Sounds like they're a bit on the weak side at Virgin, which can be less of a bad thing than at limit, because, as you point out, of implied odds. Any game where there are multiple preflop limpers ought to be fairly beatable - you can take a reasonable number of pots preflop with a pot-sized raise and you get pot odds to limp in LP with the low- to mid-pairs and suited connectors. If they stay weedy often enough postflop then you'll get chances to steal or take free draws then, too. Should you discover punters with any awareness of other players then opportunities to semi-bluff will arise. Come to that, if your reads get good enough then the occasional total bluff will pay off.
I see nothing wrong with the lots of small wins vs occasional larger loss scenario. Although the latter occur infrequently, occasionally you get to win one of them, which can really dump up the earn rate. It seems to be a fairly consistent attribute of big-bet games. The thing to identify when someone pushes is whether or not they want you to call. This has been an expensive pastime for me in the past: either they're reading me well enough to go strong-means-strong on me or they're donkeys. At the levels I play it's most likely the latter.
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Date: 2006-07-27 03:41 pm (UTC)I see nothing wrong with the lots of small wins vs occasional larger loss scenario. Although the latter occur infrequently, occasionally you get to win one of them, which can really dump up the earn rate. It seems to be a fairly consistent attribute of big-bet games. The thing to identify when someone pushes is whether or not they want you to call. This has been an expensive pastime for me in the past: either they're reading me well enough to go strong-means-strong on me or they're donkeys. At the levels I play it's most likely the latter.