Small Stakes Hold'em Study Group

[Gamgee]

You just lured me out of the closet. Great idea. I'm in

[pumba67]

First post and I'm all in.

[ShizzlFizzl]

Im halfway through this book so obviously im in.

[don300]

I'm in. One drawback with all of these interested classmates.....The aquarium will surely shrink a little. Hopefully, we don't all end up at the same table.

[rdkim1]

hi,

before I bought this book, I lost $50 on-line.

After I bought it and read about 20 times, I won $15!!

ps I play $0.5/$1 limit holdem and I am in.

[schoon157]

Count me in as well.

[God Complex]

I'm in.

[smbruin22]

i read pages 1-41 (i already had the book but i re-read the pages).

most of the basic math is trivial to me, and i'd suspect alot of people in this forum... i do have a question for later (and it does tie in TOP too, but i'll save it).

anyhow, also a very good statement of why the book's need, how to use it and where you'll be making $$$$$ from.

some really basic advice about starting hands. play tight, watch position and DO NOT calling raises with offsuit hands (can't remember the exact phrases though)....

anyhow, not too much meat yet, but a good introduction and backgrounder on the math.

[bk1]

do you calculate pot odds, implied odds, reverse implied odds and pot equity, every time you are in the pot and making a decision to bet or fold?

And when you are on a flush draw and straight draw and pot is big, do you raise? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

[smbruin22]

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do you calculate pot odds, implied odds, reverse implied odds and pot equity, every time you are in the pot and making a decision to bet or fold?

And when you are on a flush draw and straight draw and pot is big, do you raise? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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you get a feel for it and even though this seems highly mathematical, there is alot of grey area in calculating this stuff.... but you should basically know the pot odds and also whether there will be alot more $$$$ coming in later. later in the book, they define big vs. small pots and that can guide you very nicely. to a certain degree, you know if it's a large pot or not, and at those levels i think that's sufficient (although miller says always know the $$$$ in the pot).

vis-a-vis a fantastic draw (high flush, overcards, OE straight all together), later in the book they get pretty aggressive about raising with that, but that's for later in the book and something i definitely want to discuss (fantastic draw with lots of callers it's a no-brainer, but not sure when it isn't as good and/or few callers.)