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In my experience, even at micro limits it's unusual for someone to raise on the river with a non-nut flush on a paired board.

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I was part of a microstakes O/8 hand recently (part of a HORSE ring game) where two players ended up heads up and they ended up capping the river with a paired board. One had the A-high flush, the other the K-high flush.

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In games like this, I usually open up my playable hand range and see a lot more showdowns, and raise like crazy with strong hands, because more likely than not you're going to get paid off. nit play get destroyed when 4-5 people are regularly going to showdown, because a made hand on the flop never wins. games like these are incredibly exploitable if you know how to adjust properly to the situation, which I guess could be said for all of poker.

within 20-30 minutes of sitting down, I can usually figure out about how tight or loose i should be playing, and what kind of hand strengths are going to be good at showdown.

The game that this hand went down didn't seem as loose/bad as it was, and after the hand I obviously started loosening up my hand criteria, which is one of the key lessons learned from a hand like this.