MATelford

Hello and welcome to my thread. This is the thread that introduces new players and beginner players, to a great and very versatile strategy basis that most players ignore and never get too far. Not to the top anyway.

Basically the birth of this thread initiated when I posted several times on the very intersting "Micro Stakes Thread". I posted talking about good, real proper poker and was hit with replies that everyones uses computer software to mislead themselves and play terrible poker that we say everyday at the microstakes tables.

I play poker the same at any level. Any good player does! You cant adjust your game to meet stake levels. That is just stupid and I dont actually understand how they think its beneficial.

From this point on I will answer any questions that new players or beginners or even an advanced player who really wants my opinion, want to throw at me.

Thankyou,
Yours Faithfully, MATelford

i have a question Mr. Mat

so you're saying i can play the same at 10nl as i can at 1knl even though the players of the latter are much more aggressive and capable of pulling off more moves then the fishy bad 10nl players?

yes i am.

What stakes do you play?

but why?

why wont i get run over by the much more aggressive players who can also hand read a lot better so they probably wouldn't pay me off when i get big hands?

Wow this is like the best thread ever. It's like one big LOL.

hey this guys a genius leave him alone!

in FR cash game what are the proper starting requirements by postion, EP, MP, LP, Button, SB, and BB?

The fact of this matter is. That most people on 10NL dont understand the moves your making by being more aggressive at a microstakes tables. Thus the result of playing differently is futile. Playing people at the table comes in when you need to go into the tank. Not when your preflop.
It is because people will raise with a hand the same amount everytime and you have no possible way of actually 100% putting your opponent on his two whole cards, in theory. This is what poker is about. Theory, intuition and skill are a few of the factors involved with good poker in motion.

Does this imply you don't adjust at all based on the opponent? How about this example, you have JJ on the cutoff (cutoff = 1 to the right of the button), you raise to 3x and the BB raises to 11x. What do you do? Using this old school method what do we look at to determine what our next course of action is? Or would you open limp JJ in the cutoff?

LIAR!!!

Why are you sharing your great poker wisdom with us mere mortals?

I thought you said stakes don't matter? Your statement is basically saying that people at higher levels WILL understand "the moves your making by being more aggressive".

haha glad you noticed

Because he needs 50 posts to play, imo.

OP do you multitable or is that not allowed in old-skool pokah?

fyp

Internet terms aside. Only play AA KK QQ JJ ep
AA KK QQ JJ AKs AK AQs AQ AJs AJs 1010 99 88 77 mp
AA KK QQ JJ AKs AK AQs AQ KQs 66 55 44 lp
AKs AK AQs AQ KQs KQ J10s 109s 66 55 4433 22 on button AA KK QQ JJ 1010 99 88 77AKs AK AQs AQ KQs KQ J10s 109s 66 55 44 33 22 K10s QJs A*s on sb
AA KK QQ JJ 1010 99 88 AKs AK AQs AQ KQs KQ J10s 109s 77 66 55 44 33 22 A*s

your methods seem pretty solid what stakes are you crushing?

And in your opinion this will work whether I am playing .01/.02 or 500/1000nl and be just as profitable?

If there is one thing I hate, it's a hand chart. Worst thing for a poker player imo.

Please answer all unanswered questions in your next response as it will be your last post for the day (7 max).

k thx.

Im saying that you should not adjust your game at all. It should be the same. Im saying that by changing your play at low stakes wont affect the winner of the hand. By getting aggressive or going tight just because you think a player is playing a certain way should already be a part of your game.

People come on here and say I wanna be this or I wanna be that. You should already be that. Your game should consist of the fact that if they are running over you fight back or if they are too tight bet more. im saying the basis and structure should always be the same.

They have their place especially for beginners, you know you are no longer a beginner when you can see the weakness in a hand chat, ldo

Would condensing the hand chart to 77+ AQ+ etc. be using internet terms? Why you hatin on JQs? You recommend limping 77+ on the button or just an oversight? Wait, is this your opening raise range?

Parting is such sweet sorrow. Until tomorrow, my teacher.

I don't quite know how to respond to this.
I think for now I'll just watch the massacre ensue.

And I lolled at WV's piccy

Ok, I am going to try to seriously address this post becuase I think you missed the point of the Micro Stakes thread and got pissed off and flamed a little and it is going to keep happening.

No one is saying in that other thread that you don't always take into account your opponents, you do. What they are saying is that often especially at the micro limits players are so bad than you don't ever need to change your play to exploit them. Some are good enough and need to be identified. The point is trying to identify those villians and those spots. That is why you will see us post questions about 3bet% or vpip, or steal%. You don't need to be a very good player to beat 5nl, I am living proof of that. We are in that thread working out how to be better.

Also in regard to already being able to switch gears between aggressive and passive and loose or tight we are all learning that. that is again the point. It is a learning thread, not a "I am already the bomb beatng 1Knl for 5.5BB/100 thread".

As usual I could be way off and you might just be a FRW troll looking for 50 posts to get the password but in case your not...fwiw

You said you would indeed "play" JJ here, not sure if that means raise, but could you answer this?

No need to flame the guy for trying guys.

Keep it poker related if your gotta post in this thread.

I lol'd pretty damn hard at this .

So, has OP answered the important questions yet? ie. WHAT STAKES DO YOU PLAY? LIFETIME GRAPH PLZ?

thanks for listening to me and starting a new thread.

as further thanks, i will be nice and refrain from commenting on how wrong you are.

thread of the year IMO !!
WV get some more piccys haha !!

Dude you know you can put JJ+ and this would say exactly the same as JJ,QQ,KK,AA..... or did you just put it like that so us mortals would understand you better??

Well to be fair to MATelford he has started his own thread rather than post in another thread where his comments were less well recieved.

Lets give him a chance to air what he wants to say...

If we disagree lets only post a couple of questions at a time for him to explain. If we hammer him with 20 questions at once then the quality of the answers given are not going to be that great just because of the volume!!

OK so MATelford. You say you dont use a HUD for online play. Why not? Do you not feel that it gives you an easier method of identifying player types than simply watching the play?