Quote Originally Posted by Chopper
good reply, miffed. thanks.

i feel that sc's are easy to play "in position." like a pp, if you hit the big draw (like a set w/ pp), play it hard...otherwise fold, even w/ 5 8 2 flop and you have 78s...FOLD.

oop, they suck, unless you REALLY know what you are doing...none of us under 50 NL can claim this one...the bad players just get lucky too often to make this one profitable, imo.

i think my problem is oop, mostly w/ sc's. and, better yet, raising pf oop. the main problem i didnt notice before with this strategy is that it "thins the field" WAY too much to make a sc "playable."

however, that has to make my premiums pay better, if someone is paying any attention to my raise oop of 78s. do you feel people "watch their PT stats" too much? if so, that would bump up my vpip and pfr to "looser" levels, and wouldnt this make the "sacrifice" of this leak profitable in other holdings, like AQ? is that possible to track?

just a general question, as i know that is too "fancy" a thought for the 25 tables.
one of the things i see constantly is players playing 100nl/200nl even sometimes 400nl who play so mechanically it too easy to steal from them repetitivly and to avoid playing major hands when they have a monster.
Hence, you might for example be playing a 20/10 game, but if you open with sc's in mp even UTG once every so often to mix it up, you will become a little less readable. For me its simply that people put you on cards or a range preflop, and when you dont have that expected range you start taking stacks from players who cant fold hands, and i think of stars nits who cant fold sets in particular.