Horse

Imposter

Anyone every played this either in cash games or in a tournament?

I was playing the 20$ tournament on FT last night and got 9th out of 48 with 6 paid. I could have held on for the money (i was 5th before the hand where I went out) but I tried to play back at the CL who was very aggressive and he ended up hitting trips on 6th street (7-Stud) to beat my trips from 5th street. He had nothing the whole hand until 5th street where he had a pair of kings (one hidden) to my pair from the start. ARggghhh...

Anyways back to HORSE, i've played this game 3 times now and it seems fun. Anyone got any tips for any of the games? I think I have a fair grasp on starting hands. I played fairly aggressively at all times with what I considered pretty good starting hands. I found players didn't seem to raise much as we usually never got any more than 2 bets in on any street. Is this normal or just a feature of the lowish 20$ buy-in? Players also seemed very passive late on in the tournament which i thought was unusual for a limit game.

So anyone got any opinion/thoughts/hints on HORSE?

hotspur

Yeah these are great fun, the players playing them on fulltilt haven't got a notion how to play the games, the best game to spot the biggest idiots at the table is when it comes to razz and you see what they played with in their opening hands. Most of the players limp because they haven't a notion how to play either of the stud games or razz...or omaha h/l let's be honest, but I've found that agression is not the best tactic at these low buy in tournies because they aren't sufficiently proficient at the games to know that they should be folding a lot of the time - you can't bluff idiots. I'd advise a straight solid game.

Rnger

holdem, omaha, razz, stud(7card) and ???? whats the e stand for?

hotspur

E stands for eight or better which is what Americans like to call high low, it's stud h/l on fulltilt

cardshark202

Rnger wrote:

holdem, omaha, razz, stud(7card) and ???? whats the e stand for?

omaha/stud Eight or better.