[kiddo]

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Before the flop I like to be a little more passive than in a full ring game. If I have something like KJs and I am raising I'm likely to scare off lesser hands that I'm a favorite over

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I think most good SH-players aggree on: Never limp first in! KJs is a great hand, you must raise and make the blinds pay for seeing the flop cause you will win the pot more then your fair share. Also, raising a lot preflop makes it much harder to put you on a hand. If the game is very tight - which it almost never is - you can sometimes limp with monsters like AA, KK, AKs, trying to trap. But trapping with KJs is a misstake, at least half of the flops will not help you, what do you then do when BB bets out with his 95 and pair of 5s?

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3-Play more aggressively after the flop, in other words, bet and raise more on weaker holdings, and only slow down, when the opponent shows us the error by playing back at us.

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While this seems reasonable, it is off of this type of opponent that I am going to make the most money. Be very aware that this is the type of play that will lead you into big traps.

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You are normally not making money of people being aggressive, you are making money of people being loose. Being aggressive is the most important adjustment playing SH. If you wait for a real hand SH you will lose all those pots when noone had a hand.


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Take the free card when it is offered if it could help your hand. Since calling requirements are lowered 6 handed it becomes less profitable to semi-bluff.

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You must semibluiffbet a lot SH as long as the other players aint very loose. Semibluff is much better SH because:

1) You are up against fewer players, bigger chance noone got a hand. That is bluff works more often.
2) People will fold more drawing hands cause the small pot isnt giving the right price to draw.

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As mentioned above semi-bluffing tends to go down in value because you are more likely to be called by a hand like 2nd or bottom pair. The same logic goes for raise-bluffs and CR-bluffs.

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You honestly think a decent SH player will call you when you bet? The players only betting when they got a hand are the easiest to read. Against players only looking at their own cards and the board, yes, you will get action when you bet and this is often the case at low limits. But this is because you play against calling stations, not because you play SH.

Playing weak with weak hands and strong with strong hands is suicide against decent players SH. SH its very important to play in a way so that your opponents dont know what you have. Being predictable will only work as long as your opponents are bad.

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I think that playing short handed you need to be very wary of falling into the Fancy Play Syndrome trap.

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Yep, totally aggree. There are a lot of players SH that use "random trickiness" as there best weapon and there are a lot of players that get a huge kick out of getting away with a fancy move like raising with nothing on river.

I think much of what you say in your post will work well against players beeing very loose and not trying to analyze your style. Against better players you have to be more aggressive and play in a way that will not give your hand away.