a duece to twenty five spread limit game.
 

So my roommate and I just got into a debate of a hand he played in a $1-2 blind game. The game is spread limit, with the betting limit $2 to $25.

Here’s the hand:

There are calling stations galore in this game, with people usually taking inferior hands way too far in hands, and mostly calling a C-bet on the flop.

A younger player who had been raising more than his fair share of hands, and had a tendancy to lay down hands preflop, opened the pot for $10. One of the many calling stations in the game called $10. He loses most of the time and is generally good for the game. He’ll call a raise and a reraise to $30 with just pocket sevens. This IS a spread limit game, so some of his calls are correct post flop, but he doesn’t know this, and his starting range of hands is WAY too big to ever be a winning player.

Anyways, back to our hero, who has about $75 dollars in front of him. He picks up 5-6 of spades on the button. Both of his opponents have him covered. He is perceived as a tight player but tried some bluffs earlier that didn’t work out. He usually nets a nice profit in this game, and has never played a structure LHE game his whole life. He has only played No Limit and this game.

Hero decides to reraise to $35, leaving himself with $40 left for the flop bet. His goal was to make “a big pot” with the calling station, because he is comfortable to play pots with him in posistion, and take out the opening raiser’s hand.

+EV or -EV considering the stacks sizes and propensity for the calling station to call an all in from the hero with nothing after the flop, (but usually something that beats 6-high).

Re: a duece to twenty five spread limit game.
 

-EV
He's setting himself up for a half pot-sized bet on the flop, against someone who calls too much. That's a hard line to sell with 6 high.

Re: a duece to twenty five spread limit game.
 

Way -EV.
Maybe if they were all very deepstacked and they got in relatively cheaply it would become +EV. He pretty much just got all of his money in pflop 3 ways with 56s. Run the odds and he wont have 1/3 equity in the pot.

Re: a duece to twenty five spread limit game.
 

That is SO horrible. This isn't NL. You reach showdown 80% of the time in Limit HE. Even if it is NL it sucks. Unless the bet takes down the pot PF, you're getting called on the flop (if NL). Don't tell your friend this though. No need for him to learn how to play poker.

Re: a duece to twenty five spread limit game.
 

I agree with you completely.

In this game, what do you think of raising the max on the button with QJ suited? KQ? when it's limped around to you in a family pot.

Table is passive + raises with their legitimate hands.