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mypokergrind
Rising Star
Bronze Level
I am by no means a great poker player or pro. However, I do play a lot of poker and have a ton of experience both live and online. So I thought I would offer what I have found to be the most important aspects of this game. Call it my Ahah moment if you will. It took me hundreds of hours of playing and studying to finally "get it" and hopefully I can get you on the path of enlightment quicker.
I have been reading some of the posts in this forum and it seems that the first thing that a player notices is hand strength. I was reading the post about AK and it just screamed about the huge leak that most players have.
Tournament poker is all about stack sizes first. The actual hand you are holding is secondary. I suggest everyone that is wanting to get good at poker to study about stack sizes. i.e. How do I play a short stack? How do I counter a short stack? What do I do with 20BB's...with 30BB's.....with 40+BB's?
When you know what you should be doing with those stacks then you start to understand what your oppenets are doing based upon the stack size they have. Put the two together and you can find spots to win chips regardless of your cards.
Obv your premiums hands are going to be worth playing regardles of stack sizes for the most part, but by understanding how to play based upon your stack size you are going to give yourself more oppurtunities to win.
Also you probably always here people talk about "changing gears" in a tournament. That is knowing when to play tighter or looser and whatnot and that the best players change gears at the right times. The biggest indicator of when to change gears is based upon how big your chipstacks is in relation to the blinds.
I wanted to throw this out there to hopefully help some start thinking on that next level that they are not at yet. If you are there already great and please add to this thread with some advice and if not try your best to get there. I think this is a very important topic and now that I have written this I think I am going to add more to it in this thread (if anyone is interested) and make an indepth post on my blog about it as well. Which I will post here if this thread gets any attention.
If you have any questions ask. I love talking poker and just feel like giving back a little seeing as how forums is where I gained a lot of my information when I was learning.
Hope this helps.
I have been reading some of the posts in this forum and it seems that the first thing that a player notices is hand strength. I was reading the post about AK and it just screamed about the huge leak that most players have.
Tournament poker is all about stack sizes first. The actual hand you are holding is secondary. I suggest everyone that is wanting to get good at poker to study about stack sizes. i.e. How do I play a short stack? How do I counter a short stack? What do I do with 20BB's...with 30BB's.....with 40+BB's?
When you know what you should be doing with those stacks then you start to understand what your oppenets are doing based upon the stack size they have. Put the two together and you can find spots to win chips regardless of your cards.
Obv your premiums hands are going to be worth playing regardles of stack sizes for the most part, but by understanding how to play based upon your stack size you are going to give yourself more oppurtunities to win.
Also you probably always here people talk about "changing gears" in a tournament. That is knowing when to play tighter or looser and whatnot and that the best players change gears at the right times. The biggest indicator of when to change gears is based upon how big your chipstacks is in relation to the blinds.
I wanted to throw this out there to hopefully help some start thinking on that next level that they are not at yet. If you are there already great and please add to this thread with some advice and if not try your best to get there. I think this is a very important topic and now that I have written this I think I am going to add more to it in this thread (if anyone is interested) and make an indepth post on my blog about it as well. Which I will post here if this thread gets any attention.
If you have any questions ask. I love talking poker and just feel like giving back a little seeing as how forums is where I gained a lot of my information when I was learning.
Hope this helps.