Full House
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 755
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I've logged a lot of hours in AC under various conditions starting at the 12 o'clock game with all the retired rocks and ending at 4 am with all the drunks.
Couple of tips.
1. Drink. But don't drink too much!. At 12 o'clok in the afternoon you want them to think u are a donk going on a bender. At 2 am you want to fit in. A few drinks takes the edge off too. If you sit there with your headphones and sunglasses and hat sipping mineral water well I'm just not going to play a hand with you unless I have the nuts!
2. Be friendly. Talk to your neighbors. Don't ever talk crap about people's awful play. You want them to call you AA w. KQ.
3. Watch the table carefully. I like to pick out 1-3 players to pick on. Always call their raises. Re-raise them. Of course you should have a reason to pick on them based on your observations. Are they too lose and have a huge range or are they too tight and will fold to almost any bluff? Pick on them until you bust them or they leave.
4. The game is sooooo f'n slooooooooooowwwwwwwwww compared to online. This was mentioned above. Don't fall into the trap of playing Q8 because it was the best hand you've seen in 45 minutes and 3 rotations. It ain't worth it. Even if you sit like a rock for an hour you will still get action against your good hands at these loose games. Be patient.
5. Pay attention to the standard raise that gets attention. Is it 7, 10, 20? This will change a lot and you need to be aware of it. When you get some big stacks working the game will play like 2/5. Next, do you want attention? Do you want to play multiway w/ soooted connectors or do you want chase out as many as possible. Act accordingly.
6. Stealing the blinds is meaningless at 1/2. At least in AC where the stacks are 150 bb's deep.
7. Build pots. Preflop Raise w/ your Axs and low PP's sometimes to build the pot to either bluff or connect and win a big score. You want some deception to when you raise with big pairs and the bigger the pot on the flop the more there is to steal or in the best case connect on your huge draw.
I find most games are generally very weak with a lot of limping and calling stations. Easy to beat if you hit some hands.
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