Cash Game Theory Question

con_leche

Moved to the UK, and found a 1/2 PL cash game in a local casino, [self-deal, with no rake, and a bar open till 5:30 am]. It is nearly like a home game, with the same players every weak, mostly in their 30s or upwards, with no online players, or studenty types. Players seem set in their ways, and non-thinking. Generally there will be a few K stg on the table with stacks from 100 – 1000, the average of about 250.

It plays a little weird to standard:

1. Pre-flop, you can only raise to the size of the pot, so it is even more difficult to protect a premium holding than in standard PL pre flop.
2. Most people open limp, nearly every hand, and often call a raise with any 2 for ‘value.’
3. The button is generally played very passively.
4. Many players open limp hands as strong as AQs, or AK pre-flop.
5. A re-raise pf, generally means only AA.
6. People don’t bet for value. I.e. most people with an overpair, bet the pot on the flop, and get no callers. Generally they are ‘just happy to take it down.’
7. Similarly people always bet the pot if they have two pair, generally getting no callers.
8. Similarly the players tend to bet the pot with the nuts, turning their hand face up, generally getting no callers. E.g., I fold KJs on a board of K 10 6 6, to a PSB, to be shown KK, I fold 45o on a board of K 8 7 6, to be shown 9 10.

How do you adjust your game to best exploit this game?

For example do sooted connectors assume more value in position etc., if people overvalue one pair hands, and you can get a lot of dead money into the pot pre-flop with people calling with ATC?

Mr.Plough

lag it up?

strewelpeter

Milk it when you are still welcome, you won't be for long

RoundTower

it doesn't really matter, if you don't completely suck you will just make lots of money.