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the reason I play on this anonymous site is because all the ones I know of wont allow US players. so I found one still accepting and that is where I play. Are there any other US friendly poker rooms?

your advice was fine. i was talking about the guys talking about bluffing UTG.

i tried to give simple steps for spending time between hands. i said observe and what to observe. i said take notes and what to take notes on. i said think and what to think about. if that's vague, i don't know what's explicit.

i'm certain you are talking about my post. as i said, over your head. it was a cut and dry example of what perceived range is. i wasn't saying start bluffing utg. and fps? you might also want to learn about perceived range, cbetting, and board texture.

p.s. if you weren't talking about my post, nvm

Get beginners poker book, read a chapter or two (or watch a poker video) before you play poker and focus on those concepts. Keep it simple ABC poker and try to get very solid fundamentals first (preflop hand selection, value betting, bet sizing, pot odds etc.) before getting into advanced stuff (blind stealing, blinds defending, isolation, 3betting light, double and triple barreling etc.). You only need solid fundamentals to beat micros. That would be my advice.

the reason I play on this anonymous site is because all the ones I know of wont allow US players. so I found one still accepting and that is where I play. Are there any other US friendly poker rooms?

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that sounds like a NO. bovada is the only place I can play online. I can't afford to play at the casino unless I play 3/6 limit game and that is a joke and a half. it is literally impossible to make money at 3/6 unless you catch a ton of cards. in order to play no limit live poker I need a few hundred bucks and I dont have that. it doesn't seem like I will ever have that playing micro limits online. so I guess I need to just quit...unless someone wants to stake me in a no limit game lol and nobody is that stupid. my poker career is over with before it started lol

I've never played live poker before but I came up with the idea to think about what range you want to play preflop before looking at your cards.

im convinced that low stakes poker is impossible to beat. You can't "beat" a game where everyone calls everything no matter what they hold. its just unbeatable period no matter what you say

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its the truth buddy. if you have made money from micro stakes its because you caught all the right cards AKA getting lucky

im convinced that low stakes poker is impossible to beat. You can't "beat" a game where everyone calls everything no matter what they hold. its just unbeatable period no matter what you say

If you see someone who calls everything, how can you adjust to use that to your advantage?

sure you can wait until you have them beat but that doesn't eliminate all the suck outs. and not to mention it is straight up gambling. You cant get these people to fold. they will call all ins at any point with any two cards. literally ANY TWO CARDS. its not just one guy. when 7-8 other people at the table are playing like that you arent going to win. once in a while you will have the best hand and win a pot then you will wait for hours until the next good hand and now you've blown half your stack strictly to blinds. its not possible. so my answer is you cant use it to your advantage. you just cant

sure you can wait until you have them beat but that doesn't eliminate all the suck outs. and not to mention it is straight up gambling. You cant get these people to fold. they will call all ins at any point with any two cards. literally ANY TWO CARDS. its not just one guy. when 7-8 other people at the table are playing like that you arent going to win. once in a while you will have the best hand and win a pot then you will wait for hours until the next good hand and now you've blown half your stack strictly to blinds. its not possible. so my answer is you cant use it to your advantage. you just cant

Suckouts are part of the game, whether at the micros or at nosebleed stakes. It's not because you play at levels where "fishes respect your raises" that suckouts magically disappear. In fact, suckouts and bad beats means that you took the right decision and went in ahead.

I beat microstakes at 2NL, 5NL, and 10NL I get sucked out, coolered, bad-beated, but as long as I know I took the right decision, I don't give a h00t. Poker is a harsh mistress: even its best lovers can get hustled away from their money by some monkey. It rewards skill over the long term, and sometimes it can be VERY long.

I want my Villains to play any two cards. I want them to play with so large a range that I can trounce it with my whole range. When a monkey shoves AI PF with any two cards, (and they are around) it's just easy money being thrown away at you. But even 72o can hit a monster full house on the flop. Even T3o can hit trips, and a hand as laughable as 94o will beat AA 12% of the times : on 100,000 all-in hands 94o will BEAT AA around 12,200 times. It's not because one player is a fish that he has always nothing; even broken, a watch is right twice per day.

Maybe if you just calmed down and showed us hand histories of hands that piss you off, we might give our inputs. Allow yourself to learn.

I dont know how to post a hand history other than typing out exactly what happened on every hand. If I was playing at $5/$10 I bet the poeple in those stakes are less likely to call PF raises with 7-2o. In the micros poeple call everything in every situation. every hand goes to a showdown so you have to be lucky to win. There is zero skill involved in that sort of poker. sure if I'm lucky i'll win some money but chances are that I will only get lucky every 100-200 hands and even then Im more than likely going to lose that money to an idiot playing some crappy hand

Sir if it is not possible to win in poker and it is straight up gambling why there are so many poker strategy books, training sites and people who "get lucky" (AKA put a ton of work day in and day out) month after month, year after year?
If you aren`t going to listen to reason and advice then poker isn`t for you as a way to earn some extra cash.

beating the micros isnt about strictly following a startegy. its a time of development that every player has to go through, where you learn the concepts of poker and the "why" behind those concepts.
sure it might be the right play to iso raise with K8o from the button. but until you can understand why you do that, and under what situations it might be better to do something else you are just going to get more and more frustrated.