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Originally Posted by winadil
Cant agree with you enough on the suitedness* AJo just gets you in too much trouble.
As for the hand it really depends on if they are calling stations ..........
Playing at loose table where 4+ people come to the flop
As you move up in ranks in poker the games, people will play differently, they're gonna play more conservative pre-flop and it’s gonna be less players to the flop. So, what this means is when you play post flop your continuation bets and your aggression in general will give you better chance to win the pot. So, the less player are in the hand and the better those players are and the more respect they give the money and the stakes, the more the aggression is a good strategy, the more your continuation bets will work and the more you can power drive your way to the bank, so to speak, .. haha!
But things change there when you move down and play small stakes like 1/2, 1/3 and some 2/5 games where there’s a lot of players in the pot pre-flop and there’s 3-4-5 players to a flop and generally post-flop they don’t fold as much because they are in there with trash hands, they’re calling with gut-shot straights, they’re not really playing the odds they are just there to gamble. So, when that happens unfortunately, that gives you less options in terms what you can do to execute your plays properly. So what this means in general, you got to be much tighter. You want to play more solid hands preflop and hands like medium suited connectors go down in value. The reason is that you going to showdown on the river so much often. So, when you have a hand like 78s is harder to win the pot on the river because you will be dominated even by a hand that’s not as good like JTo but plays better in terms of showdown value on the river unimproved. So, the problem when you can’t get people to fold, you can’t bluff people, you can’t outplay them and you are just forced to show them down a strong hand, you got to play what’s call a linear range. It means you got to play hands in the top 10-12% of the deck.
So, the way to adjust is this:
You want to play much stronger hands preflop and hands that going to win at showdown and basically you want to play a ABC game of poker. You want to c-bet less often, and you want applying pressure post-flop in spots when your hand is much stronger then the range of hands that your opponents could have. So, if you’re betting into 3-4 people you gonna be at a disadvantage, you can’t really do that with a gut-shot or two overs just because you raised preflop. So, that logic sort goes out the window when your opponents aren't folding.
So, you definitely want to play stronger hands, you want to 3bet your hands when your hand is much more likely better than the other players, you want to raise bigger preflop and you generally want to build the pot a lot when you have really strong hands. I would be very selective and very very aggressive. Much more selective then you are in a normal cash game and much more aggressive normally you are. Maybe you play for 10% of hands but when you play them maybe you come for 5bb or 7bb or even 10bb if there are limpers and post-flop maybe you don’t c-bet that often but when you do you bet close to the size of the pot. Just because your c-bet frequency it’s going to be so much less it’s gonna be more obvious to your opponent that you have a strong hand, your opponents gonna fold. If it’s gonna be 2-3 players on the flop you really want to charge them alot, I mean, alot, .... make some abnormal flop bets and make them make big and expensive mistakes against you for chasing.
Last edited by outdonked; 08-20-2017 at 06:26 PM.