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[Pascal]

If you're playing micro games, play on Stars. The games are tougher - this might sound like a bad thing, but it's not. If you play only at the easy tables, you might win and move up faster but your game won't improve and you won't learn how to play against regs, so you'll struggle as you move up.

No micro stakes table will ever be tough, and if you find it tough then it's a clear indicator that you need to work on your game. If you can't beat the "nits" (aka regs) at micro stakes, you definitely won't be able to at higher stakes where you'll encounter more and more of them. Micros is the best place to learn how to beat them.

There's no point playing micro stakes for the money, partly because of the low stakes and partly because of the rake. You should be using the micros for practice and refining your game.

[The Bean Counter]

There's no point playing micro stakes for the money

Don't agree with this - even 5nl can earn you more than the UK minimum wage if you really needed it to.

[Fielmann]

Don't agree with this - even 5nl can earn you more than the UK minimum wage if you really needed it to.

UK minimum is £6.19 or $10.04 per hour. Considering 70 hands per hour on each table, that would take 24-tabling with a win-rate of 12 bb/100.

I guess there is also the alternative to grind a crazy number of hours and defeat the minimum monthly wage. But really, if you can do this, it's hard to believe that you're incapable of finding a job that pays the minimum.

[The Bean Counter]

UK minimum is £6.19 or $10.04 per hour. Considering 70 hands per hour on each table, that would take 24-tabling with a win-rate of 12 bb/100.

I was working on the basis of playing Zoom/Rush: 1200 hands per hour @15bb/100 plus $1/hour rakeback. There's no reason why an experienced player couldn't sustain this win rate from what I've seen in these games.

I guess there is also the alternative to grind a crazy number of hours and defeat the minimum monthly wage. But really, if you can do this, it's hard to believe that you're incapable of finding a job that pays the minimum.

Indeed. The key to my point is if you needed to do it (e.g. short term whilst looking for another job) then you could get by and the money certainly shouldn't be disregarded. Also definitely worth considering if you are a student, as you could play whenever you wanted from the comfort of your student shithole, rather than doing a minimum wage job.

[Icanhastreebet]

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