Sure if that is the bar. I’m not saying nits are bad people. Just bad to play poker with.
Having one on your left is great!
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One yes. Two no. One is my limit per table before I start scanning for better tables.
Having a few nits at the table can mean that you’re effectively playing short-handed. I’m fine playing short-handed and definitely more tolerant of short tables than most in my player pool. I’m never the guy who breaks the table by leaving and I’ve always been willing to play HU.
I’ve also been in the position of needing nits to fill seats to get a game started. I understand the need for nitty game starters in certain ecosystems.
Playing against bad nits can be profitable. You just need to aim for winning more small-to-medium pots and stop trying to play for stacks. That may not be fun for people who want to win big pots to assert their manhood, but maybe poker doesn’t always have to be a dick-measuring contest.
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Lol just lol.
It’s a zero sum game. It’s by definition a dick measuring contest.
Kind of sounds like you want a table where your default strategy is profitable and you don’t want to have to make adjustments.
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where have I heard that before?
Hu4Rollz?
[Seriously, tho I think the real Clovis v NBZ prop bet should be that they pick a week to trade places in each others’ regular game, play a minimum number of hours, and see who has the best win rate. At the very least, they’d get to see if the two games and player types really are as different as they describe.]
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Nits hate hate hate stacking off with one pair. Sometimes you gotta punish them for that by flopping your dick out on the table
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To be clear, I am not saying I am a better player than him. I have no idea. He objectively knows more about GTO and solvers than I do for sure.
I’m only stating that I am very confident the average player would choose me in a game over him given our styles. I will make the game better and he will almost certainly make it worse.
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There are different types of nits and “aggressive” players. Different types of high v low VPIP players.
Usually I prefer the tables where I don’t have any tough decisions to make. Maybe it’s the downswing talking, but having a giant edge but maybe losing 5k on the night just hasn’t been fun lately.
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I’m in downswing too and it fucks with your head for sure. In the end though I want as many decisions for big dollars as possible because I am going to make them better than my opponents. As long as I am rolled correctly decisions are good for me.
I also prefer loose passive tables vs playing in overly aggro deep games bc I’m a variance nit. FL > TX. Give me the no tough decisions games any day of the week
I’m not going to argue against another player preferring you in a vacuum. I was told that there was a home game that decided against inviting me during the pandemic, although the reasoning was that I was too good rather than too tight.
I do think that not every player wants to play in a crazy game, though. Much of my local player pool does not like having to pay $100 to see a flop. They seem to want single-raised pots with 5+ players seeing the flop and don’t despise limped pots.
I cater to the fish who want to drink a bit, have a fun social experience, and try to see a flop for cheap and hit. I can talk a bit at the table but, more importantly, I listen to what they want to talk about and ask questions. Those players seem to like having me at the table and would rather dump chips to me than someone else because I treat them with respect and don’t act like I’m just there to take their money.
I’m not sure how well those players would like you or if you want to be in a game full of them without any crazy LAGs.
Sometimes, when you’re in a downswing, you start pressing too hard. The temptation, which I can feel as much as anyone, is to try to prove it’s just variance. The bad adjustment some players make is start being 100% aggressive in spots where you’re really supposed to take a mixed strategy to try and show that they’re not affected by their downswing. Some might also start being 100% passive and gunshy.
I had a recent downswing where I figured out I was just calling too often with bluff-catchers. They were good bluff-catchers with the GTO-approved relevant antiblockers, but I was failing to realize that I had been a bit too sticky during some runbad and regs had decreased their bluffs against me. I started folding more and started winning again. At some point, they’ll start bluffing more and I’ll start bluff-catching more.
I like to take a step back, get rid of all the meta, get rid of all the exploitative play, and go back to ABC poker for bit, then slowly add back in strategic adjustments. I usually find I’ve been playing too many hands while trying to hard to make things happen.
I’m probably doing the Calgary WSOPC, but have Regina booked. It’s the softest series you’ll ever see, you should check it out. Probably will be ~100k top prize for the ME
Link?
The Calgary WSOP series or the lol farmers series in Regina?
I thought they were parts of the same series. Either/or I guess
Regina is Nov, Calgary is Jan.
https://casinoregina.com/gaming/poker/harvest-poker-classic
Calgary series is 11-23 at Deerfoot, seen something on Instagram but on WSOP.com nothing detailed aorn.
Regina is so, so soft. All the fields are 200-250 people and half are just 50 year old farmers who play twice a year.
They didn’t introduce Antes until 2019 because it confused the player pool too much.
About 3-5 good pros from Calgary and Winnipeg travel. Regina has 2 or 3 decent pros.
That’s it!
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