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FroStatus

What type of players play midday during the week?

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I have the next two days off, and am planning on heading to the casino (Blackhawk in CO). I have only played up there on Friday nights and Saturdays. On these days, there are 10+ tables running and you obviously see all sorts of players from the first time fish, to the experienced grinders. However, on Thursdays, they seem to average only 2 tables. Should I expect these 2 tables to be full of overly tight players looking to hit the jackpots that run during the week, or will a wide variety of players still be there?

Posted May 2, 2019, 1:39 AM UTC

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toxsik•

Passive fish / OMC

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FroStatusOP•

So everyone just limping in every hand or waiting for their pocket aces?

That's why I was afraid of. Makes for a boring gamel.

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TempMcThrowaway•

Make it interesting with lots of preflop raising lol

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jonovan•

You will not make friends this way.

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SpezCanSuckMyDick•

you don't need to make friends with people who are playing poker at 3pm on a thursday

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IamyourDaddy789•

limp along with everyone else and punish them post-flop when u hit a monster. If your table is full of old people just limping every hand, there is no reason for you to piss everyone off and start raising preflop just to raise, you will probably get yourself in trouble, just play superior post-flop, it might get boring so order some drinks and let them pay you off when you hit your hands

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Sundance37•

Check out the noon deepstack tourney at the gates, usually better play than reg cash games, last I played it was like 2 years ago, they were hand shuffling and skipping levels, but they got new tables and may have fixed the issue.

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FroStatusOP•

I'll probably go do the noon tournament! Thanks for the idea!

Edit: Just tried to check into the $80 tourney and apparently they are running a $500 buyin because of the WPT. Time to go play 1/3 with the OMCs!

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chrispythegull•

Even at 3pm on a Friday, Oceans 11 Casino in San Diego may as well be called The Ponderosa Pines retirement home with all the wheelchairs and oxygen tanks you'll be tripping over to find your seat.

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not-michaelorcharlie•

Day poker is literally the worst for me.

Most players are 45yr+

Tight AF, games cannot be more boring.

But yeah being aggro AF is ez win, just know when to fold.

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Stick to weekend night games

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jacksonblackwell24•

It's a ton of OMCs up there that you will clearly recognize if you ever make a second trip up around the same time in a few weeks. 7/9 players at your table will be old regs nitting it up talking about the bad beat all afternoon.

With the $100 max bet, and the most boring game of hold em you'll ever play, I'd say just wait until the sun goes down a little to play up there midweek

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Ballplayerx97•

Idk about poker in CO but in Niagara its mainly grinders in weekdays.

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JakeAndJavis$2+0.42 HUSNG SuperUser•

Idk about their weird hybrid NL games (i.e. 100 max bet) but I was in Black Hawk for 2 weeks last month and the 30/60 LHE game was incredible 24/7.

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hand_ban4na•

Daytime during the week is when I have the most time to play as well. Assuming you're going to Ameristar and playing 1/3, the table will be you, 6-7 OMCs trying to hit the promotions, and some other person who had the day off. There's a pool of about 25 OMCs who are always there during the day, and like one guy who just looks like an OMC but seems like he can actually play. It's a pretty typical weak-tight game, very easy to beat if you don't run terribly, but its sooooo boring. The only time you'll see a pot >$100 is if you end up cracking someone's aces. If you're going to grind its probably fine since you can still get a decent-ish hourly by just betting, but if you want to actually enjoy yourself, you probably wont.

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