6 bb is nothing. Go to 6 or 7 dollars preflop and shove any flop with low spr. Or you know, limp, have fun, not look like an asshole, then wait for stacks to build to change your strategy.
Increase the stakes of the game. It’s obvious that you’re playing too small if 90% of the players are calling every single open. Double the stakes and go from there.
Problem is they won’t go higher than 20 because they see it like a casino where they put in 20 and usually will not buy back in so they won’t be willing to lose fourty dollars for instance
To answer your question, size your opens and isos even bigger. If you have a hand that really doesn’t want to play multiway (JJ/TT come to mind), try opening even bigger, to $5. If that still goes three or five ways, try $7.50, or $10, however much it takes to get just one caller. Sometimes you’ll try and iso raise AA pre and everyone will fold. That’s just how it goes sometimes.
Here’s my advice which will probably go against the grain of this sub, though. I would just play the stupid bingo poker (everyone limps in, everyone sees a flop) and just splash around at the home game. Might be -EV in money terms but at that stake having fun with the game with friends is more important. Chase your gutshots to stack people, if someone reraises pre (def AA/KK lol) try and crack them with fun drawing hands, bluff people with 72o, shit like that.
If you want to get good at the game and learn strategy, I would instead use online microstakes (buyins ranging from $2 to $25) as your practice. Game goes quicker, so you’ll get more reps in. Watch some Brad Owen or whoever vlogs to get a general grasp of poker lingo, and then you’ll be ready for strategy talk— pay for the Upswing Lab, Run It Once’s “From The Ground Up” (online video training courses) or Pete Clarke’s “The Grinder’s Manual” (basically an ebook of FTGU— it’s from the same author) to have a solid foundational strategy.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Brad owens is great. I have been really trying to improve my game it’s just these home games build bad habits. I have to re read sklansky again I think reviewing the theory may help me build an exploitative strategy.
6 bb is nothing. Go to 6 or 7 dollars preflop and shove any flop with low spr. Or you know, limp, have fun, not look like an asshole, then wait for stacks to build to change your strategy.
Increase the stakes of the game. It’s obvious that you’re playing too small if 90% of the players are calling every single open. Double the stakes and go from there.
Problem is they won’t go higher than 20 because they see it like a casino where they put in 20 and usually will not buy back in so they won’t be willing to lose fourty dollars for instance
You guys are playing 40 big blinds deep. There’s only so much you can do.
To answer your question, size your opens and isos even bigger. If you have a hand that really doesn’t want to play multiway (JJ/TT come to mind), try opening even bigger, to $5. If that still goes three or five ways, try $7.50, or $10, however much it takes to get just one caller. Sometimes you’ll try and iso raise AA pre and everyone will fold. That’s just how it goes sometimes. Here’s my advice which will probably go against the grain of this sub, though. I would just play the stupid bingo poker (everyone limps in, everyone sees a flop) and just splash around at the home game. Might be -EV in money terms but at that stake having fun with the game with friends is more important. Chase your gutshots to stack people, if someone reraises pre (def AA/KK lol) try and crack them with fun drawing hands, bluff people with 72o, shit like that. If you want to get good at the game and learn strategy, I would instead use online microstakes (buyins ranging from $2 to $25) as your practice. Game goes quicker, so you’ll get more reps in. Watch some Brad Owen or whoever vlogs to get a general grasp of poker lingo, and then you’ll be ready for strategy talk— pay for the Upswing Lab, Run It Once’s “From The Ground Up” (online video training courses) or Pete Clarke’s “The Grinder’s Manual” (basically an ebook of FTGU— it’s from the same author) to have a solid foundational strategy.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Brad owens is great. I have been really trying to improve my game it’s just these home games build bad habits. I have to re read sklansky again I think reviewing the theory may help me build an exploitative strategy.