the way i see it is that in lower stakes games, opponents seem to play their cards and have made their decision what to do before they are even to act and dont even take into account position or stack sizes
1 tip i heard (from jesus ferguson i heard it 1st i think) is never to look at your cards until you are to act then you can make an informed decision - but that is pretty hard to do in online play
i find the lower buy ins are mostly bad for these kind of plays and seen some crazy calls
example
live casino tourney at the weekend i took part in - £30 buy in
player A is UTG , player B is BB -full 10 players
player A raises to 4 BB and everyone folds then player A shows ACE 4 suited - then player B berates him for a while calling him a donkey yet player A claims that any ace is a good opening hand and a discussion starts about who is the better player and what are good opening hands - the players also seem to like showing there hands when they win a pot uncontested (found this even more amusing and silently pegged them both as donkeys) in most hands they played in - i was silent but most of the table openly decided player A is not as good as player A - felt this was a bit out of order and said so (DONT TAP THE TANK
) and that they can play any style they like
orbit or so later and player A is SB and player B is button and both are big stacks
player B limps and A raises and player B re raises - player A insta goes all in and B insta calls
cards over and player B (button) has ACE 6 suited and SB has kings
flop A6A - turn is a rag and the kings are drawing dead
now - the table start saying that infact player B must be a donkey to call the re-re raise with a weak hand as A6 but B claimed that he was trying to play the man and and not the cards - and even though i agreed with them i said i could see where he was coming from - he believed that he was playing position and that player A was just stealing
but to call the all in with ace 6 was just stupid i said (i"d have maybe called the original raise with A6 in position but defo not re-raised and seen a flop but didnt say out loud)
