So my friend signed up for Pokerstars at my behest and I transferred $20 to him so he can get started at the micro tables. Being the competitive @$$ he is, he bet me he could double it within two weeks. Now since I've followed Smash's rise through the ranks, I certainly know it's possible, but Kevin's limit game leaves something to be desired.
Still, he's doing incredibly well, up $5 in only ONE day.
I'm up $2 myself.
I went in to watch him play earlier and saw he was calling with K/8 off and J/x suited out of position and I was more than slightly shocked.
"What are you doing? You can't call with garbage like that."
His answer, however simple, seemed logical, "Considering the junk people play with at these tables, I think loosening your starting hand requirements is perfectly fair." Because he'll see a lot more loose calls, if he flops a king, he might still get paid by somebody who's playing king-deuce.
I, on the other hand, have always held that solid poker is solid poker, regardless of the limit level. So I pick my hands, play patiently, etc. Now before anyone mentions it, I haven't read SSHE yet (I ordered it from Amazon yesterday, so hopefully I'll get it on Monday), I was just wondering what you all think. Do you adjust your play to match the level of your opponents, or is 'solid poker' just that?

Your freind's just lucky.

You could play every hand for 100 hands in a row and end up ahead.

Doesn't mean it's a good idea.

Let me know when he runs out of money and the excuse he chooses to use.

what he said.

there's a reason the games are beatable: the bad players play too many hands and go too far with them. i think that's a direct quote from SSHE by the way.

aseem

What if you are at a .02/.04 game at a full table, 4 limpers before you and you have J8 suited? Do you limp here with decent odds or fold?

I'm pretty sure you fold this all day long unless you're the SB or BB.

What if you are at a .02/.04 game at a full table, 4 limpers before you and you have J8 suited? Do you limp here with decent odds or fold?


Who cares?

That's such a meaningless question I don't even know where to begin. It's so close to a neutral EV situation that it probably doesn't much if you call raise or fold it.

Calling with K8o UTG is a lot diffrent than calling with J8s after 4 limpers. One is horrible, one is marginal.

Exactly. You should loosen up in low-limit hold'em, but not nearly to the point of calling with K8o. Table composition is very important too; SSHE gets into this with the two types of tables in their starting hand recommendations (loose, which is actually the ridiculous kind of loose table you see in low-limit casino games, and "tight", which is only tight for low-limits but still rather loose, and is more like what you'd see online from the .5/1 level up).