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Message: [QUOTE="light65536, post: 826234, member: 23958"] Okay, I'm back to $29 and almost $30. So I'm feeling a bit better. I busted about 4-6 people to do that -- mostly small stacks. It is my experience that small stacks make larger bluffs because they don't are not afraid of losing a big stack. That was my problem when I played small stack. So, if I can keep running good and I had some amazing cards then I think I can get back into the $30's where I feel more comfortable. I will now discuss my strategies. When I start playing i have a notepad and I write down my running balance into that notepad but I record the chips as units and not dollars so $5 is 500 units. I have 2 "stops" set but these are soft stops. A winning stop is just to give me an indication how much I'm ahead. I try to push my winnings but cut my losses. Each time balance changes I write down the numbers in the notepad. I also write down some uhm reminders because its easy for the mind to go asleep while playing. Some of my reminders are "bulldoze, watch for straights, be patient, goal is to build my bankroll, don't take it personal, play position, dont play suited crap, small hand -> small pot, big hand -> big pot". The bulldoze is one of the most important. I thought I was aggressive and then in heads up I started getting run over my bluffers on my big hands. So my strategy is thinking ITS NOT ENOUGH just to be aggressive but I plan to just completely bulldoze my opponents. My biggest post-flop weakness is missing off the wall straights even though I make quite a bit from these too. I love playing the big stack but I treat my chips as very valuable the more I have. I don't want to give even a single one way. So, I'm not the type of player who just throws chips away. However, let me give a good example. I have a k-10 in the big blind. I see the button call. I just busted him with a good hand but I feel he thinks I am weak because I folded several times previously when I was pretty sure he was bluffing. The flop comes with a 10 on it. I bet out and he calls. The next card to come is an ace and he bets out huge. This is reasonable typically to think someone limped in with an ace and typically I'd fold but I was pretty sure he didn't have it. it was more of an "I'm going to scare you bet". Nothing else of interest comes and he goes all in on the river. I call and my 10's hold up. At the microlimits you can't always play for value because if you do the other players will see this and just bet huge and take away your chips. My strategy is primarily to win several small pots and then to use those winnings to take a coin flip. At least in heads up if I'm a chip leader I'm happy to take a coin flip bet because I have a 50% chance of winning right there the game. In ring games, my strategy is based around positional and situational play. In early position I play super tight but in later positions I play very loose and aggressive. The key is I don't put much money relatively into my bluffs. I rarely bluff big without having something strong. Additionally I almost never bluff out of position. The other side to the coin is I require much stronger calling hands then I do raising hands. I found playing loose aggressive works for me because: I don't feel the need to make hands, people will call my premium hands that I want them to call, and good things can happen. If I play super tight then people recognize this and just fold but if I'm raising every hand then I get a lot more value from my good hands and I find it easier to fold them. I try to change up gears quite a bit too. Again if someone has already raised the pot then I'm going to be entering with very strong hands only. The biggest problem with my strategy on the button is if we have limpers who came in before the button. Sometimes I will limp with them because there is a risk someone limped with a very strong hand. I really don't like limpers in front of me. The primary benefit from raising from the button is not the blinds (at least in .01/.02) but the value I gain from my premium hands. The DOWNSIDE is that people will be more likely to call premium hands and that means they'll lose more often too. [/QUOTE]

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