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Originally Posted by Omaha8A2
Nice start, MetlEtl! I've got to jump in to that 2/5 pool too. At MCC, you said play was nitty, but how did the players seem to you? Competent? Did people have different leaks than at 1/2? Did it seem like they thought they were better than they were because they were at the 2/5 table?
I've played a bit of $2-5 the last couple of weekends at the MC and didn't find it nitty at all, especially not Sat. night. The usual combination:
- utterly abject players calling 20% of their stack preflop to try to flop a pair in a multiway pot
- mediocre lags who play deep but don't really understand effective stack size of their opponents, but play OK postflop with enough semibluffing to keep one guessing with TP
- set miners
- good TAGs
Presumably you can tell the four personas apart, so just play the top 3 appropriately, more or less avoid the 4th without cards and position, and you'll be fine. I'm not a great NL player by any means and I'm sure the 2/5 is extremely profitable at the key hours.
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Jumped into a 1/2 NLHE where the game was pretty soft; too many people went ape**** with AA postflop.
At 100 BB stacks (and your opponents often with significantly less), if it's wrong to go ape**** with AA postflop then i'd suspect you're misplaying AA. In good live $1-2 games, you should often be able to make it $12-15 to go pre and still get crazy multiway action. With a $60 pot or so, your SPR is just over 3 so you're going to felt aces against anyone but the staunchest "I don't believe in bluffing" tight-passive. Agree/disagree?
It is still going to be profitable to set-mine from any position as long as pots are being 3-bet pre (and the raiser is moderately deep, obv.), but your overlay on the set-mining comes from all the other garbage hands that don't flop as strong or as often, not from the AA who (unless they limp or raise too small) are playing fine.
(Sorry for the B&M hand-discussion but needed to reply on-thread.)
Last edited by AKQJ10; 05-15-2011 at 03:10 PM.