Re: Is It Possible To Win A Tight Hold \'em Game, Theoretically?
Sounds like you've got two different questions going on here.
1. Is the Royal Vegas .50/$1 game beatable? Sounds like it is. It's definitely tighter than the ultraloose games at B&M casinos, but by online standards, it is not supertight at all. 3-5 players seeing the flop means that at least one or two of them shouldn't be there. . . . If there's a lot of preflop raising, marginal hands shouldn't be limped from early positions (J9s; 33, etc.) About half the players at the table will realize this, and the other half won't. . . . Your job is to punish the limpers with well-aimed raises, reraises and c/rs that isolate their skinny draws heads up wherever possible, or force them to fold well before the river . . . . You also want to stop limping with stuff that only works well in the cheap, multiway pots that are common in loose passive games.
2. Can a truly ultra-tight game be beaten? Yes. Steal blinds. In an extreme case, if everyone else only plays AA, KK, QQ and AKs, you can pick up the blinds constantly by raising with weaker hands. But that's not really a scenario worth examining until much higher limits.
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