Questions & Hands

my play money strategy that got me to 4.5 mil play chips:

raise any 2 suited, any pocket pair, any offsuit broadway cards (KT, QK, JT, etc)
raise any suited connectors, and offsuit connectors are ok once in a while

bet bet bet with top pair, they pay you off with crap
bet draws aggressively

play 3 tables cause it's the max for play money, and you can add some sngs along with the 3 play money cash tables

once you get enough trade it in for 10$ each million

Play as many tables as you think you can play your A game at. At micro stakes you don't necessarily need great reads on every single player.


1st hand: fold preflop
2nd hand: fold flop
3rd hand: fold flop (as played ship the river all in)
4th hand: bet closer to pot on turn, you need to protect the hand.

EDIT:
I just noticed that the tables weren't full, I would suggest trying to play at full tables cause you really have to change your game up as the number of people change.

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Just play one table until you get a good feel for what you should be opening in each position. Most hands are over at 6 max after an opening raise, so you rarely have difficult decisions to make on more than one table at a time. I'm a pretty simple ABC player with poor click speed (toss user!) so I play 4 tables at a time, more is definitely easy once the simple decisions become second nature, and 95% of hands are simple decisions.

Hand one: fold pre flop. You might have enough equity, but how will you know if you have the best hand? Anything short of a flopped 4 straight (which won't get paid) and you will have to fold to action. You don't have to pay much in blinds to sit and wait for good hands, so don't ever pay anything to continue with hands like these. As played fold is good, even if you spike a 9, you're probably the lower straight.

hand two: Fine... you were getitng implied odds to draw to flush. Don't raise so much next time though, he probably doesn't have a flush to pay you off with.

hand 3: As Roto said

hand 4: I should have just ctrl-v'd Roto's post.

I'd also suggest you play around with aggression more. Bet your draws, not just your made hands, because you'll rarely get paid when your scare card hits, and you'll fold out better hands before you even have to find out. Good luck.

On August 26 2008 18:04 devon06atX wrote: edit: nevermind, thought you were planning on moving to real money soon or something. just go out, buy a couple books and read them. it truly is asking a lot for someone to hold your hand and walk you through all the basics of poker when its easily learned from a book, or an article on this website. reedit: shit, you do plan on playing real money soon. i highly recommend you dont until you can make at least a couple million play chips a day no problem. that, and understanding the basic hand-rankings takes time to learn this game

haha nice

I think you've got the right approach, most of learning poker is just analyzing individual hands in great detail, I replied to your hands. if you are serious about learning poker you should start reading lots and lots of articles and forum posts about others hands.
heres some reading:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthread.php?t=98125

If you haven't read Grot's guide, do it.