Comments on: Guest Post – Micro-limit Cash Games

By: Colleen

Colleen — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:48:11 +0000

I was real happy to finally see micro tourneys at full tilt. I just recently started playing here having moved from playing for another sight and had noticed there was no micro games. Often when playing a big tournament I would play micro games so I wouldn’t get to cranked up when it was getting down to the final table. Micro games are a good way to deflect a little to much concentration off the real game so you don’t make any stupid plays and you don’t have to worry about your bank roll going bust in the mean time.

By: yestbay1

yestbay1 — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:43:32 +0000

I have been playing a fair amount of micro-cash games lately, and fewer SNGs. Gracie makes a lot of excellent points. A couple of things that I would like to reinforce: 1. Be aware of your pot odds. Especially in Limit games, there is so much limping and calling with junk that you can get paid off big time if you catch a good hand. 2. Don’t give your opponents too much credit. Most (but not all) of them that I see are strictly playing their cards and not watching what the other players are doing. Yeah, you’ll see an occasional check raise, but that just means that they have the goods and you are beat if you don’t have the nuts.

Great article, Gracie!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:00:28 +0000

Interesting article…

I’m one of those players that has never deposited, but initially won a few dollars thru freerolls and have used that to build a small bankroll that is a few hundred dollars in size now. I’ve been playing daily for several months now. I mainly play SNG’s and MTT’s that are $5 or less but will go up to $10 if there is money added.

I’m a much better tournament player then I am a cash game player simply because my bankroll doesn’t allow for the kinds of loss that cash games can cause.

I can’t say i’ll be embracing or playing at the micro limit games. Having started out with freerolls initially..i would predict that many micro players would play the same way. That meaning: lots of all ins, lots of suckouts, donkey moves, and garbage overall.

For someone who only has 50 cents in their bankroll from placing 97th in a freeroll, it might be a way to double or triple up their bankroll, but for me, i’d rather just spend my hard earned bankroll in a small dollar SNG where at least variance won’t take a chunk out of my bankroll..even at micro limits.