5/10 SH wow!
I am normally a 3/6 player or NL. I while ago I tried to move up to 5/10 SH because I am good at NL SH tournaments. I was clobbered. I kept getting beat hand after hand. Well after some more reading and practice I waited about 6 months before I moved up again. I started noticing things.
I can't believe how much players at 5/10 bluff. This explains why I did so poorly before. I played 2 tables so I could keep an eye on everyone. At each table I at least had one guy that bluffed practically at every pot, and I mean EVERY POT!!!
I fould myself having to call down pots with middle pair many times even in the face of a flush and str8 possibility due to these players bluffing so much.
I played about 600 hands and only around 10 times did I call down with the worst hand. There were countless pots that I called down with the best hand.
Here is an exaple.
Guy limps in UTG and I am the BB with (Ks4c), all fold, I check.
Flop comes Ac 6c 3c. He checks, I bet, he raises.
So I think about all the hands this guy is calling here UTG. He is a below average player but aggressive and bluffs. Now if he had an ace I think he would raise PF. I didnt think he had 3 or 6 nor a pair. He would have raised. Only hands I think he could have here are like a Q9, K8, JT... or something along those lines. If he had a good K then he would have raised. And I didnt think this player would call with K8-K2 UTG. I felt his raise was telling me "Your the BB and you don't have crap so Im raising". Well if my read was right I was ahead and I had a club. I think its around a 56% chance he does not have a club. He also put no thought to his raise which lead me to believe he was pushing me out of the pot. So I called him down. More low cards below T came and he paused on the end for about 8 seconds then bet. Now I was almost sure he was on a bluff. I called he showed QhJd and I won the hand. My read was right. Now I know you are probably saying it was not worth me going to the river with this but I usually dont make plays like this. My instincts took over here and with all the signs I thought I had him nails.
But this was going on all night. I busted people over and over again on bluffs. It was NON-STOP. I must have taken in about $400 just in people's bluffs last night.
Is this the kind of behavior I should expect from 5/10 all the time? I figure more so at 10/20?
If this is the way things are it seems like calling down with any pair in an unraised pot against these players is reasonable HU. Well most of the time.
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