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AMRN:
--- Quote from: Pitchie on November 03, 2010, 15:32:23 PM ---
FWIW the no straddle and 100BB cap rules are rubbish IMO.
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We haven"t all just won £40k at WSOPE you know!! some of us have to play within a limited bankroll, the cap to 100BB helps. Personally would prefer to play £1/£2 with a £200 cap, but they rarely do that at DTD. Last time I bought into a £1/£2 game with £200, a guy sat on my left with around £10k!
Make the low stakes games capless, and you lose a lot of the first timers from the cash tables
WYoung83:
Have to say that i would rather somthing like 100-200 bbs mandatory buyins at DTD, it would get rid of the shortstackers, and wouldnt matter so much if some moron was betting dark. But i dont go there often for reasons like this.
Agree that if it is capless, then some idiot is gonna show off his roll, but muppets sitting there on friday night with just £50-£100 and 3 betting blind is absolutly ridic.....the game is just not deep enough for this type of stupidity.
Most people at the tables in DTD / or most other card rooms for that matter, have seen poker on TV, with straddles and players like Tony G raising dark etc, but what they dont realise, is that these games are 400+ bbs deep.
Pitchie:
--- Quote from: AMRN on November 03, 2010, 17:17:31 PM ---
--- Quote from: Pitchie on November 03, 2010, 15:32:23 PM ---
FWIW the no straddle and 100BB cap rules are rubbish IMO.
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We haven"t all just won £40k at WSOPE you know!!
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I nearly didn"t reply to this for that very response there! I just wanted to get over how bad I think these games sometimes are. Sometimes they"re ok, sometimes they"re unplayable!
Seriously though, even before the win, I hated the 0.50/1.00 for the cap and the blind bets. I love to play bad players, but I like to play them when I can play poker and determine my hand strength by playing the hand a certain way. Unless your at a good table which already has money at it, I don"t ever think you"ll hone your skills well at those games.
Paul
TheSnapper:
--- Quote from: Pitchie on November 03, 2010, 23:42:22 PM ---
I nearly didn"t reply to this for that very response there! I just wanted to get over how bad I think these games sometimes are. Sometimes they"re ok, sometimes they"re unplayable!
Seriously though, even before the win, I hated the 0.50/1.00 for the cap and the blind bets. I love to play bad players, but I like to play them when I can play poker and determine my hand strength by playing the hand a certain way. Unless your at a good table which already has money at it, I don"t ever think you"ll hone your skills well at those games.
Paul
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Completely disagree Paul.
Its really tough to hand read against the wide ranges found in this type of game for sure. But the player"s have tendancies and huge weaknesses you can observe and exploit, AKA, playing good poker, honing ones skills etc.
My experience of this type of game is that there"s huge variance and the beats can be savage. As a result tilt control and bankroll management skills are rigourously tested over and over.
Those are probably two of the more beneficial skillsets a decent player can master. Many top top players have gone broke as a direct result of one or both of these common leaks.
Pitchie:
--- Quote from: TheSnapper on November 04, 2010, 00:19:08 AM ---
--- Quote from: Pitchie on November 03, 2010, 23:42:22 PM ---
I nearly didn"t reply to this for that very response there! I just wanted to get over how bad I think these games sometimes are. Sometimes they"re ok, sometimes they"re unplayable!
Seriously though, even before the win, I hated the 0.50/1.00 for the cap and the blind bets. I love to play bad players, but I like to play them when I can play poker and determine my hand strength by playing the hand a certain way. Unless your at a good table which already has money at it, I don"t ever think you"ll hone your skills well at those games.
Paul
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Completely disagree Paul.
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You make some real valid points of which I completely agree with. Tilt control and bankroll management are very very important as you quite rightly state.
However, the OP was questioning whether or not it is right in this situation to call with 33 on the board in question. I would virtually never, in this game, in this situation, fold because the game is so soft. And as I previously got onto, I personally think that playing your hand vs hand ranges is one of the most important skills you"ll need to play good players. In these games, you won"t develop that skill. This is what I was trying to point out to the OP"er. If you want to learn about tricky spot"s as this situation may or may not be, playing $0.50/$1.00 (dollars not pounds) will learn you more than that game will, and you"ll still learn the important stuff you mentioned.
Frankly, you are better off sitting in the £1.00/£2.00 game with £100 (50BB"s) than you are buying in for the cap at £0.50/£1.00.
Paul.
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