Micro Stakes Holdem

Below is an essay I’ve written for my Carpal Tunnel post. It’s long (> 2500 words for a 2500th post, I guess). I’m posting it in MTT, where I spent most of my time since joining 2p2, and in MSNL, where I have spent more time lately.
Introduction
Recently I have put some thought into strategies for […]

Unlike blind stealing, you don’t HAVE to do this to play optimal poker. I know that a lot of good players/respected posters do this already and some don’t like it at all.
OK, what you have to realise is quite how +EV blind stealing is. Check you BB/100 when blind stealing in PT. I’m sure that […]

I’m just trying to grow beyond basic TAG strategy and need a little help.
Not to be discouraging, but what you suggest isn’t beyond basic TAG strategy; it’s part of basic TAG strategy. As Ed Miller brilliantly put it in his recent 2+2 magazine article:
Total all the dollars you’ve ever bet playing poker. The large […]

By NewUser2006:
In the SSNL FAQ, Skeme has a section that recommends raising 3-4BBs + 1 per limper in order to "protect your hand" and some other mumbo jumbo.
It seems to me that raise size only works optimally when there are a ton of limpers already in the pot, or you have a hand that it […]

There are only a half-dozen reasons why we bet:
Value - Villain will call with worse hands.
Protection - To make it incorrect for villain to chase draws.
Bluff - Villain will fold hands that beat us.
Semi-Bluff - Our hand has equity, however we’d be happy just to win the pot now.
Information - Villain’s reaction tells us where […]

Here’s a list of common terms and abbreviations used in the NL forums.

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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.