Personally, I almost never want to see more than one caller, unless I'm chasing a 2-way draw and need the extra money in the pot to make it worth staying in. I think if you asked any professional or serious amateur players whether they want to keep people betting, they'd say they don't, unless they have the nuts. It's always easiest to win without a showdown, and it provides your opponents with less, and less reliable, information for next time. After all, the *real* object is to buy a lot of information for very few chips, and then use that information to get the chips back with interest, while giving away as little of your own information as you can manage.
I would go into this game assuming that there would usually be at most 3 people at any showdown with enough money in to make it worth sweating, which reduces the wild card to a pretty binary choice. I think it'd be quite rare to see 4 or more people in for the showdown with a significant pot--if that's common, it likely either means you're essentially playing for matchsticks (i.e. nobody cares about losing much), or you all have very similar aggression levels and styles, so you tend to all push at the same points in a hand.
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Date: 2007-02-25 11:55 pm (UTC)I would go into this game assuming that there would usually be at most 3 people at any showdown with enough money in to make it worth sweating, which reduces the wild card to a pretty binary choice. I think it'd be quite rare to see 4 or more people in for the showdown with a significant pot--if that's common, it likely either means you're essentially playing for matchsticks (i.e. nobody cares about losing much), or you all have very similar aggression levels and styles, so you tend to all push at the same points in a hand.