A No-Limit Hold Em Experiment

[cocked&locked]

I picked up the book yesterday for my wife. She wants to learn to play limit holdem for when we go to Vegas. I have to admit, I wanted to get it anyway - never hurts to reinforce the basics and pick up some stuff that has glossed me over.

I read the book by last night and figured I would give the small stack method a shot. I played the Party $100 NL game (first time I've ever played a no-limit ring game). I had good success (gotta love that 160 hand sample size). I payed absolutely no attention to game selection other than to look for full tables with the highest pot averages. Like you, I was multi-tabling 3/6 as well at the time.

I had an abnormally good run, but I'll probably keep doing this for a while to see how it pans out.

[DWarrior]

I beat the system [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] 16.96 BB/100 w/ 4-tables, boo ya [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Oh, and my brain didn't ooze out all over the carpet, thus saving me the cleaning expenses.

Seriously though, since there's no thinking involved, you don't lose any EV as you add more tables, so your profits per hour are limited to only how fast you can click.

[binions]

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#Starting Hand Requirements#

Opening for a raise:

Early Position (1-3): AA-TT, AK
Middle Position (4-6): AA-99, AK, AQ
Late Position: (7,D,Sb,Bb): AA-77, AK-AT, KQ

if raise in front: re-raise all-in with AA-TT, AK
if raise and re-raise: AA, KK
if you get reraised:
reraise all-in when the ratio of money left : your original bet is:
5-to-1+: AA-QQ, AK
4-to-1: AA-JJ, AK
3-to-1: AA-99, AK, AQ
2-to-1: any hand you raised with initially

Limping In:

If several players have limped in AND nobody has yet raised AND you
are in the cutoff seat or on the button, limp in with:

- Any pocket pair (66,55,44,33,22, since the orig. instructions say to
raise for 77 or higher in this situation)
- Any suited ace (A9s-A2s, since AKs-ATs = raise)
- Any 2 suited cards 10 or higher (KJs, KTs, QJs, QTs, JTs - raise
with all others, as per orig. instructions)

Jordan

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These hands are very similar to Howard Lederer's PreFlop Strategy from his Secrets of NLHE DVD series:

Group A (16 hands)
AA-KK, AKs

Group B (30 hands)
QQ-TT
AKo

Group C (32 hands)
99-88
AQ
AJs

Group D (38 hands)
77-55
AJo
ATs
KQs

Group E (48 hands)
44-22
KQo
ATo
KJs
QJs


Raise an unopened pot:
Early: Group A, B, C
Middle: Add Group D
Late: Group E

Raised pot:
Re-raise: Group A, B
Fold all others

Notice how Lederer's Group A and B are identical to Miller's early position hands.

Notice how Lederer's Group C and D are almost the same as Miller's middle and late position hands, respectively.

Notice how both advocate re-raising with the same hands (AA-TT, AK)

I have been using a modified version of Ed's short stacked strategy at 6 handed Empire $200 tables with some success. I get more action on my hands short-handed than I do full-handed. I start with $50, or 25xBB, reload at $40, and quit at $80+.

My modified system is sort of a combination beteen Lederer and Miller. Short handed, I am using Groups A, B and C in UTG and UTG+1, adding Group D in cutoff or button, and playing Group E in unraised multiway pots in late position, or raising with them to open in the SB.

So far so good.

[overtly spruce]

I have been noticing an increasing number of opponents who "min buy-in" at party 25NL... It makes me wonder if a large number of people have read miller's new book, any thoughts? I have tried asking a number of them whether or not this be the case but no one (out of about 15) has responded to me thus far.