Beating the Micros - Two Keys to Success
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- Опубліковано 28 жов 2024
- In this video I discuss two of the top keys to success at the micros and especially at NL2 and NL5.
These two keys to success at the micros are getting the max with the best hand and losing the least with the 2nd best hand.
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Are you beating the micros yet? Also, check out my latest video on the 5 best poker games to make money these days: ua-cam.com/video/pd7C7jVsjvo/v-deo.html
hey there Mr.black ..what if you've got the pocket Aces and the RAG pocket 5ves...I think he play alright..your opinion please?
Does poker tracker 4 track all hands on the table or just the ones you are involved in?
I'm curious from the perspective of villain 5 in the first hand, what mistakes did he do? having aces on that board still seems like a pretty good hand.
I've watched a number of your videos. Thank you for making them!
Glad they helped :)
The first hand is easy :) put the money in asap, but... how do u play the hand if u hold AA instead than 55? Lets consider the case where oppo is a reg with some brain and the action flop and turn is the same as above. Always fold? Thx
in the first hand if you were the one with the AA, would you have folded to an opponents raise on that flop? opponent could still be overplaying a some pairs like 88, or maybe A7, K7.
***** Probably not very often. Would have to have a sick, sick read because of what you said.
folding is my issue, im often losing with top pair or over pair..i play about 17/10 and grind for a few hours only to lose is in one hand
yeah just lsot queens to a set
The biggest mistake players make in the micros is over valuing big pairs, over pairs and two pairs.
Most players in the micros are either tight passive or loose passive so you have the ability to control how much goes in the pot, so you really just need to bet the value of your hand, if a tight player shows any resistance to your bets you need to ease off from betting even with TPTK, or an over pair, and if either player style shows some kind of aggression and actually raise you it's best to proceed with caution.
But the key to beating the micros is bet sizing, and knowing when to retreat when your opponent shows any kind of aggression, it can be tough to lay down those big pocket pairs on the river, but if a player that has been mostly folding or calling suddenly starts betting or raising it's time to wait for a better spot than just a pair, and do so in the knowledge that the same player will make the exact same move when you have a monster so you just need to wait and you will stack him with your better hands.
Thank you for this amazing video!
Which poker room would you recommend for cash games? I've played mttSnG, MTT,HUSNG. I thinking switch to cash games, because I only have 1-3hrs to play poker. Once again, thank you for doing this kind of videos!
Hi BlackRain79poker, you make a lot of dissensions based on you HUD but i don't have a HUD and i don't think i will purchase one. Is the HUD really that important or is it just handy? Do you really need it?
@112857586786008477470 Hey Pieter, I recommend using a HUD if you take online poker seriously.
i have two questions. 1. whats the software youre using on the video to show you the statistics of the players.
2. is it legal and possible to use it while youre playing ? exaclty like in the video...
I use PokerTracker, which you can use on most of the major sites. I have a video showing you how to set it up in less than 5 minutes: ua-cam.com/video/MZ_m7KL2OME/v-deo.html
Note that some sites dont allow HUDs though. But they are legal to use at some of the major sites like PokerStars, 888 and PartyPoker.
hello BlackRain79Poker Good video! but Why don't you show your stats?
and When should we fold aces ( 1st video ) ?
Can you please tell me how i can also see how many times people i play with have raised, folded, etc? Thanks, helpful video
+AlbZ2011 I am using a HUD. You can find it in the description for this video.
these are the videos I like. Actually hand analysis. When people just talk and show me chart, I'm lost.
Thank you sir, glad you enjoyed it :)
Alright I tried out using my hands as best as I can, and escaping for as little as possible and got +7 dollars in under 1 hour. Finally made some progress, bling blang blaow here I come.
***** Haha, good job Gozner and all the best!
What do you do if you don't hit your set of 5? Also how does your book translate to live play like1/2?
Could you give me a timestamp on the hand? Also, I have two books so I am not sure which one you are referring to. Crushing the Microstakes would be most applicable to the skill level usually found in 1/2 live games.
