shiburu
01-24-2005, 10:59 PM
My game of choice right now is a 1-3 live casino game. I probably don't need to tell you how often the pot has $9 in it pre-flop, or in whose stack the missing dollar is usually hiding. Yesterday, I played for about six hours. I started out using the starting hands for a loose game as prescribed in SSH. I wasn't showing enough profit given the table, which I at first blamed on my cards. Then I decided to adjust. Here is what I came up with. My poker logic is still in bloom, so I've come here for some guidance. All is welcomed and appreciated:
1. Most hands are $1 to call pre-flop, and then at least $3 thereafter. What I began to realize was my gut-shots almost never got the pot-odds to call, but flush draws usually did (at least with implied odds - very dependable!), and with so many players calling down, the flush draws were usually ripe for value betting. My deduction from this was that unsuited connectors, even good sized ones (T9, JT), had even less value, since most of the time the gut-shot would be unplayable, taking away a large portion of their playability. But suited cards became even more valuable. I began play suited jacks and tens, all one gappers, and in late position, pretty much all of them. The $1 investment (almost certain in LP), with such potential for overcalling after the flop by my friends, in my opinion made them playable. What do you think?
2. Finally, what's up with the free card play in spread limit? Is it now just limited to betting for value and radomizing play?
Thanks,
Josh
I've read through 'Small Stakes Hold'em,' which I own, several times, and 'Hold'em for Advanced Players,' which I do not YET own, once. Although I think there is some discussion in HAP about spread limit, I can't remember it, so I apologize for any questions that could be answered with a trip to B&N.
1. Most hands are $1 to call pre-flop, and then at least $3 thereafter. What I began to realize was my gut-shots almost never got the pot-odds to call, but flush draws usually did (at least with implied odds - very dependable!), and with so many players calling down, the flush draws were usually ripe for value betting. My deduction from this was that unsuited connectors, even good sized ones (T9, JT), had even less value, since most of the time the gut-shot would be unplayable, taking away a large portion of their playability. But suited cards became even more valuable. I began play suited jacks and tens, all one gappers, and in late position, pretty much all of them. The $1 investment (almost certain in LP), with such potential for overcalling after the flop by my friends, in my opinion made them playable. What do you think?
2. Finally, what's up with the free card play in spread limit? Is it now just limited to betting for value and radomizing play?
Thanks,
Josh
I've read through 'Small Stakes Hold'em,' which I own, several times, and 'Hold'em for Advanced Players,' which I do not YET own, once. Although I think there is some discussion in HAP about spread limit, I can't remember it, so I apologize for any questions that could be answered with a trip to B&N.