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Old 04-04-2005, 01:59 PM
Tom Bayes Tom Bayes is offline
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Default Re: Advice for draw poker online?

Well, most of the standard sources that I have on draw (Malmuth, Caro, Zadeh, Weisenberg) are geared towards limit draw and I've had to make most of my "adjusting" to pot-limit on my own. You have to be a bit tighter in pot-limit and you need to be very careful with raising after the draw, because you can end up facing a huge reraise and a very difficult decision. In general there is more bluffing and people trying tricky plays in pot-limit than limit.

As far as the 24h players, they range from excellent to absymal. I've not played above the 1/2 Euro level and mostly at the 0.25/0.50 and 0.50/1 Euro level. In the small games, most players aren't that good and fit into one of two basic stereotypes. They are either too loose-passive, calling too much and rarely betting unless they have a great hand; or they are too reckless, overvaluing marginal hands and trying to bluff too much. As you move up, the players get trickier. I haven't played the games bigger than 1/2, but they go up to 5/10 (and a 25/50 Euro that goes once a week) and there are some players in those games that I don't really want to play with-they mix up their play and are fearless.

Limit is easier than pot-limit to learn (especially since you describe yourself as a limit holdem player), but I enjoy the pot-limit games more. It's sort of like the difference between limit and no-limit holdem-the limit game is more mechanical and mathematical, while the big-bet games give more opportunities to play "the player" rather than the cards. The risks and rewards are bigger in the pot-limit games.

Why not try both? Start at Paradise, but try the small 0.25/0.50 pot-limit game at 24h. If you want a really easy but boring game, play the $0.10/$0.25 pot-limit game at Planet Poker. This game is very passive but won't do much to prepare you for more difficult games. If you like tourneys or SNGs, 24h has low buy-in draw tournaments and SNGs that you might enjoy. Since you are from Sweden, you will find that 24h is the busiest during your evening since most of the 24h players are from Sweden or other Scandanavian countries. If you want to play with me, you'll have to stay up until the middle of the night to wait for me to get home from work, or play the weekend [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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