The first hand. Specifically 5:10.
BR,
Thx for your vids here on YT. I always enjoy and often go back to what you said about how this game is not an overnight game and we shouldn't gauge our play by one nights session, one week's session, one months session or even one year sometimes. Variance is such a MF sometimes it's hard to not fall back into the default mode of " this sh&& is rigged ! " I often think about you saying that when times are tough and it does carry me through the storm into the land of honey on the other side :) Something like that lol ...so thank you sir !
+William Oliver Thanks William. I know it can be a crazy game at times and often the people who are the best at blocking it out are the biggest winners. Much, much easier said than done though :)
YES
How many hours a day do you play to achieve £1000 a month? And how can I get the set up where it tells you the players stats? I would class myself as a beginner seem to be breaking even everyday.
I actually have a video on how to make $1000 a month playing poker: ua-cam.com/video/HAfFrsrFPFc/v-deo.html
Damn you are back! Absolutely love your videos dude. If I could I would ask you this, currently at 6max micros I go break even or get 1-2 dollars per hour.This would be 3-4 dollars if I simply threw away kings or other high pairs most of the time. But that's still not that great, any idea of how to progress and get better as a player? I definitely don't want to move up until I make like 100 dollars from micros.
***** Thanks Gozner, glad my videos help! It is tough to make any kind of decent money at the micros until you get to about NL25. You just gotta sort of put in your dues at lower limits until then.
how do i get a hud with statistics like these? can i get this on pokerstars? how does it work
Show you how to do it all in this video: ua-cam.com/video/MZ_m7KL2OME/v-deo.html
love your videos! extremely helpful!
Thanks, glad they help!
I'm playing 5NL atm, and I can't really relate to what you say about that people are never folding. Of course, there are some bad players here and there, but I feel it's really hard to get stacks in when you have a monster vs the average regs/reasonable players, unless you're coolered, especially at zoom.
not sure if youre still alive, but DONT PLAY ZOOM. I played zoom and its just filled with tight regs. literally 50% of the hands gets folded around (bb wins) its incredible
So, imagine you had the AA in hand one. What would you have done differently?
+Bernard Flubbadoo he would have stacked him on the flop and lost...b.s if he says differently
Yeah. He is saying that the guy couldn't get away from the aces, but ain't no way he could fold there
Standard 12bb (24 cents) 3bet preflop..... and at least force him to set-mine out of position. With the 3bet, you force him to commit more than 10% of his stack on a set-mine (which is not profitable, long term for him). His set has to dodge our set and stacking off on a well connected, flush-drawy board should not be in our playbook, so he's not getting our stack every time.
How I can know they are bad players when I don't have this progrem? Ty Nathan
Stacked i guy today on exakt same way. He shipped in AA vs my set.
1st hand, i would be raising the flop bigger so that we could push the turn without overbetting it much. Because should he have just called our turn bet and pushed the river, it would have been much harder for us to call considering the flush and straight possibilities, rather then pushing the turn ourselves.
2nd hand, i don't agree with the flop bet at all. You put him on a range and there is only one hand that you beat that he might have KQs, the rest are the better aces so we are kinda valuebetting ourselves. I would have checked back the flop, bet the turn if he checked to us and checked back or folded the river bet. So we could have saved more in this hand.
Are there still a bunch of fish in the NL2 online games?!
Every time I play these games there are. Check out my video series from last year at these stakes, 3 on every table.
Basically yes. There will always be beginners in the game, and most of these will always be at the lowest stake available, whatever that stake is. This is why, a live cash game for 200$ can be just as soft as an online game for 2$.
I always play loosey goosey and eat sandwiches....what am I doing wrong????
I sometimes play loosey goosey and eat sandwiches as well. It rarely works out well :(
However, it seems to work for Daniel Negreanu! Here is my review of his MasterClass: ua-cam.com/video/uLZsg7o2UCw/v-deo.html
@@BlackRain79Poker I checked out your review of Daniel's course. It seems right up my alley. Thanks!
