I'm grinding 5NL on Bovada right now. The short answer is that limp and min-raise are by far the most common bet sizing from most players. ~65%Originally Posted by Robb
There are a few that open to $0.25 whenever they enter, no matter how many limpers (god bless 'em). ~5%
The better players are immediately obvious because they make pot-sized bets to enter. (I include the "3x plus 1 for each limper" rule as a pot-sized raise. It's only a SB off anyway.) Plus they know when to 3-bet and how to follow it up. ~30%
I'm about to digress:
Also, they some of them know how to avoid each other, I think (intuition on small sample). I think I noticed one guy making funny small bets against me earlier today. Smaller than he'd been making against other people. I folded the first time, 'cause I didn't know what was going on, but it felt wrong. Then I noticed he and myself and one other had been there for over 130 hands and everyone else was under 50 hands, and guess what, it was the 3 of us that were way over our buy-in. weeeee!
Maybe he knew there was less of an edge against me? I never thought of this, but I think I really should. I've been just cold avoiding the "smart" players unless I have position and more premium holdings than usual. Is it a wise adjustment to bet smaller, and thereby give them better drawing odds?
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