Fistdantilus
10-21-2003, 11:50 PM
Hey all.
Quick intro: I'm a solid low limit player at my card room that loves Lee Jones' book and is able to make a small profit at the game (i've read the wonderful 2+2 stuff as well). Recently I switched to playing NL online.
My place of choice: $25 Party. There's the "random" part.
The problem is this: I get TPTK on the flop in early position with a pretty uncoordinated board, and bet the pot. Since it's Party, I'll (almost) always have some followers. Their play is so random (all-in preflop on K5o,etc), sometimes the only notes i can put by their names are "IDIOT", "freak", plus "loose as a goose, and twice as wild".
When I was newer to NL, I called them down as was my tendency from limit games... and took far more than my share of chips away from them. Now I have matured a bit to not get married to hands, I have (fairly consistently) laid down TPTK against these weiners and find my bankroll plummeting and their behavior increasing.
The real question: when the all-in person could have ANYTHING no matter the betting, do you call their all-in on the river? Obviously not a lot of details, but imagine a semi-uncoordinated board (no flush, only 74 could make a straight, etc).
One solution I'm doing right now: playing PL.
Fistdantilus
Quick intro: I'm a solid low limit player at my card room that loves Lee Jones' book and is able to make a small profit at the game (i've read the wonderful 2+2 stuff as well). Recently I switched to playing NL online.
My place of choice: $25 Party. There's the "random" part.
The problem is this: I get TPTK on the flop in early position with a pretty uncoordinated board, and bet the pot. Since it's Party, I'll (almost) always have some followers. Their play is so random (all-in preflop on K5o,etc), sometimes the only notes i can put by their names are "IDIOT", "freak", plus "loose as a goose, and twice as wild".
When I was newer to NL, I called them down as was my tendency from limit games... and took far more than my share of chips away from them. Now I have matured a bit to not get married to hands, I have (fairly consistently) laid down TPTK against these weiners and find my bankroll plummeting and their behavior increasing.
The real question: when the all-in person could have ANYTHING no matter the betting, do you call their all-in on the river? Obviously not a lot of details, but imagine a semi-uncoordinated board (no flush, only 74 could make a straight, etc).
One solution I'm doing right now: playing PL.
Fistdantilus