Played another 2000 hands today and made about 1/2 buyin or $120 or so. I definitely tilted a little bit today and didn’t play that great. It seems like just about everyone is a huge loose passive nit postflop who plays any 4 cards preflop. It’s felt like pulling teeth getting money in the pot because everyone wants to limp preflop, I would say 60% of the pots I am not in are limped pots, and postflop people don’t really raise or bet with anything less than a set but you better believe they will check call all sorts of garbage. Anyways it’s really annoying everyone seems to want to limp preflop and not continue unless they hit the nuts. People will even check call sets and not raise them on drawy boards. One guy today just called my cbet with 66xx on a J76 twotone flop which seems pretty horrid IMO. Some things I’ve noticed
-The low wrap hands kinda suck (2345, 3456 etc) They’re really only good if you flop a straight and that hardly ever happens. Even if you flop two pair its likely going to be counterfeited so you can’t play it aggressively and if you hit a flush it’s a weak one.
-No one is capable of vbing thin here. I’ve seen people check back small flushes, trips all sorts of things. A corollary to this is on the river if the board is paired or if a 3 flush hits and someone bets they always have a strong boat or the nut or 2nd nut flush so calling with anything less is burning money (which I’ve been doing).
-Boats less than the nut boat suck hard(ie 33xx on QQ3 flop or even 29xx on a 229 flop is not that good)
-Bluffing beyond a cbet is just plain burning money
I did play a little HU today and that is definitely more fun because some fish will play like 90% of their hands oop which is fine with me. I can get away with raising and playing 100% of my buttons I think. One major leak I think some people have is 3 betting HU in plo. I just don’t see any need for it and I’ve won some pretty big pots vs people when they jack up the pot pre oop and put themselves in really tough spots when I call. That’s about it for today – GL at the tables.