clever title that grabs your attention

sidenote, i tried to rate my own blog a 5 and it didnt count, fml.

bet flop bet turn bet river

don't get fancy and slowplay cause you essentially miss a whole street of potential value

gus hansen book must be shit
I saw one of his pokervideos and he was playing nl100FR
remember that he said something like that:
''as the blind is really small, you can basically see every flop'' LOL

id give hansens a 3 out of 10 to be honest, it literally taught me nothing i didnt already know.

On April 03 2011 22:11 Haunted wrote: id give hansens a 3 out of 10 to be honest, it literally taught me nothing i didnt already know.

I thought that was one of the key interesting points about the book
(I'm talking about "every hand...", dunno if he has more books)
all he did was not fuck up for a whole tournament and binked the whole thing
imo good lesson to learn: maybe the most important thing of all is just to not fuck up

just start by betting flop in that aces hand

bet that flop and if he folds oh well, you won't always get action on your sets.

keep working dude, you seem like a motivated guy!

On April 03 2011 16:55 Haunted wrote: im working really hard to improve and get everything straight so i can improve and hopefully making enough to live. try to win too many pots needlessly. do everything within your power to improve the game will be gracious to you and give you a good life. im doing my best to be patient and pick my spots rather than trying to win every pot.

Am I the only one who sees a contradiction here ? If you're really trying your hardest to learn and improve, shouldn't you disregard money and try to win every pot ? Seems to me like trying to win everything is a good way to learn/improve, might cost you money tho... In my opinion, you're not going to learn munch (or anything else then how to value bet vs fish) if you play predefined hands based on your position with patterned post-flop tendencies. Sure you can win money by doing that, but it'll slow your learning curve drastically.

^^ ehm no you shouldn't try and win every pot just play reasonably something like 50% btn 25% co 13% mp, utg... you shouldn't cbet every flop either in my opinion since they will just float and be calling stations in general. Dry A, K or Q high flops are fine but should generally be c-betting with some sort of equity even if it's just over cards or a gutshot you are not looking to make big multi barrel bluffs at this level since players are generally incapable of folding a pair. This is all player dependant of course go ahead and c-bet every time against some players etc etc

I see what you're saying about learning but you will still learn by playing very straight forward losing money for the sake of learning is probably not a good idea.

On April 04 2011 09:34 By.Elite wrote: Show nested quote + On April 03 2011 16:55 Haunted wrote: im working really hard to improve and get everything straight so i can improve and hopefully making enough to live. try to win too many pots needlessly. do everything within your power to improve the game will be gracious to you and give you a good life. im doing my best to be patient and pick my spots rather than trying to win every pot. Am I the only one who sees a contradiction here ? If you're really trying your hardest to learn and improve, shouldn't you disregard money and try to win every pot ? Seems to me like trying to win everything is a good way to learn/improve, might cost you money tho... In my opinion, you're not going to learn munch (or anything else then how to value bet vs fish) if you play predefined hands based on your position with patterned post-flop tendencies. Sure you can win money by doing that, but it'll slow your learning curve drastically.

ive tried doing logical bluffs at my limits and aggressing in scary areas to get them to fold weak hands and they will honestly refuse to fold 2d2c on an AhKhQh board where i lead in UTG and then barrel 2 streets. I agree that trying to be crafty and pull down some pots you wouldnt otherwise win is a hugely important thing to do in improving your overall game. but id say about 75%+ of players at this limit ignore you and just call you down on every street regardless of if they have 4th pair post flop or not :/