Raise pre. Otherwise nh.

He put it in Img tags so it was trying to show it as a picture. I fixed that up, but he must have been editing at the same time and has put in a link to the hand on the Hand Converter.

I really don't think playing only super-premium hands is the best way to exploit the super-loose calling stations.

imo make your PFRs a lot smaller in size, and do not over-play one-pair hands (and rarely c-bet BLUFF on the flop). But make sure to play a LOT of flops since you are likely better at post-flop play than the majority of them -- fold your K4o and your A6o but be willing to see a flop with 2 paint, 45+ 46+ and possibly even suited-ATC (or at the very least suited A2 K2 Q9 45+ 46+) ... make sure you have a maximum size stack so with these speculative hands you can call preflop raises (in position, preferably).

On the flop make your continuation-bets a lot smaller than at a "normal" table -- so when you are called by 2+ opponents it doesn't cost you as much (donks seem to fold to a 25%-pot bet just as often as a 75%-pot bet) and wait for the TURN to bet FULL POT FOR VALUE (or check-fold if you still have nothing -- let the SMALL pot go on the turn esp. when it's obvious a donk hit their draw -- but if they call your value-PSB on the turn your TPGK+ is usually the best hand and you can valuetown the river about 75% pot as they will NEVER believe you have something due to your "weak bet" OTF. And if YOU hit your flush or strt then you might even get raised by their 2pair and you can felt the knuckledraggers.


PS: in these types of games, you might have 3+ limpers before you, make your PFR a prretty consistent size no matter how many limpers there are -- perhaps just 2.5bb or 3-3.5bb -- as the TIGHT/solid players might fold after limping while the bad opponents won't fold no matter how much you make your raise. If you really want to be exploitable, make your "Premium Pair" PFR *huge* (whether vs. limpers, or opening) and hope that only the solid opponents notice how obvious you are making it (i.e. they fold their non-premium, but donkeys don't notice )

^^^^ Thank You for taking the time to write this DfD ^^^^

Let me digest it and put your recommendations into practice.

I will post further details on the results.

It makes sense though. Thinking back I realize I need to slow down some both pre flop and on the flop.
I'll stop there for now and work out more ways to include your comments into my play.  

Nicely articulated brilliance.




hope it helps, twospd. It helped me last night, bought in $80 @ live $1/2, there was another apparent-LAGtard (with >800 in front of him) and I walked out with $530 in about 90 minutes. Raising preflop small VERY often, and yet somehow they almost never 3-bet me (and often folded after limping before me -- at least the obviously-tight opponents did ) and I just kept c-betting about 25%-30% of pot even when 5handed, again they usually just called ("slow playing" lol) or else folded, rarely did they re-pop. If they DID re-pop it was a min-raise so I could draw super-cheap and YAY a few gutshots and backdoor flushes when they thought I was pushing my apparent unpaired-high-cards starter (due to my PFR with 96s etc. mwahahahahaha) = getting opponent's stack ez game  


But don't forget to take Fletch advice above -- when you get 99+ you can't raise to just $7 or $8, now raise to like $20+ and you will only get called by the unobservant players who think that YET AGAIN you are building a pot with a bull$hit hand. Hope you flop a set (like I did last night, 99 on AK9 board no I am not kidding ^_^ ) and enjoy getting paid off by AT (yes, that's what villain committed his stack with on that flop).

Everleaf $0.01/$0.02 No Limit Hold'em - 7 players - View hand 1455861
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

BB: $0.76
UTG: $0.56
UTG+1: $0.42
Hero (MP): $5.30
CO: $1.43
BTN: $2.59
SB: $2.46

Pre Flop: ($0.03) Hero is MP with A K
2 folds, Hero raises to $0.06, 1 fold, BTN calls $0.06, SB calls $0.05, BB calls $0.04

Flop: ($0.24) 5 8 T (4 players)
SB checks, BB checks, Hero checks, BTN bets $0.24, SB folds, BB folds, Hero folds



I know this is vague but what would any of you have put this player on?
How should I have played this?
This is a move I see over and over.
In my above post you you can see I still have PT set up as it "came out of the box"
Am I wrong to believe that most of the players here have there HUD set up to show my fold % to a ? whatever it is called.  What is it called?

Prob over thinking this.
And yes I would think how I played it is appropriate.
But.....This happens soooooo often. It makes the game so transparent....also it was a short session but I had just caught one of those nasty Italians trying to do this to me out of the sb..they cold/flatted and immediately began donking into me...I wanted to see what was up so I did play back at them OTF...they slowed down...I bet 33% on turn...they call...I check SD and sure enough they had air.  QJo...WTF? i thought

Anyways here I immediately think set...then 99+...then open ended...then air???
the darn pot sized bet is either a strong bluff...(those darn Italian's love to play position this way you know) or...?

It seems to me that 2nl is playing like a limit game with everyone having "over" chips in front of them...think that is what it is called when a limit game is also a No Limit game for the players that have chosen to do it?

Don't get me started about 10NL...those *$%&%%(%^(^&%  are some TOUGH regs there...they just will not pay off and I don't know enough about bet sizing to lead them down the wrong road...books should be here any day now and maybe they will help me some.

Oh, and I forgot to say There's a clean skin for Prodigy in the post at http://www.sixandfourum.com/fourum-poker-games-and-freerolls/prodigy-poker-games/msg18354/#msg18354