Playing with mediocre hands.

Just today I won a 180 Sit n' go for a seat an another tourney. For a lot of the tournament I was calling hands like K-4, 6-7, 4-3, 5-2, 8-10, and a lot of hands I would never have called with. But I start to hit with these hands. I'm getting a lot of two pairs, and pulling a lot of chips especially with a low two pair when there are much higher cards on the table. Just after I won that tournament I played a 9 person sit n go with my friend for play chips. I started calling mediocre hands and I found I could bluff a lot of people out or I could catch really good draws and hands. It reminded me of people I've played with before and I always say to myself "idiots playing with K6" but maybe I'm wrong. Is this loose-play a good way to go about playing tourneys? Seems to be working.

ive had the same thought and conversation with ppl and tried that it might work sometimes sometimes it wont never know what the cards are gonna be when they drop but playing that loose and calling those hands will effect your chip stack cuz ur calling so much more and your not gonna hit everytime and u keep calling cuz u think that is working for you playing mediocre hands but like u said you never know what cards will come so its all my opinion

obviously limping with those hands is good but if you were calling raises thats just plain lucky. so was the table letting you limp into tons of pots then with those hands im guessing cos i guess if your limping against donkeys you will most probably have the implied odds most of the time so i guess it aint the worst play in the world. But i think in the end itl turn out to be bad when you start playing people who have half a brain.:icon_sant:angel::joyman:

Mikeyyyy said:

obviously limping with those hands is good but if you were calling raises thats just plain lucky. so was the table letting you limp into tons of pots then with those hands im guessing cos i guess if your limping against donkeys you will most probably have the implied odds most of the time so i guess it aint the worst play in the world. But i think in the end itl turn out to be bad when you start playing people who have half a brain.:icon_sant:angel::joyman:

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Well yes that's definitely true. But the good thing is I have half a brain. It's just that I was reading some professional's advice on Fulltilt and that to keep your opponent guessing you may want to raise on hands like 6,7 or something you otherwise wouldn't raise on. They're assuming you have an ace, a pocket pair, or some kind of nice looking suited combinations. But all those donkeys out there will call anything. I was just playing with someone who would call anything. And you really can't outplay these people. When you're playing with those people you can't try to "keep them guessing" because they don't care. They aren't guessing. They aren't even thinking. You just have to wait for a decent to good hand and blow them out of the tourney or whatever you're in. Playing poker consists mostly of being careful and getting lucky. Do both =]

Haha, ye i guess thats aimed at higher limits with more people thinking not just about what they're holding.

bwrobbel said:

Just today I won a 180 Sit n' go for a seat an another tourney. For a lot of the tournament I was calling hands like K-4, 6-7, 4-3, 5-2, 8-10, and a lot of hands I would never have called with. But I start to hit with these hands. I'm getting a lot of two pairs, and pulling a lot of chips especially with a low two pair when there are much higher cards on the table. Just after I won that tournament I played a 9 person sit n go with my friend for play chips. I started calling mediocre hands and I found I could bluff a lot of people out or I could catch really good draws and hands. It reminded me of people I've played with before and I always say to myself "idiots playing with K6" but maybe I'm wrong. Is this loose-play a good way to go about playing tourneys? Seems to be working.

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"Hitting" bad hands is always luck. The reason they ARE "bad hands" is because they are harder to "hit" with. Ofcourse, being dealt KK is lucky as well!

The good thing about marginal/trashy starting hands is that no one will put you on the five-deuce. The real question is how often can you play trash and it still be deceptive? How many times can you raise with 64o before it stops being sneaky and starts being bad poker?

Sooner or later your observant opponents are going to see what you're doing and start playing back at you AND they'll have better cards. That's bad medicine.