The smaller the stakes and the worse your opponents the higher your possible edge. Id rather play vs freeroll players in a highstakes game than vs regs.Dream Slayer said:
Regs can be more predictable, but my edge is muchhhh larger vs the recreational players.
Hey Protential, hello from Brazil
There are cool questions that were already answered in past posts. But let's try a new one. I've been playing SnG 9man 50¢ for a while @Pokerstars and I feel that all theory and articles available are old-fashioned and don't focus to exploit players.
I've seeing in tables 1 type of winner player [based on their stats in sharkscope]:
- Nit players who dosen't play post flop games and wait cards above JJ+ and AK to open shove in any phase of the game and open wide, but not too much, close to middle and bubble to keep stacks for ITM.
For myself this is kind a robot or AI to play poker.
My question: There is an up to date article or vid or book that goes beyond and teach how to play as a solid winner?
All the Best,
Arnaldo
There are cool questions that were already answered in past posts. But let's try a new one. I've been playing SnG 9man 50¢ for a while @Pokerstars and I feel that all theory and articles available are old-fashioned and don't focus to exploit players.
I've seeing in tables 1 type of winner player [based on their stats in sharkscope]:
- Nit players who dosen't play post flop games and wait cards above JJ+ and AK to open shove in any phase of the game and open wide, but not too much, close to middle and bubble to keep stacks for ITM.
For myself this is kind a robot or AI to play poker.
My question: There is an up to date article or vid or book that goes beyond and teach how to play as a solid winner?
All the Best,
Arnaldo
Hello, I have a question about something that seems to be reaching epidemic proportions on the CardsChat freerolls lateley: Bluffing into dry side pots.
Over a half a dozen times in the last couple of weeks, I've witnessed players with big stacks bluffing off other players with stacks (read ME!) when the short stack (which is usually dead) is blinded All-In PreFlop. I had spent almost all of my online poker time on PokerStars before joining CC and signing up for a slew of sites (current count is seven). On PS, All-In dead stacks are folded, the hand is almost never live (except when the dead stack has exactly the amount of the Big Blind) On almost all other sites, it seems that dead stacks that are All-In are live to showdown.
My question is; what is the point of bluffing off an opponent rather than taking the hand to showdown with two or more hands to play against a small amount of dead money. Bear in mind that the Blind size was not a significant part of anyone's stack (except for dead money's) and no one bluffing, or being bluffed off the hand would be significantly impacted by the pot. It seems to me to have been just a matter of the big stack saying "if I can't win it, no one can, and I don't care if the dead stack survives another hand".
I find this behaviour infuriatingly counter-productive. Last week, a dead stack on the Final Table of the PartyPoker FR laddered up two spots because the big stack was "protecting" him by raising preflop whenever DM was All-In. The only sensible reason (outside of collusion) that I could come up with, was that the big stack preferred the dynamic of having the dead money around. I'm pretty sure that would not be the reason given if you asked the big stack.
As I mentioned before, this activity has become so prevalent, I'm just wondering if this is some kind of "thing". Did Doug Polk just blog about picking up all the pennies and nickels while the ignorant masses are foolishly trying to eliminate the dead money players and ladder up?
Over a half a dozen times in the last couple of weeks, I've witnessed players with big stacks bluffing off other players with stacks (read ME!) when the short stack (which is usually dead) is blinded All-In PreFlop. I had spent almost all of my online poker time on PokerStars before joining CC and signing up for a slew of sites (current count is seven). On PS, All-In dead stacks are folded, the hand is almost never live (except when the dead stack has exactly the amount of the Big Blind) On almost all other sites, it seems that dead stacks that are All-In are live to showdown.
My question is; what is the point of bluffing off an opponent rather than taking the hand to showdown with two or more hands to play against a small amount of dead money. Bear in mind that the Blind size was not a significant part of anyone's stack (except for dead money's) and no one bluffing, or being bluffed off the hand would be significantly impacted by the pot. It seems to me to have been just a matter of the big stack saying "if I can't win it, no one can, and I don't care if the dead stack survives another hand".
I find this behaviour infuriatingly counter-productive. Last week, a dead stack on the Final Table of the PartyPoker FR laddered up two spots because the big stack was "protecting" him by raising preflop whenever DM was All-In. The only sensible reason (outside of collusion) that I could come up with, was that the big stack preferred the dynamic of having the dead money around. I'm pretty sure that would not be the reason given if you asked the big stack.
As I mentioned before, this activity has become so prevalent, I'm just wondering if this is some kind of "thing". Did Doug Polk just blog about picking up all the pennies and nickels while the ignorant masses are foolishly trying to eliminate the dead money players and ladder up?
Yeah, I clearly see the same trend in our games!And last night I find out that there are solid reasons to act like this, as I was a chip leader in the Monthly PS game almost all the time with huge advantage to the rest of the filed. When we reach FT, I somehow started to play rather nitty - not putting enough pressure on short stacks, and step by step - as just you mentioned - few of the opponents laddered up in no time.
When I realized my mistake - it was too late! I lost my domination role when we left 5 or 6 on the table, so best that I could do was finishing 4th.
So yes, there is something true what you are placing as question!
Looking forward what Ryan would have as a comment :top:
When I realized my mistake - it was too late! I lost my domination role when we left 5 or 6 on the table, so best that I could do was finishing 4th.
So yes, there is something true what you are placing as question!
Looking forward what Ryan would have as a comment :top:
Hello,
I started Grinding STT 3 weeks ago and everything went very well, now I'm facing a little downswing I Think what make think about some Questions :
- How much % of our BR we can invest in one session ? (I used 12-15%)
- How much session we permit our self in a day using the % above ?
- If we feel that it's a bad swing move down the limite immediately even if we have more than 60-70 Buyins ?
- What is the average ROI and ITM at the STTs ?
I started Grinding STT 3 weeks ago and everything went very well, now I'm facing a little downswing I Think what make think about some Questions :
- How much % of our BR we can invest in one session ? (I used 12-15%)
- How much session we permit our self in a day using the % above ?
- If we feel that it's a bad swing move down the limite immediately even if we have more than 60-70 Buyins ?
- What is the average ROI and ITM at the STTs ?