My last few articles have been about the advantages that short stacks have over deep stacks in no-limit and about how to harness those advantages to beat wild games. I want to step back now and explore what I mean by the advantage a short stack gives you. A few issues back, I said that [...]
Tags: card player, cardplayer, no-limit-holdem, poker, Short Stack Strategy, wild-gamesI’ve always thought a true starting hand chart for no-limit was out of reach. Preflop play in no-limit cash games is very malleable; a wide array of different styles and strategies can work well, and your opponents’ stack sizes and styles matter a lot also. But then I figured, what the heck. Let’s try to [...]
Tags: 1-2-no-limit, 6-max, button, full-ring, loose-aggressive, no-limit-holdem, pocket-pairs, poker, raise-sizing, spr, starting-hand-chartYesterday I was in a crazy $2-$5 no-limit game. I could tell it was a crazy game even before I watched one hand. The maximum buy-in was $500, but at least $8,000 was on the table. Four players each had over $1,500. Either the game had been going with the same lineup for a very [...]
Tags: card player, cardplayer, foolproof strategy, no-limit-holdem, poker, Short Stack Strategy, wild-gamesI’ve always thought a true starting hand chart for no-limit was out of reach. Preflop play in no-limit cash games is very malleable; a wide array of different styles and strategies can work well, and your opponents’ stack sizes and styles matter a lot also. But then I figured, what the heck. Let’s try to [...]
Tags: 1-2-no-limit, 6-max, button, full-ring, loose-aggressive, no-limit-holdem, pocket-pairs, poker, raise-sizing, spr, starting-hand-chartI’ve always thought a true starting hand chart for no-limit was out of reach. Preflop play in no-limit cash games is very malleable; a wide array of different styles and strategies can work well, and your opponents’ stack sizes and styles matter a lot also. But then I figured, what the heck. Let’s try to [...]
Tags: 1-2-no-limit, 6-max, cutoff, full-ring, loose-aggressive, no-limit-holdem, pnle, pocket-pairs, poker, professional-no-limit-holdem, raise-sizing, spr, starting-hand-chartI’ve always thought a true starting hand chart for no-limit was out of reach. Preflop play in no-limit cash games is very malleable; a wide array of different styles and strategies can work well, and your opponents’ stack sizes and styles matter a lot also. But then I figured, what the heck. Let’s try to [...]
Tags: 1-2-no-limit, 6-max, cutoff, full-ring, loose-aggressive, no-limit-holdem, pocket-pairs, poker, starting-hand-chartI’ve always thought a true starting hand chart for no-limit was out of reach. Preflop play in no-limit cash games is very malleable; a wide array of different styles and strategies can work well, and your opponents’ stack sizes and styles matter a lot also. But then I figured, what the heck. Let’s try to [...]
Tags: 1-2-no-limit, 6-max, full-ring, implied-odds, loose-aggressive, middle-position, no-limit-holdem, pocket-pairs, poker, Poker Made Simple, starting-hand-chart, utgI’ve always thought a true starting hand chart for no-limit was out of reach. Preflop play in no-limit cash games is very malleable; a wide array of different styles and strategies can work well, and your opponents’ stack sizes and styles matter a lot also. But then I figured, what the heck. Let’s try to [...]
Tags: 1-2-no-limit, 6-max, full-ring, implied-odds, loose-aggressive, middle-position, no-limit-holdem, pocket-pairs, poker, Poker Made Simple, starting-hand-chart, utgI’ve always thought a true starting hand chart for no-limit was out of reach. Preflop play in no-limit cash games is very malleable; a wide array of different styles and strategies can work well, and your opponents’ stack sizes and styles matter a lot also. But then I figured, what the heck. Let’s try to [...]
Tags: early-position, implied-odds, limping, min-raising, minraising, no-limit-holdem, poker, Poker Made Simple, starting-hand-chartThey said it couldn’t be done. They meaning me. A starting hand chart for no-limit? Can’t be done. There are too many variables. For as long as I’ve been writing about poker, I’ve had a love/hate relationship with starting hand charts. Mostly skewed towards hate. They are, by their nature, quite imprecise. Yet they have [...]
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