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It's not pure nutpeddling if you know how to read people.
while this is of course true at ALL stakes, it is much less so at microstakes. In fact, i'll bet for every 10 correct 'reads' where your FPS dictates villain should fold, at .25/.50 and below they actually fold once or twice.
i will say at microstakes your implied odds are waaaaaaaaaaaay bigger than medium and higher stakes.
i.e.: You flop a set -- bet pot / call. Turn completes a flush and you are 95% sure villain turned a flush. You check he pots (or somewhere close to it). Many villains at this level will almost never fold the river regardless of the card, so your actual potodds are much closer to the implied odds (villains or your whole stack) than the 'true' odds the turn is laying you. So in a ton of cases it makes sense to make thin turn calls vs. the right types of villains, whereas turn calls like this at most .5/1 games and above would just be burning money.