7 Easy Steps to No-Limit Hold’em Success — Step 6: Adjust To Your Opponents

The Mission: Get you winning in your local $1-$2 no-limit game with 7 easy steps.
Welcome to Step 6: Adjust To Your Opponents. If you haven’t done so already, make sure to check out 7 Easy Steps to No-Limit Hold’em Success — Step 6: Adjust To Your Opponents|248|3.95|USD|| the previous articles in the series:

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7 Easy Steps to No-Limit Hold’em Success — Step 5: Pull the Trigger

The Mission: Get you winning in your local $1-$2 no-limit game with 7 easy steps.
Welcome to Step 5: Pull the Trigger. If you haven’t done so already, make sure to check out the 7 Easy Steps to No-Limit Hold’em Success — Step 5: Pull the Trigger|238|3.95|USD|| previous articles in the series:

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Q&A #66: Short Stack Strategy — Adjusting to Different Stack Sizes

The short stack strategy in no-limit hold’em is always a popular topic, so I figured I’d answer another question about it today. To be honest, I’ve been skipping some of the short stack-related questions lately because I’m biding some time until Professional No Limit Hold ‘em comes out. I Q&A #66: Short Stack Strategy — [...]

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Using the Free Showdown Play

Having position bestows an enormous advantage. But to make the most of the advantage, you have to employ what I call tactics of ambiguous aggression. You make plenty of bets and raises in position. Sometimes those bets and raises imply a strong hand, and they signify more bets and raises Using the Free Showdown Play|187|3.95|USD|| [...]

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Q&A #59: Playing the Small Blind in a 2-chip, 3-chip Blind Structure

In limit hold ‘em, the size of the small blind relative to the big blind chances from limit to limit and venue to venue. The “typical” relationship is 2-chip, 4-chip (also 1-chip, 2-chip) - or the small blind is 1/2 the size of the big blind. This structure is used Q&A #59: Playing the Small [...]

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Hand Discussion #2: My Thoughts

Another good discussion. For those who are just tuning in, we discussed a no limit hand in a thread a couple of days ago. Here’s the hand:
Another hand. No real read on opponent; he just sat down.
The idea on the turn was that (1) the four-to-a-straight looks really scary Hand Discussion #2: My Thoughts|167|3.95|USD|| [...]

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Hand Discussion #2: No Limit Turn Checkraise Semibluff

I thought the response on the first hand discussion was great. Here’s the original post with comments and then my response. The blog format is a little awkward for discussions like this one, so I’m wondering if people would be interested in a forum-type solution to discuss stuff …Login/Register for more.

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Q&A #33: Semi-Bluffing with a Short Stack

eng4410 asks,
Thanks for doing the site and answering questions; your advice is extremely helpful, and if your forthcoming book contains similar in-depth advice - I can’t wait!! Here are two hands from some micro-limit NL 6-Max cash games on Full Tilt which Q&A #33: Semi-Bluffing with a Short Stack|115|3.95|USD|| I think might provide [...]

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