Preflop quiz for loose games (inspired by micro-limit post)

[baronzeus]

Just curious as to peoples' preflop standards on the button and blinds given looser games. If you don't care don't post.

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Say you're in a loose small stakes game, with 4-5 players seeing a flop.

In this hand, there is a raiser and 2 cold callers, and you are on the button, with somewhat loose blinds (you can expect at least one to come along)

1:
a. JTo
b. 65s
c. 89s
d. AJo
e. 33
f. 99
g. 78o

In this hand, you are in the SB, and there is again a raiser and 2 cold callers, and a loose BB.
2.
a. JTo
b. 65s
c. 89s
d. AJo
e. 33
f. 99
g. 78o
h. 57s

In this hand, you are the BB, and there has been a raiser and 3 cold callers

3.
a. 47s
b. 56o
c. K9o
d. 32s
e. JTo
f. 98o
g. 97o
h. 46s

[W. Deranged]

Baron,

What's the question? What hands do we play? What is the best to play?

-Will

[baronzeus]

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Baron,

What's the question? What hands do we play? What is the best to play?

-Will

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What hands you raise, what hands you call, and what hands you fold.
Just curious.

[W. Deranged]

Just curious as to peoples' preflop standards on the button and blinds given looser games. If you don't care don't post.

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Say you're in a loose small stakes game, with 4-5 players seeing a flop.

In this hand, there is a raiser and 2 cold callers, and you are on the button, with somewhat loose blinds (you can expect at least one to come along)

1:
a. JTo - fold
b. 65s - fold
c. 89s - fold
d. AJo - this could be anything depending on my thoughts on the raiser and the callers; with no more info I say this is probably best folded
e. 33 - call
f. 99 - probably raise, though sometimes I'll call
g. 78o - fold



In this hand, you are in the SB, and there is again a raiser and 2 cold callers, and a loose BB.
2.
a. JTo
b. 65s
c. 89s
d. AJo
e. 33
f. 99
g. 78o
h. 57s

Absolutely nothing changes from the above except I'm calling and not raising 99 most of the time. The discount from the small blind is almost exactly cancelled out by the bad position, in my opinion, so this plays very similar to the button as far as pre-flop decisions.

In this hand, you are the BB, and there has been a raiser and 3 cold callers

3.
a. 47s - fold, too weak
b. 56o - fold, too weak
c. K9o - fold; plays poorly multiway (and just generally sucks)
d. 32s - fold, too weak
e. JTo - call (though this isn't great, by any means)
f. 98o - fold; JTo is borderline, this is below it
g. 97o - fold
h. 46s - probably call; the suitedness becomes really important in my opinion, and the one-gappedness makes this a much better play than 47s

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[shant]

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Say you're in a loose small stakes game, with 4-5 players seeing a flop.

In this hand, there is a raiser and 2 cold callers, and you are on the button, with somewhat loose blinds (you can expect at least one to come along)

1:
a. JTo - fold
b. 65s - fold
c. 89s - call
d. AJo - fold
e. 33 - call
f. 99 - call/raise
g. 78o - fold

In this hand, you are in the SB, and there is again a raiser and 2 cold callers, and a loose BB.
2.
a. JTo - fold
b. 65s - fold
c. 89s - fold
d. AJo - fold
e. 33 - call
f. 99 - call/raise
g. 78o - fold
h. 57s - fold

In this hand, you are the BB, and there has been a raiser and 3 cold callers

3.
a. 47s - call
b. 56o - fold
c. K9o - fold
d. 32s - call
e. JTo - call
f. 98o -fold
g. 97o - fold
h. 46s - call

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[dark_horse]

In this hand, there is a raiser and 2 cold callers, and you are on the button, with somewhat loose blinds (you can expect at least one to come along)

1:
a. JTo - Fold
b. 65s - Fold
c. 89s - Call
d. AJo - Fold
e. 33 - Fold
f. 99 - Call
g. 78o - Fold

In this hand, you are in the SB, and there is again a raiser and 2 cold callers, and a loose BB.
2.
a. JTo - Fold
b. 65s - Fold
c. 89s - Fold
d. AJo - Fold
e. 33 - Fold
f. 99 - Call
g. 78o - Fold
h. 57s - Fold

In this hand, you are the BB, and there has been a raiser and 3 cold callers

3.
a. 47s - Call
b. 56o - Call
c. K9o - Fold
d. 32s - Fold
e. JTo - Call
f. 98o - Call
g. 97o - Fold
h. 46s - Call

[W. Deranged]

I totally think Barron should take all these answers and compile them. That would rule.

[SeaEagle]

On the button, I'm mucking 78o. I'm mucking 65s and JTo part of the time depending on the postflop quality of the players. None of these hands are strong enough for a raise here, IMO.

In the Sb, your position with 5 people is more important than the .5sb you're saving. I'd play as on the button and also fold 75s.

In the BB, getting 9-1, you don't need much of a hand. But, then again, you don't offer much in the way of hands...
I'd probably play the 3 offsuit connectors (b,e,f) but not anything else. I'll play almost any suited cards in this situation but the ones you give are below even my standards.

[cdxx]

hand 1: call AJo and 33. raise 99. I would also call 89s, but when i do that my VPIP skyrockets to unhealthy levels.

hand 2: raise 99. fold 33, and probably call AJo, pretending to gauge what the raiser's range of cards is, but mostly because i suck.

hand 3: call everything except 74, 64, and 97. edit : oops, almost forgot, fold 32 as well.

[baronzeus]

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Say you're in a loose small stakes game, with 4-5 players seeing a flop.

In this hand, there is a raiser and 2 cold callers, and you are on the button, with somewhat loose blinds (you can expect at least one to come along)

1:
a. JTo-fold
b. 65s-call
c. 89s-call
d. AJo-fold
e. 33-call
f. 99-call/raise
g. 78o-fold

In this hand, you are in the SB, and there is again a raiser and 2 cold callers, and a loose BB.
2.
a. JTo-fold
b. 65s-call
c. 89s-call
d. AJo-fold
e. 33-call
f. 99-call
g. 78o-fold
h. 57s-call

In this hand, you are the BB, and there has been a raiser and 3 cold callers

3.
a. 47s-call
b. 56o-call
c. K9o-fold
d. 32s-call
e. JTo-call
f. 98o-call
g. 97o-fold
h. 46s-call


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