2-5 nl $25 cap PF. how to exploit cap?
 

Ok, so there is a 2-5 NL game that I play in, it has a $25 cap pre flop. This acts as a (safety) net for the fish. So there are 3-5 players to a flop. I believe this makes any pair playable, because pots get up to $200 quite often with hands as low as top pair vs. flush or straight draw. besides playing any pair from any position for a three of a kind, What other ways can I exploit the 25 cap? What ways might it hurt my play? I can see how capping it with hands like aces and kings and Ak could be picked up on pretty easy. Anything else though? All feedback is really appreciated.

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whats the buyin? 300? basically you need to see the flop with any PP.

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Unless the other players are really bad, I would not play in a game like this. If they're that bad I'd make it $25 with anything I'd regularly raise.

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I would exploit just by playing generally looser. I think suited connectors in any position become much more valuable, in that you will generally have a multiway flop and not for more than 5x BB (which seems standard in casino games). Value of lower pocket pairs go up, while I would play my big pocket pairs more cautiously postflop (assuming there are 4-5 players in most of the time). I wouldnt cap with only AK/AA/KK though, you need to mix it up to some degree.

Basically, any high implied odds hand should be very profitable, since most flops are multiway - suitedness and connectedness is very important here.

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I think I would like this kind of game - it seems like it would be a fish magnet!

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If it's a fish magnet, I'd play. If not, I hate that I can't protect my big pairs preflop.

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Yeah, but you would just play more cautiously postflop. But other people wouldn't be playing so cautiously postflop with an o/p. Think of how many people you could stack with 33 and 78s

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suited cards, connectors all go up in value, AK type hands go down. However, one of my weapons of the re-raise pf is gone, so I think this game sucks.

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Meh. I hate gadgets like this. They make me uncomfortable. You're probably right, though.

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limp

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Wtf $25 cap!!? Get out of there, quickly.

Okay if the pots are multiway limpa any hand that is suited&connected, pair etc and make it $25 with anything good.

Re: 2-5 nl $25 cap PF. how to exploit cap?
 

play hands with lots of implied odds. average stack at table is less than 200, leave.

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ok, here's the screwy thing about this game. 2-5 NL, min. buyin is $40, max is $200. but it is a fish MAGNET!!! You got about 2 or 3 guys who make their living playing in this game. You got 1 guy who is into this game for almost 100 grand over the last two years. Last night I went down and watched a guy donk $500 off in about two hours getting married to hands like AK and A 10 when they didn't hit the board. This game is VERY beatable. So what I'm gathering is suited connecters go up in value, as do low and medium pairs, and high pairs drop in value as do hands like AK. Oh, one other thing. Usually by the end of the night there is about 6 or 7 thousand dollars on the table. Lots of rebuys in this game.