I have found, and continue to find, the micro tables to be quite profitable. I will break down my answer into two sections, full ring vs 6-max. But just to sum up at the beginning, as I stated in some other thread, micro-limits are all about ABC poker. I think it is the most profitable way to play $25 and $50NL. I have less experience at $100NL so I can’t speak for that.
In full ring I generally make money by being a nut-peddling nit. Early on I made a chart of starting hands that is position dependant. I can post it here or email it to you if you are interested. Post-flop I only CB with TP2K or better, a flush draw or a straight draw. Sometimes I get crazy and if isolated against one opponent I know is weak and I will CB with less. But I think of Full-ring as nut-peddling only. I push it hard when I have the goods and I lay down most everything else. I play all PP JJ and lower for set value only. My numbers are something like 17/7.5/45 (Boobie’s aggression factor which is basically a percentage of aggressive moves divided by passive moves with checking ignored). Yes, this is the most boring and predictable form of poker, but the players are so bad that they will payoff your nut flush with TPWK. I run into trouble in micro full ring when I try to do anything else but nut-peddle. The fools will not ever lay down when they catch a bit of the board, so it isn't worth attacking if you don’t have the goods. My profit looks like a few small pots punctuated by the 200BB pot every now and then. Yeah the suckouts are brutal, but I have found the full ring microtables to be profitable this way 7-15BB/100 hands.
I have jumped on the 6-max bandwagon as of late. My reasons are simple. I can get in more hands/hour and the players are worse (winning hand is significantly less in 6-max vs full ring and the villains are much more likely to play for stacks with much less). With 6-max games I have opened my game up considerably. I generally pfr or fold, and I CB just about everything. I assume I am ahead in 6-max unless I face resistance, and then I usually fold unless I have 2-pair or better, in which case I push. Against real maniacs 50 and higher, I will play for stacks with TP2+K. My numbers are 25/18/55 and my win-rate roughly the same 5-15BB/100 hands, but since I get more hands in it works out to more profit. So in 6-max I win a ton of small pots, probably lose 65% of medium pots (a CB of mine that gets raised or called and I don’t fire again on the turn-keep in mind that these hands are infrequent) and win over 55%+ of large pots, which are infrequent but nowhere near rare, and far more common than in full ring.
I hope that this is what info is the kind you are looking for. Also, if you don’t have it, I can not stress how important Pokertracker and a HUD are in table selection and opponent identification. Seriously, at the microlevels they are all the reads you need on a player.
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