For situation 1
1. How drunk/spewy is drunk guy? That can push this to a mandatory call regardless of all else. He might be ready to start spite jamming pre or calling down stacks with any pair. Or he might just be able to drink a lot.
2. What is a standard player? The average player in your pool, or a player with some poker knowledge? You surely have a better read than this. When limpers are not huge fish, 3b vs wide range and call/fold as range gets tighter.
3. How much is the rake? At low stakes, this kills the profitablilty of marginal calls and they become -EV. You must identify a significant advantage in the hand in order to overcome this: position, card advantage, skill advantage, or sobriety advantage
I 3b when limpers are not good, but also not going to make enormous multistreet mistakes often. Button must be raising wide. Limpers should also not be tricky or overly passive that they limp dominating hands often. Better when rake is high. This is a very specific set of conditions as RIO can pile up fast here.
Call if:
1. Limpers may make huge mistakes. In this scenario we are printing cash.
2. Rake is low (or time rake) but no other huge source of profit. We are looking to realize a small edge.
Fold if:
1. Rake is high and no significant equity edges. (Rake almost always very high in a low stakes live game)
2. Button range is tight.
Last edited by Dwarf Invasion; 04-26-2017 at 06:14 PM.