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Originally Posted by eldiesel
But do people notice after a while that your river shoves are always the nuts?
Lol, that's one of my biggest fears. But maybe the player pool is big enough overall, combined with my "infrequent" once-a-week play, that my opponents just haven't been able to arrive at that conclusion yet. It's actually one of my concerns about perhaps getting the wife's ok to play twice a week, where maybe people will pay just that much more attention to me with the increased visibility, and maybe I won't get the action they've been giving me.
But having said that, maybe the opponents are just plain bad. Last session out, I've put in 8+ hours and won a couple of huge pots and I'm sitting with a huge stack. Two guys I've played with a fair bit (but not a whole lot) are sitting talking at the other end of the table. I hear one guy tell the other, "I only get my chips in with the nuts against gg". Within 15 minutes, I have the rest of his shortstack all-in preflop, with my AK dominating his KJo. He can't help himself. He's a gambloorer / maniac, he didn't come here to fold KJo preflop with a shortstack. And he didn't come here to fold his nut flush draw on the turn either. And if he gets to the river, he didn't come here to fold his two pair even though I obviously have a straight.
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Originally Posted by eldiesel
Do you still keep betting your PSBs against these guys, or do you go for lines of something like 20/30/40 against them because they're just incapable of calling it all off on the end without large absolute strength?
One of my biggest complaints about HOC in the easy games section is how he flop ~nuttish hands and then doesn't end up playing for stacks against poor players by basically nickel and diming them and only getting a portion of their stack. Are we going to get their stack every time we pot/pot/shove? No. But we're going to get it enough of the time to make it >>>>>>>> nickel and diming every time for only a little bit of their stack. Give your opponents the opportunity to make a massive mistake against you; sometimes they won't, but often they'll "surprise" you and will. If we have a nuttish hand, the goal should always be to play for stacks, and our bet sizing has to reflect that.
Gnotreally"surprised"G