How To Beat Micro Poker?

6. Set a Bankroll Management Plan and Stick to It – This might be the most important tip of all since it’s hard to play poker without any money. Beginners will have goals that are much different than experienced players who are just trying to rebuild a bankroll fast,

However, no matter your level, if you don’t follow good bankroll management principles you are in for a lot of frustration. I recommend that you have at least 30 buy-ins for a cash game stake and 100 buy-ins for tournaments. It will be really tempting to try to chase losses if you happen to run bad for an extended period of time, especially if you are playing for what may seem like “insignificant” amounts of money.

Even so, at the micros, you are going to be building habits that will last for your entire poker career. If you tempt fate with your risk of ruin now, you will probably do so later on when you are playing pots that are hundreds or thousands of dollars.
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Are micro stakes beatable?

While microstakes is certainly difficult, it is still beatable.
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Should you bluff at micro stakes?

How to Bluff the Fish – However, first I want to be really clear about something. If you are table selecting properly at these stakes (a horse that I have beaten to death on this blog, in my books and elsewhere) then you should be running into a whole bunch of other bad regs who are calling stations and who you should not be bluffing very often.

They will have stats that look something like this: Full Ring: 13/10/2 WTSD 27% 6max: 19/16/2 WTSD 27% As you can see the WTSD% is the crucial stat here once again. Even though this player type is only going to showdown 5% more often than their TAGfish counterpart this is actually a huge relative difference.

Every session we all face many close decisions on the later streets. Some regs just won’t fold their small over pair, top pair or even their middle pair though. On the other hand, plenty of the weaker TAGfish regs frequently fold all of these hands. This is where most of this 5% difference comes from.

1. You don’t want to be bluffing these calling station regs very often whose WTSD% is in the high 20’s.
2. Players who are in the low 20’s though should be a prime target.
3. By the way, this is something that I talk about in much more detail in my new poker strategy book, Modern Small Stakes.
4. In fact the reason I wrote that book is to create the most comprehensive guide to player types ever created.

If you are table selecting well then you should also be playing with plenty of the standard SLPs (semi-loose passive) and fish at these stakes. These players of course don’t fold anything at all. They will have stats that look something like this (Full Ring or 6max): SLP: 27/8/1 WTSD 29% Fish: 52/8/1 WTSD 33% You are simply not going to turn a profit trying to run a big bluff against either of these player types.

1. You should almost never try to bluff these players on the later streets.
2. It is often simply winrate suicide because they will call you down with any piece, even no pair hands on occasion.
3. So therefore, when bluffing at the micros, we should be squarely focused on the weak TAGfish regs who do not go to showdown very often.

Let’s go through a couple examples of how this will work in practice:
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Why can’t i beat microstakes poker?

6. Fast-play most of your strong hands – The overwhelming majority of micro-stakes players are way too passive, This means you won’t win a big pot by trying to trap them—you have to build the pot yourself. So, when you pick up your over pair, top pair, or any other strong hand, you need to keep betting at the pot until you have a clear reason to slow down.

The key thing to remember about the passive, recreational players is that they hate folding and love calling. In fact, one of the greatest thrills for recreational players is to catch you in a big bluff. They are also highly superstitious players who hold a deep belief that everyone is always trying to bluff them.

So how do you profitably counter someone who thinks like this? Answer: You bet big, and frequently, with all of your good hands. And you lay off on the big bluffs in all but the best of spots.
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How do you dominate Microstakes?

How to Dominate Micro Stakes Poker: Table and Seat Selection – The saying goes that there is no point in being the sixth best poker player in the world if you are only going to sit at the same table as the top five players. While there are merits to playing against opponents better skilled than you, for the most part you want to play against opponents who are weaker.
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What is the 2 7 rule in poker?

Showdown – Determining the Winner – The player with the best five-card 2-7 hand wins the pot. After the pot is awarded to the best hand, a new game of 2-7 Triple Draw is ready to be played. If two or more hands have the same value, the pot is equally split among them.
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Should you ever fold preflop?

When to Fold Before the Flop – In Texas Hold’em, the best poker players fold 75 percent or more of all starting hands before the betting even begins. A fundamentally sound preflop strategy sets you up for success in all subsequent betting rounds. Even the loosest preflop players (if they’re winning players) fold before the flop around 70 percent of the time.

