Micro Stakes Holdem

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 […]

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.