Micro Stakes Online NL Poker Forums

Hey guys,
Glad to see the forum is getting a fair amount of traffic, I just wanted to make a few comments about posting that will make things easier for everyone. Most of this is about Original Posts.
(if something like this already exists and I missed it, let me know)


Use the Hand History converters
it makes reading the posts easier and in all honesty, it will get more people to look at and respond to your post because it will be easier to understand and more appealing to the eye.
w/o the HH converter posts often show up without showing the suits so it can also lead to advice being given that is not actually relevant to the hand being discussed.


Do not include results in your original post unless there is good reason for it
Including results in a post where you are asking for strategy advice on how to play a hand makes people biased, even if they don't think it does. There was an experiment done a few years ago where someone posted the same exact hand twice, showing different results for the villains hand and the responses he got were drastically different. So leave them out unless there is a specific reason for them

Put the Buy In and something about the hand in the title of your post
Appropriate titles are things like
'NL50 TP facing C/R on turn'
or
'NL25 3 bet by a nit'

dont make the title of your post something like
'NL50'
or
'2 pair spot'
or
'Gross hand'


This should make the forum run more smoothly and when that happens, everybody wins.


WHACK EM!

Bump, and someone should consider stickying this.

Bump, and someone should consider stickying this.

Done IMO.

400 BABIES

Hey guys,

I've been seeing a lot of threads recently where people just post some generic stats and a situation and say "what should I do", or post hands with specific non-standard plays but don't include the relevant stats.

Hands like this are kind of worthless tbh. How are we supposed to know what to do when you have QQ on a T84 two-tone flop and a 22/18/3 checkraises you? we have no idea how the guy plays postflop!

So just try to keep in mind that when posting hands, we need some kind of relevant information to make our decison besides VPIP/PFR/AF. In fact I would suggest that you all switch from AF to aggression frequency (AQ) as it is an absolute value that can be used to compare frequencies, instead of a ratio that fluctuates and needs to be normalized based on VPIP.

Additionally, make sure if you post relevant stats they are ACTUALLY relevant. The biggest mistake I've seen recently are people not posting fold to 3-bet stats when they light 3-bet someone. Seems pretty much like a no-brainer that this is the most relevant stat in these types of situations so we can try to A) figure out if its a profitable spot and B) figure out our opponents hand range if he doesn't fold.

So yeah, sorry for the little rant but I think it'll really help the forum if you guys keep this stuff in mind. Whack 'em!

TS

Manchild is oppressive imo

I'm new to these forums and was just wondering if they post NL50 is that meaning the initial buy in was $50, 100 BB in a .25/.50 structure?

thanks for any help here

The XXNL naming convention generally represents what you described, but 50NL for example can be used to discuss any stack size where the blinds are .25/.50.

Yes, this came from online internet idiocy. Although generally the game size is determined by the blinds (plus stack depth to some extent), and therefore casinos always quote games by the blinds, Party Poker evidently knew nothing about poker and therefore quoted the stakes by the buy-in. Now this is ironic somewhat how this has impacted history, because originally on Party, there were only 50BB stacks! So the blinds in NL100 were actually 1/2. But then Party switched to the deeper 100bb stacks, and thus the terminology came to be what it is today. But I still think it's clearer if you just put the blinds in your post title, since some sites (FTP for instance) have deep-stacked games, and then of course there are live games, too. If you just say .25/.50 there is no confusion.