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Old 02-20-2004, 02:43 PM
pudley4 pudley4 is offline
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Default Re: Poker books comparison?

You very very rarely need to "mix up your game" at the low limits. You will have so many opponents staying in the hand that you will have many opportunities to:

-bet/raise your draws,
-checkraise both your draws and made hands,
-raise preflop with less than group 1 and 2 hands

and make other, assorted varying plays that your opponents shouldn't be able to put you on a narrow range of hands.

This also assumes that your opponents are paying attention, which the vast majority of them will not do.

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In addition, its all about how well you play from the flop on and

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Hellmuth does a poor job of explaining postflop play, and many of his strategies are clearly wrong. His advice about "raising for information" (with something like JJ on an AK8 board) will be very costly (and is largely unnecessary).

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if your capable of throwing your hand away when you don't hit. Hellmuth believes this is where reading players comes into play big time is from the flop on.

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He also ignores the size of the pot, and in low-limit holdem (especially if you pump the pot preflop) the pots are frequently large enough that you are forced to call with very marginal hands, even if your superior hand-reading skills tell you your opponent has you beat.
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