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Originally Posted by Chunkamunk
I really think this should have been posted in the Med-High Stakes forum.
While the level of thinking improves going from 1/2 to 2/5, overall they play pretty similar and the same players can win at both.
I feel like 5/10 is another animal. I am a winning 1/2 player and do not feel comfortable analyzing play at these stakes. I've sweated enough of my friends sessions at 5/10 to know theres a huge difference. With that being said, I feel like a lot of advice here can be discounted because some of the posters have not even played these stakes.
not a whole lot of posting over there and i've noticed the quality of posting in this forum picking up a lot over the years
5/10 is another animal in that people just aren't folding their direct odds almost ever, you will see a lot more showdowns with people holding hands like Q8s when defending the BB, also, this particular game is deep, reg-filled, and hard to get into, it's not unusual to wait 3 hours to get a seat, so when I do get one I don't want to miss the opportunity to fight for a big stack and get settled in
the thing that I think a 1/2 player can learn from this is that TT under the gun can be used effectively as a 4bet hand because it's the first hand that is mathematically ahead of the entire deck from that position. if they are showing you a bit of weakness you should be able to 4b for a very good profit esp if you can force them to fold JJ and QQ which they will do at that level
before i showed my cards everyone thought i was going to flip over KK so if you are forcing them to fold JJ or QQ but call with AK it's a huge huge profit
I would study up on pre flop math because no one can break the math no matter how good they are
Last edited by KT_Purple; 10-06-2018 at 11:07 AM.