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Originally Posted by DumbosTrunk
It was a stupid big game. Opens were to $100. 3! to $500. People were stacking off pre with TT. No one had more than 150bb. I don't know why anyone was sitting there tbh.
They were clearly sitting there because it WAS 'a stupid big game.' They obviously have few issues with the variance train and know that there is money to be had even if they are playing short-stack poker...
$5/10 is no different than lower limits in the sense that you are going to have people at the table whose play isn't textbook or GTO. Some are going to be there simply to have fun...just like you have at lower stakes. For some reason, this component of the game gets lost on too many people playing live.
I don't have a wealth of experience at $5/10 but have played in multiple locations when I have been in town and there was a table running. Typically, I wind up being the short stack at a newly opened table only because I am just buying in for between $1K and $1500.00. Sometimes I will buy in for more. But I see a wide variety of skill levels and I see plays that leave me scratching my head on occasion...I use that as a learning experience just as EVERY session at any level will often have something that can be tucked away for future use. Just because something doesn't make sense right off the bat, however, does not make it stupid or bad. Sometimes, playing the way people don't anticipate is precisely the strategy that is going to make money...