2009 February 28 | Poker Blog

I’ve been reading about poker training sites in forums and talking to my friends about them. There was speculation that the online poker games were getting too tough. I had taken allot of time off from poker since I have a young son, but recently I noticed I was falling behind and rusty in my poker thoughts. So I deposited $160.00 onto Full Tilt Poker to see if I could build a roll in low stakes. I was happy to find out they lowered the rake in low stakes rooms and added new micro limits. I started playing .05/.10 NL Holdem and 50 cent $1 stud / Horse poker. I also was playing small stakes tournaments. I won a horse tournament and was winning a NL holdem tournament but finished 4rth place. I built my roll from $160.00
to $650.00 in 3 days but have fallen to as low as $350.00. I’m at around $530.00 right now and have a feel for the games again. I can now assure you that the players in low limits up to 2/4 limit have no clue on how to play. I really think they should take the time and sign up at Cardrunners.com and watch the videos and read the Pro’s blogs. I should be higher but I suffer from a term called “schooling”. No I’m not being “schooled”, but rather, I raise and 5 people call. Limp call, limp call, etc etc. They are “schooling” together like fish and running down my big hands. So AAk is good hand in stud right? Its good against one or 2 people , but get 5 callers – one with 567 , another with 10dJd9d , another with QQ6 and another with 10c 4 c 2s, and finally one with 993, one of them is going to run you down. This is “unconscious collusion”. I’m going to go over to Cardrunners.com and see if any of the videos discuss multiple limp callers in limit games, to see how I can counter this. This has been a big issue for me in Omaha hi lo tournaments. Omaha hi lo is the game where this seems to happen the most. In conclusion, the low limit games at Full Tilt are easy to beat. Take a shot by depositing $150.00 and playing .5 .10 cent NL holdem at Full Tilt!