Which strategy for micro/low stakes online poker?

[pipergsm 0]

Hi all,

I've been playing online poker tournaments (micro and low stakes) on and off for a number of years with relative success (overall I've won clearly more than I've lost). 

However, It's also been a big struggle in that the cards seem to be against me much more often than not and, more importantly, most players in the micro stakes don't seem to care much about the "higher" poker strategies which, most of the time, results in them kicking my proverbial A**.

Therefore, my question to the more experienced players, is this: starting at which stakes in online poker can you reliably start to use the more advanced strategies (and bluffs) and not run into players who seem to be blind for the straights, flushes etc on the board?

thanks for your responses!

 

[shafqat.digivizor 0]

On 4/23/2025 at 5:22 PM, pipergsm said:

Hi all,

I've been playing online poker tournaments (micro and low stakes) on and off for a number of years with relative success (overall I've won clearly more than I've lost). 

However, It's also been a big struggle in that the cards seem to be against me much more often than not and, more importantly, most players in the micro stakes don't seem to care much about the "higher" poker strategies which, most of the time, results in them kicking my proverbial A**.

Therefore, my question to the more experienced players, is this: starting at which stakes in online poker can you reliably start to use the more advanced strategies (and bluffs) and not run into players who seem to be blind for the straights, flushes etc on the board?

thanks for your responses!

 

Totally feel you—micro stakes can be wild. In my experience, things start to shift around the NL25 to NL50 range. Players become more aware of board texture, ranges, and you can actually apply semi-advanced strategy without it going over their heads. Until then, tight and value-heavy usually wins the day. Keep grinding!