What's going on?

FishHooks · #1 03-25-2005, 06:03 PM

Went on party tody around 3:00 est and the tables are crazy tight, even on the .50/1 all the tables were under 30 VPIP, the 1/2 was crazy tight also, one raise and eveyone is folding. 1/2 has been like this for a while, but .50/1 being any type of tight is just odd. The reload is over, can anyone explain what is up? or do i just have to wait till later in the day to play?

bozlax · #2 03-25-2005, 06:16 PM

I don't know. Personally, I've been cold-decked 2 out of the past 3 days playing 1/2. The hands I fold wouldn't have turned into anything anyway (no folding 85 and seeing 885 on the flop) and the hands I'm playing either don't improve or get cracked. Maybe it's happening to "everybody" and that's why it's so tight.

FishHooks · #3 03-25-2005, 06:19 PM

lol i dont think thats why people are tight

KaiShin · #4 03-25-2005, 06:20 PM

You obviously weren't at my table earlier today.

Had one guy at VPIP 89/PFR 65, would cap with mid-pair.

Another guy who was making fun of him and trying to take him out, VPIP 100/PFR 5. I guess he thought he could beat the other guy by out-GAMBOOOLING him.

I won two pots in an hour there. One was 35BB with set 4s, the second was 26BB with AK. Hilarious.

bozlax · #5 03-25-2005, 06:20 PM

Well, it's why I'M tight, dammit...I'm REALLY, REALLY tight right now!

FishHooks · #6 03-25-2005, 06:21 PM

Wow nice table, do you spend a lot of time on table selection?

KaiShin · #7 03-25-2005, 06:24 PM

I spend at least 10-15mins on table selection at the start of each session. I don't generally get in line on tables, because most of the time the line is full of sharks just waiting to get in, so when you finally take your seat the table VPIP has taken a nosedive. I look for 8 or 9 handed tables with decent pot sizes, sit and watch for a bit, and jump in if the action is juicy.

shadow29 · #8 03-25-2005, 06:48 PM

1) 3-5 is probably the worst time to play (at least it is for 2/4).

2) Some nights I spend more time finding tables than I do playing. There was a thread the other day in the General forum asking where the primary source of profit (or something like that) was. In my opinion, it is table selection and seat selection (provided, of course, that you play well, [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]).