Buddha;235853 wrote
Don't ever try to bully this type of table - you can't bluff a calling station!
This is true and very common in SSLHE live games. If you got 3 to the flop, value bet/raise your hands, check your air. Position really is everything in these games. If you're the pre-flop raiser with great late position you often will get a free turn. If someone bets and you miss, you can be sure you're beat and comfortably fold. WAY too often people will call a flop bet to go runner runner. You really can cash in on this, but not in multi-way pots when everyone is going to call you.
That being said, variance will be higher with more people in the pot so allways raise your big draws and big hands. You can usually be sure that lmost people will call but hey that's poker.
I once played a kill pot where I was the button. Looking down at 22 I limped in after 8 people called! I was getting my odds to set mine perfectly. sure enough the flop comes 952 rainbow. For reasons I still don't understand the flop got capped (me raising the whole way of course) and by the turn there were still 6 players (myself included) to the turn.
The turn was a 5h putting a fd on the board. The SB bets, BB raises, 3 calls, I raise, and SB folds showing (Qs9s) and teh BB calls with everyone else. The river is a 9. I almost puke. The bb bets out and everyone folds to me. Given i had something like 15-1 odds or something I had to call to make sure she didnt have an A high fd. Of course she shows the (9d4c). Yup. Good ol' live poker.