raise or fold poker

nicryan

right so I was doing a test today on the .10/.20 omaha table on all-in today...raise or fold poker...and it was fun and quite profitable (but I broke my rule a little in some instances)

the rules were that I was not allowed to call or check...I had to either bet raise or fold...even if I was first to act and there was no bet into me...

I found that mostly it worked because I started to tighten up my starting hand requirements a hell of a lot....

anyone else tried anything similar to this?


Nic
--turned $10 into $60

Running Bing

Thats crazy not checking or calling! The point of the "raise or fold" thing is that weak players call way to much when their hand is either to good to simply call with or not good enough to call. That doesnt suggest though that you should always raise or fold and never check or call. Im not surprised you turned 10 into 60 doing this thats because your gonna have wild swings. but you will go broke if you keep playing like this.

If you were only doing this as an experiment or for fun thats ok but you cant play properly without making use of the check and call buttons

brianmc

Babybing wrote:

Thats crazy not checking or calling! The point of the "raise or fold" thing is that weak players call way to much when their hand is either to good to simply call with or not good enough to call. That doesnt suggest though that you should always raise or fold and never check or call. Im not surprised you turned 10 into 60 doing this thats because your gonna have wild swings. but you will go broke if you keep playing like this.

If you were only doing this as an experiment or for fun thats ok but you cant play properly without making use of the check and call buttons

I don't think I've ever seen Nic play poker NOT as an experiment or for fun. In fact raise or fold seems to me to be his normal style...

I'm pretty sure though that he realises that he'll go broke like this...

nicryan

well yeah course I wasn't doing this as anything other then an experiment...checking and calling are valid options in any game...but it was fun...and anyway, it was at micro stakes and I also did say that I broke my rule a few times...


Nic

Marq

Probably a bad level to experiment. What happens at the .10/.20 tables bears no resemblance to what happens at poker tables.

djkeogh

i was playing on All In the other day and some guy from Oslo was using this technique. He was making good money from it but once i noticed it i just kept re-raising him and he either folded or called and then check folded to my bet on the turn. Made a nice bit of cash from him. Will be looking for him again to see if this is how he always plays!

jtsuited

i just tried 'check or call poker'.

....doesn't work