What are the most common, easily exploitable NL cash game mistakes?
 

Heading to LV in a couple of weeks, and plan to sit in as many soft $1/2 and $2/5 NL games that I can stay awake for! From my experience, these games are very beatable. But I'm just trying to gear up and get my thinking clear on what to look for. Here is my short list. I'd love to hear anyone's thoughts on how they look to exploit these mistakes, and any other favorites. Of course, this list could go on for pages, and the discussion would not have to ever end. But I thought it might lead to some lively discussions...

1) Too much cold calling raises preflop, especially with trouble hands like AJ, KQ or worse.
2) Overplaying TPTK (or even TP big kicker) in a big pot.
3) Advertising big hands by only raising preflop with a monster.
4) Not playing positionally.
5) Over using or under using the continuation bet. And also not defending against the continuation bet on the right flop.

What mistakes or patterns do you look for?

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6) Why did he just go all in against me...

he must be bluffing :>

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7) betting too small to properly protect against a draw when the pot is big already.
8) not folding when the pot is big, but they do not get the proper odds anymore.
9) playing way too obvious (never bluff, bet small with little, bet big with nuts, etc)

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All of those plus:

Regularly making asinine big bluffs with air and no draw against players who have shown strength and aren't inclined to fold made hands.

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I find that the playing ability in these limits vary much more than a larger limit game or a tourney probably due to varying bankrolls. Its real important to identify the different calibre of the players at your table because of this. I also find that the players talk to much at these games and reveal too much about previous inexperience in such games.
As a final note, 1/2 and 2/5 are games more vulnerable to a large stack steam rolling the entire table because of the number of players not buying in for the max and I think thats where your value is in these games if you are a solid player.

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flop continuation bets

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that was an excellent question and i've learned from the question itself and the answers.

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All of those plus:

Regularly making asinine big bluffs with air and no draw against players who have shown strength and aren't inclined to fold made hands.

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Some players do this a couple of times and have the nuts the next time you call. It is a big risk if you do not bring enough buyins with you. These players know that if they need to bluff way too big sometimes they also need to value bet way too big. You'll need a very good read on these players before you start calling these big bluffs. Definately not easy to exploit imao.

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Not sure what number we're on but...

-Paying you off when they know they're beat. (So, value bet the river)
-Chasing without the odds to do so.
-Reraising too small
-Overplaying their transparent holdings (offering huge implied odds on their big pairs)

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against those soft live games, value betting hardcore is gonna pay off. not sure if cbetting would work much since there will probably be big multi-way pots against calling stations whenever you raise preflop.

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(1) Not being positionally aware (playing marginal hands OOP)
(2) Calling too much - thin
(3) Folding too easily

Lucky

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maybe I can add the following:

- not adjusting ones game to stack sizes appropriately

- Slowplaying strong but not unbeatable hands (especially when deep stacked)

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Forgot to mention, that I love to pay attention to who will limp then call a raise OOP, and their ensuing post-flop behaviour.

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- Not paying enough attention to the tendencies of the other players

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I only played there one weekend but I gotta say at both the Mirage and Caesar's Palace I was amazed at how weak tight the 1/2 tables were. Especially Caesar's Palace.

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I used to play live 2-3 times a week in a 1-2 nl game my best runs were all accompined by a mix of aggressive play with good and bad hands seems like when I think about it every session I have ever won over 1000$ at I can recall at least 2-3 times geeting called on strong bluffs or semibluffs these aggressive type plays seem to go hand in hand with winning for me anyway

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They give off way too much visual information,watch your opponents reactions to the flop and you will pick up reliable tells as to whether or not they hit or missed the flop on at least 3-4 players on the table. Also, another common mistake is not punishing the $2 or $5 limpers preflop