Blog Strategy Posts

I posted this link in another thread, but Nick asked me to make it a separate thread, so here you go; hopefully you'll find something useful somewhere.

I'll take this opportunity to make a disclaimer that I don't think is made often enough by people who write articles on poker: There are very few "always" and "nevers" in this game. I don't think that any of you are going to take advice I give as infallible, but I want to point out that I'm encouraging you not to. Nothing is set in stone, and critical thinking and discussion will take you - and me - further than any blog post ever could. If you feel that I've made an over-generalization in one of my posts (which I have) then feel free to point that out. I'm not always as clear as I should be on when I'm talking about full vs. shorthanded tables, for instance, nor do I always specify that I'm (usually) talking about limit hold 'em scenarios.

Having said that: Enjoy the reading.

Edit by Nick: Here's the link - http://www.cardschat.com/blog/04/30/...gy-blog-posts/

Your threads are valuable. Thanks alot!

I just signed up and started browsing... lots of cool info here. Thanks for posting such good advice.

is this where we can post our various strategies that we would like to share with other users?

nice, I want to learn to play poker !!!

Im a new member
and it semms i have to learn alot and then
from the best
TY very much for your blogs

Lot of good info there, thanks. Consider yourself bookmarked.

Thanks a lots. I appreciate any help to improve my game.

angie

lol, one of my first posts! hahahaha. Wow.

Excellent analysis of the thought processes involved in the multi-part blog. Very well written and obviously well thought out.

When i am playing hold em, I like to wait till i feel the opponent out and most times let them bet themselves out even if i know i have the best hand. I find that if they see me as weak, they will over bet and try to steal the pot. Then of course i am called every name in the book of poker curses, LOL. That is when poker is fun!!!!

Just yesterday i was reading on position. Well, today I was playing in a freeroll. Hit a couple hands and was moved to a different table.Came onto table with 2295 chips. Ater 9 hands "winning 6 myself" I have over 18k in chips.I lose my next hand ,but at the end of it the winner types in "I was afraid to go heads up with you cause you never know what kind of crap you pull out". Thanks to this forum I am a threat in only 1 day. Keep up the good work.

4999Perish

In a Tip from Phil Ivey, he says all the books and strategy tips have their place, but when you sit at a table forget em!

To summarize his take: Be Your Own Man.

He says you can pick up useful things, but you shouldn't try to play the game like a book or you'll just be playing like everyone else.

Phil Ivey can say a lot of things. Trying to be your own man at $25NL, however, is more likely than not to just cost you money. By far more likely than not. And the assertion that playing "by the book" will make you play like everyone else can only be made by someone who hasn't read the books. I've yet to encounter games where my opponents all play by the book. In fact, if you have the savvy to actually understand everything a decent poker book tells you, and - more importantly - the discipline to play accordingly, you'll do very, very well as a poker player. You may never afford to sit at Bellagio's Big Game, but you'll be pulling in 4-5 figure amounts yearly almost certainly.

... which probably puts you in the top .5% of poker earners. Not up there with Mr. Ivey, but certainly above the other 99% of players who try to be their own man.

It's a little bit like Salvador Dali saying that you shouldn't take an art class because you'll just end up painting the same way everyone else does. But there's virtually none of us who are realistically shooting for creating a $10M painting; our goal should probably be more along the lines of drawing something that resembles, say, an apple.

Statements like that, in other words, are kinda dumb.

/FP

Yup, try to be your own man, after you already know everything in the books, and when you're playing against people who know it as well.

hey all,

i have the worst luck on internet poker, but you should all be aware of my tatics.

hope to play with all you soon.

Oazar

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very good articles, so farr blind betting hs been very helpful. thanks for sharing

Concern yourself with winning the money, not the pots. Thanks!!

Great articles; food for thought. As stated not the end all / be all; but very useful. I find the using the reverse strategy, e.g., "driving out" article oft times brings me back from the brink when getting seriously short stacked. Many aggressive types get into a "habit" of taking my chips, figuring any hand will remove me from the table, they place themselves at risk ... and that's when I capitalize {grin}.

And another tactic I use under that philosophy .... I "duck" when they're aggressively chasing me, and let other(s) take them out {smile} ... folks might be surprisee how often that works in getting to the final table online.

i am ging to have to sit down and read the link sure it is something good

WOW this is a lot of good stuff tyvm

super insight and valuable advice. go sticky!

Really well-thought out and concise. The thing I like most about this particular post is that it is informative without being "preachy" or over-confident, and is detailed without being an "always/never" type of post (those are all-too common today). Good job, man.

Great tips! (at least for me, as a beginner)

Way to go your stard articles are valuable sir keep up the great work

this is a lot of good stuff to know Thanks MAN

very good information above.

Thanks

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thanks very well spoken and informative F Paulsson

Boy do i ever agree with you....too many times ive found myself making the mathematically correct descision and getting flogged by the deck. I said in another thread that i felt ( and this is especiallt true about online) thatyou are 50/50 before the flopand i stand by it.Random number generator my butt....watch how many longshots hit online... ant then see how often it happens at the brick and mortar...those of you who have been playing a while will understand what i mean lol. If you cant see the white of their eyes how can you trust em????

One thing I don't like about poker books is they inhibit creative thought and situational thinking. If you think of all the different card combinations in poker, your tactics are multiple too and you have to adjust to the others at your table. That is why no one wants to sit down with a table of solid players. It is very difficult to consistently win.

hey that will help me out in the long run so i think you for buting it up

Some cool info... bored and felt like reading .... but interesting.

Wery usefull stuff here tyvm

First off... thanks alot for posting this stuff. Just this evening I went onto the CC forum wondering where I could find a collection of decent strategy blogs & such and then I stumbled upon this. Thank-you.
I'm an avid freak for poker knowledge, have read umpteen books (many of them, many times over) and thousands of pages of stuff stored on my computer (some excellent 'e-books' in there and just tons of stuff I look over pretty much on a daily basis).
My game (which I figured was always quite good) has gotten better by leaps & bounds. A new book can't be published without my curiousity being sparked (newest addition is 'Winning Poker Tournaments - One Hand At A Time' by Jon Turner, Rizen & Apestyles.... good book!).

Now onto my next comment re: quote below. I've heard many who insist that poker books are a waste of time (some from players who've played for decades) but I've never met one of them who have actually even read one, lol. And the couple of close friends I have who've played for many decades (40+yrs. each), they are actually quite clueless when it comes to any discussion about tournament play.... cuz they haven't had the input of what is offered in poker books,.. restricted to their own tunnel vision.

..... enjoy your next read as I'm sure I'll enjoy reading through some of the saved posts in this blog. Thanks Again!!