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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- BOARD - The exposed cards in Hold'em and stud. Also BOARD CARDS.
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