Has the game changed?

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Has the game changed?

I have started to play poker again. I had a long break. Busy with life. I missed playing so I started at the lowest stake. My goal is to grind it up. I want to see if I can do it (again).

My question is simple: Has the game changed for low stakes? (under 50nl)

Any tips how to beat the low stakes as quickly as possible?


Thank you!

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Daz 11 years, 1 month ago

Solid, straight forward value-oriented approach. Have a good rakeback deal, plenty of volume. Sound mental game. Your volume and stakes/tables will determine how fast you move up.

Then you must begin learning how to rly imrpove 

Aurelius 11 years, 1 month ago

So that is still the same? Focus on value. No need to bluff or to bluff catch. Value Value Value.


Are there things that did changed from 2 years ago?

Daz 11 years, 1 month ago

Well you will still be bluffing and bluff-catching, but the frequencies to which you do this is reduced for two main reasons

1) Villain's have a propensity to call more often than they should which means you want to skew your ranges to value/semi-bluffs and less pure bluffs. They peel the flop very light so you need to be prepared to fire two- or three streets, depending on the texture. but to be more precise, there are spots where cbet giving up or double-barreling giving up are really bad because they have so many weak/marginal hands that need to be folded out by another bet OR you simply needed to have given up sooner (that is where the skill/experience comes in)

2) Villain's have trouble finding thin value bets, finding value bets and good spots to bluff. They basically not bluffing/betting enough overall. Ultimately, it usually means they have it more often AND you need to respect their flop raises IP, check/raises and river bets

.. I don't want to make harsh generalizations. The game is tougher than before but still very beatable with hard work and discipline. You need to go through a pretty bad downswing before you begin losing at stakes <50NL 

- i can get a lot more in depth with how the games are and what i have seen. I pretty much devoted my life to those limits while going through a terrible downswing and having my confidence shattered 2013. I've done summaries for all limits 25NL-200NL, what players are doing generally what works what doesn't. 


erdian 11 years, 1 month ago

I would say overall people have become more aggresive then passive, fish c/r more often and bluff then they did before. Also they can 3-bet more preflop while before people mostly did it with monsters and called WITH anything else.

luckycard888 11 years, 1 month ago

the online poker is more diffcult than before,more regs,more thinking levels,and more competition.

lots of fish have be trained by books,video and nets,so if u want crush micro, u should do more hand working now. IN  China,training of poker are more common.

CombatCarl 11 years, 1 month ago

Wow, I just unraveled at the end of a three hours session just tilting money away left and right only to be redeemed by a 50k hands reg.

Usually, my 3bet size with A2C is on the big side like 10BB to 15BB oop so I was hoping to throw him off preflop. Can anyone get away from KK here?

ohgodwhy 11 years, 1 month ago

I'm in the exact same situation but since I have a fulltime job I play very very low volume. Is there even a good rb deal for me? Where to look/ask for?

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