Cap Game Strategy

Last week, Full Tilt Poker rolled out Cap NL games where you can only bet up to 30BBs per hand. I tried them out and I've formulated a strategy for them. I'm just going to line these out in bullet form and add more when I think of some.

1) AK is to be played harder preflop. If I can find a way to go all-in with it, I will. If there is 6+ BB in the pot, I will raise all-in.
2) Small pairs go down in value EXCEPT in the following circumstances.
A) It it limped preflop
B) With implied odd, you are getting 10-1 on your money. You can't take someone's stack with a flopped set, so you can't be calling big bets with them.
3) Mid pairs 88-TT can be played more aggresively. You can't get stacked if you happen to run into pair v. pair on a low flop.
4) Small-ball poker rules. Learn how to play small-ball allows you to pick up small pots and since you aren't playing any large ones, you are going to have to learn how to pick up the small ones.
5) Semi-bluffing goes up in value. You can make a large flop bet and not have to worry about being checkraised out of a pot.
6) Pay attention to the players. Cap NL is like Limit in the sense that the game is about little mistakes. Try to limit your while exploiting those players who do make the little mistakes. In regular NL, you can swap little mistakes for big ones, but you can't force anyone to make a big mistake here. Identify those players making the little mistakes and punish them. Most of these mistakes will be preflop.

Okay, that's it for now, I'll think of some others.

7)Bankroll: I'm thinking that 30 Caps (or 900 Big Blinds) would be a good bankroll. It's a bit more swingy than normal NL. I think that you could get away with 20 Caps for a longhanded game if you played a TAG style since that will have less variance.