At our weekly league last night ($5 single-table tourneys, 5 players the first game and 6 players the second) and had the worst cold-cards experience of my short poker-life. It was almost comical...no pocket pairs, no two face cards, no suited connectors above 8 7, not even a usable A x from position. I think my best hands all night were things like K 7, Q 8, etc.
A little background info: The crowd at this weekly game tends to be pretty loose, with only a couple players that have any notion of pot odds, available outs, M, etc. Preflop play is quite often limped around, and a bet of 3xBB is often enough to take it down. Play can be pretty erratic after the flop...sometimes a bet of 1/2 or even 1/3 the pot will cause quick folds, other times it'll be quickly called or raised. I've read Harrington on Hold 'Em 1 & 2 and try to play TAG-style ABC poker, so making moves / being aggressive with K 7 and Q 8 is pretty foreign to me. In hindsight, given that we started playing with 5 and 6 players, I wonder if my cards weren't as dead as I thought they were, it's just that I wasn't widening my preflop requirements enough.
My question is: Do you adapt your game when you're card-dead? If so, how? Or is it more a question of knowing your opponents and their styles / starting hands to know which marginal hands might be playable after all? If the table is playing loose, isn't it better to try and play tight? How do you do that when you're getting 'cold cards'?
sleepy
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