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09-14-2006, 07:50 PM
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How many Gears (and define them) for N/L play?
Matasow has been quoted as stating "A person needs 5 gears to play great N/L hold'em. Most people have 2 maybe 3 gears..."
You don't have to subscribe to his line of thought, to reply below... How many gears do you have for No Limit play and define them... 
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#2
09-14-2006, 09:01 PM
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Re: How many Gears (and define them) for N/L play?
Is he perhaps referring to Levels, as described in NLHE Theory & Practice? For example, always think one level more than your opponent is thinking?
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#3
09-14-2006, 11:03 PM
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Re: How many Gears (and define them) for N/L play?
It's just an analogy meaning that you need to be more versatile and adaptive than your opponents.
There are no identifiable "gears"...
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#4
09-14-2006, 11:30 PM
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Re: How many Gears (and define them) for N/L play?
If you have been very tight and people see you as a 'rock', everyone will be very carefull of your raises PF as they will put you on a huge hand. You can 'change gears' and switch your game to a LAG instead of a TAG. One example of changing gears.
You can play extreamly overaggressive, aggressive, passive, neutral, these are all gear changes. You just play them for a period of time, then change gears so the players don't put you on one style.
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09-15-2006, 02:13 AM
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Re: How many Gears (and define them) for N/L play?
yeah, I would say I change gears based on position and whos in the hand. if you did have to try to identify them though, I guess you could go with:
1)Tight-Agressive; typical ABC solid game, how I usually play when I don't have reads on anyone at the table yet 2)Loose-Aggressive; playing with tight opponents who can be pushed off of a lot of pots. essential to have for late-game MTTs 3)Loose-Passive; good for an agressive game with people bluffing a lot; calling down with marginal holdings and letting players trap themselves 4)'Tricky'; how I usually play with more thinking players, when I think they have a read on me. check-raising a lot more, trying to make a lot more deceptive plays. 5)Tight-Weak; good for the bubble of satellites and very early in some SNG situations.
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#7
09-15-2006, 09:21 AM
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Re: How many Gears (and define them) for N/L play?
This is something I've been thinking about lately, as I'm not always good about changing gears. I got a close up education in this area in my one major live tournament. I was unfortunate enough to be at a table with Todd Arnold, forget his Stars Handle, NSXT on paradise, who is a top semipro. He showed off several different gears, and played each quite well. He amassed a big stack at the end of day I, and I am proud to say that quite a few of those chips came from the stack of yours truly. He would shift gears whenever he felt the table had a solid read on what gear he was playing in. Like, for example, when he showed down Q 10 for the nut straight after rasing with it in EP, or after showing 9 7 for 2 pair after raising with it utg. Only criticism I could make was that I could just about see him shifting the gear and depressing the clutch, which isn't good, but then again I was paying him, let's just say, some extra attention.
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#8
09-16-2006, 02:37 AM
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Re: How many Gears (and define them) for N/L play?
I don't really think in terms of gears. I just get more aggressive or more passive. I think of it as a sliding scale. 1 to 10.
10 would be all-in mode. If I raise, I am shoving. 1 would be me checking it all the way down. 5 is in between, where I am betting for value. I bet top pair
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