Small Stakes No-Limit Hold'em
Ed Miller
Language: English
Pages: 376
ISBN: 0984143491
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Small stakes no-limit hold'em cash games offer remarkable opportunities...if you come armed with the right skills. To win in today's game you need to draw on a complete arsenal of the latest theories, strategies, and tactics. Now, available for the first time in print, this ultimate handbook outlines a powerful path to success, as three of the world's top experts noted poker authority Ed Miller, top pro Sunny Mehta, and renowned practical theorist Matt Flynn put their expertise to work for you. Using hand examples from actual play to illustrate key concepts, Small Stakes No-Limit Hold'em translates high-level poker theory into an easy-to-learn format that will give you the edge needed to win in today's games. You'll learn solid money-winning tactics and be able to craft winning strategies just like the top cash-game pros. Get the lowdown on: - 7 easy steps to no-limit hold'em success - Making decisions using steal equity and showdown equity - Beating online 6-max games - Isolating bad players and handling tough, aggressive players - Determining optimal bluff sizes and planning big bluffs - Balancing your lines of play to maximize deception ...and much more! Poker is a fun game, but it's even more fun when you win. With Miller, Mehta, and Flynn as your mentors, you will have all the advanced-yet-practical information you need to dominate any small stakes no-limit hold'em cash game.
there’s a troublesome player behind you, tighten up to about 30 percent or possibly 25 percent of your hands. Because you are stealing into three players, usually you should default to a conservative raise size. Stealing From The Small Blind When everyone folds to you in the small blind, you’re in an interesting situation. Unlike stealing from the button or the cutoff, you’re going to play the hand out of position if you get called. This fact can alter your strategy dramatically. Say you
bluffing postflop, then he’s probably calling and then playing fit-orfold. (The other alternative is that he takes weak hands to showdown often. This tendency is just as exploitable, so 3-betting preflop is still a strong play.) A light 3-bet against this player is an isolation play. You’re trying to get heads-up with position against a player who will make significant mistakes after the flop. As a result, choose situations where you have position and where your hand has some value. If you’re
game, you have played few hands in the last two hours, and no one has reason to think you’re on tilt. You raise to $6 first to act from the cutoff with 5Ƅ4Ƅ. Only the button calls. The flop of Kƅ JƇ9ƅ misses you completely. You check, the button bets $8, and you checkraise to $24. He thinks about it briefly, then folds. Now let’s change the backstory. You have played many hands in the last two hours and just took a bad beat for your stack. You raise to $6 with 5Ƅ4Ƅ. The button calls. The flop
example, say you get all-in several times in a short period. Opponents may tighten up preflop because they don’t want to face your aggressive betting when they hit a pair. These are basic concepts about stealing. None is absolute. For example, you might find it easier to steal out of position if your opponents may think you have a big hand. Or it might be easier to steal from an aggressive opponent if he folds when you apply pressure. In general, however, stealing is easier when you have
of 33. An SPR that high leaves tons of room to maneuver postflop. You can play against more second-best hands, control the pot, acquire more information, get value out of your hand, and never let your opponent put you to a tough stack decision. You call the $7. The flop comes KƆ9Ƈ2ƅ . You are obviously not committed. If 33 times the pot goes in on this flop against this opponent, you can expect to be way behind. Your goal is to keep the pot small, gain information, get to showdown, and gain value