Question about Vegas 1/3 difficulty
04-18-2018
, 05:52 AM
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I generally like tables where you usually get 6+ players seeing the flop for a single raise and iso-ing doesn't work. (Hence, why I like PLO.) Other people might prefer a table where they can 3bet to isolate players they see as fish because they want poker to be more of a mano a mano test of wills. It's been years since I played online, but being comfortable playing more multi-way pots was an adjustment that some online players had problems with when playing live. I am not sure how true that still is.
I generally like tables where you usually get 6+ players seeing the flop for a single raise and iso-ing doesn't work. (Hence, why I like PLO.) Other people might prefer a table where they can 3bet to isolate players they see as fish because they want poker to be more of a mano a mano test of wills. It's been years since I played online, but being comfortable playing more multi-way pots was an adjustment that some online players had problems with when playing live. I am not sure how true that still is.
I have a couple of friends that play online as real pros at good stakes (even 2/4 or 5/10 that is a very thought game) but we are always in contrast when we speak about strategy in live cash game, because they suggest me some "moves" that actually don't work at all out of online games.
They also tried that on their skin when they randomly play live games and learned that trying to isolate a bad limper can be very difficult, because you need to use huge sizes and you are never sure you're going to play HU in position and is very likely you're getting at least 2 or 3 calls.
Maybe you will be happy if you are isolating with suited connectors as JTs or 89s that are easy to play if you don't hit anything on the flop, but if you hold KK's or QQ's is not that good playing a multiway pot where you have just 80/100bb left and if you cbet without a set, you'll probably going to risk your entire stack against a random range by fish that hits 2 pair or draws that c/raise all in and force you to fold.
In general I like to play in position with a lot of hands and limping is part of my strategy also with non-premium hands like J7s. It depends on the game and mostly on the flow of the game but I think I'm good enough on postflop reading against average players I face everynight at my tables.
As I read in some other thread here on 2+2, live cash game is a POST FLOP game while online cash game is a PREFLOP game and it makes all the difference in the world in the whole strategy you need to use to exploit villain's leak.
my 2cents
Last edited by emaruggiero1; 04-18-2018 at 05:59 AM.
