http://www.microstackesholdem.com This is the blog about NL/PL texas holdem with micro stakes. Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:46:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.microstackesholdem.com/2008/12/poker-combinatorics/ 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. Consider the following HH... 100BB stacks at x stakes You have 67 in the BB. UTG opens for 5BB, Button and SB call, and you ... http://www.microstackesholdem.com/2008/10/overestimating-implied-odds/ 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. Don't overestimate your short run edge. I often sit down at a NL$100 table and see a minraise, min-reraise, 4 callers to the flop, ... http://www.microstackesholdem.com/2008/09/dealing-with-a-downswing/ 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 ... http://www.microstackesholdem.com/2008/09/the-evolution-of-a-poker-player/ 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 ... http://www.microstackesholdem.com/2008/08/buy-in-short-to-protect-your-bankroll/ 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 ... http://www.microstackesholdem.com/2008/08/basic-poker-theory-expected-value/ 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 ... http://www.microstackesholdem.com/2008/08/bankroll-managment-for-microstakes-holdem/ 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 ... http://www.microstackesholdem.com/2008/08/switching-from-limit-to-no-limit/ 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. Not a week goes by that someone doesn't ask if they are playing the game right. In that post, they ... http://www.microstackesholdem.com/2008/07/how-to-use-poker-tracker/ 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. Well, here it goes: Theory Let x be your "tilt-free" winrate (just make ... http://www.microstackesholdem.com/2008/07/how-tilt-effects-your-winrate/