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Saw this PSA and had to post it:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ejCqgAKZ-M...feature=relatedIt was played on Poker After Dark, which--judging from some of the reactions here--is a good place to get the message out.
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I'm not set in stone against the idea.
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Found it--and coincidentally, he uses KJ as an example, how about that: "However, you still have ways to play a short stack that will allow you to use your post-flop skills. You'll just have to be a little more creative and add limping to your repertoire. Let's say you are the first one into the pot and you look down at KsJs. Your stack size is $100,000 with $3,000/$6,000 blinds and a $1,000 ante. A standard smallball raise would be $15,000, which is 15 percent of your stack and more than you'd like to invest for a hand that you'd have to fold to a raise. K-J is not a hand you want to pla
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DN also has a section (I don't have time to look for it right now) where he talks about limping being more important when stacks are shortish, so you don't get pot committed.
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But taking down the pot isn't the be-all, end-all. As one of the passages I quoted states, playing more passively encourages villains to make bluffs which you can pick off and earn more chips.
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Wow, I find them MUCH easier to read when converted. In any event, the rules of this board are on the side of conversion. But I figure I just won't respond to a non-converted post. ::shrug::
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Weak Ace In Bb, Unraised Pot, Ace On Flop
SlackerInc replied to SlackerInc's topic in Tournament Play
River: (t360) 3(3 players)SB checks, Hero bets t200, UTG raises to t935 (All-In), SB calls t935, Hero foldsTotal pot: t2430Anyone call this? I just didn't figure I could possibly have both of them beat. Not sure what I would have done had SB folded...probably a crying call. -
I'm looking back through the Negreanu smallball chapter (which is my most recent poker read, and the approach I'm experimenting with implementing lately; that doesn't mean I'm wedded to it for life or anything), and I'm not sure if I see anything definitive either way. On p. 349-350, Negreanu discusses "when to bet" a flop, and "when to check". An example he gives of "when to bet" is "good hands that need protection", specifically "if the flop comes J-8-4 and you have KJ, you should bet the flop a high percentage of the time". However, on the next page under "when to check", he cites an exa
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QFT.I don't agree with those who are strongly critiquing the smallball play here though. I'm cool with the limp, the flop check, etc.
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I would just check, given that you only have one pair and if you are ahead, you're probably not going to get called most of the time if you make a thin value bet here.I suppose if you shove, there are two pair hands that might fold, fearing the straight. Check seems the safe play though.
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What about the $3.30 90-player ones, with the slow blind structure? A lot of play, and only 10% vig instead of 20%.Edit: Whoops, I mean $2.20! Even better: same 20 cent vig but on a $2 buyin, and a better blind structure.
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So why post a question about what you considered an easy call? I don't mean that in a harsh way; I'm just puzzled.
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But that's tournament poker. I actually have more sympathy on this than you might think; I have been getting a little fed up with these kinds of situations myself and have been trying to learn cash game play. (I'm just so sick of playing well throughout a tourney, as you say, and then having to depend on winning preflop shove coin flips to make the real money.) It's sort of an ironic paradox, though: when I play cash games, I miss the sense of having the chance to win, to be the last person standing with all the chips. I guess that's why I enjoyed playing the deep stack HU tourneys with no
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Yes, that's true--but position is important in all levels of poker. I thought we were addressing ways micro stakes are different.But definitely, position is key to playing drawing hands (drawing cheaply is tough when you may call a small bet from someone acting before you and then it gets raised behind you) unless as you say the table is very passive.
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As Shark said, when everyone's limping, you should get in there too with any hand that has potential in a multiway pot. Suited connectors, small pairs, suited aces, suited broadway cards. Unsuited AK and AQ goes down in value--even though other people are playing worse aces, when you get so many people in a pot, even if you flop TPTK you're on shaky ground and you can't put anyone on a hand. So try to play those speculative hands cheaply and keep going with a draw only if it's a strong draw (no gutshots) and you can draw cheaply. In other words, keep the pot small when you don't yet have a