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Originally Posted by Mr. Small Blind
Looking for some general advice. Pot control with 85% or better or get it in on turns?
We need some specific hands to really comment.
2-100 spread limit is a strange and sometimes interesting game. They have it here in Colorado, and the game is uncapped. If the effective stacks are $1000, then it can play like a decent sized LHE game once a couple of real bets go in -- the natural desire to make bets relative to the size of the pot is blocked because the $100 cap comes into play. If you're playing 100-200 effective, it is almost a SSNL game.
A small buyin size allows you to make the NL choice for yourself, as you can go all in and let the LHE players play the pot without you. The reverse happens where a guy with a $100 stack can just keep all his equity as you and another $1000 stack play $100 bet limit. If he's got a $400+ chunk of the pot (multiway action PF and flop), your odds actually are impacted due to his big chunk.
85% is what, 7 outs against you? If it is a multiway pot, it is actually hard to have that much of a lock. Multiple 5 outers and a PP might give them 17 outs. Again, since these games don't play with everyone deep and the bet that makes the $2000 pot only required at most $100 calls... If you're a NL player and play this game deep, you're going to experience endless LHE suckouts. That's when you're against decent players. The game will be more profitable and you'll lose to more suckouts if they're worse. You see 5 outs when the winner opens his hand, but the mucked hands held a lot of live outs. Thus, it happens all the time. The 20 outs in the field hit over 40%.
The last turn bet is offering people 19:1 in when you end up with a $2000 pot. In a limit game you can't protect hands with that pot size. If you have 85% equity (7 outs against) or even 67% equity (20 outs against), you still want that last bet to go in.