toots
05-02-2005, 04:56 PM
I wonder if I'm going to go through this with every flavor of poker.
I mean, I spent a whole lot of time with Hold 'Em learning the importance of playing aggressively. Then I move into Omaha, and get real passive.
Ok, if I've got the absolute nuts, playing passive isn't such a bad idea as long as someone's getting the bets in for me. I mean, I like hauling down those huge pots with 6-7 callers to the turn.
So, I've been betting and calling, but not so much raising or reraising unless I have the nut hand made already.
Which I suppose works fine as long as I'm at super loose tables with tons of callers, but it's also kinda boring. So, I've quit looking for the super-loose tables, and you know what? Aggression is my friend again.
Certainly, it can be wasted on drawing hands when everyone's just going to call everything anyway. But, when I find these wonderfully weak-tight tables - people playing like I've been playing, it's amazingly easy to push them around.
In other words, I've been chasing poor hands when I should have been folding them, and folding mediocre hands when I should be raising them. Stick me in a tub of soapy water, and listen to the fizzing.
I guess that's still another example of the importance of adjusting your play to the other players. I may not get big pots raising away at weak-tights to get them heads up, but I'm getting a pretty good win rate.
Or maybe I'm just getting lucky.
Still, seems like a good time to re-evaluate my playing style.
I mean, I spent a whole lot of time with Hold 'Em learning the importance of playing aggressively. Then I move into Omaha, and get real passive.
Ok, if I've got the absolute nuts, playing passive isn't such a bad idea as long as someone's getting the bets in for me. I mean, I like hauling down those huge pots with 6-7 callers to the turn.
So, I've been betting and calling, but not so much raising or reraising unless I have the nut hand made already.
Which I suppose works fine as long as I'm at super loose tables with tons of callers, but it's also kinda boring. So, I've quit looking for the super-loose tables, and you know what? Aggression is my friend again.
Certainly, it can be wasted on drawing hands when everyone's just going to call everything anyway. But, when I find these wonderfully weak-tight tables - people playing like I've been playing, it's amazingly easy to push them around.
In other words, I've been chasing poor hands when I should have been folding them, and folding mediocre hands when I should be raising them. Stick me in a tub of soapy water, and listen to the fizzing.
I guess that's still another example of the importance of adjusting your play to the other players. I may not get big pots raising away at weak-tights to get them heads up, but I'm getting a pretty good win rate.
Or maybe I'm just getting lucky.
Still, seems like a good time to re-evaluate my playing style.