Hey everyone,

I recently played a home game tourny and, as expected, I found that a majority of the players were loose-passive, calling-stations and would limp almost their entire range (saw an open limp on the BTN with JJ). They didn't put much thought into position or anything.

My general pre-flop strategy was to open raise with my "standard" range if I ever got the chance, limp behind other limpers with my suited connectors/suited aces and raise over the limpers with my stronger holdings. And then post-flop, since they generally played like their hands were face-up, I tried to play exploitatively as best I could.

My problem was that I got pretty card dead after the first hour or so and got to a pretty short stack (~12BB). When I play online SNGs I usually would be shoving most of my range with this stack size, but I have never run in to players that play like this before.

My questions are:

1. When more deep stacked, should I be looking to steal pots on the flop if I whiff, even if it would take a very large portion of my stack to do so, or wait for times I can bet for at least thin value?

2. When I get short stacked (12BB or so), is a shove or fold strategy the way to go with most of my range, or should I look to take some other line?


Thanks in advance for the help!

I'd try the home poker forum or one of the tournament forums for your questions. This forum is for cash games only.

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