Quote Originally Posted by HardWath View Post
I understand that this kind of thing happens but it happens to me in almost EVERY cash game that I play at the micro stakes. It doesn’t just happen to me either, I watch it happen to person after person after person and usually it’s the person with the AA, KK, QQ, top pair, or two pair that gets screwed.

Typically when the betting heats up there are 3 or 4 people involved and usually at most two of them have cards that justify the level of bets they are calling or placing. However time after time after time, it’s the guy with AK, AA, or KK that loses to the person betting with 2-7o that hits a set of 2's on the turn or river.

The problem with the micro stakes is that people will call anything if they are holding a hand with any kind of potential. At a 10 handed table, a lot of flops there are usually several people with hands that show some kind of potential. In a normal game you can knock out the weaker hands with strong bets but not in the micros and many times those weaker hands become something much stronger and often beat your top pair or set which ends up being very costly.
I play a lot of micro games on a variety of sites. I typically play everything from $0.01/$0.02NL up to $0.10/$0.25NL. At every one of these levels, even the smallest, I can manage to get to the flop with 2-3 players when I want to. If you're seeing flops with more people, you're probably not being aggressive enough pre-flop.

And, depending on how deep we are (like 2NL on PS where there are players buying in for $5)... I will call a lot of tight players' raises with a bunch of goofy hands. This is mainly because they don't know how to adjust their AA and KK type hands for deep stacks. I can't even count the times I've felted those hands for 200xBB when they should have let it go a lot earlier. What you might see as a "weaker" hand could be something with real potential if you're playing someone who is willing to go broke with a big pair.

And, if every single time you have top set... you get someone all-in on the flop and lose to runner-runner... there's something seriously wrong.