Lol I have played and filled in as a dealer for a home game that was limit holdem, limit omaha high, limit omaha h/l. Game was also a bunch of nut peddlers so it reached showdown about 2% of hands. Was absolutely atrocious to play in and then I got paid a fixed amount to deal so was awful to deal too considering the sheer volume of hands we got through.
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and there goes slime chasing a massive pot for the minorly 72 bounty pot
I saw the same thing two weeks ago at 1/3. 3-way pot of $800 OTF and one all-in in the main and a dry side pot. Lady check folds turn with $60 behind and all-in takes it down with TPGK on a 1-liner straight board. Live games are very good imo.
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Yea, getting to play in some more southern parts of the US has been pretty eye opening
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I once saw a guy fold flop for like his last $20 getting 50 to 1 with TT with one overcard out. My brain exploded.
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It’s been a while since I’ve gotten to take money from southerners at the poker table. I miss it, it’s quite fulfilling.
Seat selection question.
Does adding a button straddle to a game (action begins to the left of the straddle pre) change what players you want position on or does it have no bearing on where you want to sit?
Remember how people just NEVER bet less than half pot in NLH cash for like 20 years straight?
What were they/we thinking? Just believing there’s no fold equity so why have a smaller bet size?
I can definitely remember in like 2006 whenever I saw someone betting 1/3 pot on the flop I’d be like OMG FISHIEST FISH TO EVER FISH because obviously I was a moron
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I remember sometimes betting 40% pot. I didn’t think I could bet smaller without putting myself at risk of inducing a bluff raise from a player who wouldn’t normally bluff. And I would have some balance with bluffs and value bets, including nutted hands. Maybe it was FPS to not just bet-ber-bet big with the nuts.
I figured out on my own the idea of sometimes sizing bluffs to bet out hands that beat me but can’t beat top pair, knowing I’m not going to get too pair to fold.
no?
i was playing way looser preflop than most and was betting 1/2 pot CBs all the time in like 2007-black friday range.
Did you mean to say less than 1/2 pot or did you not see how I said less than?
the first one, was usually close to half though. Played a lot of 200bb buy in games
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It was bc ppl were very very value heavy and it was about bloating pots.
Cbetting 1/3 or 1/4 in 3b pots was common around 2010 once everyone figured out you could installment plan ppl All in by the river if you wanted to keep going with the hand.
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Yeah fair enough. I stopped playing in 2008 and then when I’d watch HSP and PAD after that, people were still very reluctant to bet under half pot on TV. Maybe similar to being reluctant to fold a KJo on TV that they’d otherwise fold, though
Then I started playing live in like 2018, never online, and the smaller cbets were still very rare even at 5/10, but seem to gradually be sprinkled in more and more. Maybe from Doug Polk videos and that kind of thing
Yea Doug definitely ushered in a lot of that stuff. I think before the small flop bets was the insanity of checking back the flop with top pair!
Remember Samoleus from online back in the day? Man that guy was ahead of the times
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I checked back top pair a lot to set up delayed c-bets.
I mean sometimes I feel kinda bad, mostly friendly people but just clicking random buttons. Which I guess sometimes works when you’ve got a whole bunch of button clickers at the table and every pot is 5 way. But the strat talk is wild.
You were a revolutionary!
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You definitely want to sit to the left of 2 people who don’t button straddle if possible. One of the reasons button straddles are bad for the game is that it has a significant impact on the EV of the blinds by making them act first preflop.
My instinct is to do the opposite.