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What is the best strategy to move up the limits faster? Play 30% of the time and study 70%, or do otherwise playing 70% of the time and studying by 30%?
Imagine that you have QQ on your hands, and on the table is a flop of JJ8, your opponent pushes all-in, what will be your actions?
Here perhaps I, too, threw Queens, but on my practice accented situation and more interesting. For example, as I recently did, I call with 44, on the flop 6Q4, the apponent goes all-in, I call, he opens the cards, he has Q9, I have a set of 444, he has a pair of QQ. And that's what happens next, on the turn Q, he has a set, but my position is still the best, he has a set QQQ, I have a full house 444QQ, but river just gave me a shock when I saw the fourth Queen. As a result, I have a full house 444QQ, and he has a square QQQQ. Lucky, what can I sayHi there Fox1592 how you doing? I don't intend to be rude but I didn't get your question related to the point the original person who made the post: how to move up the stakes.
However your question is very good but I like to consider a few things before saying the answer right on the spot
A) I have QQ from which position?
B) I have QQ in which kind of Pot? Raised pot? 3bet pot? 4bet pot?
C) How much is my stack size and the stack size of the villain?
D) Who is the Villain who is pushing all-in in the Flop? A Recreational/Fish/Whale? Tight? Loose? Unknown? NIT?
E) How many hands have you played with this villain?
F) What are the stakes you are playing? 2 NLHE, 100 NLHE or 5000 NLHE? There is a huge difference in the decision making process according to the stakes you are playing.
G) Live or online?
H) If you decided to call the all-in the flop with you QQ, you do that only with QQ or there are other hands as KK and AA that you would do the same?
I play micro stakes and if it is just a single raised pot and the guy comes shoving, no matter if it is a LAG, TAG, etc, I would be folding. Against a Fish I would be folding. If it is a 3bet pot where I am the aggressor in position versus a very weak recreational player out of position that I already saw him do crazy things in the table it is a snap call.
But in a board dry as that, such as JJ8, when player at the micros do that, denying equity he would have a ton of AA, KK, J8s, J8o, JJ, Jx and 88 in his calling range. I don't believe we have the odds for calling in the flop with just a Pocket Pair. (because when villain goes all in flop it is telling us it is a huge monster as a chimera)
Do you really see a player trying to bluff like that in the Flop with AKo missing? with ATo missing? Or even with TT, 99 and under pocket pairs. If the answer is yes, please let me know your ideias. I am not saying that I am right because I am a low stakes player, but I don't see many Hero callings plus EV in a spot like it.
Regards;
Good game and good luck always at the tables!
Carlos 'Aballinamion' Barbosa
Here perhaps I, too, threw Queens, but on my practice accented situation and more interesting. For example, as I recently did, I call with 44, on the flop 6Q4, the apponent goes all-in, I call, he opens the cards, he has Q9, I have a set of 444, he has a pair of QQ. And that's what happens next, on the turn Q, he has a set, but my position is still the best, he has a set QQQ, I have a full house 444QQ, but river just gave me a shock when I saw the fourth Queen. As a result, I have a full house 444QQ, and he has a square QQQQ. Lucky, what can I say
And it happens, everything is possible in poker. I've been playing poker for about 10 years, but I've been playing a lot for the last year. Good luck at the tables!Hi there Fox1592 how you doing? I don't intend to be rude but I didn't get your question related to the point the original person who made the post: how to move up the stakes.
However your question is very good but I like to consider a few things before saying the answer right on the spot
A) I have QQ from which position?
B) I have QQ in which kind of Pot? Raised pot? 3bet pot? 4bet pot?
C) How much is my stack size and the stack size of the villain?
D) Who is the Villain who is pushing all-in in the Flop? A Recreational/Fish/Whale? Tight? Loose? Unknown? NIT?
E) How many hands have you played with this villain?
F) What are the stakes you are playing? 2 NLHE, 100 NLHE or 5000 NLHE? There is a huge difference in the decision making process according to the stakes you are playing.
G) Live or online?
H) If you decided to call the all-in the flop with you QQ, you do that only with QQ or there are other hands as KK and AA that you would do the same?
I play micro stakes and if it is just a single raised pot and the guy comes shoving, no matter if it is a LAG, TAG, etc, I would be folding. Against a Fish I would be folding. If it is a 3bet pot where I am the aggressor in position versus a very weak recreational player out of position that I already saw him do crazy things in the table it is a snap call.
But in a board dry as that, such as JJ8, when player at the micros do that, denying equity he would have a ton of AA, KK, J8s, J8o, JJ, Jx and 88 in his calling range. I don't believe we have the odds for calling in the flop with just a Pocket Pair. (because when villain goes all in flop it is telling us it is a huge monster as a chimera)
Do you really see a player trying to bluff like that in the Flop with AKo missing? with ATo missing? Or even with TT, 99 and under pocket pairs. If the answer is yes, please let me know your ideias. I am not saying that I am right because I am a low stakes player, but I don't see many Hero callings plus EV in a spot like it.
Regards;
Good game and good luck always at the tables!
Carlos 'Aballinamion' Barbosa
I agree with you, you need to look first of all as you play yourself, and not as opponents and follow the bankroll. But I want to note that recently the game has become more aggressive than a few years ago. Don't you think so?" What do you think in what situations is it worth defending your cards? How to work properly on increasing your stack? There are a lot of situations and no one can predict it, but thanks to special literature, videos and of course practice, you can make fewer mistakes and further increase your bankroll. Thanks for readingHi, raimundox44! I think, at the beginning, the answer on your question is not very difficult. Study need, of course!
The question in another: how to study, what to study and why to study?! You can to study and lose, and can almost always only
to play and often to win, because can study the something, but continue to play by old, by inertia, or use recieved knowledge wrong...
And can many to play and to study on the real situations. May be is more painful, but this can change your play in best side more quickly!
Main to play by bankroll, that don't think about money, but think only a quality own game! My conclusion: theory is need, of course,
but nothing substitute practice. Good Luck in study of Poker, and main in His practical side!