$1-$2 NLHE - VERY agro game, contrasting stack sizes.
Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 792
Hey guys, last night I played at the only table open at my local casino. The unique mix of players created an insane game.
It was 10-handed FR and there were 7 super loose passives, half of them shortstacked (50BB or less) and the other half deepstack (150BB or so).
There were 2 super loose super aggressives, both huge bluffers and both huge gamblers. They both had about 400BB in front.
I was playing super tight and aggressive postflop when I hit.
Each hand would go like this:
- Guaranteed straddle (I was the only person not straddling), half the time a blind raise behind straddle ($10).
- One agro player raising to $17 preflop every other hand that wasn't blind raised.
- Shortstacks calling as much as half their stack almost every hand, then rebuying for 50BB when they donk chips away postflop.
- Guaranteed 5-9 players in every hand. Every hand going to showdown and pots over $100 almost every hand. Winners of each hand were usually the 2 agro players winning with ATC, even as bad as bottom pair after scaring everybody else out of pot.
Note: I have no fold equity at any time at this table. Other players have been unable to thin the field even shoving $30 preflop, getting 5 callers. Postflop, I saw players betting as much as $50 into $25 pot and getting called with air.
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My question: How should I play in this situation? Should I even play at all? Buy-in range is 25BB-150BB.
I personally think there are 2 options:
a) Buy-in for 40ishBB ($80) and shove over agro players $17 preflop raise with any cards that crush their range (AK AQ AJ KQ TT+ etc).
b) Buy-in for max 150BB, and set mine with pocket pairs, shoving with AA/KK (agro players are huge gamblers and have shown they can call $80+ shoves preflop with pretty garbage hands), and playing suited connectors in position for cheap if possible ($5-$10).
What are your thoughts?
Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 822
A
then
B
= profit
but tighten up that range on the 40BB shove to maybe
AQs+ JJ+
Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 792
Haha, I love it. Then they don't give you credit on the AA/KK shove later that night cause you shoved earlier with AQ and beat them.