Variations for Loose Spread Limit Games
I played my first casino stud after I had read a book on Stud strategy that was geared to the $5/10 game. It was a winning strategy for a tight and aggressive game. But these low limit games seemed completely different from the games this author was writing about.
He wrote about heads up pots and aggressive opponents. Mine were usually multiway. Hands with loose and passive opponents. He talked about raising to limit the field. But when I raised I just got a lot of callers most of the time. It seemed like he was writing about a different game.
He was. Tight-aggressive fixed limit games are different. If you’re in a loose spread limit game, you can loosen up your starting hand selection. While normally you’d fold any one-gapped straight like 8-9-J, if the game is likely to have four or more callers on Third Street and if your cards are completely live, then you can call the bring-in bet of $1.00 even in early position. This is because you are not expecting the pot to be r…
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Poker talk:
- BAD GAME - Any game in which you figure to be the loser, because the other players are better than you.
- BIG BLIND - A blind bet, usually a raise of an earlier blind which would be called the SMALL BLIND. In limit poker, the BIG BLIND is usually the size of the minimum bet on the first round of betting.
- TELL - Any personal mannerisms that reveal the quality of one's hand. E.g., constantly looking at one's hole cards is often a tell of a poor hand. (Some players, knowing this, will at times check their hole cards when they have a great hand and don't need to look.)
- LATE POSITION - For a particular betting round, a player who does not have to act until most of the other players have acted.
- SEMI-BLUFF - To bluff with a come hand that figures to win if it hits.
- CUT - To break the deck into 2 stacks of at least 5 cards each. Usually performed by the player to the dealer's right to insure that the the deck is not stacked.
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