Hey guys
Me and my friends do a daily/every once in a while "Home"-game SNG with 2 euros buy-in at a local cafe. The prize pool is usually around 10-16 euros.
Usually the second place gets his buy-in back and the first place gets the whole cake but with more than 6 people usually the 2nd place gets two buy-ins back and the third doesn't pay.
Anyways those guys gave me a headache for a while until I decided to change my gameplan - that's what I need your help with!
What I keep facing on this table are unreasonable raises at some times, huge bluffs especially when shortstacked and being dominated when you least expect it.
That's mainly because those guys mix good moves (betting the right amount when you have to, deceptive play with monsters, a good number of bluffs, folding early with their weak hands) with weak play (crazy bluffs that'd pay off the guy with the nuts, paying enormous amounts of chips for a miraculous draw, not betting when they'd have to, too many bluffs as mentioned but let's say it again, entering the pot with weak hands every so often)
So I tried TAG and it really gave me the edge to rule the table once or twice but in general people are more alert and the board structure is not always in your favour (got AKs but a different colour's on the board, straight possibilities etc.)
It's hard to make someone fold when they are really believing in their draws for example which makes betting a hard thing to do.
The thing is not beating one or two guys but beating this particular game which would mean good money for a guy like me.
Picture this: You got A :heart:K
and your raised preflop. 3 guys call. Now the board comes as follows: K
T
J ![]()
You're on the button and there's a bet about a third of the pot. You raise and the next card is a J ![]()
Those guys will bluffbet the hell out of your neves. And you never know when they got it.
At other times you will have a clear advantage but they will fold too easily.
Say you got the same hand/board as before and you want to protect your hand against someone who could be drawing to a flush. You bet like half the pot and they fold instantly, showing all they had was trash and if you'd have let them in their hand just one more street they might have found more interest in playing their 2nd best hand against you (but you never know).
So I decided to loosen up a bit and widen my ranger.... which still didn't get me where I wanted since I didn't do it in the right way.
See the point is you have to be more often in the pot so that you can catch one of these moments when you'll get payed off real good. That's why I started creating a new range.
Today I want to show you my borderline range with hands that I'll play everytime I'm in the latter positions (LP+/CO/BTN) and only when there's no aggressive player acting after me in the blinds/CO/BTN position.
Here's the range, I'm very open minded about your ideas and your suggestions for improvement/critic.

Thanks a lot for reading this, I hope we can work it somehow