Was it Because of the Tight Players?

Just yesterday, I played in my first B&M NL cash game at a local casino. Something happened and I’m really bothered about it.

Well, I just cashed in a tournament at this casino and decided I would take my winnings to a cash game and see what will happen. At an instance, I’ve only played online micro limit cash games, however, I realized that my game was solid enough to give it a try. As a result, for $180, I bought in for $180 into a 100min/200max NL game with blinds of $2/$5.

I was able to adjust later on. With the BB being $5 and the max buy in being $200, everything seemed quite fine.

However, just within the first half hour, I already lost about a third of my buy-in so I realized that things were not that smooth sailing after all. There was this one player who would literally limp in on each hand and then call any raise without hesitation.

As a sort of defense, I then tried to make good sized raise. A couple of rounds followed and things weren’t that good anymore, so I decided to eventually quit. But before that, I first limped in, and observed the actions behind me.

The guy to my left then raised to $20 and the calling station called the $20 but later on it folded back to me. I then called and the flop came AA9. Afterwards, I checked and then the preflop raiser came in for $50 or $60. Eventually, the calling station, called.

To make the long story short, we end up splitting the other guy’s $120. I guess this was because none of the tighter players at the table has given any action. What’s your thoughts on this?

Thank you.

Barry

Barry,

You seemed to have a table of players trying to take advantage of the calling station at your table. It seems to me that you picked a bad game to play in. Your last statement clued me in to this when you said none of the tight players were giving action. When you sit down at a table that is not giving action, it is time to find another table. Playing solid at a solid table is going to make for a long day.

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