A New Quiz!

[mmbt0ne]

The preflop edition

This will be conducted Festus style, so be sure to check back and see the results.

Hand 1

MP3 - Unknown
CO - Too tight, aggressive
Button - LA-P
Blinds - Unknown, seem loose-passive

Folded to you in MP2 with 9[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]


Hand 2

2 LAGs and some fish and a solid playe round out the action behind you

Folded to you in MP1 with T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].


Hand 3

58/6.5 limps UTG, as do a LP fish, a LAG, and a semi-loose calling station

You have Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] on the button.


Hand 4

Same LAG, and calling station from previous hand limp to you in the CO. The blinds are a tight player, and a moran.

You have J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 8[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]


Hand 5

Decent player and 69/3 Fish limp in EP, the same blinds are behind you as in hand 4.

You're in the CO again with 9[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 7[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] this time.


Hand 6

Super Loose EP, is joined by his LP twin. Button has been bullying you a little, and the SB and BB are a little loose and a good player respectively.

CO with K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] T[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]


Hand 7

A 36/9 with seemingly no deep understanding of position open-raises in MP1. Cold-called by a horribly loose player in the SB.

You have 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 3[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] in the BB


Hand 8

UTG with K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] J[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] This is more of a breakdown than a play. How often do you raise, how often do you call. Don't fold.

[Kumubou]

Bring the white-out!

Hand 1: <font color="white">Fold. This hand needs lots of players to be worthwhile, and you have zero limpers right now.</font>

Hand 2: <font color="white">Raise to open and hope one of the LAGs three-bets to get this heads up. If the fish three-bet you, you are probably in trouble. Normally you would want to be closer to the button before pulling this stunt, but two things: the LAGs make this much more likely to get this heads up, and open-limping blows.</font>

Hand 3: <font color="white">Limp. Marginal hand, but with the best position and four limpers plus the blinds means that you will get paid if you hit, and you lose little if you whiff. Time for a little speculation.</font>

Hand 4: <font color="white">To me, this is a very marginal limp. Marginal high card and connectness, but with the LAG and calling station in tow, you will get paid if you hit the flop well. Use some flop magic to river a flush (you don't want to flop it, lest give the chance for other players to use their black magic to river a higher one-card flush).</font>

Hand 5: <font color="white">I dump this. Same marginal hand, but the player mix isn't as good. The solid player limping in EP is what concerns me, you are probably already behind to either an unsuited broadway (except AK and maybe AQ and maybe even KQ; I raise KQo UTG for what that's worth) or a mid-low PP (99-22). Also, if you do hit your flop he won't pay you off nearly as much.</font>

Hand 6: <font color="white">My initial thoughts were to raise -- I don't know how successful you will be trying to isolate two players, but odds are your hand is better than what the previous limpers have, and you have position. I wonder if the button will retalatite to this 'play' against him, though -- him 3-betting is almost certain to get the blinds out.</font>

Hand 7: <font color="white">Fold. Odds are MP3 is not on a blind steal and has a quality hand. The SB cold-calling only makes defending worth even less, as now you are up against a decent hand and a random hand, plus you are out of position. Hell, I wouldn't want to defend with this hand even if I was alone -- this hand sucks.</font>

Hand 8: <font color="white">Depends on the table texture. The looser the table is, the more inclined I am to get this multiway and limp. If the table is tight, I'm more inclined to raise and hope to get this heads up. I am more inclined to limp -- this is the kind of hand that has a small pre-flop edge versus random hands, but can change drastically with the flop.</font>

[Entity]

1) Depends on my image and how “LA” Button is, but usually I’ll fold this.
2) Raise 75% / fold 25%.
3) Limp. I think raising this is pretty bad.
4) Limp 75% / fold 25%. Depends on how LAG lag can be postflop, and who button is.
5) Limp 80% / fold 20%. Depends on table image and what good player allows me to get away with postflop.
6) Raise 80% / fold 20%. Depends on how often Button will allow me to steal position.
7) Fold. 85s is a call, 84s is close. 83s is a fold.
8) Raise 90-95%, limp 5-10%.

[Emmitt2222]

Ent, what are your reasons for varying your play at the micros where it is most likely that no one is paying any attention to what you are doing? I would think that picking the most +EV play and going with it each and every time would be the best plan of action unless I am at a slightly more observant table where I need to vary a bit more. your thoughts?

[Entity]

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Ent, what are your reasons for varying your play at the micros where it is most likely that no one is paying any attention to what you are doing? I would think that picking the most +EV play and going with it each and every time would be the best plan of action unless I am at a slightly more observant table where I need to vary a bit more. your thoughts?

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Emmitt,

Say I've raised 8 of the last 10 hands. I'm much less likely to raise KTo in #6 then, because I'm much more likely to get played back at. Even unobservant opponents notice things.

Also, since concrete reads weren't provided ("solid player limps, bad player limps, you have 97s"), I have to say that there are some solid/bad combos where I'd fold but most I'd limp. It's not mixing up my play as much as it is saying that there are some game conditions where I'd fold and some where I'd limp/raise.

Rob

[k000k]

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Say I've raised 8 of the last 10 hands. I'm much less likely to raise KTo in #6 then, because I'm much more likely to get played back at. Even unobservant opponents notice things.

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That exact thing happened to me last night, I caught AK KK AQ KJs TT or something in my first orbit at a table.. They gave me with first couple without showdown, but they definately wanted to start seeing what I had after a few hands, to 'keep the maniac under control'. Nothing is sweeter than catching aces or kings at the end of one of these runs, since everyone 'has to see'

That street really only runs one way though, doing a lot of folding attracts a lot less notice than a lot of hard aggression, so folding for 3 solid O's doesn't mean you can raise KJo early or something..

[toss]

Hand 1: I'd raise. Theres a good chance it'll be just you and the blinds. And its good to play against LAPs in position.

Hand 2: Easy raise.

Hand 3: I think were giving up too much by folding. The limpers will pay you off should you hit a hand. I would call here, but its a definite raise with QTs.

Hand 4: I'm too weak to play this, but I'm sure other can make this into a long run +EV situation.

Hand 5: Not sure.

Hand 6: Raise it up. Should button 3-bet the super loosies will probably come along to pad the pot.

Hand 7: Fold. I would call with another limper.

Hand 8: I raise like, all the time.

[Jacob_Gilliam]

Hand 1: fold
2: fold
3: call
4: fold
5: fold
6: call
7: fold
8: raise in super loose game, call otherwise

[Nick Royale]

1. Fold
2. Fold, this the boarderline where I start to raise, but I'm less inclined to raise when there's 2 LAGs to act.
3. Limp
4. Fold (close to a limp)
5. Fold (close to a limp)
6. Raise
7. Fold
8. Raise, almost every time

[martinimagic]

1) Fold
2) Call
3) Call
4) Raise
5) Fold
6) Fold
7) Fold
8) Raise 50%, Call 50%

Alright, how stupid am I? I am trying to be more aggressive, but I still play a lot of hands weakly by calling and even folding some worth calling.