$5 NL HE MTT: How to win more money in poker by playing 1 high 1 low hands

[fundiver199]

Game

Hold'em

Game Format

No Limit

Table Format

MTT

Buy-in

5

Game Options

1. Turbo

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$

Traditional poker courses tell us to only play hands, that are paired, have two high cards or two low cards, that are suited or connected. However by doing so we become very predictable. The advantage of playing hands like A3, K4 or Q5 is, it become much more difficult for people to put us on a range. So when we hit the board hard, our hand is well disguised, and its easy to get paid. Many good things can happen by following this strategy as masterfully demonstrated by my opponent from this 5$ 18-man SnG on Stars. Watch and learn

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[puzzlefish]

So when we hit the board hard

That's the key, isn't it? But usually the situation is that hero ends up getting raised hard.

 

[puzzlefish]

And after reviewing the hand itself, there's a lot more to it than just making fun of someone playing a high low suited hand and running into the same trips as their villain but with a lower kicker.

 

[ENRIQUE23977]

A good Streamer from pokerstars School Latam, by the name of Federico Sztern, said a phrase that I always remember: "Nothing is written in Stone”. In other words, until today no one knows the perfect way to play. New players are always arriving who innovate with the way they play.
It is possible for Pair of Aces to lose to 7-2s, because Poker is a game where everything is possible because of its odds and mathematics. In addition to a sin end of concepts such as semilanterns, lanterns.

Of course, if you want to be a winning player, you have to always try to have equity in your favor, to make money.

 

[fundiver199]

And after reviewing the hand itself, there's a lot more to it than just making fun of someone playing a high low suited hand and running into the same trips as their villain but with a lower kicker.

Yeah thats true, but I posted a series of hands, which could basically be called "learn from the opponents mistakes". And the point of this hand history is, that if you play to many hands, you end up creating more "cooler" situations, where you are on the bad end of it. Which mean, they are not really coolers, because your opponents, who have more discipline preflop, dont end up in them. So unlike true coolers like AA vs. KK preflop or set over set on a dry board, they are not a wash in the long run.

Another thing to take away from this hand history however is to not overplay your hand. I checked the river, because I could not come up with a lot of worse hands, that would call again. So I was actually in kind of bluff catching mode expecting my opponents to mostly have either a busted draw, something which beat me, or a marginal made hand, that would fold to a jam. CO should have thought along the same lines and checked back. When he jammed the river, he pretty much forced his opponents to always have a better hand, when they call.

 

[AKQ]

Traditional poker courses tell us to only play hands, that are paired, have two high cards or two low cards, that are suited or connected. However by doing so we become very predictable. The advantage of playing hands like A3, K4 or Q5 is, it become much more difficult for people to put us on a range. So when we hit the board hard, our hand is well disguised, and its easy to get paid. Many good things can happen by following this strategy as masterfully demonstrated by my opponent from this 5$ 18-man SnG on Stars. Watch and learn

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It's not that a3s k4s q5s makes us unpredictable
Those hands hands have unrealized equity beyond top pair

thats what gets us paid
the number card may have a draw So we can also semi bluff

So these hands have multiple Utilities and end points

 

[AKQ]

A good Streamer from Pokerstars School Latam, by the name of Federico Sztern, said a phrase that I always remember: "Nothing is written in Stone”. In other words, until today no one knows the perfect way to play. New players are always arriving who innovate with the way they play.
It is possible for Pair of Aces to lose to 7-2s, because Poker is a game where everything is possible because of its odds and mathematics. In addition to a sin end of concepts such as semilanterns, lanterns.

Of course, if you want to be a winning player, you have to always try to have Equity in your favor, to make money.

Poker is all about the bluff

 

[fundiver199]

Another example from a 5$ 18-man SnG. My opponent could just have folded preflop, but by widening his range and limping UTG he put himself into this great spot

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[feisas7991]

Traditional poker courses tell us to only play hands, that are paired, have two high cards or two low cards, that are suited or connected. However by doing so we become very predictable. The advantage of playing hands like A3, K4 or Q5 is, it become much more difficult for people to put us on a range. So when we hit the board hard, our hand is well disguised, and its easy to get paid. Many good things can happen by following this strategy as masterfully demonstrated by my opponent from this 5$ 18-man SnG on Stars. Watch and learn

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jam on the river. get paid by Kx. why would u ever try to check there if they underbluff it heavily

Another example from a 5$ 18-man SnG. My opponent could just have folded preflop, but by widening his range and limping UTG he put himself into this great spot

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check on the flop unless you want to barrel for the stacks. incredibly hard to bluff off made hands there

Hope this helps and Good Luck!