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Standard.Quite well written, but I agree with the poster who suggested a slightly less combative style. All very clearly put though.

I was referring to PLO. As far as I'm aware you can't really play loose in O8, but maybe the agression could be stepped up where both players are in marginal positions.Cheers for the example. I don't think really know enough about PLO to really get the point (I'd have thought 33 is pretty dodgy since a bottom set isn't much of a hand?) but I haven't played for a while so maybe I'll give it a whirl soon and look for spots to pressure.

ul. I'm sure you'll bounce back.A couple of thoughts on the hand...This looks like a good spot for a 3bet preflop, assuming that when you say the guy is an aggressive player you mean he's LAG PF.I personally would struggle to fold a 66 on the turn. You could have 33, 86, A8 if he is LAG preflop.But I can't fold your hand either so no worries.

Wow nice find! I'd been looking for that since I can't get at my copy at the moment. I don't have SS1 though - does anyone know if Chip Reese's stud chapter is online anywhere?Also, if anyone has any thougts on playing LAG Omaha I'd love to hear them. I Usually play Omaha tight as a rock...

Cheers for the comments so far.I'm thinking terms of poker generally, but especially with my regular home game pals.Good point about chosing marginal plays, but ideally you could not 'get it wrong' - on average whatever move you make would be equally dangerous, whether 20% bluff or 80% value bet or whatever. But that's probably pie in the sky, so perhaps like the first commentor said, you just have to go with the flow and hope no-ones watching you closely.I guess I would just like some ideas for percentages to aim for as much as anything - betting the river for example - and some ideas of plac

Ok, this is quite a general topic, but bear with me.I'm basically wondering in which situations you make sure you are acting randomly?For example, if you C-bet 50% of the time, do you make sure this is truely random? (by for example, looking at the second hand on your watch?) I normally aim for a 50% (or whatever) ratio, but individually go by 'feel' and the texture of the flop. But this is exploitable by a good player, who might spot that you always c-bet with a junk flop but never with 2 high cards showing.So perhaps you should c-bet 50% of the time, whatever the situation? But you are then

Thanks, that's very helpful!

I might agree with you, but as I say this is more of a mix-up play against two bigger stacks. =rock, who actually won that game, although he doesn't often. This is one of those home games where you play against the same players every other day, so it gets its own culture..I pushed the Q2 on the flop btw, and ran into the rock's made flush. Got a bit of stick for playing too 'agressively'. Any stats on roughly how often that happens when there is a suited board? (if you hold a suited hand you have 1% chance of flopping a flush, but that's not the same)

Wait a sec...I'm not saying I'm playing Q2 every time I get it or that it's a stealing hand particularly - any 2 could be a stealing hand, especially if they have some potential with a high card, or suited/connected. You don't want to be stealing with Ax all the time, it gets tedious. But yes, 4 handed with my stack this is probably a bit dodgy, but this was experimental - I was trying out the flat call with rubbish option rather than risk a significant amount of my stack PF. I'll try and find what Harrington says later, but I'm sure he wouldn't recommend this particular play.But he'd like the

The reason I played the Q2o was because I viewed it as a stealing hand, but that game I'd been trying out limping rather than raising with position, looking to steal on the flop. (Harrington recommends this)I'd been able to get away with it in the CO because the B was being so rock-like and folding most of the time. Definately a +EV play at that point in time.Thanks for the advice re. pushing. Sorry I gave away what I did in the title - I couldn't edit it after I realised.Any dissent?

6 man live home SnG - top 2 paid.4k to start with, blinds 200/400, 4 handed.SB: 8000BB: 8000CO: 4000 (me)B: 4000 (rock)I limp with Q 2 , B also limps, SB calls, BB checks.Flop: (pot=1600)Q 9 4 SB: checksBB: checksCO: ?What do you do here?Some read-type info: SB and BB are quite trappy.I'm quite well-known for making semi-bluffs and betting my draws.

Sounds like you played it fine to me.You have to call those small river bets when you have a reasonable hand, otherwise people are going to start getting you to fold very cheaply...

At the time I'd not found the day 3 update thread (wasn't pinned and had dropped to page 2), so I was just guessing that bad cards were to blame (going in with J squat).Thanks for your helpful comment tho!

Seemed fairly run-of-the-mill no cards sort of stuff?

I've actually watched it twice - once by myself, once with a mate. It cracks me up completely, esp. with his raise with AA!

Ok, so do you raise at all with good cards pre-flop on the button? Limp with everything, or get more in the pot when you are favourite to win (+ attack blind).

Cheers for this thread guys - very useful!I've started playing a few series (first to 5) of heads-up tournaments live to improve my HU game.I just wanted to check one thing I do - If I don't want to raise from the button, I don't play the hand, and let them have my SB. Of course, I'll be raising with quite a lot of hands. Good idea?(On that note, what's a raising hand for you? I say any paint, any pair, any high connectors.)

It's been pushed back to September 26, 2006.http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/158042204...5Fencoding=UTF8

So only play it when in position? Or are you just a tight pre-flop player?I couldn't have been much more in position - if the button hadn't had a decent hand I would have had position from the flop (no-one else was raising much).

I'd be really interested to see how you guys would play this hand in the context of a tournament.I had about 5.5k in chips, up from 4k initially. I've been playing loosely and agressively.Blinds are at the 4th level, 150/300. It's 5 way (the number we started with).I've got 97s in the cutoff, and limp with possibly 1 other.The button (a good tight-agressive player), who has been trying to pick me off whenever I've been limping all game, raises up 900 from his stack of about 3.5k. We'll call this player Renard.It's folded round to me. It's 600 / 1650-1950 pot = 30-36% to call (depending on if

I'm actually in the middle of reading the SS2 NLHE chapter. So far this week I've played 3 small live SnGs and come top 3 in each, and should have won 2 I reckon (massive chip leader all the way, but combination of poor play and bad luck).I can't say I follow it to the max, but I definately think playing all the low stuff preflop is the way to go. I'm not sure that all ins with draws are great at lower levels, but he mentions that in the book. It's definately for playing good players - not near pros, unless my home games are on a weirdly high level, but guys who have tightened up, know all the

Cheers for the replies - mostly as I was expecting to hear. It's not all-in or fold stage at that point.In fact, I pushed, and ran into AA. Oops! Partly I was got a bit frustrated, and partly, I'd had AK a few hands before against the same player and raised with it and had to fold on a J high flop to a massive over bet, so I was a bit scared about playing a flop with this guy after that! Also, I think I felt like more of a short stack than I was, having hit the ground with a bump after dominating. I should have let the other two guys out-agress each other (although I was playing to win, not co

Ok, this is a fairly simple hand, I'd just like to get the consensus on what to do here.Hero: 8kVillain: 12kOther: 12kBlinds 300/600.3rd place money back, 1st 50%, 2nd 37.5%.Hero has dominated all game with about 12k, but is getting bullied/trash 3 way.Villain is a novice, has played very tight all game, but seems to have got a lot more agressive 3 way, esp. pre-flop.Other folds.SB: Villain calls.BB: Hero looks at KQo.Do you a ) checkb ) raisec ) push?As I say basic stuff really, but I'd just like to be told.