boycalledroy
02-08-2007, 12:39 AM
Right, I know POKEY and TIEN have made some excellent posts on this, but until I played 30k hands I was making some rudimentry errors. I still do like, but lets ignore them and go onto beating NL10 massively.
First point - NO FPS EVER, EVER, EVER. Play simple as poker.
Second point - people don't generally watch anything you ever do. If I want a hand that I am going to nail a huge pot with such as 44/55/66 I will not bet 4bbx1bb/limp. Bet something so you have a couple of ne'erdowells coming with you. Then make them pay, if you miss don't cbet, they WILL call you down with overcards or pairs. You just spew money at them.
Position is still very important as it always is and UTG I would play only pairs and AQ/AK.
Nobody 3-bets light apart from the nutters, whom you will recognize from their 20%+ pfr. So you do not need to reraise with that A10o.
As everybody has said - never open limp, even at nl10, its just yucky and you will probably go bust in an unraise pot.
There is generally no reason to not acknowledge either a check-raise, or a re-raise from behind. These both mean that your hand aint gonna cut it, unless its near the nuts.
Aim to not really abuse MP at all, play a game much like UTG, too many people call in behind and leave you with all types of quandries. Also CO isn't _as_ powerful as people on the button call with anything. Still abuse the button like there is no tomorrow, 67s+ 79s+ A10o+ Axs+ K10+ all raising hands if there is no raise.
Get the fundamentals right and you will be fine. The more you aint the preflop raisor the more you will fold the best hand, even the donks cbet. So if you aint a-raising be a-folding.
Cbet everything UNLESS.....
You hold a pp and flop comes Axx, Kxx. People round these here ways like to play stupid hands with purdy cards. You will go bust to LAMERxzy because he can't toss a hand, and you are drawing to 2 outs at best.
If somebody donk bets into you, raise them if they are weak ie pot $1.20 them $0.4, bet the pot, this is weakness. If they come along, close up shop, unless you have a hand.
Check-raises mean "fold as quick as possible", most players down here don't have the creativity to use them as a bluffing tool.
Sorry if this has all been said before, but I feel the importance of it is paramount. I have played lots of hands down here, at the VERY basic level and broke-even for too long, until ALL this advice hit me, and hit me hard.
The point at nl10 is that you don't REALLY need to get your cash in 50/50 or 55/45. Most players are THAT bad that they let you get it in at LEAST 60/40 and beyond. Twice I have had players bluff at the nuts in the last hours worth of play.
For those that are interested I am anything around 15 to 25 vpip and 12 to 22 pfr with af of 4/5.
This all works, you can crush nl10 very easy.
Tomorrow we attack nl25!
HTH!
First point - NO FPS EVER, EVER, EVER. Play simple as poker.
Second point - people don't generally watch anything you ever do. If I want a hand that I am going to nail a huge pot with such as 44/55/66 I will not bet 4bbx1bb/limp. Bet something so you have a couple of ne'erdowells coming with you. Then make them pay, if you miss don't cbet, they WILL call you down with overcards or pairs. You just spew money at them.
Position is still very important as it always is and UTG I would play only pairs and AQ/AK.
Nobody 3-bets light apart from the nutters, whom you will recognize from their 20%+ pfr. So you do not need to reraise with that A10o.
As everybody has said - never open limp, even at nl10, its just yucky and you will probably go bust in an unraise pot.
There is generally no reason to not acknowledge either a check-raise, or a re-raise from behind. These both mean that your hand aint gonna cut it, unless its near the nuts.
Aim to not really abuse MP at all, play a game much like UTG, too many people call in behind and leave you with all types of quandries. Also CO isn't _as_ powerful as people on the button call with anything. Still abuse the button like there is no tomorrow, 67s+ 79s+ A10o+ Axs+ K10+ all raising hands if there is no raise.
Get the fundamentals right and you will be fine. The more you aint the preflop raisor the more you will fold the best hand, even the donks cbet. So if you aint a-raising be a-folding.
Cbet everything UNLESS.....
You hold a pp and flop comes Axx, Kxx. People round these here ways like to play stupid hands with purdy cards. You will go bust to LAMERxzy because he can't toss a hand, and you are drawing to 2 outs at best.
If somebody donk bets into you, raise them if they are weak ie pot $1.20 them $0.4, bet the pot, this is weakness. If they come along, close up shop, unless you have a hand.
Check-raises mean "fold as quick as possible", most players down here don't have the creativity to use them as a bluffing tool.
Sorry if this has all been said before, but I feel the importance of it is paramount. I have played lots of hands down here, at the VERY basic level and broke-even for too long, until ALL this advice hit me, and hit me hard.
The point at nl10 is that you don't REALLY need to get your cash in 50/50 or 55/45. Most players are THAT bad that they let you get it in at LEAST 60/40 and beyond. Twice I have had players bluff at the nuts in the last hours worth of play.
For those that are interested I am anything around 15 to 25 vpip and 12 to 22 pfr with af of 4/5.
This all works, you can crush nl10 very easy.
Tomorrow we attack nl25!
HTH!