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Old 09-06-2006, 12:07 AM
NMcNasty NMcNasty is offline
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Default Re: beating the big NL games..

Buying in for 1000 and 1500 is a bit too deep for that strategy to work right. You would be spewing chips against AA and KK more often than getting a donk with AQ or 99 to call. Unfortunately, that type of strategy with the minimum stack ($500 or so) is +EV if used correctly. You would however never get away with in a casino 10-25 game without being berated for playing cheeseball poker. In the online 10-20 games people do it all the time and its ruining the games. There's nothing more annoying than calling some mediocre player's raise with a hand like 68s with the hope of outplaying them postflop but then having some donk 15 year old push allin with his little stack.

The strategy is easy to beat itself, but it forces you to play tight boring poker and fold hands that are marginally profitable against lesser skilled but equally stacked opponents.

So yeah, the strategy might work but it will never be as effective as a good deepstack strategy and it will never make you a better player.
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