In Part 1 of Moving Up: Beyond Winrate And Bankroll, I claimed that the two factors most cited in discussions of moving up, winrate and bankroll, don’t tell the whole story. If you’re thinking about moving up, you should consider some other factors just as much.
The first factor is your overall comfort level at your [...]
Are you ready to move up to higher stakes? How can you know when you are?
These questions are on the minds of most serious players at least some of the time. Conquering your current game and moving on to bigger and better things is the goal of most players.
Most discussion about moving up I see [...]
Poker players get stuck in ruts. We make so many decisions when we play that it’s natural for us to develop a sort of default, automatic way of handling most situations. Automatic plays are, on one hand, a practical necessity. I play about 500 hands an hour, and I probably make at least 800 to [...]
Tags: autopilot, blind stealling, bluffing, cold 4-betting, no-limit-holdem, poker, semibluffingI’ve published this article a few times in the past, but I wanted to republish it for those who haven’t seen it before. I edited and updated it a bit this time around.
Periodically, I’ll read an article about “feel” players versus “math” players. The “feel” players lob a shell: “Math players just don’t get it. [...]
Quite a few short stackers play in the $2-$4 and higher online 6-max no-limit games. Many of them play a strategy that seems likely to me to be profitable. I think a decent chunk of their profit comes from a play that I see them make repeatedly that I think many full stacked regulars don’t [...]
Tags: blind-stealing, full stacks versus short stacks, light 3-betting, no-limit-holdem, online-poker, poker, semibluffing, Short Stack StrategyI just finished reading my first poker strategy book in quite a while (probably the first one since The Mathematics of Poker). It’s a tournament book published by Matthew Hilger’s company, Dimat, and it’s good. The book has a long title and an even longer author list, so I’m going to make a new paragraph [...]
Tags: apestyles, dimat, eric lynch, jon turner, jon van fleet, matthew-hilger, MTTs, multi-table tournaments, no-limit-holdem, pearljammer, poker, rizen, TournamentsHere’s a question I hear all the time:
“How short a stack can you play before it’s not profitable anymore? At some point the blinds eat you away too fast and you can’t wait for a good hand anymore, right?”
This question is based on a false assumption that is the subject of today’s article. Yes, there [...]
