article worth reading

[ninetensuited]

Quite possibly one of the greatest articles ever written as far as tournaments go. Written by one of the best online players in the world.


http://www.pocketfives.com/poker-articl ... ss-2917051

[kompis]

great read wp thomas

[ninetensuited]

ty mr o'doherty

[lwestatbus]

Really a great read. I'm finding myself noticing a lot of articles that are helping me to explain the play of my opponents that, on the surface, seems really bizzarre.

The next step is to try to figure out how to let this influence my play.

I really liked this article's distinction between recurring tournys and one-of-a-kind major tournys.

[supafrey]

well written. nice primer.

i already try to consciously keep in mind pretty much 95% of the stuff he said, but it's nice seeing it all in one place.

[jimmer]

I have a question about something he wrote in this article.

"If I’m a short stack, ................I’m not going to be opening many pots to steal blinds, but instead, I’ll be playing a strong TAG game, looking for good spots to re-steal."

I never considered this option with a small stack. I always thought this was a something you did when you have the chips and can start bullying the other players? Maybe I'm playing slightly back to front?

Can anyone comment on the subject?

[supafrey]

I have a question about something he wrote in this article.

"If I’m a short stack, ................I’m not going to be opening many pots to steal blinds, but instead, I’ll be playing a strong TAG game, looking for good spots to re-steal."

I never considered this option with a small stack. I always thought this was a something you did when you have the chips and can start bullying the other players? Maybe I'm playing slightly back to front?

Can anyone comment on the subject?

He means with between 8-14bb. At that point, opening to 2.5 or 3x is often just inviting someone to push over top of you - if you're extremely short stacked, looking for a place to open push is great, if you've got >10bb you should be looking for a place to push someone off their preflop raise.

[jimmer]

Ok. In principle i understand, but do we have enough money to steal?

As a rough calculation, let’s say the blinds are 100/200 with 50 ante’s. There are 8 players left which automatically puts $700 in the pot. If I chip stack at the start of the hand is 2050 (which puts us right in the middle of the zone), I now have 2000 left. Let’s assume someone in early makes a standard raise of 3xbb to 600, to make this move work in need to re-raise. This means, to make it worth my while, I need to push all-in.

Isn’t this a risky move against someone who’s already opened the pot? Wouldn’t I be better waiting for a slightly weaker hand on an unopened pot?

Once again, I appreciate my table image comes into play etc etc, but does the risk out way the reward?

It obviously does, but I'm finding it hard to get my head around.

[ninetensuited]

as a rule, i generally stop reshoving lightly when iget to around 14bb, anything less and i need a bigger hand. Also generally you dont wnat to do this against EP raises.