2/4 kill variance?

[Detectorist]

Found what I think is a great local game. 2/4 with a $5 kill. No good players at all. The problem is last night I felt I was playing very well with super hand selection and great laydowns but still lost 35BB. A couple of guys playing absolute junk left the table with 100+ BB profit. These were the guys who thought 3-6-9-Q is a great starting hand.

A bit of personal history...
I used to deal poker for 4 years and learned quite a bit from observing the good players. I've read and studied Ray Zee, SS2 Hilo section and also Hutchinson's point system which has given me a good feel for starting hands. Very few of my laydowns would have produced a win and they would have required expensive backdoor draws.

Table varied from loose-passive to loose aggresive

Comments please?

[niss]

Obviously play more hands like 3-6-9-Q and less A-A-2-3. Duh.

[BradleyT]

It happens. My local $3/$6 game is exactly like that. Old guys (and ladies) who see 100% of flops and never raise preflop and get big 100BB stacks. Keep playing, they'll be digging in their wallets once your A25 scoops or 3/4ths them or your A35 with 2 diamonds gets a 248 diamond flop and an an ace on the river after you've made the pot huge against a lower flush and a now counterfeit A3.

It's always amazing to see them in there with 389Q and they take a big pot with their donkey middle straight when the low and flush chasers don't get there. Just keep playing with them - they will be losing money long term and you need to be the one collecting.

[jcx]

If they didn't score big occasionally they might quit playing. Take your lumps with a smile.

[Detectorist]

Since this game has a kill which frequently accurs the actual big bet is $5.00 and not the big bet of $4.00. Typical pots with the kill were probably somewhat over $100. So I'm talking here a variance of about 1 large pot over the course of about 8 hours of play. Not a lot in the grand scheme of things...

thanks for the replys.

[wackjob]

BBV is <-------------- way.

[Detectorist]

wackjob, I'm a bit slow. What do you mean?

[nhtool]

Are you talking about the new O8 games in Florida? If so...I feel your pain.