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seriously, just play like a nit live at the low stakes. NO ONE pays attention to table image, and even if they are, like saying "wow you're gonna play a hand now?" or some shit, they're still gonna stack their KQ on a Q or K high board cause they're fucking retarded. ez game.

Meh. I doubt myth would play tight at 200nl live. He might advocate it at first but if you can beat 50nl online then you're leaving too much money on the table. The play is so much worse and there's so much extra information to exploit that makes being in a lot of pots worth while. The only real excuse is that rake/tips/drops eat into the profits of people who win more pots live. But if you're stuck playing only one table with horrible players, just make some reads and rape. Don't be afraid to mix up your play and deviate from a balanced game against these brain-dead opponents. You could mincbet flops with air ball and full pot for value against players who play fit or fold and they might never catch on to your exploitative sizing. People simply don't catch on. In fact even when people at 200nl live catch on, often they will mumble - "this guy is raising too much". This is code that you can pick on them more because they're never going to play back. They would have done so quietly instead of trying to get you to stop with words. Also incorporate live reads and the stuff people tell you about how they play. When they talk about hands after a hand is over, they rarely suggest lines (give advice) contrary to how they would actually play. If I guy says "I can't believe you played a draw like that" he's likely not leveling at 1/2 and you have so much more info about he plays his draws next time. And 200nl live is the perfect place to go overboard with your tells from Mike Caro. Strong means weak and weak means strong. People will grab chips when it's your turn to act like they are ready to call, and then when you go ahead and bet, they instant muck. They will sigh out loud timebank and then minraise with the nuts allowing you to fold medium strong hands. They will vary their bet size, but you will take notice. They will make a laundry list of mistakes to exploit that I'm only giving a few examples of. Live is a great place to get you out of hudbotting mentality and thinking through every possible option in every spot.

When you play lag you'll be forced into more tough spots and you'll become a better poker player faster by learning from these decisions. When the session is over come back here and post the 40bb hand you had a tough decision on instead of the hand where some callstation called off his stack with a 4 outer and took 100bb off you. If you're only playing 1 table you might as well work on your game. It will be tougher for sure. You'll have to get value with much less than tptk. Value bet that ace high against the guy who can't lay down his draw. Other times you'll have to fold better than tptk but your villains will make it easy to do so because you're paying attention and he fears you. You'll be forced to make reads and adjust your play to exploit that extra knowledge. Unless your livelihood depends on winning at 1/2 live with low variance, then play lag and get better imo and this is coming from a self-admitted nit.

If your unsure on liveplay I'd start off nitty and then make adjustments when you see things.

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I'm melting....MEEEEEELLLLLTINNNNGGGG

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