Another challenging session at 4NL. I guess 2NL was just too easy to make people fold – sounds the wrong way round, you’d think total beginners would float a lot. At 4NL that seems to have changed and most people don’t fold to a flop cbet, and frequently reraise a turn bet. Are they bluffing? I don’t know yet…
The flip side of that is that when you do have a strong hand, it’s easy to get a decent sized pot at the end. As I realised I wasn’t being very convincing with cbets and turn reraises I stopped and started playing only hands that hit the fold. However, my losses from failed aggression outweighed my wins on solid hands.
I’m glad to see you are moving up. I think you just need to focus on playing like a complete ROCK. It takes incredible patients but they will pay you off so much it’s worth it.
I found 10NL to be very similar. Sometimes they would never fold. Other times they would fold to a cbet on the flop if they didn’t hit.
Over all the best thing about these limits is that they overvalue their hands and usually call way to much. So just focus on one skill set. Play strong hands for value that’s it. You will demolish this level for sure and soon be at 10NL and above.