How do you play a table full of nut peddlers?

[DaveduFresne]

So they are tight, aggressive, good at reading patterns, and can bluff when needed.

Sounds like your the fish.

Thanks for answering the question! If I wanted smart remarks I wouldve posted this on recpoker.

[lehighguy]

Seriously, I've been in this situation before. I've tried playing this way. Finding another game is the way I deal with it. I've tried upping my play in various ways, but it is so much more profitable to find someone that goes all in preflop on pocket 5s.

[gomberg]

You have to work on changing gears and adapt to their changing perception of you as a player. If you can figure out the timing well, you'll do well and beat them if they're really nut-peddlers.

edit: Change tables as well - it's not like game-selection is hurting right now. You usually have many, many tables to choose from all the way up to 10-20 if you play on multiple sites.

[grimel]

So, you don't want to play other tables you can beat, you don't like being told you're the fish (clue, if you are the one losing $$ consistantly you ARE the fish).

1) they are pounding you
2) they are adapting when you start bluffing and pounding you
3) they are putting moves on you and pounding you
4) you stubbornly stick to their tables

Makes for a fish. Let them spend all day grinding on each other; pick one of the 3 bazillion other tables without a bunch of rocks and make $$. This isn't hard, they are better than you, go play some place else, get better then try them again.

[SheridanCat]

Okay, you've gotten responses that you think are unhelpful because they tell you to find another game. Well, that's the most helpful response anyone could give you. You make money in poker by playing in the softest games you can find. Period. Sure, you have to know strategy, but if you're playing the toughest players you can find, you're playing at a disadvantage and that's bad.

However, let me ask you this. They're peddling the nuts, you play looser and make some steals. They try to trap you with checkraises - why are you calling big checkraises? If you bluff bet and they checkraise, lay it down. Don't make bluff bets so large you can't lay it down. Make the same plays when you have a good hand and come back over the top.

If you insist on playing in this game, you must be able to switch gears as they catch onto you. If you can't, or you change too slowly, they'll eat your lunch.

So, at the risk of being unhelpful, find a different game.

Regards,

T

[turnipmonster]

I posted a good response to your original thread.

[utmt40]

One thing that I have noticed is when you go sit down at a loose table within an hour or 30 mins it turns into a rock graden. Its worthless almost.

[schwza]

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I think sometimes they're checkraising me with nothing

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then they are not nut-peddlers.

[ZenMusician]

Sooooo sorry...

I looked at the title of this thread a little too fast...

-ZEN

[zephed]

Just a thought, if you are struggling and getting outplayed postflop.

Buy in short (~20BB) and play very tight. Almost always come in for a raise. Less postflop play for you to get tripped up on now, and you will make fewer and cheaper mistakes.