Loose no-limit hold-em games
There's a short thread on rgp about playing in loose no-limit hold'em games.
Like many of such threads, some of the advice is really bad, some is pretty good.
Here's the original question in its entirety.
Here's the non-responsive response from one of the resident experts.
If that's all the original question would have said then he's right. But that's not all he said. First of all it's very clear the question is just about pre-flop hand selection. That's a fairly easy question to answer without having to worry much about post-flop behaviors.
He's talking about a field that plays a lot of hands and does a lot of pre-flop raising and a lot of calling those pre-flop raises.
In such a game you should pay more attention to position. Play tighter in front, but play more hands from in back. Be willing to call multiway raises from the back. With a large stack be more willing to play for implied odds (play more hands). Especially if another large stack is playing from early position. If you have a large stack on your left be more careful if you have a large stack. (that's part of what it means to play position)
UPDATE:
As the rgp thread progressed it became clear that I probably misunderstood the original poster's question. I had interpreted his "a lot of limping, frequent raises with mediocre hands" as a description of table conditions. It's more likely he meant that as a proposed answer to his own question of how to play at a loose table.
If that's correct then he's describing a passive table (you can't do a lot of limping if it's not a passive table).
My answer of "pay attention to position" still isn't far off, but it's not as critical as it would be at a more aggresive table.
Like many of such threads, some of the advice is really bad, some is pretty good.
Here's the original question in its entirety.
What is the best way to play a loose no-limit table, a
lot of limping, frequent raises with mediocre hands?
Here's the non-responsive response from one of the resident experts.
The big question is what do you mean by loose? Loose preflop, loose
passive, loose aggressive? Loose the whole way down? Do you get people
who will raise any 2, or people who call any 2? Saying "loose NLHE game"
isn't very descriptive.
If that's all the original question would have said then he's right. But that's not all he said. First of all it's very clear the question is just about pre-flop hand selection. That's a fairly easy question to answer without having to worry much about post-flop behaviors.
He's talking about a field that plays a lot of hands and does a lot of pre-flop raising and a lot of calling those pre-flop raises.
In such a game you should pay more attention to position. Play tighter in front, but play more hands from in back. Be willing to call multiway raises from the back. With a large stack be more willing to play for implied odds (play more hands). Especially if another large stack is playing from early position. If you have a large stack on your left be more careful if you have a large stack. (that's part of what it means to play position)
UPDATE:
As the rgp thread progressed it became clear that I probably misunderstood the original poster's question. I had interpreted his "a lot of limping, frequent raises with mediocre hands" as a description of table conditions. It's more likely he meant that as a proposed answer to his own question of how to play at a loose table.
If that's correct then he's describing a passive table (you can't do a lot of limping if it's not a passive table).
My answer of "pay attention to position" still isn't far off, but it's not as critical as it would be at a more aggresive table.
Labels: position, stack size, Strategic thinking in no limit hold'em
posted by Gary Carson at 6:45 PM
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