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players sitting out
More common in online games, specifically promotional tournaments, one may find themselves at a table with a few players sitting out. Lets say 3-4 of the 9 seats are sitting out. What adjustments should we be making? Lets say the players are to our left, how does that affect our adjustments? What if they are to our right? What adjustments are other players making, that WE can then out-level them and take advantage of their first-level exploits?
Obviously when the sitting out players are sitting out in the blinds, it makes sense to steal the blinds more and to continue more widely vs other players opens. What else can we do? What other factors should we be considering, both preflop and also postflop with wide ranges?
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I’m curious about the responses here. I was in a satellite the other day in the early levels. There was one empty seat at an eight handed table and four players were sitting out. So three active players. I got myself into a lot of trouble and dusted a whole stack in a few hands. I think we should adjust as if we’re playing 3-handed in this kind of spot, but I definitely went too far assuming every villain action was a steal. I was calling a lot of 3bet raises with hands I might normally fold. And flatting in spots that I would never play in a full ring. I ended up in a lot of marginal spots, but made hero call downs with some poor assumptions.
I think we want to adjust our ranges to the number of active hands being played, but we still need to be careful not to overadjust. Average villains will widen a bit in these spots, but most won’t go as crazy as we might assume.
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In live games now that we play 8 handed, sitting out can cause on onerous burden of the rake on the remaining players. Over $160 an hour comes off the table and 8 handed that’s $20 per player BUT, at 5 handed it’s $32 per player. Over a 50% increase PLUS the games goes 20% faster so let’s call it 70% increase.
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