I recently joined a nearby casino called the meadows. They have a 3 - 6 Limit holdem game. Buy in is $30. I've been consistently losing. I've been playing tight but it hasn't been working. I don't lose money on big hands, I lose money blind by blind. I also can't seem to win big on my monster hands. any advice for small stakes limit holdem?
This sounds like you might be playing too tight? Maybe that's the reason why you can't win with great hands because your opponets know that you got it when you finally decide to play and are willing to far with it. My advice is to start playing a bit more loose. Instead of just losing blinds, start stealing and defending them with mediocre hands. Try 3betting every now and then if you feel like someone else is just trying steal blinds from you. A bit more aggressive play could do the trick so why not try that if playing tight doesn't work? 🙂anthonydalvaro said:
I played many years at 3/6, 4/8 and always did well in the game. I was very agressive. My main objective was to build pots with raises on quality draws or any hand I thought was the best as I liked to build my own pots. I often used the check raise, seldom bluffed on river, and I did not draw to gut shots or low end of straight. I played a lot of small suited connector and gap cards. I won more than my fair share of the large pots. Today I play no limit because a lot of the live fish moved to no limit. I really enjoyed limit because much less stress than playing no limit.
Tight is right!
Hi Anthony,
Do not get discouraged by your results at $3/$6 LHE! The sad reality is that live low stakes LHE is not beatable for much due to rake + tips.
For this reason I would advise playing very few hands. And, other than the obvious big pairs and AK, the hands you do play should be hands that can win big pots. Your AXs and pocket pairs are valuable at the lower limits. Also, AJo is a fold in EP.
This may seem like a boring strategy, but playing good poker IS boring.
Have fun and good luck out there!
Hi Anthony,
Do not get discouraged by your results at $3/$6 LHE! The sad reality is that live low stakes LHE is not beatable for much due to rake + tips.
For this reason I would advise playing very few hands. And, other than the obvious big pairs and AK, the hands you do play should be hands that can win big pots. Your AXs and pocket pairs are valuable at the lower limits. Also, AJo is a fold in EP.
This may seem like a boring strategy, but playing good poker IS boring.
Have fun and good luck out there!
play tight
after your play description, i think you play too tight(nitty) and the players caught up on this thing. Try playing more loose and c-bet more often, even if you don't hit the flop. Also, raise with all kind of hands. to summarize, you have to do two things:
1 play same hands in different ways.(ex:limp with AA)
2 play different hands in the same way(ex😛lay 67 suited like AA)
after your play description, i think you play too tight(nitty) and the players caught up on this thing. Try playing more loose and c-bet more often, even if you don't hit the flop. Also, raise with all kind of hands. to summarize, you have to do two things:
1 play same hands in different ways.(ex:limp with AA)
2 play different hands in the same way(ex😛lay 67 suited like AA)
I can help you im a 3/6 limit expert!!
3/6 limit holdem is a game of implied odds and occasional big hands. You need to read the table as any type is beatable ranging from loose and wild,nits and tight rocks that only play solid hands and sometimes big flush hands. The key is buy in and expected variance. I buy in for 200 only and expect a swing of -65 to +65 at all times the key to profit is again implied odds and blind stealing over the long haul session maybe even 2 tables live over the course of the night.. Say your in 7 pos and everyone folds to you in on a rock table in this scenario a raise with 5-6 off is prudent on a table of rocks as they will call you with over pairs,however most ace anything 9 and higher and when they miss you bet and take the pot if they call and you happened to have something to go with you can stay or deduce qq and dump it easy to read. The implied odds come from late position and smooth calls say you have a-7 suited on the button and its raised from the small blind after everyone limps.. The key here is to smooth call and see what will be many cheap flops with your large buy in. Say the flop comes 568 and one spade this would be a great flop for you as someone might have flopped a straight,but in 3/6 it don't matter as they most likely have a draw as do you. Now say the turn flips A king of spades you now have 9 outs for the spades for the nut flush and 4 outs for the 9 for the straight and a possible ace on the river so you can check call and have the best hand many times. No matter your odds are good here and you need to get lucky to win. Now bluffing works here when you heads up to a tight player with that you suspect has something like 10-10. Say you have 10-j off suit and get 3 way action that ends up heads up on the turn with the 10-10 guy. Flop comes 89-2 you keep calling his bets as a 4 comes on the turn you check he bets you call.. Now an ace comes on the river he checks you bet and in many times he dumps it if it's just a little 25 dollar pot and your bet seems good. Most of your profit here comes from check and calling the river against a habitual bluffer though as your jack-8 top pair from the blinds on the flop was good he misses and you got him to bet the river and you call and win another 25 dollar pot. You lose most of your money with hands like 4-8 hearts the flops comes 10-2-ace two heart draw for you so you check it's raised and you call so does everyone else in 5 way action it gets checked called to the river you miss and dump it. Your chips will flow away doing this. Nut flush draws are potent in this game,but no more than 7-9 off suit many times in a huge pot of 6 way action of re raises and you in the middle of it can be as huge as aces full. Say the flop comes 8-10-A in this action now you got a open ender on a non flush board which can pay huge with that 6 on the turn or river,even a jack however you should check call a jack. Overall you need to play marginal hands often in position and see about 2- hands per rotation plus the blinds. To do this you need a big buy in as it's not no limit and people don't raise it up on paired boards without trips or a boat so don't chase anything on paired boards unless you have kk-aa-jj to a river boat in a big pot. Don't play weak hands like k-j off suit with 2 guys when you flop top pair and pay them with their 2 pair or better kicker in a terrible weak pot. On marginal skilled games limp the pot as they will all do it so it's a easy to read flop game and a little less profit and less swing on your roll,occasionally in these games raise from early out of the blue with 10-j,ot 89 off and get heads up with the ace guy who misses and you can steal the pot. Maniac games are players with no skill they cap it with 3-5 off suit and go wild!! Here is the time to get involved multi way capped pots with nut flush hands and big pp only tighten up they miss a lot cause it's poker and you can keep raising them with qq on a board of 56-j-7-9,sure sometimes they have to pair but keep getting aggressive with over pairs they wont go away and will even call you with a hit weak pair on the river There will be times when you decide to get invloved with ducks in that huge multi way pot and flop 2-9-A and get paid huge but be careful sometimes the flops comes 34A so you continue wildly and spoil 50 bucks down the toilet.. Gl man buy in full and have fun.
