I currently host .25/.50 cash games with friends who are beginners-ish so LOTS of limped pots, rarely anyone raising preflop (except me from time to time to spice it up), people getting in with garbage hands and sometimes hitting them. Also no one ever folds to bets/small raises if they have even bottom pair. I find it actually hard to play with a normal strategy when my friends don't exactly respond to bets/raises as they "should" if they knew how to play - though this does make it kinda fun sometimes.
And that's fine and all, we have loads of fun...but I want to know how can I change up the game in a way that would reduce this? Or force them to rethink about playing said garbage hands, etc...
Would raising the blinds to .50/.50 make any difference really? We buy in at $50 so that's why I kind of want to keep the big blind at .50 so that we're playing about 100bb.
My other option in game would be just to continue raising them preflop?
And that's fine and all, we have loads of fun...but I want to know how can I change up the game in a way that would reduce this? Or force them to rethink about playing said garbage hands, etc...
Would raising the blinds to .50/.50 make any difference really? We buy in at $50 so that's why I kind of want to keep the big blind at .50 so that we're playing about 100bb.
My other option in game would be just to continue raising them preflop?