Recently I benefited from a serious case of what I call adjustment tilt. I was in a live $2-$5 no-limit game. Most of the players, including me, had helped to start the game a few hours earlier, so we were familiar with each others’ play.
Some of the players had modestly weak-tight tendencies, so I made [...]
The short stack strategy in no-limit has created a fair bit of controversy… and a fair bit of misunderstanding. It’s a strategy I recommend for beginners and those moving up in stakes, and it’s also one I recommend to develop a deeper understanding Q&A #75: Is There an Optimal Short Stack Size?|274|3.95|USD|| of [...]
Tags: Adjusting Your Play, adjusting-your-game, barry-greenstein, getting-started-in-holdem, gsih, no-limit-holdem, optimal-stack-sizes, poker, rake, Short Stack Strategy, stack-sizesBeing out of position in no-limit sucks. But how hard you can push hands when you’re out of position depends very strongly on how your opponent plays. If your opponent is straightforward, passive, weak-tight, or otherwise predictably soft, you can get away with pushing marginal hands fairly hard. If your Out of Position in No-Limit? [...]
Tags: Adjusting Your Play, adjusting-your-game, calling-stations, cash-games, LAG, loose-aggressive, no-limit-holdem, out-of-position, pokerJohn asks,
I’ve just read your beginning hold’em book and it was great! The only question I have (and this is one that pertains to all hold’em books in general) is.. when there are jackpots for bad beats and for royal flushes and such, I’m sure the starting hands change and Q&A #8: Adjusting Your Play [...]
