Today’s archive review focuses on adjusting your strategy to changing game conditions. Some of the articles talk about adjusting to the differences between full ring and 6-max, and some talk about adjusting your strategy in light of new information from seeing your opponents play. Both limit and no-limit are covered …Login/Register for more.
Tags: 6-max, Adjusting Your Play, blind-play, full-ring, limit-holdem, no-limit-holdem, out-of-position, pokerPlaying out of position in no-limit hold’em puts you at a big disadvantage. Consequently, I recommend avoiding it as much as possible. Does that bully in the four seat keep raising your blind? For the most part, I say let him have it. When you’re playing with $200 stacks, a Fearsome Check-Raise Bluffs Made Easy|423|3.95|USD|| [...]
Tags: bluffing, card player, checkraise bluffs, coordinated flops, dry flops, flop texture, out-of-position, poker, stack-sizesYou’re playing 6-max and your under the gun. You just got dealt one of your opening-quality hands, and you pot it. Everyone folds to the button… who calls. Hrmm. Is that a good thing, or a bad thing? It could be either. And whether it’s good or not, there’s a Q&A #98: Talking 6-Max No-Limit [...]
Tags: floating, no-limit-holdem, out-of-position, poker, preflop-play The No-Limit Toolbox is a new series that showcases the array of tactics available to no-limit players.
The Play: The Blocking Bet
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Wow, this hand discussion was controversial! Here’s the hand again.
This weekend I was playing in a fairly loose $2-$5 live no-limit game. An early position player with about $300 limped. I was two off the button, and I made it $20 to go with A K . Hand Discussion #6: My Thoughts|280|3.95|USD|| [...]
This weekend I was playing in a fairly loose $2-$5 live no-limit game. An early position player with about $300 limped. I was two off the button, and I made it $20 to go with A K . The button, with about $325 total, made it $75 to …Login/Register for more.
Tags: ace-king, hand-discussion, no-limit-holdem, out-of-position, pokerBeing 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, pokerThe Mission: Get you winning in your local $1-$2 no-limit game with 7 easy steps. Check out Step 1: Play 7 Easy Steps to No-Limit Hold’em Success — Step 2: Don’t Play Out of Position|227|3.95|USD|| Tight if you haven’t already.
Don’t Play Out of Position
People playing out of position is the #1 mistake I [...]
Matt asks,
Here is a hand I played earlier today. I won the hand, but it was a bad beat. Did I get too “cute”?
Full Tilt 2/4 Limit Hold’em Ring (7 handed)
Preflop: Hero is LP with 7 7 :spade:.
2 folds, Hero raises, CO (poster) calls, Button raises, 2 folds, Hero Q&A #41: Playing the Turn [...]
Paul asks,
love the new site and that you have rss going. here’s a hand I played that I thought was a tough decision, interested to get your thoughts:
5/10 NL online, 1k effective stacks. not much info on villian, he has called a lot on early streets and frequently bet big Q&A #22: Out of Position [...]
