Been mucking around with low-stakes poker online for ages and I finally stopped doing the fancy rubbish I kept seeing in clips... less random hero calls, less punting with suited junk just because I was bored, way more folding early and actually caring about position. Bit boring at first ngl, but my results got steadier almost straight away.
The biggest thing for me was just playing fewer hands and c-betting less into blokes who clearly never fold anything. I used to think I had to be the smartest guy at the table every hand, doing little moves and weird bluffs. Nah. At the micros half the pool basically tells you what they've got if you pay attention for more than 10 minutes. Once I started value betting harder and stopped paying off every river jam like a drongo, heaps of the nonsense disappeared.
I also reckon note-taking is still underrated. Nothing fancy, just quick tags like calls 3-bets too wide, overplays top pair, snap folds to turn barrels, that sort of thing. Sounds dead simple because it is, but it helped me more than trying to memorise solver lines I'd forget by the next arvo anyway.
Not saying I've cracked it or anything, still make plenty of dumb calls when I'm tired, but the whole tight-ish and patient approach has been a way better base than trying to play galaxy brain stuff at tiny stakes. Curious what other people found worked once they stopped autopiloting. Anyone else gone back to basics and had a decent turnaround?