To figure out when to fold before the flop, you need to establish a set of hand ranges that you’re willing to play from each position at the poker table. Hand range charts (like the Upswing Poker free preflop charts ) represent the best way to establish a solid preflop strategy. Preflop hand range charts dictate what hands to open raise with from each position, as well as which hands to call or raise with against a player who has bet before you get to act.

A good starting hand chart will have you doing a lot of folding preflop. A good preflop strategy involves playing tighter in early position, then adding more starting hands to your range in the later positions. Premium hands, like pocket aces, kings, queens, and ace-king, can be open raised from any position.
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Can you make money on micro stakes?

How Much Do Online Poker Players Make? – Before I get started let me talk about how much online poker players make. This can run the gamut from 0$ to millions and millions of dollars a year. It is important to keep in mind though that most poker players actually lose money over the long run after the rake is taken out and they lose to the better players. Yes, that is over 44k just at the lower stakes. And yes, I had to play an incredible amount of hands to make this but it should hopefully show you what is possible nonetheless. If you want to make the real big money in poker you have to play higher limits. But you can still make a ton by playing a lot of tables and specializing in the micro stakes like I do.
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What is a good ROI for MTT poker?

If you’re a seasoned multi-table tournament (MTT) player, you likely keep track of your progress using ROI (return on investment). This is particularly true in the online environment, where personal tracking software and tournament tracking sites make that number readily available.

• While there’s no doubt that a healthy ROI is both good for the bankroll and says something about a player’s tournament prowess, it’s a rather odd metric, particularly for those who generate part or all of their income from playing MTTs.
• Contrast it, for example, to the hourly rate favored by cash-game players.

That number translates easily into a domestic budget and, for some, the decision to play professionally. There is a natural interest in maximizing this number. In figuring out a strategy to accomplish this goal, it’s first important to note that maximizing ROI will not, in general, maximize your hourly. A good ROI for online tournament players is around 20%. But it’s immediately apparent that a 20% ROI on a $1 tournament is going to be a miserable hourly rate, even with significant multi-tabling. This is, of course, a large part of the motivation to move up in stakes.

The tricky part is maintaining a solid ROI as one does so. We can maximize our ROI by playing in the cheapest MTTs, but that will not maximize our hourly rate. What steps can we take to maximize our hourly beyond getting better at tournament poker? Again, the online realm offers some advantages. The aforementioned multi-tabling is the biggest edge over the live environment.

Given how long it takes many live MTT players to reach a decision, one could argue it would be desirable to multi-table live events, but running in casinos is generally discouraged. It requires some dedicated book-keeping to optimize your hourly rate, and this is complicated by the fact that there are no simple rules that apply to everyone.

1. For example, the increase in hourly rate from multi-tabling isn’t simply additive.
2. It may be you triple your hourly by playing three MTTs simultaneously instead of one, but it’s unlikely you’ll see a twelve-fold increase if you play a dozen at once.
3. At some point, your ROI will take a significant hit, and the number of tables at which that occurs varies from person to person.

As already noted, higher buy-ins tend to have tougher fields, so you also need to find a sweet spot here for your hourly. A complicating factor, more so for live players, is that more expensive tournaments frequently have slower structures and thus consume more time, thereby depressing the hourly relative to a faster structure.

• A related trade-off is that faster tournament structures tend to reduce the impact of skill advantage, so that turbos generate a lower ROI.
• This may all sound rather daunting, and like so much of poker, how you approach the problem and in what detail may well be dominated by quality of life issues as much as anything else.

Hopefully you play poker tournaments because you enjoy them, and already have a sense for those formats in which you are most profitable. But if you’re playing for a living, it is essential that you pay some attention to maximizing your hourly rate. One additional method for doing so was recently brought up in a discussion on our Discord server.

• In the early days of online poker, MTTs had a posted start time, and if you had not registered by that time, you didn’t get to play the tournament.
• Simple, right? The operators of both online poker sites and bricks-and-mortar card rooms look for edges just as enthusiastically as the dedicated player.

Both live and online MTT providers decided that a start time coincident with registration cut-off was not helping their hourly rate at all. All it was doing was preventing potential customers from paying them tournament juice. Tournament late registration and re-entry is now virtually universal, and in some cases seems to me to border on the absurd.

Four hours late registration and re-entry for an online tournament adds appreciably to the length of the event, cutting into our hourly, at least if we play the tournament from the posted start time. The other issue is that some such tournaments allow registration so late that the blind increase has reduced the starting stack to as little as 10bb or less.

