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smuryof
Enthusiast
Silver Level
Hey all, 1/2 live cash game question:
Not often, but sometimes, I end up at a tight table where nobody seems to give much action. I can join a limp-fest all day long and be smart about post-flop odds all day, and make a (painfully) slow grind that way, but I wonder if any of you have any sort of strategy to change the table tempo at all?
My first instinct is to go out of character for a bit and be the aggressor, buying blinds & bluffing post-flop until people start loosening up a bit, but then I think that simply makes me a target.
Or is it generally a smart move to gracefully exit the table after a circuit or two and just wait for a more lucrative opportunity? What if it's the only table running? (Yea I suppose I could go home but that's no fun...)
I'm asking because this happened to me tonight, and the only answer I could come up with to extract money from the table was two main things: Slow play good hands at the risk of people hitting better hands (such as hitting a flush with a paired board & the risk of a four-flush on someone's higher card, or slow playing a straight with two of a suit showing) and, secondly, straightforward check-raise bluffs on scary boards.
Near the end I did begin to aggress more, but it didn't seem to do much to faze the table at all. Maybe it's just not going to happen if the composition is too tight overall.
Thoughts?
Not often, but sometimes, I end up at a tight table where nobody seems to give much action. I can join a limp-fest all day long and be smart about post-flop odds all day, and make a (painfully) slow grind that way, but I wonder if any of you have any sort of strategy to change the table tempo at all?
My first instinct is to go out of character for a bit and be the aggressor, buying blinds & bluffing post-flop until people start loosening up a bit, but then I think that simply makes me a target.
Or is it generally a smart move to gracefully exit the table after a circuit or two and just wait for a more lucrative opportunity? What if it's the only table running? (Yea I suppose I could go home but that's no fun...)
I'm asking because this happened to me tonight, and the only answer I could come up with to extract money from the table was two main things: Slow play good hands at the risk of people hitting better hands (such as hitting a flush with a paired board & the risk of a four-flush on someone's higher card, or slow playing a straight with two of a suit showing) and, secondly, straightforward check-raise bluffs on scary boards.
Near the end I did begin to aggress more, but it didn't seem to do much to faze the table at all. Maybe it's just not going to happen if the composition is too tight overall.
Thoughts?