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07-18-2017 , 12:32 AM
Hi guys

Im not a native english speaker so sorry for mistakes.

I play on my country last weeks 1/3 game. My table usually looks like this:

4 guys with 40-70bb stacks, some regs some fish
3 guys with 100+ stack, some regs some fish too
1 guy with less than 20bb, usually fish who loose a big pot
and me

usually the table are superloose. 5-6 player per hands. Regullary have 1 or 2 bad agro player at Button or blinds who ISo limpers with any kind of hand, yes OOP too (OOP ISO with hands like JTo or Q8s WTF), and yes 4-6 callers if he raise to 3-6 bb, and only 2 callers if he raise 9bb+. So i cant limp because agression and shallow stacks, i cant open hands like SC because a lot of shallow callers and some players shoves for 30-40bb any flop when hits 2nd pair+ any 8+ outs draw so i cant realize my equity. People call a lot with Top pair no kicker even 3 streets.

Im not sure what can i do with hands like small Axs,and Small SC. When i limp the 1 or 2 agromaniacs on the table raise, when i open small 5-6 callers, when i open big 2-3 callers who shove with any piece of the flop. I mean tables are soft but wild and not 100bb.

The logical game should be open big cards and pairs get a low SPR with 70% of the table having less than 100bb and stack off, but should i fold all the others hands and play like 10/10?
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07-18-2017 , 10:45 PM
Rake is 5% capped to $7.00
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07-19-2017 , 07:33 AM
Pretty bad short stacked game. Speculative hands go down in value. Big card hands and big pairs go up in value.
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07-19-2017 , 08:28 AM
Depending on the Villains stacks and your relative position at the table, one tactic that can be extremely profitable is setting up the 4bet squeeze.

For example, we open raise 99+ / AQ+ in EP, a bunch of loose calls behind us, the short stack becomes committed due to pot odds and shoves with a marginal hand where our range is likely ahead. We have sized our raise so that the shortie shove reopens the action; we can then re-shove and trap all the dead money in the middle.
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07-19-2017 , 09:02 AM
It sounds like the rake may make this game terrible. Is it raked if there is no flop? I would advise playing higher or not at all.

In a game like this: don't limp, only play premiums (99+,AJs+,AQo+,KQs), don't complete in the small blind, and use larger preflop sizing to try to get HU or 3 ways going to the flop with an SPR <3.
also don't bluff until stacks get deeper.
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07-19-2017 , 12:44 PM
This sounds like a great game. You can probably do fine just playing tight -- but not weak tight. Sounds like you can be moved off your hands from the aggro players. You can beat this partly by playing premium hands and partly by not folding when you have a hand. Value bet the loose-passive guys with the same premium hands.

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Originally Posted by itaba
Im not sure what can i do with hands like small Axs,and Small SC. When i limp the 1 or 2 agromaniacs on the table raise,
So this is bad. 2 better options: just fold or start limp-3betting light being careful obviously to pick your spots. E.g. LAG in cutoff raises 2 limpers and you are on button. 3bet somewhat light here. How light basically depending on how you feel about playing the LAG postflop. If you aren't comfortable doing this sort of thing, you need to start getting comfortable doing it or just accept you are going to play very tight ABC poker (which is 100% fine if that's what you enjoy).

And it seems like you are fundamentally misunderstanding suited connectors. In a game like this (<100bb, very aggressive pre-flop) these hands have very little showdown value. Play them aggressively to get folds and to disguise your real hands. In the short run, you are probably better off not playing these hands at all.

Also sounds in general like you are not putting enough value on position.
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