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[5NL] I have a range in the BB, how should I play it?

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    you will never be able to beat those 20% if you cant crush those 80%.
    You're making the assumption that I'm playing the same game vs the 20% that I am the 80%. I'm not. I'm trying to identify who the strong players are, and who the weak players are, and adjust my game accordingly. I realise that playing tight is correct vs a lot of people at the micros. But it's not correct vs everyone. You seem to think that targetting the 80% is enough. I'm arguing that optimal would be to identify who the 80%'ers are, and who the 20%'ers are, and target both with different methods. Is it working for me? Well I'm not pissing my bankroll away so it's not failing. I might not be back to 25nl yet, but at least I'm enjoying playing poker.

    The problem I have with your nitting it up strategy is that it does not set you up for the higher stakes when you get there. Better players will exploit such tendancies, and if we don't know how to correctly adjust vs them, then we're gonna get beaten very quickly. I'd rather be breaking even while improving at 10nl than crush 10nl with a nitty strategy and then find myself getting crushed at 25nl because I don't know how to adjust. My goal is not to simply beat the stakes I am currently playing. I want a good, balanced poker game, whatever my stakes. Yes I'm miles away from where I want to be, but not as far as you seem to think. I treat 10nl as school, 25nl is college. I'm not going to college until I've finished school.

    I'm not going to 3bet A2o vs most people. I'm usually folding it when raised. I'll generally 3bet hands like JTs 89s etc to balance out my AK JJ+, I'm not interested in unsuited raggy aces because they are too awkward to play oop in 3bet pots. But against someone who opens too much and folds to too many 3bets, well sure I can 3bet A2o, just as I can 3bet any other random two cards. This would be me adjusting, having identified a weakness that I can exploit.

    you are a player that firres 3barrels w/ QJ on Q9357 w/ abssolutly no clue on why you are doing this
    I'll fire 3barrels in this spot vs passive donks who will call down TT QT A9 etc, but I won't be firing 3barrels as standard. I'd need some good notes for me to consider this a good 3barrel spot. You're making some poor assumptions here. People like me, who are at least trying to think about what we're doing and why, are not blindly triple barreling top pair.

    You make a lot of good points raz, but you're blinded by a lot of bad assumptions about us low stakers are playing.

    I'm not going to nit it up to the point that I'm playing 13/12 or whatever. It might well be a winning strategy at 10nl, but it's not the only winning strategy, and I'd be very surprised if a 13/12 is making significant money at 25nl.
    Last edited by OngBonga; 05-31-2014 at 09:23 AM.
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