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Originally Posted by Spaceman Spiff I'm just not getting the quality of play argument. In online tournaments, yeah, I can see how it gets reckless and people are just trying to double up and all that crazy play. I don't see that in my home game though. Play is definitely a little looser, but I don't see how that decreases the "quality" of play. You have to be able to adapt to all sorts of games. If play is loose and wild and everyone is gambling it up, and you want to play it safe, play tight, lay back, and pounce when you've got a big hand. The other option is to go ahead and loosen up yourself and try to flop a monster with your speculative starting hands. You're going to get paid off while the game is wild. How is that a bad thing? |
It's just my opinion, but rebuys=looser play. Also, I think the penalty for reckless play that is unsuccessful (sometimes reckless play will get payed off big) should be the loss of your chips and the loss of the opportunity to win THIS particular game
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Originally Posted by Spaceman Spiff The bottom line is, it's all legitimate poker. It's not of poor quality just because the play is loose. For me, I like the first hour during rebuy time. The blinds are low so you can be more involved. It gets boring fast to play fold, fold, fold, tight poker all the time. And in case you do flop a monster, but then get sucked out on, you've got the rebuy to fall back on. Again, long term, skill will win out. In this case, your skill is getting a second chance to get back in the money after a short term luck out just knocked you out. |
I wouldn't say that my freezout games are tight (I have quite a few loose players) but players do tend to fold to sizeable bets when "they don't have it" and I'm not sure if that's always the case with rebuys where the thinking may be, "what the heck, I either double up or rebuy" with this inside straight draw, but in freezeout the thinking is I double up or I'm out on sidelines (but at my game a side game awaits the bust outs).
