$25nl - rock or fancy?

[wideboyuk]

Bit of background - I have been playing NL for about 6 months now, made a couple of $50 deposits and have worked my roll upto $400, but then I think I got a bit cocky, lossened up a bit too much, and then lost almost all of it. For the last month I have been kinda breakeven, up and down, getting nowhere fast.

I only play 1 table so that I can get a good read on my ops. But I was thinking that maybe I would be better off multi-tabling, and just playing ABC poker, waiting for the good hands, playing aggressively when they hit and laying down when I am clearly beat. I chuck out nice 2/3-pot size bets when I hit and don't give people cheap draws and steal a few pots with a nicely timed continuation bet. Sometimes though I try and get fancy every now and then, and bluff in signs of weakness, only to be called down by midpair who doesn't know how to make a lay down. This kind of action makes me feel that bluffing is a no-no at lowlimit and I should stop all this fancy play and just stick to basics instead of leaking my roll.

So a question to the $25 and $50NL players - should I stop bluffing and just play my cards??

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So a question to the $25 and $50NL players - should I stop bluffing and just play my cards??

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No. Perhaps you should bluff less often, though, it's hard to say without seeing how you play. There are plenty of opportunities to bluff at the small stakes, but it is a tough matter to figure out when's the right time, and when you're just throwing money away, but that's what makes poker fun.

[srm80]

at the low stakes you should tighten up on your semi-bluffs and still keep tight starting hands. if you are in a passive game which most 25NL games are, you can play more drawing hands and get value out of them if you hit.

[wideboyuk]

I'm thinking that instead of playing just 1 table (6 max) and focusing on the characteristics of the opponents and trying to out play them, I would be better off to multi-table and basically play straight forward poker - fairly tight, aggressive when I hit and play for cheap draws. Not worry about how my opponents play, just let them pay me off with mid pair when they call my pot sized bets.

[Mr. Curious]

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I only play 1 table so that I can get a good read on my ops

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Sometimes though I try and get fancy every now and then, and bluff in signs of weakness, only to be called down by midpair who doesn't know how to make a lay down.

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Perhaps you need to reconsider how good you know your table.