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Originally Posted by RustyBrooks
People will just adjust. Long ago UltimateBet added a game called "Royal Holdem" which was played with a deck of 20 cards, just the broadway cards. So on the river, the worst possible hand is a broadway straight followed by full houses on up.
When it was first introduced there was a TON of action because everyone got dealt a "premium" hand every hand. It didn't take long for it to reach equilibrium where most people tightened up to more or less normal percentages and people stopped paying off with bad full houses, etc.
People's intuitive defintion of a "good hand" on various streets was wrong to start, but without even doing any math or study or work, they eventually settled on an intuitive hand value over time. The same will happen with your game. At first people will fold more because they'll hit less and there will possibly be more bluffing because of it (or at least, bluffing will be more successful which is a different kind of boring). But people will get used to it and call more lightly.
It doesn't really matter what cards are in your deck. Hands combined with boards create equity and once people know how to estimate equity they play accordingly.
Interesting post. Thank you for writting it.
If it is true what you have written:
this means more "air" calling on average at nil poker vs poker(52-card deck). Royal holdem has less cards than poker(52-card deck) so people(less experienced and more experienced) tighten up(like you mentioned meaning of "good hands"). Tighten up is easier to do than loosen up(raising, bluffing,...). While nil poker has more cards than poker, like you mentioned people should loosen up on average. Loosen up might means to play "crazy" raising poker, as the game evolves(it is easier to define perfect spot to tighten up, while loosen up can means just a lot of raising and calling,..). But yes this is really hard to predict.
I will make an online app in the near future, where people could play nil poker, so I guess time will tell.
I can not thank you enough for taking your time and writting your post.
Last edited by blackspoker; 05-03-2017 at 10:09 AM.