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What are all these posts about good regs at 1/3

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deuceblockerOP
11d ago

There was some post I couldn't respond to because of the format that said a 1/3 table was all good regs. Then it said there was a straddle to 11 and the whole table called. Most players at 1/3 are not regs, and by definition most of the regs are not "good regs". I see other posts like this and it is ridiculous. Sure a lot of the players are competent and won't go through 3 buyins in an hour like some newbies do.

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31 January 2025 at 03:29 AM
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Mlark
5d ago

It's all semantics, but I will give you my philosophy for profiling players.

We're are trying to build profiles on players that give useful information allowing us to better read their hands and play against them.

The clearest distinctions between a reg and a rec are the amount of preflop mistakes that are made. Recs are too wide pre, they don't raise enough, and they call to often. Here are some examples of recreational players:

- limping first in to the pot

- UTG opens 5x and rec in co cold calls with KJo (even KQo would generally be a losing call)

-rec opens LJ 5bbwith KQo and faces a 3b from to 15+bb CO and the rec calls

-LJ opens 5bb, CO 3b 15+bb, rec cold calls on button with AQo

-Never 3betting AK, cold calling with AKs, limp-calling AK

So, a reg is typically not going to do any of those things, in addition they are typically going to be playing more aggressive preflop, 3betting a lot with AQo+, ATs+, KTs+, A4s, A4s, TT+, and potentially much wider depending on positions. A rec reaches for chips to raise pre out of turn, only for someone to raise before they act, and most of the time the rec is going to call the raise. They don't tend to have a good understanding that a lot of they might have open raised when folded to should now either fold or perhaps 3 bet facing a raise.

Over the long term, a person displaying the preflop rec behaviors is going to lose money to the person displaying the reg behaviors. If you're a winning reg, you should generally think of recs as adding to the pool of money to be won at a poker table while the regs are typically one extra person to divide up that money, therefore shrinking your winnings.

Generally speaking, in online poker, a recreational play is a losing player a bad reg is slightly winning, losing, or break even depending on the lineup, a reg is a winning player long term except in very tough and or highly raked games. However, at an online poker, a 6 max table may have 1 or 2 recs.

At live 1/3, the skill level of the players is so much lower than online poker. The entire table might be recreational players. Even with 2-3 regs, the tighter recs are likely to be at least small winners.

In general, people overuse a couple of terms in the live poker forum. I don't care if someone has played 1,000 hours of poker every year for the last 10 years. If the play like a rec, they are a rec, and they will lose to any actual reg in the long term. The other terms I see thrown around too much are TAG and LAG, which are somewhat outdated terms.

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