What is a NIT to you?
I'm sure there are numerous threads regarding this, but what makes a player a NIT to you? Is it amount of hands they play? Their range? Only playing basically the nuts post flop? A combination? What sample size are you using to determine?
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Stats of 10/5/2 pre or less, often as low as 5/2/1.
Strength post = the nuts or close to it. Rarely if ever bluffs.
There is no one size fits all answer, but basically someone who is always way tighter than they should be. They don't open raise enough hands, they don't 3b or 4b enough hands, they check hands they should bet, call hands they should raise.
Some examples:
Only 4b kk+
Cold calling hands like AKo and JJ more often than not.
Limp calling hands like AQ and AK
Check back top pair good kicker on the river or even 2 pair + when they are only losing to hands like sets or improbable straights.
Fold AKo to 3b.
Never bluffing.
Any time these types of players plays aggressively we should way overfold. Like, if you see a player flatting AKo now 3b in a similar spot, calling the 3b with AQo is pretty bad. A lot of times we will be able to bluff them by breathing on the pot in an earlier street, but once significant money goes in they are usually very strong. We mainly make money by not paying these guys off, bluffing them off small pots they don't fight for, and occasionally coolering them.
not sure what the point of this thread is. we strategize based on specific player tendencies not generic names.
nits give you good implied odds postflop so you should set mine vs them alot.
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There is no one size fits all answer, but basically someone who is always way tighter than they should be. They don't open raise enough hands, they don't 3b or 4b enough hands, they check hands they should bet, call hands they should raise.
Some examples:
Only 4b kk+
Cold calling hands like AKo and JJ more often than not.
Limp calling hands like AQ and AK
Check back top pair good kicker on the river or even 2 pair + when they are only losing to hands like sets or improbable straights.
Fold AKo to 3b.
The problem being in many small limit games players call far too often so their strategy is actually properly exploitive. My requirement to call someone a NIT is their strategy has to be both far too tight compared to GTO and not appropriate exploitation of the tendencies of other players in the game. YMMV
a nit is someone who gives no action
A nit is a louse in your hair or, in England, a stupid person. I have no idea how it became the biggest insult in poker (even though 2+2 pros have a reputation among regular players as being too nitty).
The majority of nits are rock tight players who basically act as another rakebox at the table, meaning you will never lose much money to them but you will never make much money from them either, but in general a nit is any player who makes the game worse by any factor that is not being a good player who wins a lot at the game. Don't be a nit.
The player who doesn't straddle when everyone else is straddling is a nit. The player that blocks the game from bumping up in stakes or switching to a 50/50 mix of NLHE and PLO is a nit. The player that says "no" when the whale is heads up facing his all-in preflop and the whale asks "do you want action?" and shows T9s causing the whale to fold is a nit. The player that immediately racks up and leaves when the worst player on the table busts is a nit.
The player who doesn't straddle when everyone else is straddling is a nit. The player that blocks the game from bumping up in stakes or switching to a 50/50 mix of NLHE and PLO is a nit. The player that says "no" when the whale is heads up facing his all-in preflop and the whale asks "do you want action?" and shows T9s causing the whale to fold is a nit. The player that immediately racks up and leaves when the worst player on the table busts is a nit.
The world through the eyes of degen.
The majority of nits are rock tight players who basically act as another rakebox at the table, meaning you will never lose much money to them but you will never make much money from them either, but in general a nit is any player who makes the game worse by any factor that is not being a good player who wins a lot at the game. Don't be a nit.
I'm guessing this thread will eventually be locked cuz it ain't a start thread, but I will say that one of my pet peeves is nits taking the brunt of being "bad for the game" (as I think this above post does).
*Winning Players* are bad for the game. End stop. There is almost no situation where you would rather have a winning player taking up a seat at your table versus a losing player. In a game full of delusion, it's almost as if winning players (who aren't stone cold nits) have somehow convinced themselves that they are good for the game.
Ginb4locked,imoG
The majority of nits are rock tight players who basically act as another rakebox at the table, meaning you will never lose much money to them but you will never make much money from them either, but in general a nit is any player who makes the game worse by any factor that is not being a good player who wins a lot at the game. Don't be a nit.
The player who doesn't straddle when everyone else is straddling is a nit. The player that blocks the game from bumping up in stakes or switching to a 5
Disagree completely. People should play however they want. All I ask is don't be an arsehole.
Thanks for the replies. Sorry if this isn't where I should post this. Just was curious
A nit is someone who plays tighter than you do. A LAG is someone who raises wider than you do.
A guy at my 1/3 has once shown down ATs for an RFI OTB 9 handed iso'ing over 2 limps. This was VERY loose for him.
