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Originally Posted by DrChesspain
I'm not sure where it is that you don't play 1/2 anymore, but I've never seen a game where the old nits are the big winners.
Furthermore, it's not 2006 anymore...depending on the table texture, it can sometimes take more than clicking buttons with value hands in order to win big while playing live 1/2.
I don't play $1/2 anymore b/c I moved up a while ago. At the casino I play at, the $1/2 players who are winning the most and who have been winning the longest, are the old-men-nit-grinders.
I respect them.
I think the poker community is currently nuts and wrong. Nit has become such a bad word. I understand why though. A lot of live poker is image. And a lot of image is talk. There are many players who talk about themselves like they are so loose/bluffy and aggressive. But as I watch them play, I see that they are tight, tight, super tight - very nitty always showing up with the nuts.
I get it. They are talking themselves up as gamblers. But they not.
Ivey said poker is about being tight, but having everyone think you are not.
So, anyway the poker world is so wrong about the best way to play. Everyone thinks nits suck. But nits are winning in the games.
Last week I was playing in a game where this rich young rec player was berating this nit for playing so few hands. I didn't get involved in the argument, but I wanted to say:
"Look dumbass, that guy has been coming year for years. And by the way, he isn't rich. So how can he afford to dumb $500 to you and keep reloading? The answer: he is buying in with his previous winnings. He's actually winning in the game. Unlike you. You come here once every two weeks on Friday, and spew off $1500 before leaving. You are clueless. But thanks for the $$ and thanks for sucking."
So the point is this. Here is this young guy who only has money b/c his rich mom gives him money. He thinks the best poker player is the one who plays the most hands. He plays 70/30/5 poker. Can't win with those stats. He is a huge loser in the game. But he just doesn't get it. It's not about being cool and playing every hand. It's only about winning money. That's it.
So trust me. Everyone thinks the best players aren't nits. Guess what. Outside of the famous nosebleeders and sickos, most winners play tighter than 2+2 thinks.
But wait wait you say. Online is all aggression and being creative. Go play $2/4 online. You will see that these people fold to 3bets 50% of the time. That's not what that rich kid would think. He thinks, I raise, I defend. He's wrong. Look how often TP is checked OTF in the mid-stakes online games. Someone raises OTB. They get called only by BB. They flop TP. It goes x/x.
That **** happens a lot online. But almost everyone thinks the opposite. Almost everyone is wrong about when to bet and why to bet.
Anyway, about the HH. I do like the 3bet. I think shove/fold is too close to call. As an over-all live $1/2 game play. x/f in that spot is what I would advise someone who was struggling to beat that game.