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Originally Posted by CanadaPete
You should just move to a new game if the players are that good or that tight at anything 2/5 or under. biggest enemy in these games is rake. If you are playing tons of small pots or just playing to break even against half the table, it's time to table change.
This brings up a critical point. Why do you play poker and what are your goals.
If your goal is to be a 1/2 or 1/3 fish fryer and maintain the best win rate you can then the above is 100% appropriate.
If you are like me, poker is a secondary source of income and something that must remain fun and interesting. In that case you take tougher games as they come accepting a drop in winrate. Yes if a game devolves into 9 regs shipping 5 bb pots to their left while 1 bb goes down the rake drain then that might not be fun or interesting or profitable.
But what I hear op saying is that he played in a game that's inspiring him to put more effort into his game... He's asking if a specific direction is a worthwhile investment of his energy and time. Effectively saying "Fold pre" doesn't really address the question.
Let me put it another way. A number of years back I started listening to Bart Hanson's stuff when he was on Deuces Cracked.
Some of his Thin value betting and barreling stuff was unnecessary at 1/2. In fact some of it was -EV (at least as I employed it).
Table select, seat select, play TAG, fold when they play back cuz they have it and make an hourly. That was the general advice.
But listening and studying the other stuff improved how I think about poker and made me a better player (I think). 1/3 and 2/5 are my regular games but I'm not the least bit uncomfortable when I occasionally play bigger.
Also and this is just my opinion, If you sacrifice some EV in the short term playing with a bunch of TAGs or Regs and focus on learning how to exploit them better you will sometimes have the upper hand when you get in lineups with a mix of them and the fish.
I just wanted to point out what I perceived to possibly be a divergence of objectives.
Last edited by cAmmAndo; 07-15-2015 at 05:59 PM.