Archive for August, 2008

Buy in short to protect your bankroll!

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.

Basic Poker Theory: Expected Value

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 […]

Bankroll Managment For Microstakes Holdem

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 […]

Switching from Limit to No-Limit

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 […]