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Message: [QUOTE="nuts422, post: 835237, member: 38545"] Having relocated to a new city, I came across these live games that are being run in various bars (the organizers seem to think they're legal and whether or not they are is a different topic). I quickly discovered that the cash games were particularly juicy. Let me give you an example. I played the 25/50 cent table. A typical preflop raise would be for 2 or 3 bucks, sometimes more. With 6-8 players a starting bid like this would easily get 3-4 people to the flop. The typical pot size would end up being 10-20 bucks, sometimes much more. In my view, a game where the pots tend to get this big relative to the blinds allow for a TAG player like me to make out like a bandit. My theory on this is very simple: If the pots get too big, players are overbetting their hands which means that there are money to be made by someone who is playing premiums starting hands from good position. One of the challenges I saw was putting a read on people. It was not as if I could pin down a likely range of hands against any of my opponents, as some of them would raise to 5 (10bb) bucks with J-8 off (say), or call a similar bet with 6-8 s. The guy who took home the most cash on the day I was playing did so by playing a lot of speculative hands like suited connectors or just any two suited cards, A-rag, etc. He'd just see a lot of flops even if it cost 4bb. Personally, I played very few hands, and I played them very aggressively allowing me to take home a nice stash. In one hand, for example, I raised to 5 bucks preflop (to avoid 4 callers) with AKo and got one caller with K-6 who then went all in with top pair/ weak kicker. So what is a better strategy in a game like this? Clearly the conservative route worked for me (only one bad beat) but it is possible that I left money on the table by playing too tight. What do you guys think? Do you loosen up when playing inexperienced players that will call you down with anything and overbet weak hands? Or do you tighten up? Any thoughts on how to adjust your play when you are playing in games where the average pot to blinds ratio is very big? [/QUOTE]

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