Re: NL25 Video From MSNLer
Here are my thoughts on this video...
The strategy of "stirring up" the table, using your image and playing off of the table dynamics is a good notion in general for poker... However at $25 NL, while there will occasionaly be some TAGs that this strategy would work well against, more often than not the table is full of ultra loose calling stations. Also, alot of the TAGs are multi-tabling at these stakes and will not really be paying enough attention to what you are doing to make this greatly effective against them.
I think this is a good strategy if you want to single table, because it maximizes your reads... and that's the optimal way to play.
While you said this strategy had produced a 15bb/100 result over 30k hands, I'm wondering.... Did you single table for 30k hands? Were you multi-tabling using this strategy? Did you play all 25 NL?
30K hands would take a very long time to play just single tabling, and I think this strategy is heavily realiant on paying close attention to your opponents... So it would be pretty difficult to do effectively playing more than a couple tables.
Like I mentioned before, a majority of players at this limit are excessively loose and make enough poor plays on their own. While this strategy is interesting and most likely superior for higher limits of poker where the players are more skilled, I don't think its optimal for 25 NL... especially if you want to multi-table...
As far as whether it could be more profitable playing like this and single tabling, rather than playing more conventional and 4-8 tabling? I'm pretty sure multi-tabling would be alot more profitable... but who knows. Maybe a skilled enough player could actually minipulate a single table so well that he could achieve a higher hourly rate than a multi tabler. Not likely, but it is interesting to think about.
Also another thing to keep in mind is that players come and go so quickly at micro stakes tables, that by time you double up the short stack a couple of times and build an image with them , they coule be gone before you can take advatange of it.
There's alot of good tips in this video though and I think alot of people will benefit from it. Thanks for posting it.
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