| Posted by: HajiShirazu at August 6, 2004, 8:11 am | | Topic: Interpoker sucks Forum: Bonus Whores | autopilot wrote: I just went from the $1/$2 tables to £1/£2 tables. I'd say about 75% of hands gets raised pre-flop. How do you deal with this? To me it just seems like gamb00ling. It seems like everytime I call £1 pre-flop a guy to my right will raise so I end up paying £2 to see the flop, hitting nothing and folding to the inevitable bet from someone.
There must be a way to be successful here, do you just hang in there and tighten up or what?
The key here isn't just to play tighter, it's to play hands that do well in raised multiway pots. Hands like suited aces and smaller suited connectors don't do well in this game, because a suited ace is difficult to play in a raised pot as you won't know where you stand when you flop an ace, and suited connectors wont get the implied odds needed and will have to pay when the flop a draw.
However in this game you should play all pairs often even if the pot is raised because my experience in this game is that these players not only are loose preflop raisers but also automatically go to later streets regardless of whether the flop improved their hand. Obviously this is a great type of game to flop a set in. Other hands that play well in this game are the suited broadway cards, especially the bigger ones in this group, as they tend to be hands that you can see the later streets with even if there is a lot of action. If you are in a game where 75% of pots are raised preflop and these pots are often 4 ways or more (common in this game) , don't be afraid to cold-call or even re-raise with so-called "dominated hands" such as AQs, AJs, and against the very loose raisers even more marginal hands like KQs, KJs, and ATs. It is of course very important to only play these hands if they are suited, and playing them in raised pots will probably add big fluctuations to your game, but if people are coming in for a raise with almost anything fathomable, you are giving up too much by simply waiting for AK and big pairs to play in raised pots.
These types of loose and crazy games are frustrating and have big downswings, but they are the most profitable around, especially if you know how to play well in large pots.
Finally one last strategy is that if people are raising very often, you should always limp reraise with your big pairs and AKs. While you might think this gives away a lot of information, in these games people limp-reraise all the time just for the hell of it or because someone else raised and they are mad, so to be honest it doesn't give your hand away at all, in fact, the original raiser will often cap and is probably right to do so if they were playing against the typical player and they have a real hand. |
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