds anyway. This defeats the purpose of the bet unless you have aces really.
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so your only playing AA at microstakes?
 
eNTy said:
Actually it's 0.05/0.1 nl 6max or 10nl.
5/10 would mean you're playing with $1000 stacks and $10 blinds. 🙂
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Ugh! I knew that! And on UB, the .05/.10 games are a $20 buy in. Do I still call it 10NL?

On another note, I only suck at poker every other day! So from now on, I'm only playing every other day when I don't suck. Here's my schedule so far this month..

-down 2.5 bi
-up 7.5 bi
-down 3 bi
-up 2.5 bi
-today already down 1.5 bi😡😡😡
 
Jurn8 said:
so your only playing AA at microstakes?
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No. Im saying I would overbet ONLY if I had aces, most of the time I wouldnt even bother.

If you overbet with ANY other hands you could get in trouble. eg. KK raise 5 blinds against a donkey. They hold Ace Queen suited. They definetely dont think, "ok this guys raised it 5 blinds instead of 3, this is too much to call". They will call and if an ace rolls over and your out of position, you could bet and get raised, be bluffed of your kings or check and let the guy make a set! If I bet 3 blinds, they call and i can check fold alot easier right there. :deal:
 
MATelford said:
No. Im saying I would overbet ONLY if I had aces, most of the time I wouldnt even bother.

If you overbet with ANY other hands you could get in trouble. eg. KK raise 5 blinds against a donkey. They hold Ace Queen suited. They definetely dont think, "ok this guys raised it 5 blinds instead of 3, this is too much to call". They will call and if an ace rolls over and your out of position, you could bet and get raised, be bluffed of your kings or check and let the guy make a set! If I bet 3 blinds, they call and i can check fold alot easier right there. :deal:
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why dont you just make a standard 4x/3x raise whatever your hand then villian has no idea when you have a monster. If you raise 5x when you have a monster villian knows you have a monster and can just chuck their hand if they pick up on it.
 
dg1267 said:
Ugh! I knew that! And on UB, the .05/.10 games are a $20 buy in. Do I still call it 10NL?
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Yes, it's just a 10nl table where you can buy in deep for 200BB.

MATelford said:
No. Im saying I would overbet ONLY if I had aces, most of the time I wouldnt even bother.

If you overbet with ANY other hands you could get in trouble. eg. KK raise 5 blinds against a donkey. They hold Ace Queen suited. They definetely dont think, "ok this guys raised it 5 blinds instead of 3, this is too much to call". They will call and if an ace rolls over and your out of position, you could bet and get raised, be bluffed of your kings or check and let the guy make a set! If I bet 3 blinds, they call and i can check fold alot easier right there. :deal:
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That's flawed logic. You actually want to get it in vs AQ with KK since he only has about 3 outs.

If you really want to mix it up, do it good and also overbet with weak hands if they always put you on a monster if you overbet. That's what mixing it up is all about, confusing your opponents.
 
complete rubbish! a mean come on, is this guy for real? overbet with weak hands? you want AQ to play you against your KK's? Fair enough your big favourite there but thats the thing. Alot of players will just get in trouble there. The more bull**** you try, the more chance you have of going bust bigstyle. Especially against good players. Come on??? "overbet weak hands" wat a load of **** What exactly do you consider a weak hand? 10 9 certainly isnt.
 
TBH with you MAT, you haven't got a clue what your talking about. Your logic is completely flawed.
 
Hehe.. now *I'm* getting some serious reads.

FWIW I will get in as much trouble with KK vs AQ as many times as I possibly can.

Technically hand ranges still apply at mini micros. The point is your opponent is more likely to have a gigantic range at all positions than at higher stakes.

There are several ways to counter this. Raising weak hands is one legitimate one. As is limping and trapping, and just playing solid ABC. Try mixing all THAT up for a good style at the micros IMO.
 
MATelford said:
complete rubbish! a mean come on, is this guy for real? overbet with weak hands? you want AQ to play you against your KK's? Fair enough your big favourite there but thats the thing. Alot of players will just get in trouble there. The more bull**** you try, the more chance you have of going bust bigstyle. Especially against good players. Come on??? "overbet weak hands" wat a load of **** What exactly do you consider a weak hand? 10 9 certainly isnt.
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LMAO.....LOL.....LOLZ.....OMG!!!!!@!!!

Enty, you are a donk, my man!
 
Okay - looks like I need some help on table selection lol. I got lucky last night and found 2 tables where the players were like putty in my hands and that was fun. I ended up 1 BI up at each table ($25NL). I need to learn how to seek these people out.

I guess I need to make my decision on PT or HEM soon. I dread the set-up so bad I just can't bring myself to do it. 🙁

Anyway - if I am not following the flow here in this thread I apologize - but I need to catch up on it after being gone a week. I wasn't playing too much cash before I left but plan on digging in now. So hopefully I will be spending some time in here with you guys. 🙂
 
Dak, just look for the tables that have a 50% or better rate of players in the hands. This is usually a good sign. I like to look for tables with that and a big money % also.

Edit: Or, you can go "here"

(I got it but deleted the link 😛 , dakota)
 
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