[Fammy]

Hello,

I have been reading (and re-reading) the book and am finding it very helpful. I am also trying to make the switch from Tourney to Cash. I have been a winning (albeit small winning) player and am looking to expand. Currently, I am playing the Micro levels to try to see if I can get a handle on this (0.05-0.10) with an eye toward moving up soon. I have been playing 50BB and have found this to be a fair compromise on the short vs large stack, but wanted opinions on an issue I have been seeing over and over again.

I tend to play a fairly TA game, but will loosen up slightly with position. With an image of being "a donk with the smaller stack", at least at this level, I have been able to generate a slight disconnect between my ability (at least based on my previous experience) and my stack size.

This leads me to the discussion on the Cbet getting people into trouble which seems to be very correct. I have been looking at it from the other side of the coin, however. I have found that when players raise into me for a standard raise (often when I have a ~20%+ hand) I am often able to use position with the strong hand against players who not only are playing too loose, but also don't seem to know when to stop firing bullets...resulting in winning larger pots, or, since I am below the committment threshhold, the ability to bow out quietly with minimal losses if the board looks "bad."

A couple of questions on this?

1) My sample size is VERY small...am I seeing variance or is this close to real at the very low levels? (with the obvious assumption that I have a decent read on the player being LAG or close to it).

2) Is there a blind level where this noticably changes? (i.e. opponents learn to put on the brakes or begin to play in a more tricky manner where I might get into more trouble).

3) Is this a large leak in a cash game? (I have done this in tourney poker, especially when the blinds get bigger as people tend to think they are "pot committed" well before they are in certain tournaments allowing me to stack them)

Any thoughts on this would be helpful. I understand that there are real advantages to playing 100BB, and I am considering this, but one thing struck me...the place where we lose out is when we have the nuts....this doesn't happen very often, and even when it does, we often don't get our whole stack in as the board sometimes gives our hand away.

Is it better to give up some equity for the few times we have the nuts AND are able to stack our opponents, vs the many multiple times playing with a somewhat shorter stack will make overall decisions easier?

Thanks in advance.

Fammy