How can watching the pros on TV make a small stakes player better?

[TM1212]

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I play small stakes - online $11-22 SNGs and $100 NL cash tables and home tourneys with buy-ins that range from $10-$100 or NL cash games with $.25/.50 blinds.

What, if anything, can I learn watching the pros to help my game? I want to learn from the pros, not fall into a FPS trap. Is this possible?

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I look at your post count and how long you have been here and it simply reinforces the worthlessness of the post count.

But on the topic of your question... no tv poker is entertainment that’s all. Its edited, late big money tourney play, of which will most likely never effect your game.

Read a good nl tourt strategy book...hoh then hoh2... or a good nl book... caffione nlplh... or analyze your play... or make post about your hands in the forum for review and incite. most of all avoid the wpt forum expect for the occasional meaningful question (ie this) or entertainment.

[TM1212]

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It is not an efficient way to learn, as the same situations are shown over and over. Events like Turning Stone, where every hand of heads-up play between Ivey and D'Agostino was shown, can offer more insight.

One tactic I learned from TV (which I might have learned from a book; I have read very little on NL) was the idea of calling a bet on the flop with nothing, simply looking to bluff on the Turn if the flop bettor checked. I tried it in some SnGs and it sometimes worked. If nothing else, it made me think about some NL tactics.

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of course the principle you just offered won't work often in a on sng because of stack size and thus wont apply.

[NYCNative]

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I look at your post count and how long you have been here and it simply reinforces the worthlessness of the post count.

[/ QUOTE ]I see the same with you: You can be arrogant and overly assumptive with a paltry 250 posts.

[lehighguy]

TV doesn't teach you anything. Moreover, it can be very bad.

They are playing tournament poker. In tournament poker you bluff and go all-in alot. Not the case in cash games. Plus they cut hands so you don't get an idea of how much people fold.

In order to be useful tutorial you would have to show every single hand as well as the blind levels and chip stacks.

[NYCNative]

Actually, I can think of one thing watching the pros has helped me: Playing marginal hands post-flop. Maybe the tournaments I play aren't at the level of the pros (but I still have to try and steal sometimes and I still will defend my blinds sometimes and both of these cases will lead me to play a marginal hand - sometimes out of position - post-flop.

The pros do this all the time on TV and I can't help but think that watching how they handle it and their actions/mannerisms can give me something to help my game even against opponents who lack the sophistication of a pro.

[Trainwreck]

Watching TV for poker strategy is unwise IMHO.

I akin it to trying to be a doctor by watching CSI and ER.

Why? Too many details are left out.

Read some GOOD books and play more is they way .

Wasting time on this forum: NOT HELPFUL. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

>TW<

[DJ Sensei]

The best thing that can happen to a small stakes player from TV poker is a steady influx of wide-eyed fish ready to give you their money when they try and play like TV players.

[rheaume]

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can watching a yankees game help a little leaguer become a better baseball player?

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Actually, yeah, it could.

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oh. my. god.

[NYCNative]

Way to selectively quote.

Michigan, eh? Shocker...

[rheaume]

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Way to selectively quote.

Michigan, eh? Shocker...

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ok, you're a child, and i'm done posting on your pointless thread.