Preflop hand selection for a tight-passive 2/4 game?
Paradise 2/4 seems to play very tight before the flop, even though players' hand selection isn't very good. It's common that an UTG raise steals the blinds; an early limper fails to draw more than a couple of players in behind him, including the blinds; etc. After the flop, the players become very loose, staying around in unraised pots to try to catch two pair, etc., when they don't have the odds.
This being the case I'm wondering if proper hand selection before the flop should be *very* tight, since you're not getting enough company to limp all that many drawing hands and you will be running into the "horse race" syndrome after the flop. It seems weird that an ultra-low low-limit game such as this should demand really, really tight play, but this is my conclusion. Anyone agree/disagree?
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