While one can argue that 10bb is enough to play push-fold, and that if you do so well it’s a viable approach, it’s also the case that bust-outs mean the average stack is well above the starting one by this stage. It’s true you can view those bust-outs as a sort of monetary overlay, but equally your 10bb stack has a lot lower cash equity than the stacks of the majority of players you’re facing. I have a handful of primary target tournaments for any session. Because start times are staggered and I play on a low-volume site, the only way I can multi-table from the start of my session is to fire up the first target tournament, then late register for anything appealing that is in progress.

• This definitely increases my hourly, with no obvious downside.
• Similarly, when I bust out of a tournament, I’ll usually switch in a new one that is in late registration.
• To push this edge further by frequent and deliberate late registration, you’re again going to have to monitor your results.
• Be particularly aware of how short a starting stack you can play profitably.

My personal feeling is that anything below 20bb is getting a little silly. As noted above, in detail you also need to worry about how much bigger the average stack is when you’re considering leaping in late. One final point. None of this matters if you’re not a winning player.
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What is MTT poker strategy?

What is MTT Poker? – Only around 10% of the field get paid, and only a handful of players win a big prize, in multi table tournaments. As a result MTT strategy is about accumulating chips with a view to getting to the final table, rather than playing to survive and creep into the money.

1. However there are also spots in MTT poker where surviving one extra place could be the difference between you and the biggest pay day of your career, so knowing when to ‘ladder’ is important.
2. MTT strategy also requires you to understand the difference in dynamics between the early, middle and late stages of the tournament, because the chip stacks will differ in each.

You also need to know your relative position in a multi table tournament in order to assess whether you should be taking more risks or bullying those players trying to survive. Mental resilience in MTT poker is also very important because mathematical variance will not allow you to reach every final table.
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Can you exploit GTO poker?

LEARN TO EXPLOIT OTHERS That’s why the GTO poker strategy is not always the best option. This is where exploitative strategy comes into play. You should take your time and learn how to deviate from GTO poker and exploit other players. One way to do that is by having stats on your opponents.
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How do you beat a passive poker player?

April 15, 2015 Editor While good, aggressive opponents can be extremely difficult to play against, passive players sometimes can be equally as frustrating to lock horns with in both tournament poker and cash games. It often seems like these so-called “calling stations” are impossible to shake from a pot and that they suck out with a weird two pair all the time (they don’t, by the way), becoming a royal pain in the backside as a result.

1. In fact, loose-passive players should be welcomed to your game with open arms because they are as close as you will ever get to a goldmine or money printing press seated at your table.
2. These fishy foes are easy to identify and once you have, you can take them on and take their money.
3. They’ll be found limping into more than their fair share of pots, calling any preflop raises that come after they’ve entered a pot.

They then often will proceed to check-call all the way to the river or check-fold, only raising if they have an ultra-strong hand. Loose-passives are always on the lookout for a reason to call — bear that in mind for a little later on. You’d think that these characteristics would make them the perfect opponents to play against, and you’d be right.

But you’d also be surprised to see how many poker players struggle to beat them. More often than not, the root of the frustration associated with playing against passive players is self-inflicted. By that I mean whoever is moaning about their bad luck or “how the fish always has it” often only has themselves to blame for handing over their stack or a large percentage of it.

The biggest culprits on this front are not listening to the betting or attempting to bluff a loose-passive off a pot. If one of these players has called a raise preflop, called a continuation bet on the flop, and then called a second barrel on the turn, there is no way on this planet that the player is folding on the river, regardless of how the board texture is — third pair is the mortal nuts for these guys! So how do we beat these impossible-to-bluff types? One way is to use their own style of play against them.

1. Most of your money in poker will come from value betting,
2. Good players don’t pay off as many value bets as weaker players, but loose-passives love calling value bets.
3. It is this fact alone that makes them super profitable to play against.
4. If you have a strong hand, then make sure you’re extracting the maximum value from it.

You can alter your bet sizes to assist you here because to a loose-passive a two-thirds-pot bet is just as easy to call as a half-pot bet. Bet the flop, bet the turn, and bet the river unless they’ve shown any indication of strength. Another tip is to isolate these players preflop so that you can have them all to yourself.

Should a loose-passive open-limp, stick in a raise to force any players yet to act out of the pot. This isolating of the player can be done with a wider range of hands than usual, because your implied odds are much greater than they would be against a strong, aggressive player. You could even make your isolating raise larger than usual — or your blind-stealing raise if you have a loose-passive in the blinds — because the player is still likely to call and you’ll have positional advantage for the rest of the hand in a bloated pot.

