Alan's Game

Tomorrow I'm going to play in Alan's game who has an amazing game room built specifically for that purpose. I haven't played the game in about a year, but used to have a lot of fun and there was always great food and a fridge fuly stocked with snacks, drinks, and beer.

It's micro-stakes, 25c/25c, but usually plays deep since most players have lots of disposable income and don't mind stacking off. Stacks get built up and they use one denomination, 25, so there's something fun about having a giant, tournament-like, table-warping stack in front of you. The deeper stack is most of the appeal to the game to me because it's so much fun to play deep with a pretty strong skill edge. You get to play TONS of hands and have so much room to do pretty much whatever you want pre and post flop and have fun with it. Not a game to get rich playing, but it makes for great practice and is a nice alternative to the 100BI 50bb max games in Florida. Same players, but the stack sizes make a world of difference.

It's 3:30 a.m. so I won't go into it now, but tomorrow I'll post what things I might attempt/experiment with outside of the typical winning strategy of just seeing flops, making hands, and valuetowning in these loose/passive games. I'll definitely be thinking about the merits of 3betting wider for value/isolation/and image, fighting harder for dead money, creating more dead money, isolating, and how these players may think and adapt to more aggressive play.