Quote:
Originally Posted by Breadfish666
5% of hands? Lol, so just raise every hand and then when you get reraised fold. Since they're only playing 5% of hands you'll just collect the blinds every time and if not you only stand to lose your initial raise 5% of the time. Seems +ev to me.
5%, I know that's simply not true though because I play in SFL which is loaded with OMC. OMC loves to limp more speculative hands as well. Their limping range may be stronger than a loose passive but you can still blow them off their hands with aggression, especially if you aim to make raises in position.
Actually, OMC is unbeatable and to answer your question in OP if you can't beat them join them.
The players I'm talking about do not generally limp speculative hands. I've also played against plenty of older players who do limp a lot, but that's not the situation here. My question was about players who sit silently at the table and MAYBE play one hand an hour, until they qualify for the daily food comp.
If your table is full of this type of player, it's true that you can win the blind A LOT. But the blinds in a 1/2 NL game are not really worth winning.
Let's say you are playing against a table with 8 other players who reraise (or make a big initial raise) with 5% of their hands and fold the other 95%. So let's say you intend to raise 100% of unraised pots, but will almost always fold to a reraise. 20% of the time, someone will have a top 5% hand before you act, and 20% of the time, someone will have a top 5% hand after you act. So 60% of the time, you will win the blinds (+$3), 20% of the time, you will open fold ($0), and 20% of the time, you will lose whatever your raise was (probably $8-10). As you can see, this is breakeven at best. Sometimes, both you and another player will have a super-premium hand that will actually see a flop or get all-in, but these games tend to be so short stacked that these sort of coolers just balance out.
Last edited by NickMPK; 05-15-2017 at 03:07 PM.