Small ball - Poker (Texas Hold'em)

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King - King (offsuit)

unexpected ^^

Rofl just won 250$ with ur help, thanks mate

Reading, will give a review.. I have a feeling that 50/50 is more efficient than your strategy though.

Well ok, nothing in that tutorial is terribly wrong, but ... All you really say is

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open with 2-2,5BB raises, bet 50-75% of the pot on the flop, call your opponents preflop shove with AQs if you have the correct odds against his range

First of all the title should be Small ball - Texas Hold'em. The only Poker game you discussed was Hold'em. Small ball can be applied to any other potlimit/nolimit games as well.

These are some of the things I disagree with:

- raising 5bb or more is always wrong

This is opponent-dependant. If your opponents will call any preflop raise, then you can just open raise 500bb all-in with AA. If all players are decent, then you've got a point and I favor ~3bb raises with antes

-Another golden rule for blindstealing says that you shouldn't try to steal with trash-hands, your cards need to have some potential.

Not a golden rule at all. If villains fold anything except monsters, then go ahead and raise with 72o. Postflop potential doesn't actually matter at all if you've got effective stacks of 10-25bb - no good player will call any of your raises, he'll shove or fold, in which case 72o = A6s in terms of strength. I'd only apply the rule to deepstack cashgames with no antes. That's it.

-Don't try to steal blinds if someone calls before you

This is simply a terrible tip. Usually open-limping in a low stakes game means weak hand, raising means strong hand, simple as that. Punish them with a decent raise unless you have reason to assume they limp dominantly strong hands, or your hand is complete trash and you don't think the limper is willing to fold anything, trash or not. Example hand: 6 people limp, all have 50BB stacks. You have T8o on the button. Raise to 9bb, everyone folds. Nobody has the odds to draw to anything with "hands that have potential", and it would make no sense for anyone (except maybe the first one) to slowplay a monster.

-Positions chapter is ok...

But it has not much to do with positions. You just happen to be in position to the opponent here, it's 50/50 either that is the case or not. A good title would've been "Continuation betting dry flops", which is a good concept to include for a newbie guide! Also, which 100$/200$ game has people calling out of position with Q5o!? :D

-Odds chapter is ok apart from
"The last hint I can give you is not to risk all your chips on just one hand"
This is just wrong. Of course you'll move all-in if that's the best move. Example: You have 100$ on the table and you're dealt AA. Villain raises to 100$. You snapcall.



It's wrong to say "move x is always wrong", unless it really is always wrong... If you're playing against optimally playing opponents, you're better off quitting the game since you're not going to make a profit. It's vital to abuse the mistakes and leaks of other players, instead of following some "golden rules".

Example of a golden rule: "Always bet the nuts on the river if it's checked around in a tournament". There are no exceptions. Folding the nuts on the river (apart from AKQJT boards) is always wrong. That's another golden rule.
Non-golden rule: "Don't steal the blinds if someone calls before you".

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tl;dr

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rule 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht8ZjuFzlUc

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you might want to add that this is not your intellectual property :/