Micro Stakes Holdem

Chomp asked me to post about counting combos, so I have some time now.

For some (or most, I don’t know) this post might be obvious and second nature. But maybe for a few it will be helpful. While reading this, keep in mind that I have an IQ of about 20 or 30 in the mornings and that I’m not a coach or anything, so if there are errors, please tear into me all you want. I like to learn. Read the rest of this entry »

This is probably a basic concept that many of you have thought about before. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately and I thought I’d post about it. Read the rest of this entry »

Recently I went through the type of bankroll destroying, confidence crushing downswing that I had previously only read about. The following are some lessons learned from my experience. Read the rest of this entry »

Disclaimer and qualifier: I have played well over one million hands of online poker, and almost that many this year alone. I’ve just recently started to reflect on my career in poker, and I was able to find the points in time in which I really had epiphanies. I remembered that was a question that is asked in most “wells.” I was asked more than once in mine, and right now jman is doing a great well in HSNL in which people are asking him the same question. I’ve decided that I’ll take the time to answer it comprehensively, since I haven’t made a serious post in MSNL in a very long time- this is my Christmas present. I’d appreciate it if HSNL people read it and expounded upon it (and the future- most notably) and if SSNL and MSNL people would ask questions related to this thread that others could help them answer. The goal of this ‘essay’ is to expedite the education process of all those who read it indirectly. Read the rest of this entry »

You’ll often hear people talk about playing a “short-stack strategy”: the idea is that you buy in for less that the maximum (often for the very minimum) in order to take advantage of your opponents. You can get yourself all-in relatively easily, and if your opponents fail to adjust properly you can win money. Read the rest of this entry »

Expected Value - is commonly referrred to as EV.

from here on in positive Expected Value is +EV and negative Expected Value is -EV.

Poker is a game in which skill will beat luck every time assuming that you play for long enough. While it’s true that any two cards preflop can win any given individual hand and that luck is a large part of this game if you hold any aspirations whatsoever to beat Poker overany significant amount of time/hands you must learn to make +EV plays and not make -EV plays. Read the rest of this entry »

Originally posted by ssdex for 2+2 forums

I started playing poker 4 years ago. I got lucky very early on at pokerroom and made 3 final tables of the 20k guarenteed in 2 weeks, finishing 2nd twice, its a 20 rebuy with like 700-100 ppl usually. Before that I was 8 tabling sng’s at pokerroom while running 8 at stars (mostly 10’s and 20’s). Anyways these multitable cashes instarolled me for 200nl I had like 10k, I went on a superheater my first 3 months, god the games were so soft back then, and I was quickly playing 5/10 with a roll around 50k (5max at pokerroom) , i was only 18/19 at the time and am not from a wealth family, so i decided to take 30k out and put it aside for a car, eventually i got an audi A4(I love the car, but should have left my $ in poker, effectively ruined my earning potential and poker career, but may have been a blessing)… after my cashout over the next month I had a 30 buyin downswing at 400nl and lost 12k. Leaving me with only 8k in my roll. I played the next 3 months at breakeven at nl200 and then I took 6 months off poker and started studying the game, I didn’t know how bad I was or how lucky I got initially. When I came back (I had 8k in neteller), I sent 6k to my bank, and deposited 500 at 4 different sites (Stars) (UB) (Pokerroom) (Absolute). I ran up every account above 5k with 15 months (with rakeback bonuses ect). I started with SNG’s + MTT’s, it sucked, but its my bread and butter. Then i moved slowly into 6max I never played above 200nl during this time. I don’t have as much time for poker anymore and am content at lower stakes. I have a lot of $ locked in neteller, its a long story and it sucks. I play almost exclusively at stars right now (close to supernova) Since then I have learned some things I think all microstakes people should take into account so i’ll list them. Read the rest of this entry »

By Pokey for 2+2 Forums

For the past few months, we’ve gotten a steady stream of players making the transition from limit hold’em to no-limit. Since the regime change that brought our new and mighty Dread Overlord AJ (don’t blame me — I voted for Kodos!), the newcomer’s threads asking how to transition from limit to no-limit have all been insta-locked, and these poor schmoes aren’t getting any feedback. Read the rest of this entry »

This is a how-to post, but it doesn’t belong in the software forum; it’s to teach people how they can use the Poker Tracker data to find flaws in their game. Read the rest of this entry »

While this is really basic and generally people are aware that tilt probably is expensive, I think there may be people who haven’t actually done the numbers of how big exactly the effect of tilt is for your winrate. Read the rest of this entry »