Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 6:00 am Post subject: Playing when every street is capped
This is a similar question to some of the other threads in this forum. Hopefully it's different enough.
I was playing in a game last night where for a little while, two players would raise and cap every street, regardless of what they were holding.
It makes for a fun game Very profitable, but there were some tricky decisions postflop. Even pocket aces get the adrenalin going by the time you get to showdown.
What cards would you play preflop? What kind of edge do you need?
Big pairs and strong aces obviously.
There are pot odds to play a pair for set value, but mid pairs are tricky when you miss..
Would you play any face cards hoping to connect?
What about weaker aces, suited or unsuited?
I'm thinking that lower suited connectors probably aren't the best here.
Although as we're getting about 12:1 on our preflop stake, perhaps we should be playing a much wider range?
What about postflop?
There's odds to play flush and straight draws to the river. Clearly if you have extra outs.
What about middle pair, bottom pair or top pair weak kicker?
It's fun to gamble with them. But I'm trying to get the good spots
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 9:45 pm Post subject:
I'm just quickly checking in and I see that you dont have any responses. Here is a decent post on drawin in loose games and how to make post flop adjustments.
The trick in these games is to play properly post-flop, your pre-flop hand selection is not as important. Suited connectors, and pairs are fine to play in a game such as this as long as you can play them reasonably well post flop. I'd be folding Ax unsuited in these games as you want to be dawing to string hands post flop.
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