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Originally Posted by Leobzook
My local game $1/$2 is ridiculous.
Even a big $17 open raise regularly gets 4-6 callers. A lot of players seem to call ~$15 preflop hands with any 2 suited cards, even hands like T3s.
The standard tag game does not seem to work here as there are just to many people going to the flop and I am forced to keep check-folding to many hands that I raise pre that don't hit the flop very well.
Even when I hit and have AQ on a QT7 flop against 6 other players I am not to comfortable.
How can I adjust? Start raising to $25 to stop the rubbish from calling or stop raising hands like AQ, KQ and jump limp in hoping to hit the flop?
I sense a lot of emotion here. If I had to guess, i would say you are a competent ABC player. Competent ABC players have a very strict paradigm about how poker is "supposed" to be played.
However, as winning players, we see the game differently. We see "what is" and we don't complain about "what should be".
Lets sum up the situation.
You are at a table full of donks that are calling big raises with marginal and crappy hands.
How, in god's green earth is this a problem?
The adjustment is simple. Keep raising your value hands and when you hit TPGK or better on reasonable safe boards, bet for big value and get stacks in on the turn.
At a table like this, I'm probably dividing my raises into two categories:
Cat 1 are my big value hands: JJ+, AK,.
--I'm blasting the pot preflop with these hands "hoping" to get a call, that is, I'm going to figure out what the table will tolerate and bet that amount. At your table, this will probably be close to $30 preflop.
Cat 2 are hands that are ahead of my villains: TT, AT+, KJ+
These hands I would raise $12 - $20 in position preflop with the goal to outplay villains post flop. Against these villains that equates to pot controlling when we are drawing and blasting the pot when we hit.
As for trying to "bluff" our villains off their garbage hands. That is probably not going to be profitable.
Overall, these types of tables are DREAM tables. You just have to figure out how to adjust to them. And the way you adjust to them is to maneuver post flop such that you have TPGK+ and then once you have a strong value hand you bend your villains over and prison rape them.
Realize you will raise with AK, AQ, AJ and whiff a few times. okay, fine. but eventually you will raise with AK, AQ, AJ and flop TPTK and that is when you make up for all the times you whiffed by stacking two donks that have TPWK...
Don't let the "bad play" upset you, if anything rejoice.
These are the type of tables that can make your entire weekly nut