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 Home Game Advice, JohnnyG113, 1. Aug 2003 06:06 | ||
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| I play a monthly home game of NLH with a bunch of guys from work. Its $50 buy in for $100 worth of chips, 2nd place gets buy in back and winner takes rest, usually 7-10 players. No blinds, we start with $1 ante and raise it $1 everytime someone goes out. I have come in 3rd about everytime, I play really tight at first then loosen up as the blinds get bigger and more players go out. Its hard to get players to fold unless your "all in" as we all work together and they call to "keep you honest" plus I have seen guys check to the river with AA and a A xxpair on the board the whole time I stay with junk for free, make a straight, bet big on the river get called and lose to full house. They play crazy like that. So basically I start tight and loosen up so I'm not folding $10 ante's but then I start playing hands that get me in trouble and end up 3rd all the time. Any suggestions, I have suggested using blinds and raising them but get shot down each time I suggest it. Oh of the guys that play there are 3 that know what they are doing, I think I know what I'm doing, maybe I'm just a sucker but these guys finish 1st and 2nd most of the time. Kind of long winded but thanks in advance Johnny | ||
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| Re: Home Game Advice, trwebb26, 1. Aug 2003 09:38 | ||
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| Sounds to me like you should either tighten up more or start playing like the Devilfish (very loose). Try changing gears a lot. Throw them off. In routine games like this where everybody knows everybody else's playing style it is good to mix it up. Make them wonder if you have it. Show them good cards if they think your bluffing all the time - and if they all fold when you raise - bluff with garbage and show them the cards. This will really get them wondering. You don't have to do it but once or twice for it to be really effective. | ||
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| Re: Home Game Advice, stdioh, 1. Aug 2003 10:02 | ||
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| If you play with antes, but no blinds, then you are not playing texas hold'em, plain and simple. As for your constant bubbling out, if they are playing so calling-stationy then you are probably being too agressive with marginal hands. Play tighter and wait for something really good, then put the screws into them. It sounds like you've got a really sweet game there and that you can make a lot of money from it, but you've got to be able to adjust your play to the level of your opponents. | ||
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| Re: Home Game Advice, JohnnyG113, 1. Aug 2003 10:21 | ||
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| on 1. Aug 2003 10:02 stdioh wrote: > If you play with antes, but no blinds, then you are not playing texas hold'em, plain > and simple. As for your constant bubbling out, if they are playing so > calling-stationy then you are probably being too agressive with marginal hands. Play > tighter and wait for something really good, then put the screws into them. It sounds > like you've got a really sweet game there and that you can make a lot of money from > it, but you've got to be able to adjust your play to the level of your opponents. For sake of argument, with the game host not you, what shall I say we are playing then? I would love to play with blinds and have suggested it often and of course I get the you host it then, and they know I don't have the room for it so it goes on deaf ears. | ||
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| Re: Home Game Advice, stdioh, 1. Aug 2003 13:25 | ||
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| Anybody can host a game. Unless you are sleeping in a rice patty, I'm sure that you can rearrange the furniture and sneak a table in temporarilly. But maybe the way to get them to play with blinds is to get everybody together to watch some poker on TV and suggest, "Hey. Lets play the next one like a mini WSOP. We'll start with $10,000 in chips and use the same blinds structure, but with shorter rounds." ... if they agree to that then you win. | ||
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| Re: Home Game Advice, Eaglesfan1, 2. Aug 2003 14:49 | ||
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| Yeah try and get them to watch the world poker tour once or try and ge them to watch the WSOP once, But then again you don't want them learning too much ;) heh | ||
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