No prob glad it helped!
wh ythe hell would he fold there?
been following your advice for a few days and have lost over $20 , need some help dude, way to many contradicting confusing things youre talking about like shoving with a good hand and then sometimes only checking, really confused
+Alex Grant I also have been serching out short handed tables and im getting wiped out , there is certainly some bad players there but a reg appears within 2/3 hands and wipes me out
+Alex Grant Nobody can help you unless you give us specifics about these hands you were involved in.
You only have 33 hands on the guy in hand 2. He may of just had junk
ur never ever getting called by worse in micro stakes really? you don't think someone woulda called you with ace 2? or even a ten?
LOL Right. These guys will call with bottom pair with no problem at all just hoping you have been bluffing since the flop.
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Well i always keep seeing this videos where ppl explain how to crush micros againts these bad players. And examples that they show is always like hiting the set on the flop or AK pre flop then hiting A or K on the flop, then the bad player raises and the creator of the video reraises and the dude calls and so on. This like never happens on pokerstars micros for example. If i would re raise on pokerstars they would fold in 99% of the time and what you could do is basically just call them and then shove in the river and hope that he didnt hit the straight or higher set or a flush. Now i know that is a bad play to slow play but i mean seriously with the play you show they fold in 99% of the time, and me personally sometimes need to play for an hour to hit a big hand, for example a straight or a flush and in 90% of the time i get crushed by higher straight or higher flush or even full house, without slow playing or in the other hand they just fold with even min raises. And this all happens on the pokerstars. This big players that are showing how they play on pokerstars for example i see them hitting like big hands multiple times per hour and its like super easy to crush micros like that. Today i have folded set of Jacks because the dude hited the straight, and also got beat by a higher full house. Lost about 6$. You just cant beat the game, and yes i take care about position and playing good cards and show agression when needed. I mean i feel like this game is just broken for some people...
+blackrainin79Poker +KostMalen i mean.. look at his hand and tell me how to beat this? This is what im telling you about. Either its rigged or the dude have been using some software.
www.boomplayer.com/hr/poker-hands/Boom/17284376_0BD144B9B9
+KostMalen You have to learn to table select. You don't want to be on a table where people folds 99% of the time. If that happens change table until you can sit at the left of people that will call your bets. If there's no action in your table, leave.
im playing zoom tables
+KostMalen its because you should only be playing these hands, chose tables with idiots on them and not good players. This dude is teaching you how to get maximum value from players who will call stupidly, this means that you will still run into bad beats you just have to shrug them off and keep going
+KostMalen Bro 6$ is 3 buy-ins, especially if you are playing Zoom, where variance is gonna be way higher, thats just whatever
Thing is in the first hand the player you beat wasn't that out of line against almost any other micro stake player. The only hands AA is really worried about in that spot is sets he's just unfortunate that you have one, there are a lot of straight draws, flush draws and big pair hands that would call in that spot so AA wasn't completely out of line and in the long run against most micro players that is a +ev play.
However I do think you mis-played the hand in regard to the overall range your opponent could have had. I'd discuss this with you in private I wouldn't want to give away all of the tricks of the trade on such an open forum.
+BlackRain79Poker You played the second hand almost perfectly although there is an argument for folding here. If a heart showed up on the river there would be some value in bluffing, but given the river is a brick this is a marginal call hand hoping that he has KK or QQ
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legit learned 0 in this video, some obvious explanations, hit his 13 % chance ''dream'' flop against one of those hands that will continue 100% of the time even behind, the other hand, stats talked for themselves, if u dont know this stuff, u just dont know poker. No hard decisions, no bluffs, no extreme thought process
So, the first key to success is to flop a set to low flop and stack the guy with AA. Really really bad example.
I would say that the key to success on the micros is to be able to make tight folds with two pair or with small flush where it is appropriate. Many decent regs on the micros can't fold AA or some 8-high flush when they face a huge raise.
You just explained why the first example is actually instructive. By saying that 'many decent regs on the micros can't fold AA....when they face a huge raise' you just described exactly what happened in that hand!