Why is it that...?

ianmc38

Every cash game in Dublin has a prerequisite of limping into every hand preflop and calling pot raises with monsters like 23?

Seriously. I much prefer live play but at least when I play online, people have the ability to fold trash hands preflop when facing a €15 raise.

DeVore

Are you kidding? I love that. Get one or two calling a 15 euro raise and see if they want to call a 45 euro pot bet on the flop. Get 6 callers and you gotta hope you hit your hand or get a very nice flop. You *are* raising with a hand right?

DeV.

ianmc38

DeVore wrote:

You *are* raising with a hand right?

But of course.

Seriosuly though, the SE the last few weeks, every raise from every position gets called. A €30 raise from someone last night with AA gets 6 callers. Flop 885. AA folds after a bet and a raise before him. Goes to the river and one guy has A8 and the other 58o? I was just laughing to myself.

No hand is safe in that place. All premium pairs are guarnateed multi-way action, usually with an outdraw on the flop. I just find it interesting that the calling range of these people is anything from 27o right through to AA. For example, Chinese Alan last night calling huge raises with 23o on more than one occasion.

cardshark202

Was playing in the fitz on tuesday and 7 raises from various positions got through in about half an hour!! This was 7 more than I had seen in the past month. I was in absolute shock. Even the dealers were freaked out. I soon fixed things by making a blind raise UTG. The whole table loosened up and things were back to normal.

Marq

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh

ianmc38

Marq wrote:

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh

I assume you meant "AA gh". GH on the tourney tables. Cash table - no use.

cardshark202

ianmc38 wrote:

I assume you meant "AA gh". GH on the tourney tables. Cash table - no use.

Thats some fúcked up interpretation. You need help.

ianmc38

Would any of these help {:D :eek: :rolleyes: :mad: LOL}?

NickyOD

The game in Limerick is very similar. Eveyone may see a flop for a single raise and a reraise may get 4 or 5 callers depending on size of the stacks at the table. I may even see a flop to a reraise with suited gap connectors if enough people are in the pot with deep stacks because I know the same players are bad enough to pay me off big when I hit. This for me is the dream live cash game. Pot limit Holdem is a postflop game anyway. You can't sit for hours in a cash game waiting for Aces or Kings and hope everyone will run away when you raise with them. Your strategy should be to see as many cheap flops as possible in sucha loose game.

ianmc38

NickyOD wrote:

Your strategy should be to see as many cheap flops as possible in sucha loose game.

the important word being

NickyOD wrote:

cheap

I dont mind that people do it. obviosuly its a good thing as your premium hands get payed better. I just find it perplexing that they dont mind seeing a €50 flop with J6 off.

DeVore

Who knows what goes through the minds of fish. I don't much care either.

Tables like that are the equivalent of getting to see your cards first and THEN deciding what limits you want to play.

78s ... oooh, I'd like to play 1,2.
AA... 15/30 for me please!

Why they do it? I dunno, I secretly imagine that they've done something horribly wrong and now they feel guilty and compelled to redistribute their wealth. In many ways, I am their absolution.....

DeV.

hotspur

DeVore wrote:

Why they do it? I dunno, I secretly imagine that they've done something horribly wrong and now they feel guilty and compelled to redistribute their wealth. In many ways, I am their absolution.....
DeV.

Actually the dominant psychoanalytic theory of gamblers for decades was predicated on guilt
There's an online nickname there I think - "The Absolver"