6 Max fundamentals for SSNL players

[Sir Winalot]

Great post Tien, please write something more. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[ftball0000]

great post for uNL... should be in the faq or sticky

[akkahai]

Woah! This is gold. I like that you give hand ranges for each position, and explain why.

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[kazana]

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Thanks for posting.
Pure gold, especially for a guy with under 230 posts.

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As I've mentioned before:
The number of posts says nothing about the quality of the poster's articles.
It's one of the main reasons that I've written a whole article about noise to signal ratios in the Beginners Forum a few months ago.

@OP: Me likes. A lot.
Just one thing: Limped to me in CO/BTN. I actually prefer to raise offsuit connectors/1-gappers over raising low Axo. It won't usually stop me from raising the Axo, too, but IMO the osc/os1gaps just play a lot easier post-flop + they've got more potential to turn into real monsters.

[Phresh]

What happens when AQ 3-bets you on the flop and blows you off your draw?

[munkey]

vnh OP.
Plz write more like this about fundamentals - this kind of post is the nutz for microNL.

Thanks for taking the time for doing this, mucha appreciated.

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I would also like to add that when you guys are making changes, make them one session at a time.

Unless you are 1-2 tabling and putting a lot of focus into your game, you need to take the changes slowly.



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very true. I've made this mistake many a time, as learning players we've obviously got to change our games to get better. Changes take time to show results given the amount of variance and the rarity those situations where your new play comes up.
So an improvement may not show for some time, but by making a small change( I assume it's not a monstrous leak) it won't impact your game sufficently, so that a patch of downside variance will lead you to questioning the change and resorting to your old less EV ways.


I hate low Axo in CO, even on the BTN I don't often go lower than A9o/A8o yet in SB vs BB I pay acerag.

I've tightened up on my OSCs and only play them in multiway/looking to go multiway pots (CO->>SB) or IP(even UTG+1) vs xloose targets - though this might be a leak.

[gimmetheloot]

Phresh, Im pretty sure you play much higher and are just being testy, but that wont happen in uNL unless flop is AQx. Promise.

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Somebody mentioned that OP wasnt really playing TAG in CO/BTN. Probably not, and you probably shouldnt be either. If you play postflop nearly as well as your opponents, you should deifnitely play a much more LAGgy style in CO/BTn than you do in other positions. Even if your opponents are slightly better than you fundamentally, your positional advantage should more than make up for it, unless you are simply a very poor post flop player.

[kazana]

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What happens when AQ 3-bets you on the flop and blows you off your draw?

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What happens if AQ 3-bets you on the flop and blows you off your A7 hand?

Seriously, I can't see a big difference. Furthermore, my cbet frequency with draws (especially gappers - b/c they're much better disguised) is far lower than with high card and pair hands.

[oreopimp]

are the games not fishy any more? did the fish leave or something?

nice post though.

[Vammakala]

Isn't 18 a little much for a TAG? I'm 22/15 and I think that's quite TAGgy ;] Dunno.