(And such a player is almost never going to get tricky postflop either — bonus!) How you approach loose-passives on later streets comes down to any reads or notes that you may have. If they float the flop a lot — that is, call with nothing or a weak hand — then you can fire a continuation bet with a higher frequency with your good hands and check back weaker holdings.

When they call your flop bet and a turn bet, you need to start worrying about your own hand strength — because they won’t be! It is here that a lot of players go wrong and they continue stubbornly to bet into an opponent who has shown no inclination to fold. Stop bluffing the loose-passives, respect any aggression they show, and value bet them out of the water, and you should do just fine.

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How to beat 2NL?

People often ask me how to beat 2NL online poker games these days. And as someone who has made over 20k USD in this one particular game alone (likely the most of all-time?), I feel obliged to give an answer! By the way, 2NL refers to the $2 maximum buyin no limit holdem cash games online.

Some people also call it NL2, which means the exact same thing. The blinds at 2NL are always 1 cent in the small blind and 2 cents in the big blind. By multi-tabling these games it is possible to make quite a bit of money. Most 2NL poker games in 2022 are full of beginners and people who are still just learning the game.

So this is an ideal game for poker beginners to step into and see some quick success. The best strategy to beat 2NL is a tight and aggressive style of play combined with a high degree of positional awareness. Other keys to beating 2NL include value betting widely, tilt control and hand reading.
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What is 25NL in poker?

This article was written by blackrain79.com contributor Fran Ferlan. Getting to NL25 is one of the biggest milestones on your way to poker greatness, and is arguably one of the hardest limit jumps to make. What is 25NL? NL25 or 25NL is the popular 10 cent / 25 cent blinds cash games online where the maximum buyin is typically $25.25NL games are usually played with either 6 players or 9 players.

1. There is a substantial relative skill difference between NL25 and the lower limits, and the reason for it is there is a lot more money invo lved, and people start to take it a bit more seriously.
2. The amount of money is bigger, and substantially so, since the buyin and the blinds are 150% bigger, as opposed to only a 100% between NL5 and NL10, for example.

In fact, it’s the first limit where you might encounter full time professional poker players. Due to the lower cost of living in certain parts of the world, successfully grinding NL25 can equate to a national average salary. A player with a winrate of 4 big blinds per hundred hands playing 100k hands a month pockets on average a thousand dollars a month, with which you can live quite comfortably in some parts of Southern America or Eastern Europe, for example.

NL25 is also a good springboard to higher stakes games, where you can make a lot more money. For example, $100 a day, as BlackRain79 discusses in his latest video. But making the transition to NL25 can be quite intimidating for some people. You’ll encounter new opponents who’ll be more skilled, more aggressive and less forgiving.

So it might take some time to adjust, and you might not be able to stick to the limit on the first try. However, with the right strategy and proper preparation, you’ll be able to weather the storms, and be on your way to earning a considerable side income in no time.
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How much can you make playing micro stakes?

Being a professional poker player is kind of like being an astronaut or a rock star to most people. It is such an out of this world idea to them that they are naturally fascinated by those who do it. And with that of course they want to know how much money is involved.

1. People will simply ask you point blank how much money poker players make.
2. So here is the quick answer: Good poker players in small stakes online games like 1c/2c to 50c/$1 will make between $600 and $5000 a month.
3. Good poker players in live games like $1/$2 to $25/$50 will make between $1000 and $10000 per month.

Good high stakes poker players will make 100k per month or more.
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Can you make money on micro stakes?

How Much Do Online Poker Players Make? – Before I get started let me talk about how much online poker players make. This can run the gamut from 0$ to millions and millions of dollars a year. It is important to keep in mind though that most poker players actually lose money over the long run after the rake is taken out and they lose to the better players. Yes, that is over 44k just at the lower stakes. And yes, I had to play an incredible amount of hands to make this but it should hopefully show you what is possible nonetheless. If you want to make the real big money in poker you have to play higher limits. But you can still make a ton by playing a lot of tables and specializing in the micro stakes like I do.
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What is considered micro stakes poker?

What is Micro Stakes Poker? – Imagine you want to play poker games online but you don’t have a lot of experience yet and you don’t want to lose too much money at the table. Your first thought might be to browse through the cheapest games and find something that isn’t too expensive to play.
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