What is in your NL bag of tricks?
 

Other than the continuation bet, I am at a loss to what other types of "moves" are used in NL. This topic may not be appropriate to small stakes, so tricks from all limits are welcome. I really want to improve my NL skill set and I thought this was the best way to begin.

Re: What is in your NL bag of tricks?
 

At least at the lower limits, the only "trick in your bag" you need is the ability to play tight and fold lots of hands. Moves become much more important at the mid- and high-stakes.

Re: What is in your NL bag of tricks?
 

my best trick is to put an opponent on hand range according to their actions on previous hands and on previous streets on the current hand.

Re: What is in your NL bag of tricks?
 

You can burn money like me if you pick up the c/r a-i semi-bluff. Yay!

Re: What is in your NL bag of tricks?
 

At the lower levels I think its usually incorrect to be thinking too hard about a moves arsenal. Main focus should be on hand reading, once you get much better at that the moves will come naturally for the most part.

As a quick list I'd say the bluff (really?), bluff checkraise, semi-bluff, semi-bluff checkraise, stop n go, and blocking bets. Not complete, and I'm not commenting on how effective any of these are however, just listing them.

Re: What is in your NL bag of tricks?
 

They are all ineffective. I was trying to estimate the amount of money that bluffing and semi-bluffing has cost me over the past 3 months today. The number I came to was 3K. I [censored] you not. And I think that estimate is quite conservative actually. 4K might be a better guess.

Re: What is in your NL bag of tricks?
 

Haha sounds about right. Funny how a long long time ago I sat down at these tables thinking "some players you just cant bluff, value bet your ass off, that's all you need to do.".

In my book keeping for many many sessions I have "HOW MANY TIMES DOES IT TAKE FOR YOU TO LEARN YOU CANT BLUFF IDIOTS OFF HANDS?" in red pen.

I'm not a quick learner.

Re: What is in your NL bag of tricks?
 

I'm not familiar with the stop n go or blocking bets. If someone could explain, that would be great.

Re: What is in your NL bag of tricks?
 

agreed.

Re: What is in your NL bag of tricks?
 

I don't really like to give away my tricks .... but ok.

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