Beating No-Limit Games With Just A Chip And A Chair

Just a little bit of advice to those who will TRY to adhere to this basic strategy. Last session, I lost 2 buy-ins in 3 decisive hands, and decided to call it a day. A flopped nut-flush, top set and top 2 pair all lost by the river in all-in situattions, against opponents willing to gamble. Hopefully, this doesn’t happen often as I will be looking for a new hobby. The funny part is, twice it was against the same person. I guess I should have folded top set, LOL!!!! Oh well……..

A thought about all that games-believed-to-be-polluted-by-robots crossed my mind… do the robots buy in deep or short?
and let’s say someone will catch-up and make all his robots buy in short, what would a counterstrategy look like?

> Last session, I lost 2 buy-ins in 3 decisive hands, and decided to call it a day.

Two short buy-ins, or even two deep buy-ins, isn’t even the tiniest spec of a sample of anything related to poker. You might as well flip a coin three times and conclude it’s fixed because you get the same side all three times.

Once I flopped two small flushes withinin an hour of B&M play and lost on both of them. I, too, decided to call it a day that day, but only because my “psychological bankroll” was pretty small that day.

no, you misunderstood. I was just saying that playing that way, you can lose quite a few buy-ins. But on that day, I decided to to take my loss and go home. Admittedly, you do that a few times and your definately in the the red for a month or so. The 4 or 5 times before that, I had done pretty good. I have the same pshcologicial bankroll barrier. I think its a pretty good system, and I will continue to employ it….thanks for your input

Hi Ed, So far I’ve read Getting Started In Hold’em and starting playing short stacks using the strategy from that book and the posts on this site. Are there any other books that you recommend with good sections on short stack strategy?

“Thankfully, this game isn’t raked.”

I think this is a big problem with these shortstack system, cause you get to pay an insane amount of money in rake compared to what you buy in for