stokken
11-29-2006, 10:45 AM
I anticipate the microplayers to be broadly divided in two groups, those who have recently started and those who has some if not much pokerexperience-and have taken a turn towards a more serious approach-especially regarding Br managment-and with a determination to take the lessons warranted and rewarded for each step up the ladder.( By no means do I believe that the recently started are less serious)
I have until recently been a Mtt junkie. I have played abit of different stakes Nl cash game short and full up to 5/10. Usually overconfident after some decent mtt score, underolled,incomplete as a player given the stake, and without exception ending with the same result-thrashed, given enough time.
I have decided to walk the ladder, starting at 50nl 6 max
Reading trough lots of posts here I would like feedback on some random thoughts.
Learn and unlear (regarding the general competition at microlevel-alot of advice in books and onliners taken out of its context can cause much trouble if not thought about and learned in its right environment.
Thight agressive-typical misconseption leads to overplaying
Loose agressive-typical misconseption leads to spewing and a to high frequency of bluffing
Implied odds-typical misconseption-lots of maths regarding how often a given hand can improve in relation to betsize, predicted betsizes of streets to come and stacksizes. With little thougt about wheras the opponent will actually commit to your hopes of stacking.
++many more
In short- situational- poker is what one should strive for.
Use the time you are allowed. I dont mean timeout every hand,but you have a few seconds to choose your action-it is valuable time. We seek a profitable play, it cant and doesnt have to be right all the time, just more often then not. Then you`ll see with improving vision when 6,7s is raisable utg, when you can call a raise from the rock in what position. Against whom 7,2 can win a hand often enough, when you should bail. When A,3os is ok in the sb. Whom you can and cant take off 1 pair. When you can call large bets with weak hands, on which street. At what level the opponents concludes their logic
It does not take much really-and alot of players at these levels drive at the same speed until they crash-this is the difference in bb/100
Be fluid with the cards, the dynamics, flow if you will, accomodate and ship it home. Go trough your sessions
Keep it simple, with thought most things are.
Stokken
I have until recently been a Mtt junkie. I have played abit of different stakes Nl cash game short and full up to 5/10. Usually overconfident after some decent mtt score, underolled,incomplete as a player given the stake, and without exception ending with the same result-thrashed, given enough time.
I have decided to walk the ladder, starting at 50nl 6 max
Reading trough lots of posts here I would like feedback on some random thoughts.
Learn and unlear (regarding the general competition at microlevel-alot of advice in books and onliners taken out of its context can cause much trouble if not thought about and learned in its right environment.
Thight agressive-typical misconseption leads to overplaying
Loose agressive-typical misconseption leads to spewing and a to high frequency of bluffing
Implied odds-typical misconseption-lots of maths regarding how often a given hand can improve in relation to betsize, predicted betsizes of streets to come and stacksizes. With little thougt about wheras the opponent will actually commit to your hopes of stacking.
++many more
In short- situational- poker is what one should strive for.
Use the time you are allowed. I dont mean timeout every hand,but you have a few seconds to choose your action-it is valuable time. We seek a profitable play, it cant and doesnt have to be right all the time, just more often then not. Then you`ll see with improving vision when 6,7s is raisable utg, when you can call a raise from the rock in what position. Against whom 7,2 can win a hand often enough, when you should bail. When A,3os is ok in the sb. Whom you can and cant take off 1 pair. When you can call large bets with weak hands, on which street. At what level the opponents concludes their logic
It does not take much really-and alot of players at these levels drive at the same speed until they crash-this is the difference in bb/100
Be fluid with the cards, the dynamics, flow if you will, accomodate and ship it home. Go trough your sessions
Keep it simple, with thought most things are.
Stokken