Capped Game

I found myself playing a 10NL capped game. The pot being capped at $3. So effectively I am playing 3NL with a 10NL blind structure.

The preflop betting seemed to be very much like that of a 100BB game, and the blind structure was 0.5/0.10

A standard preflop raise was 30-50c however with the cap this is the equivalent of 10-15BB preflop raise.

How is it best to adjust to such a game where it is in essence a SS game with large preflop raising.. but everyone seems oblivious to this.

Preflop you only play high cards. postflop you stack top pair and sometimes even lower. Suitedness, connectedness and setminingability are worthless concepts.

The cap games essentially play like a table full of shortstacks. Suited connectors and low pairs lose basically all their value and instead we want to be playing hands like broadway and stuff. In a raised pot top pair is likely good so we want to be playing hands that make top pair. Also the raise size should be compared to the blinds not the buy-in. If you played 5c/10c and the buy-in was a million dollars, I think the 1k preflop raises would still be huge because of the horrible price you get on steals. The one reason to possibly raise a bit smaller is just because you don't need to raise more to get stacks in. But if they still call 3x too much I'd just continue to make it 3x in that game, while calling a lot less frequently because as I said you basically have no implied odds even to set mine.

edit: yeah what Belgo said

Stand up and find a seat at a deep table would be my suggestion.

I used to think this too, talked with a guy though that says he plays them and even though he enjoys the deeper games more, there are just far less regs in them and he can only beat up to like 1/2 and 2/4 for the deep games but has played up to 25/50 on the cap games just far less regs and a bunch more randoms thinking "omg I can only lose 30 BBs and I'm not going to make any adjustments what a great game".

That said I've never played them and doubt I ever will, I just don't like tables full of shortstacks, but if you can handle it and play it I have heard they can be pretty profitable.

I don't know, playing a SS game where 90% of the players don't realise it should be played as a SS game has to give us some kind of skill advantage.

I prefer playing at the cap tables. If I build a large stack, one bad beat or "all-in" will not wipe me out.

Same with the normal tables, if you have any bankroll management at all...

I like playing capped games but at times i feel i wished it was not capped with big hands.

There are a lot of idoits you seem to like pushing in all the time which means it can be profitable at times.

Also do u guys not feel like playing a limit game at times tho?

Exactly ^^^...

I have been playing these a lot simply because the players are just soooo horrible. Often the vp$ip for the table will be ridiculous, with two (or more!) players playing almost every hand-- obviously as noted you can't get away with playing super loose like you could in a very deep game because implied odds are completely gone. It's the best of both worlds: very loose players (good), where those mistakes are then magnified by the cap structure (great).

Unfortunately, I run very bad at $50nl ... [note that the variance will be greater in these, simply because you have to get it in much thinner than in a deep stack game]

Decided to give cap a go. Trying out $15 cap right now. I like the fact that everyone's short, in that it's real easy to create a profitable SPR. Seeing some weird plays already, like shoving AI with gutshots and stuff. HA, or shoving over my cbet with an underpair, lol. I'm liking this cap thing