Is there such a thing as a Bad Game?

[HajiShirazu]

Sounds like the best game ever.
But only if the oriental ladies were young and attractive.

[CORed]

Well, for me a bad game would be where everybody plays good starting hand and defends their blinds properly, and raises when they should, plays tight and agressive postflop, only chases when the pot or implied odds make it profitable, randomly bluffs and semi-bluffs at just the right frequency and value bets correctly on the river. Fortunately, I don't run into very many games like this. Four calling stations is going to mean more variance than one or two, but it's still a very good game.

[12AX7]

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"For what range of playing conditions do you feel this adjustment makes sense?"

1) B&M game

2) Almost no unraised pots

3) Almost no pots with less than five players to the flop

4) Lots and lots of players and money so that all involved know that the huge pots will remain huge for hours to come.


Tommy

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Is it correct to say that the idea here is to not play hands that require high implied odds to be profitable, since the upfront pricwe to enter the pot is so high?

Essentially we're looking to play hands that have some built in +EV under all conditions (e.g. AA, KK).

I suspect for this to work, one still needs top knowe when to fold post flop, true?

Jusr out of curiousity, how did you determine that 5 players in the pot is the dividing line?