3/6 limit holdem is a game of implied odds and occasional big hands. You need to read the table as any type is beatable ranging from loose and wild,nits and tight rocks that only play solid hands and sometimes big flush hands. The key is buy in and expected variance. I buy in for 200 only and expect a swing of -65 to +65 at all times the key to profit is again implied odds and blind stealing over the long haul session maybe even 2 tables live over the course of the night.. Say your in 7 pos and everyone folds to you in on a rock table in this scenario a raise with 5-6 off is prudent on a table of rocks as they will call you with over pairs,however most ace anything 9 and higher and when they miss you bet and take the pot if they call and you happened to have something to go with you can stay or deduce qq and dump it easy to read. The implied odds come from late position and smooth calls say you have a-7 suited on the button and its raised from the small blind after everyone limps.. The key here is to smooth call and see what will be many cheap flops with your large buy in. Say the flop comes 568 and one spade this would be a great flop for you as someone might have flopped a straight,but in 3/6 it don't matter as they most likely have a draw as do you. Now say the turn flips A king of spades you now have 9 outs for the spades for the nut flush and 4 outs for the 9 for the straight and a possible ace on the river so you can check call and have the best hand many times. No matter your odds are good here and you need to get lucky to win. Now bluffing works here when you heads up to a tight player with that you suspect has something like 10-10. Say you have 10-j off suit and get 3 way action that ends up heads up on the turn with the 10-10 guy. Flop comes 89-2 you keep calling his bets as a 4 comes on the turn you check he bets you call.. Now an ace comes on the river he checks you bet and in many times he dumps it if it's just a little 25 dollar pot and your bet seems good. Most of your profit here comes from check and calling the river against a habitual bluffer though as your jack-8 top pair from the blinds on the flop was good he misses and you got him to bet the river and you call and win another 25 dollar pot. You lose most of your money with hands like 4-8 hearts the flops comes 10-2-ace two heart draw for you so you check it's raised and you call so does everyone else in 5 way action it gets checked called to the river you miss and dump it. Your chips will flow away doing this. Nut flush draws are potent in this game,but no more than 7-9 off suit many times in a huge pot of 6 way action of re raises and you in the middle of it can be as huge as aces full. Say the flop comes 8-10-A in this action now you got a open ender on a non flush board which can pay huge with that 6 on the turn or river,even a jack however you should check call a jack. Overall you need to play marginal hands often in position and see about 2- hands per rotation plus the blinds. To do this you need a big buy in as it's not no limit and people don't raise it up on paired boards without trips or a boat so don't chase anything on paired boards unless you have kk-aa-jj to a river boat in a big pot. Don't play weak hands like k-j off suit with 2 guys when you flop top pair and pay them with their 2 pair or better kicker in a terrible weak pot. On marginal skilled games limp the pot as they will all do it so it's a easy to read flop game and a little less profit and less swing on your roll,occasionally in these games raise from early out of the blue with 10-j,ot 89 off and get heads up with the ace guy who misses and you can steal the pot. Maniac games are players with no skill they cap it with 3-5 off suit and go wild!! Here is the time to get involved multi way capped pots with nut flush hands and big pp only tighten up they miss a lot cause it's poker and you can keep raising them with qq on a board of 56-j-7-9,sure sometimes they have to pair but keep getting aggressive with over pairs they wont go away and will even call you with a hit weak pair on the river There will be times when you decide to get invloved with ducks in that huge multi way pot and flop 2-9-A and get paid huge but be careful sometimes the flops comes 34A so you continue wildly and spoil 50 bucks down the toilet.. Gl man buy in full and have fun.
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Meadows outside of Pit? If it is the same place, I have played a few cash and turneys there. My experiences (which obviously will vary by day of the week and time of day) have been observing and getting sucked on a lot of loose "any-2" players that like to see flops and end up landing something good. The only times I have shoved with AKs and called by a A3x, and they end up flopping the wheel. If you are in the Pit area, at the moment I prefer Rivers. I like the crowd but still getting a feel for the new room manager and how he will handle the future.
Sorry I have no advise on your situation, I have never played live limit there or anywhere. I would just suggest to loosen up a bit, but not wrecklessly.
Sorry I have no advise on your situation, I have never played live limit there or anywhere. I would just suggest to loosen up a bit, but not wrecklessly.