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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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.

So everybody knows that table selection is one of the most important secrets to poker success. We’ve heard all the stories:
- So-and-so isn’t very good at the mechanics of the game but he’s a consistent winner because he’s got fantastic table selection.

Ok, I’m only posting this in uFR. I think a lot of players want a clear guide regarding moving up in limits. The uSH forum has a lot of great threads on this topic already. I’ll link to them throughout this. This is my second micro stakes article. Hopefully they are helpful. As before, this […]

mtrip from 2+2 asks:
What are the criteria to keep in mind when deciding whether you’re willing to build a big pot with TPTK?
Specifically, what factors/information lead to a strong line vs a ‘pot control’ line? When do you get away from the hand and when do you commit?