Home Poker Tournament that I cannot beat...

[Munga30]

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Now, considering the players I play with suck, wouldn't know a pot odd if it bit them in the @$$, chase everything, almost always call(when its six players almost every flop has four or five people in it) with virtually no pre-flop raising. Some don't even realize that they have the best hand once the cards are turned over.

Lemme ask everyone. What actions or decisions do you make that make you the favorite over people like this.

Is it being able to read players to know if your middle pair or tpnk is good when the others bet, is it to wait for the nuts or near nuts and to have them pay you off. Is it just playing tighter when they are loose. I ask this because I just feel like despite all I know on poker, having read book after book and doing great online and playing all the time, I still don't feel like a favorite... Yet I do against decent players...

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Value betting your decent to good hands because you know they'll call.

Limiting your bluffing and semi-bluffing because you know they'll call.

Entering hands in better situations than they do (e.g., widening your limping standards everywhere because the table's passive and you get great implied odds and you play better than they do postflop).

Having better grasp of tourney theory than they do (e.g., when to be conservative, when to open up your game, playing well with big and small stacks).