Basically some casinos allow it and others don’t? More don’t than do, feel bad for their phone’s battery life more than anything
I guess it’s that simple. Just seems weird cuz my casino doesn’t let you even set your phone on the rail when you’re not using it.
Live 1/3.
One limper. Hero raises to 15 with JJ and gets three callers.
Flop comes T72 with two hearts. Hero has no hearts. Erratic Asian villain donks for 25. Hero raises to 70. The other players fold.
Turn is the 8 of hearts. Villain donks for 50, leaving 75 behind. From a thinking villain, this is an annoying, leveraged bet. From this guy, I have no idea what his bet means.
Hero tanks before deciding to shove and winces on the river king of hearts.
All looks very standard. Would guess he didn’t have the flush.
Jonathon Little says opening to 5x is a leak. It was my standard up until my last session, but I dropped down to 3.33x and intend to keep it there as I tend to agree with JL. Thoughts?
What’s the rationale? We have JJ. I’d rather people called for 15 than 10.
It forces your opponents to play closer to the top of their range and we want them to be wide. My experience was that I’d open to 5x and pick up the blinds a few times, then people start calling the 5x with weaker holdings, so I didn’t accept that it was a leak right away. I noticed that the better players at the table were opening to 3 or 4x and OMC’s were 5x, but it’s only 1 data point.
It’s not optimal and can be exploited, but there are times when opening larger than optimal is a valid exploitative option.
This game it appears criminal not to raise at least 15 getting that many callers anyway.
in lowest stakes, most people’s ranges are calling with whatever they were calling with anyway–amount doesn’t matter as much.
Little’s thought process here preflop isn’t making as much money as you should vs very loose preflop players.
in a different game, then yeah, but most people who aren’t regs biggest mistakes are too loose preflop.
yes, it’s annoying as hell when I raise 25x BB pf and they outflop me but shit happens. (this is only the biggest fish, but they aren’t folding pocket pairs or suited stuff as long generally as you literally don’t shove it all pre)
Depends on your game. In Vegas, its probably a leak most of the time. In California, Texas or a random good game anywhere else opening larger is fine.
Also, there’s a limper, 10 (3.3x) is way too small anyway.
It was really weird because this was in a player population where they have me beat at least 75% of the time when they play a hand this way, with it being standard for most players to try and milk you with small bets. You can play them as fit-or-fold post-flop and make what would be weak-tight laydowns in other games. This guy was just atypical and had ATo with no heart. I should probably fold an overpair to a large bet on any street from this guy.
Yeah, there are no hard and fast rules here. I don’t think it’s true that people are totally inelastic wrt their calling range but what happens is that there are “normal” raise amounts in different games and people are willing to call “normal” amounts. In some 1/2 games open raising to $15 is totally standard and everyone will call that, in other games it’s $8 and everyone will fold to $15. The fact that three people called the raise suggests that 5x is not too much in that game, it’s also not too much in most LLSNL games.
This is definitely not true though, those are the most obvious mistakes they make, but the most consequential mistakes are bad calls postflop and not bluffing enough.
I wouldn’t have been surprised if you lost, I just wouldn’t expect the Kh to be the reason.
well, not bluffing enough might not be a mistake at all. We’ve all seen those games. I probably bluff less than most regs and it’s usually a mistake when I do it because for whatever reason (probably similar to this board’s hate of me) people do not like folding vs me whether I have it or not. Though online you can actually get folds nowadays but the rake is so high that vs those players you might be better off just leaving the game.
The game changes over time but there’s still people who are fit or fold post, those players make by far most of their mistakes prior to the flop. Villian’s AT hand line above probably is correct in 1/3 live postflop.
My 2019 resolution was to bluff more. I did and found it to be very +EV.
I’m aware–there’s plenty of players that you can just fire/fire/fire because if they had anything better than say a pair they would’ve raised before river it’s just they don’t let me get away with that as much as others. Maybe I’m too obvious idk.
I pick on limpers. Sometimes they just don’t fight back and you can pick up three or four $18 to $21 pots in a four hour session. That shit adds up. And no rake is icing on the cake.
If you’re doing that in a 1/2 or 1/3 game, pick on the bad regs that vary their raise sizes. If they’re usually opening to $12 or $15 and they open to $7 or whatever, it’s super weak and you can raise this and cbet non wet boards at a super high rate.
It’s 1/3. I did it so often in one game that the perpetual limper to my right glared at me for like 5 seconds before folding. Didn’t try to trap me or fight back in any way. It was awesome.
I have been pounding on donkers too. If they donk for $20 I make it $70 and they pretend they have a decision before folding.