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[Lottery Larry]

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The table plays like no other cash game I’ve ever seen. I’m a reasonably competent player and don’t feel uncomfortable about playing the flop/turn/ river.

Pre-flop the betting seams to be pretty aggressive from the initial bettor but then about half the table calls! A typical raise in this game is 6-20x BB and you can expect sometimes the entire table to call a bet preflop just to see what happens on the flop. Post flop the betting tends to get pretty aggressive. When I play a nice hand like AKs if I raise to 4xBB and I can expect almost the entire table to call. If I raise to 12xBB I’ll still get 4+ callers. It’s almost impossible to drive people out of a pot preflop.

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Please reread this again.... and every time you still are upset by this, smack yourself in the head with a mallet.

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The problem is that with hands like TT I can raise and will get 5 callers and when the board comes JQ4, chances are one of these fools is holding Q8o and I’m drawing to 2 outs.

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So, when you get a bunch of them to put in 15x the BB preflop, with only 4-5 outs each....

"and even then with 5 callers AA gets busted"

WHAM! goes the mallet.


"Essentially we normally end up with big preflop pots with multiple players where pocket pairs are uselss unless you flop a set and draws are often shut out pretty aggressively."

That's pretty much NL, isn't it? Be more aggressive with big drawing hands and discount single pairs post-flop.

"Every pot is raised to ~10BB so when I’m on the button with a nice drawing hand like 78s, I’m forced to drop it and end up playing few hands."

You have TWO HUNDRED AND FOURTY BB! If you can expect 4-5 callers, then you could almost limp UTG, KNOWING it would get raised twice!

"If I try and kill a pot from the SB or BB with a big bet chances are several people will call and I’m left with a big pot to fight for with aggressive post flop players, out of position."

Stop playing that way out of position. Or, if you want to lower your overall returns, push in every time.

"Basically these guys are all good tournament players and will happily go all in preflop or on the flop with a ‘monster’ like AQo. I find it frustrating as I end up getting driven out the pot unless I have at least top pair A kicker or better."

WHACK-A-MOLE!


Variance is your friend over time, but it can be a cast-iron beeyatch short-term. I know, I go through this myself.