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Is poker changing?
Like many things, changing with the times, do you think poker is slowly evolving into a play any 2 cards kind of game? Much like facebook poker.
It just seems you get called with any 2 cards alot, out of position too.
Any A or K in your hand seems to be good enough even though its kicked with a 2, 3 or 4.
What for? I dont know.. Tactical maybe? Your not expecting your AK to be behind on a K34 board until your opponent turns over exactly that.
Or is it simply bad players who have started the game from playing facebook poker and seem to think this is how you play?
What do you think ?
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Playing any 2 cards never gonna be the way to play long term apart from a few situations. If you were amazing at the game and wanted to play ATC, you certainly wouldn't be donig it out of position.
I assume you've had a bad time of weak players calling with dodgy hands and outflopping you, it happens sometimes, but AK is gonna be ahead on the flop against K4 so much more than K4 will be ahead. They lose longterm, don't get drawn into it, play your own game.
I just bring this up because in the 2 hours or so i've been playing this evening, i've had quite a few encounters where i have been called with any 2 cards. Granted they were satellites but that is no excuse.
IMO im only ever playing these hands like K4 K3 off if im in the big blind and a short stack is all in and theres barely anything left to call, i mean why play these hands? What are you ahead of ?
But i agree i dont think these kind of players will do well in the long run,, I will continue to play my game which has served me well
But poker is growing more and more popular online and obviously with facebook poker, this is probably how more people are getting into the game, thus adapting this kind of play
To be fair, there are other situations I'd play K4, for instance if I was SB v BB and I had 8xBB I'd shove with it. FWIW, if anything there's even less reasons to play junk like K4 in a satellite.
Oh well, leave them to it.
Yeah i agree in situations like that in blind vs blind theres no harm in trying to bluff it off or get it in with a few BB's but i meant generally getting called with those hands when theres no need.
But hey ho the world goes on
people dont know what a 4xbb raise is , even under the gun , they just dont know what it means !
having got my chips in good 90% of the time i see myself losing to the same hands said above A or K 2345 and when sharkscoping they have played 10 games on the site and are obviously fresh from facebook i have played 70 or so games on here so its not starting to be an issue just yet but if sky poker gods dont start making that 10% lose then its not worth playing here anymore !