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12-28-2021 , 02:42 PM

pokerking3344

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How do you play at a table full of calling stations that basically have NO PAIN THRESHOLD (only if you go all in they'll fold and you only win the blinds + whatever dead money the limpers left) - you can be only 80 BB deep and raise 20 BB's and you still get half (or more) the table calling you because they want to see a flop? Should you limp more speculative hands and only raise pre-flop monsters (QQ+)?

Also note: blinds are going up every 5 minutes.

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12-29-2021 , 04:19 PM

Darth_Maul

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1) Raise a linear range, not polarized

2) Raise bigger

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12-31-2021 , 11:37 AM

pokerking3344

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Originally Posted by Darth_Maul

1) Raise a linear range, not polarized

2) Raise bigger

How loose of a range would you raise? I do well if I play like a super nit but if I try raising a TAG range I get recked by these idiots.

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01-01-2022 , 03:24 AM

RRIDGEBACK

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Originally Posted by Darth_Maul

1) Raise a linear range, not polarized

2) Raise bigger

Agree with this. You also referred to everyone being calling stations, but not specifying if we are talking about standard loose passive types who just want to see every flop but then jettison all of their hands that they don’t connect with on the flop? Or are they calling down to river and on river to? If it’s the latter, then that’s great, raise all your value hands much bigger, and enjoy getting full value for them. If it’s the first type, then raise a linear range and just keep blasting at them on flop, and if you get playback and don’t have a hand, muck it and move on.

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01-02-2022 , 09:24 AM

Darth_Maul

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Originally Posted by pokerking3344

How loose of a range would you raise? I do well if I play like a super nit but if I try raising a TAG range I get recked by these idiots.

I wouldn't think of it as raising loose, it's more like making a slight adjustment downwards on your opening ranges. If guys are going to call big raises with hands like QTo then you can get away with opening hands like KTo or QJo that you might throw away in other situations. But it also means you have to get comfortable playing big pots postflop with more marginal hands than you're used to.

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