Ring game strategy

#1 11th February 2008, 4:18 AM

Since i play in the small blind level games ( .5 .10 and .10 .25 and in the casino 1 2) Do u think it would be wise to just play AA AK AQ AA, KK, QQ JJ and raise 6 times the big blind? This should stop ppl from playing garbage hands and sucking out on me and I'll use my tight image to continuation bet. Is this a good start to making me a winner in the long run? Thanks

#2 11th February 2008, 5:34 AM

As a general guideline your starting hand requirements should depend mostly on your position and the bets in front of you. In early position it's good to only play those hands you mentioned plus 10 10 - 66. Then in middle position add a few more hands and in late position add even more hands. You could probably do fine just playing those 7 hands only but that would be very boring and everyone will peg you as a rock and won't give you much action when you raise. And if you're first in with any of those hands 6x is too much, you want to get callers so raise smaller like 3 or 4x bb.

#3 11th February 2008, 4:27 PM

you wont make any money by doing that, as you will make all the rubbish hands fold, so they wont be putting any money in the pot. If they arent respecting your raises, limp in with some suited connectors and look to get payed off big since they will call you down light

#4 12th February 2008, 9:21 PM

I'm just looking to not get bad beated in this stage in my career. So many bad beats. When i double my stack, i play limp wiht connectors as low as 45. Then it leads to call raises with those connectors and gappers, then it leads to me saying, Hey who took my stack =)

#5 12th February 2008, 10:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PoochMasterFlex

I'm just looking to not get bad beated in this stage in my career. So many bad beats. When i double my stack, i play limp wiht connectors as low as 45. Then it leads to call raises with those connectors and gappers, then it leads to me saying, Hey who took my stack =)

Sounds like you are changing your style when you get a big lead. Don't do that. If a tight games winning keep playing tight. You should be changing your style with the game not according to you stack size.

#6 12th February 2008, 10:43 PM

for the most part, just make the standard raise for the table with those hands, or 3x the BB, whichever number is larger. for example, in a lot of live casino games, many people will actually make it 5x or 6x the BB as their standard opening raise. if enough people at the table are doing that, and getting called, raising that much is fine. live poker is cuh-razy.

but you shouldn't really differ your raise sizes based on the strength of your own hand, unless your opponents are really unobservant, because you'll begin to telegraph your hands. having the same standard-sized raise for every hand you want to raise is the safest way to go

#7 13th February 2008, 5:38 AM

I don't like raising more than 1-2x BB as it makes continuation bets much more costly in the event that you lose.

#8 13th February 2008, 9:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by combuboom

you shouldn't really differ your raise sizes based on the strength of your own hand, unless your opponents are really unobservant, because you'll begin to telegraph your hands. having the same standard-sized raise for every hand you want to raise is the safest way to go

That's a really useful point to make, actually, and a lot of inexperienced poker players seem to make that mistake.
I certainly did before I came here.

#9 13th February 2008, 10:16 AM

Buy Ed Miller's "Getting Started in Hold 'em." Among other extremely useful things, he discusses a short-stack approach to NLHE that you might find interesting if you're looking to play safe, so to speak.

#10 13th February 2008, 10:53 AM

Quote:

This should stop ppl from playing garbage hands

This is exactly what you don't want to happen!

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