How to beat a pretty soft, and slow, tournament game?
You know, like most people's home games?
Early tournament, it's tons of limping, and then weak betting after that...4 limp in, mid-position min. bets, 2 fold, 1 call, mid-position min. bets again, call, min. again, call, caller has 2 pair.
But when you try to raise, people just call! A min. bet is as good as a 3x, or 1/2 pot bet - it just gets called! So it's easy if you make a hand.... BUT, you don't, because a few people have no idea what they are doing, if the action is on them, etc., so you aren't getting in a good amount of hands per hour.
Blinds continue to raise, lots of air, a few KQ hands that you raise, which gets no respect, then flop completely misses and someone leads into you, you have to let it go.
Next thing you know it's all in with pocket 10s into a bunch of limpers. You get folds all the way around, but the SB decides to call it off with K3 suited, and binks 2 pair on the first 2 cards of the flop, LOL. Now you are left with 1 chip of the smallest denomination. But you were on the button, so you wait for others to bust, just hoping to make the money. But the last 4 guys actually know what they are doing, and tighten up to make sure you get blinded out, and you don't make any hands along the way to toss in your 1 chip, so you get blinded out, LOL.
Anyways...I guess it's just limp a lot especially when the blinds are low? I hate that play because, with everyone else limping too, and people not knowing how to raise, it's like permanent-trappage! What hands are good enough to hold up when in a pot with 5 other people? Does someone always have 2 pair? How do you know your K7 kicker is good enough? With faster hands you can tighten up against these passive calling stations and make good money, but when the game gets slow and blinds keep going up, it's hard to drive the action because people just call with any 2.
Thoughts from those far better than I at crushing home games?
You know, like most people's home games?
Early tournament, it's tons of limping, and then weak betting after that...4 limp in, mid-position min. bets, 2 fold, 1 call, mid-position min. bets again, call, min. again, call, caller has 2 pair.
But when you try to raise, people just call! A min. bet is as good as a 3x, or 1/2 pot bet - it just gets called! So it's easy if you make a hand.... BUT, you don't, because a few people have no idea what they are doing, if the action is on them, etc., so you aren't getting in a good amount of hands per hour.
Blinds continue to raise, lots of air, a few KQ hands that you raise, which gets no respect, then flop completely misses and someone leads into you, you have to let it go.
Next thing you know it's all in with pocket 10s into a bunch of limpers. You get folds all the way around, but the SB decides to call it off with K3 suited, and binks 2 pair on the first 2 cards of the flop, LOL. Now you are left with 1 chip of the smallest denomination. But you were on the button, so you wait for others to bust, just hoping to make the money. But the last 4 guys actually know what they are doing, and tighten up to make sure you get blinded out, and you don't make any hands along the way to toss in your 1 chip, so you get blinded out, LOL.
Anyways...I guess it's just limp a lot especially when the blinds are low? I hate that play because, with everyone else limping too, and people not knowing how to raise, it's like permanent-trappage! What hands are good enough to hold up when in a pot with 5 other people? Does someone always have 2 pair? How do you know your K7 kicker is good enough? With faster hands you can tighten up against these passive calling stations and make good money, but when the game gets slow and blinds keep going up, it's hard to drive the action because people just call with any 2.
Thoughts from those far better than I at crushing home games?