There are times when you feel invincible. You run deep in almost every tournament, hitting draws is almost natural and if you find yourself in a spot where you need a miracle, there is no reason, why it should not appear at the river.
And then there are the other 51 weeks in the year. The weeks where it feels as if your hole cards are dealt from another deck. The same deck which contains all your outs. The weeks where you get it in 90%+ vs. random fish and they seem to have made a contract with the pokergod to have the board appear the last out which could possibly remain in the deck.
You can not read them and you do not need to get reads on them since they are dominated anyways but somehow the all in button is like the red button which initiates your own demise.
I do not want to sound to dramatically here. There is a reason why mostly play micros after all. I might play them every day but i have not developed the hitting skills everyone seems to possess around me. I am missing the magic "just get AA when the button pushes at the final" ability.
Strangely there were times when i could play a tournament and get deep just playing reads or what i thought to be reads anyways. Even a tournament win was in there in the past. It may only have been a 1.35$ KO turbo but it felt like the world back then. Reviewing the replay i have seen me hitting everything i would not dare to dream nowadays.
Perhaps i was a fish back then. But if i need to be a fish to hit my outs … please let me forget all that theory crap … please let me feel like limp-calling 74o again and hitting straights on them.
Please let the pain go away …
swhitelex
Micros is definitely a beast to play. The horrible players do tend to get the $$ on those games. I truly am trying to figure out myself and there are others that are trying to figure it out. The problem is they can come in and just go on a donkfest and it can be frustrating when you are played. I can’t tell you how many times that I get busted with a 73 off. It is crazy.
I have been playing in the micros for a year and the thing that we players have to remember, most of your micro players are recreational players. The majority of players that are in these micros don’t know 3bet sizing, push/fold and don’t even know where the fold button is. They are there to have a good time.
Stop taking the micros seriously. It is no heartache for them to bust the $1 tournaments. They are gamblers that are playing. Daryl Ace has a good way of finding exploiting tendencies.
The best thing is to pay close attention to your table in the micro stakes. Watch for the bad players, note them, remember that you need a strong hand and could expose you to be sucked out or I say “merged” where I play. When that happens, you need to make sure you play as aggressive as you can with them and leave no bones that you are crushing their wide range.
Just a help from a micro grinder.
Max_Gooroo
Well, there are definitely two important points here.
Do not take the micros seriously and bomb your opponents without even looking if it feels like you are ahead.
I mean, i play the micros for some time (i think 3 years or so) now and perhaps the blog entry was formulated a bit to depressive.
Most should know that you just have these days some times and for me it was something like months now.
But just one day after posting this entry my BR suddenly doubled :). You just have to keep you focus.
Not all losses are recovered but the basic direction feels okay now.
Moizt
Boy I’m glad to no longer have to play dollar tournaments. After building a 4 figure roll and moving up to low/mid stakes micro tournaments have hardly been a part of my scedule, and thank fuck for that. I swear they are more tilting then any other form of poker.