Starting Hands Groups for No-limit

Batman · #1 11-30-2003, 06:58 PM

In David Sklansky's Hold-em Poker,
he gave us the starting hands groups. But he also says this list would have to be substantially altered for no-limit. And he doesn't say how much it should be altered and doesn't elaborate any further. Can 2+2 make a start chart for no-limit?

crockpot · #2 12-01-2003, 02:55 AM

a starting hand chart is pretty useless for no-limit. in short, no-limit is dominated by implied odds whenever the money is deep. in other words, your goal should be to hit a superb hand (set, flopped top pair+nut flush draw, nut flush, nut straight), and win all you can with it.

however, when money is shallow (it's hard to draw an exact dividing line, but stacks of 50 big blinds are short, and 100 or more are somewhat deep), it plays somewhat similar to limit except that you can bet enough to protect your hand against draws.

Henke · #3 12-01-2003, 04:46 AM

Are there any good books about pot/no limit? Do 2+2 have any plans to publish the definite pot/no-limit book?

crockpot · #4 12-02-2003, 12:10 AM

pot-limit and no-limit poker by ciaffone and reuben is good. if you learn by being told exactly what to do, then cloutier/mcevoy is okay, and it is also a decent resource for tournament play.

i have an archive of book reviews at my website.