I play in Colorado and the max bet for the highest nl game is 100 dollars in a 2/5 blind structure.

I was wondering what strategy adjustments you would make in this game regarding

pf strategy
3betting

flop, turn, and river

and any other things you could think of.

I would adjust myself to a new poker room that sounds horrible.

Cant disagree, Colorado law is fairly bad, it's either play this game or the 30/60 1/2 kill limit game, which you need a huge roll for.

It's better than the Montana 1/2 games with a $300 max pot.


So, if there's $100 in the pot and you bet $100, and 3 people call. each person gets returned $50 and there's no more action. If it's $150 in the pot, the max effective bet is $75 and so on.

Do these moronic regulators even know how to spell pokeher? I thought California's 20 BB or Kahnawake's poker rooms with $15 max rake were bad!

Move to Florida- but wee illegally again

Buy weed*

pot is illegal in florida? you should venture in to mardigras in Hallandale... i'm pretty sure they aren't aware of the legal status.

no strategy ideas? it's 100 per action, so you could bet 100 on the flop, get raised 100, and then re raise another 100.

You should try and petition the room to spread a 1/2 game with a $100 betting cap. If that's part of the Colorado state law, it would be a much better game. Don't read that as "good" just "better".

Having said that I'm fairly sure that this will make effective stacks shorter in almost all hands that you play. You will never be able to shove large amounts of money into and pot unless your opponents help you along the way. This makes it harder to get paid off with your big draws, makes it harder to set mine, makes it harder to play your speculative hands OOP profitably.

The other thing that it will do is it will limit your mobility in big pots, and deny you the ability to protect your equity in the pot by giving people the wrong price to call.

Quick Example: 3 limpers to you with AA on the BTN and you pop it to $40.
You get 2 callers.
Flop: $120 with some sort of flush draw or straight draw
You bet $85, get 2 callers again
Turn: $370 you can now only bet $100 into the pot, giving your opponent 4.7:1 against his call, making calling with any 8+ out draw profitable. Where as in an uncapped game you could bet something along the lines of $200-$250 to make him make a mistake by calling.

The other thing you will notice is that people will likely have shorter stacks than in a true no limit game. The inability to create bigger pots will reduce the ability of people to accumulate chips fast. It will reduce the chance that a fish can suck out on a solid player for large amount of chips. This reduces the likelihood that fishy players will have more chips than they know what to do with.

In general, I think this game isn't very good, and should be avoided if the opportunity presents it self, but if you can't do that, you want to try and keep the pot smaller pre flop with speculative hands. You don't want to play hands that require you to get good IO to be profitable, and you want to pump the pot for as much as you can on the flop, turn, and the river to get value when you have a good hand as you can't wait for later streets to get your value, as your potential value will be limited.

You should also read up on some limit poker strategy, some of the concepts might be helpful here as you are effectively playing a limit game once the pot hits ~$150 and most of your bets would be $100 plus but are now capped.