LOOSE-WEAK PLAYERS IN SPREAD-LIMIT GAMES
We often think of the hands that need implied odds as playable if a certain number of callers have entered the pot, but that’s not really correct in spread-limit games.
Often these games will be populated by loose players before the flop who play much tighter on the later betting rounds.
Your implied odds do tend to go up as the number of callers increases, but it’s not an exact relationship.
When you have a game where a lot of players see the flop, but only the best one or two hands go past the flop, your iplied odds are not very high.
You see this frequently in spread-limit games.
When you have this kind of loose player in the game, you don’t really have very high implied odds because you won’t have more than one or two players calling bets on the flop and after.
In this kind of spread-limit game, you should make your pre-flop hand selections more as if it’s a tight game.
As the number of callers goes up, many of the speculative and gambling hands become playable.
More important than the number of callers is who those callers are.
It’s important to catalog the kinds of mistakes your opponents make.
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