Hey everyone,
I’ve been playing at the micro stakes tables on Replay Poker, but I’m finding it tough to adjust my strategy for these smaller buy-ins. It seems like a lot of players are calling with weaker hands, making it hard to get value from my strong hands. Any tips on how to navigate these tables and be more profitable?
Thanks for the advice!
Micro-stakes on Replay Poker can be tricky with loose, calling players. Here’s how to adjust:
Target recreational players who limp/call a lot, and you’ll boost your winrate. Good luck!
This doesn’t make sense.
They are the same as micro-cash----Bingo donks—a lot of antiacids i suggest:) or move up 2 higher stakes-----i learned that better players " respect the cards" and actually better 2 play with if u get mad about being chased etc…P.S. You can make money ( or chips) off of bingo donks with some patience and a little skill though.
My advice would be to try and make some chips and move up when you can. It is crazy down there and people play with anything all over the site, but it is way more often down there. They will ruin your good hands hitting with crap. But if you’re patient enough and can take a decent amount off of them that is a good thing. Honestly though, the competition under 500/1k is kind of hit and miss. There always seems to be at least one over aggressive player at the table at any given time. But just be patient, since you are a new player take advantage of the rookie freerolls. Try not to take this too seriously or you will be pulling your hair out lol. Good luck!
Pre flop
From EP: Limp pocket pairs below 99; open 3.5x with TT+/JTs+/AQo. Fold everything else.
From MP: Open 77+/89s+/AJo. Fold everything else.
From BTN: Open all pps/67s+/suited Kx+/QJo. Fold everything else.
Flop
Heads-up, OOP: range bet small (1/3 pot)
Heads-up, IP: range bet small on low board, bet 1/2 pot on high board.
Multi-way, OOP: check range & evaluate
Multi-way, IP: bet your hand strength
Turns and rivers
Bet your hand strength. Overfold to check-raises.
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Basically just set-mine weaker pairs, and otherwise try to make TPGK and win medium-sized pots, or less frequently, make the nuts or 2nd nuts and win a big pot.
Yesterday, I was bounced from five tournaments with Broadway pairs losing to middle pairs twice, KK losing to AK 3x (twice H2H when I’m 90% fav, and once v AK & A7 when I’m 71%), then first tourney today, JJ v 99 and, naturally, a nine on the turn. In all of those hands, I was at least a middle stack and not in danger of blinding out.
I don’t expect people to fold AK to a substantial all-in raise, but A7, nines, sevens, and fives, you would think they’d at least pause rather than snap call.
I also expect to have better than a 52% win rate when my money is in with the best hand. Keeping in mind that three of those tournaments were 100k, 250k, and 500k buy-ins, I can only conclude that stakes are irrelevant in free poker. Ignorance is bliss and better players have to live with it.
To be clear, nothing you describe is something you would “have to live with.” These are dream scenarios and you ran really bad. What you’re describing is you enjoying a massive edge 
The win rate will be lower because it is free poker. The reason good hands win more often in live poker is there is something at stake and people will fold mid to bad hands that would otherwise hit. I lost yesterday pushing with AA preflop to Q6 off. You are right, we do have to live with it and just move on to the next one. No need in stewing on past hands in free poker lol
oh, I forgot an important note - take your opening range from a given position, and use it to 3bet huge over any limps. 4x the limp size, + 1bb for every limper, +1 extra bb if you’ll be OOP to any of the limpers. This is a big part of the strategy and almost no one on Replay does it with anything but KK/AA.
Of course, I had a massive edge and yes, it’s a bad run, but the 52% win rate is over several weeks of tracking with roughly 25 best hands per day tallied.
I started tracking bc I felt like I was taking too many beats. That feeling has changed slightly, in that I feel like I’m taking too many beats to hands with five or less outs. In other words, I’m losing most often to people hitting sets or, it they have rags, two pair, and much less to straights and flushes. Of course, I can’t measure that accurately bc most sites allow people to muck losing hands even when they’ve been called.
All that said, yes, beats are a fact of life that can’t be mitigated. You should expect and play to have as massive an edge as possible, and when the cards are against you, live with it.
ps, I’ve also been tracking how often I’m in with the worst of it, and that is about half the rate of being in with the best, but only with a more reasonable 15% suck out rate.
If your in the hand, you can see any hand that went to showdown in the replay, mucked or not.
Is this correct because your hand used to be hidden or mucked to everyone at the table? I haven’t used that option in years, so I haven’t noticed this. I don’t remember when the muck option is offered.
Yes, you can see any hand that gets to showdown in the replay if you were in the hand. (That’s why everyone who posts hands where we can’t see the cards says it shows for them)
You’re right. The winner can but can the others involved in the showdown can see the cards?
You don’t even have to make it to showdown yourself, you just have to have been dealt into the hand.
Like I stated I haven’t used the muck option in years. I don’t think everyone in the hand can see it otherwise a muck wouldn’t make sense.
You can, but only in the replay. In live poker, anyone in the hand can ask to see mucked hands, and every online site I’ve played at will show mucked hands in the replay to anyone who was in the hand.
You shouldn’t ask to see mucked hands live unless you’re almost certain there’s something fishy happening, but because you can’t really judge if someone has a good reason to view a mucked hand or not online, showing the cards in the reply seems to be the standard solution.
I knew that about live play, but I thought we were discussing Replay’s muck option. I’ve played in hands where I don’t see another’s hand and thought it was just mucked. Now, I’m curious and will pay better attention.