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Need advice adjusting to EXTREMELY loose players
So I cashed out 30$ on party and put 20€ on win2day. It's an austrians-only site, and theoretically the only one that is legal for us to play on.
Turns out you have to be legally retarded to play anywhere else if you live in austria.
The players are so bad, there is no word for it. Unfortunately the lowest stakes are .05/.10 but it plays like high-stakes playmoney.
Rake is consistently 5% across all games.
I spectated the highest stakes tables which are 2/4 and 5/10 at the moment - and they appear to be at the skill level of 10NL elsewhere - and still much looser.
So I've been learning to adjust to shortstackers and nutcampers for the last two years, and now I'm plunging into a pool of maniacs.
A standard raise of 4BB+1 gets consistently ~5 calls at FR.
Top pair, second pair and draws will stack off.
Average flops seen is > 50%
9 out of 10 players play full stacked and rebuy full.
Players have no concept of bet sizing, and are generally unable to read boards.
So... basic strategy has been to open AK+, JJ+ for 10bb+2 per limper. Never c-bet, never bluff, and I try to get it all-in by the turn.
There are usually 2 or 3 players who play tighter, but still very badly. Since it's virtually impossible to multi-table with the software it uses this hasn't been much of a problem - I can keep track of all the players.
So... BR management wise this is not so great. I'm thinking about half-stacking until I'm properly rolled on that site. I'm willing to reload, but I'll keep enough on Party for 5NL, so I can play myself up again if I go on a bad run.
I played a little bit of 0.5/0.1 PL 5-draw which I haven't for a long time. The 5-draw players are not so incredibly bad, so I only expect that to be marginally profitable - but it's less variance.
I don't have an incredibly solid idea how to play these people. I don't think a 10bb standard raise is bad if I can get 2-3 callers average with AK, JJ+
I'm sure I've folded the best hand a couple of times, but I'm not willing to go broke with KK on an A high board, even against these guys -
The standard situation is: I open KK, QQ, JJ in MP - 2 people call, overcard hits, I do not c-bet - and they bet every pair and every draw aggressively (about 70% of flops in this situations), and will not slow down when they get a call - which basically means I have to commit my whole stack if I decide to call on the flop.
So I guess I want TPTK or better if I don't want to join the crapshoot. - I'm pretty sure I can open that up a little once I have enough money behind.
The hand I'm a little worried about - if I should decide to shortstack is AK. If I open for €1,4 with 2 limpers, get 2 calls. Then I'm 1:3 to make TPTK with pretty good implied odds if I hit it. If I don't, I give it up and reload to €5.
Should be +EV enough, right?
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