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Message: [QUOTE="dmorris68, post: 1300125, member: 40397"] One the subject of small ball, that's a subject for another thread, but I've had mixed success. Daniel himself says it's only effective in the early, low-blind stages and then only works well when most players at the table are conservative. Looser players are going to call smaller bets/raises more often, which is great for you when you have the nuts or nearly so -- but then shouldn't you be betting for maximum value and not trying to keep the pot tiny? It also can pigeonhole your play if you bet small until you do have the nuts and then try to pump the pot (which is awfully tempting to do because you then want max value). OTOH when you small-ball with loose or speculative hands, you're just giving loose callers better odds to call you (and loose callers usually don't pay attention to odds anyway), so now you're going to battle weak, will probably fold, and will have just flushed those chips. So I can see arguments both for and against small-ball. I've had some limited success with it, and then I've seen it not work. So I will sometimes use it sparingly, which I think is a good thing, because you should never be playing in a predictable style anyway. I"m finding the more I play MTTs and SnGs at the stakes I play now, the more regulars I see. I'm accumulating a lot of data on them, and I'm sure they're doing the same with me. So you need to change things up regularly. Of course at the freerolls you'll rarely see a regular so it's far less effective to change up your game -- the vast majority of freeroll players are only playing their cards -- but it's still a good habit to get into. [/QUOTE]

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