Learning on the cheap (30-60 Stud8)

[lane mcbride]

yeah, that's perfect. just icing on the cake that you raised and got away from your hand a couple hands before. Given the earlier raise, I think raising is far superior to smooth calling. In fact, I think I would raise almost every time here since most people will put you on a steal anyway. I think calling is even slightly suspicious to most people. At least I'd be kind of suspicious if a solid player just called in that position. well played. congrats on your tourney [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

1. I think you played the hand perfectly. No reason to slow down as I think you often wont get the action out of someone who wants to reraise with any 3 babies later in the hand. Get as much in here as you can, in this situation I think you only get multiple bets on later streets from a made low.

2. NLHE tourneys can be a good diversion to the occasional frustrations of grinding stud-8 games. When my nights are going baby baby baby brick brick brick a short no-limit game can be a good change and an aggression outlet.

3. Since there is already some shameless bragging in the thread, I won the Stars $10 Stud-8 tournament Sunday night [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Finally after 4 stud-8 final table trips I took one down.

[bholdr]

I saw this:
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(30-60 Stud8)

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..and was like: "hold on a sec... jonivan?! 30/60?!"

and then i saw this:

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BTW I recently won a tourney in NLHE

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lol. nice. I also take shots when i win a NLHE tournament... shots of patron.

nice hand though... kinda played itself, 'eh?

[beta1607]

The game has been going a lot in the last week. There are is one full table now and one table with 7 players.

Jon - Congrats on the big score. Dinner on you when Blumpkin comes out?

[mscags]

I just got a eurobet account and saw that they have a 25-50 stud and stud8 game. It would be pretty sweet if they ever got running but as of so far no luck.

[Jeffage]

Literally never runs - 10 will run if you sit sometimes. 6-12 stud on there (and 4-8) can be an easy clean. It is a total chase-a-thon. Major glitch in software though - no double bets on 4th with paired boards. Oh well, the game is soft and it's a nice hold em break for me here and there.

Jeff

[mscags]

I would think that the 6-12 game with a 50cent ante wouldn't be very indusive to action. Are these people bad enough that they don't really care or mind?

[Jeffage]

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Are these people bad enough that they don't really care or mind?

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Yes.