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Old 05-10-2005, 03:32 PM
RiverDood RiverDood is offline
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Default Re: Free Poker -- How tight?


When you put money in the pot, you're wanting two things. +EV and as little variance as possible. A no-brainer for you is to get KK in the small blind, have everyone else fold to you, and then raise it to a BB who folds. A much more problematic hand would be KK or even AA UTG, which you open/raise with, and attract four callers. You're almost certainly the most likely winner, but your odds of prevailing may be in the 0.4 to 0.6 range. If the betting escalates and you don't win, you may end up burning through all the nickels you've been picking up in bonus-land.

I'd guess that you should be super-tight in early position, maybe playing only AA if you want to be very sure of emerging as a winner in this exercise. Then loosen up in later positions if everyone has folded to you. And hope that the players to your immediate left are either tight or stupid. On the rare times you're in a hand, you'll most likely be playing one of them headsup.
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