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Great post, thanks biondino. Insta-sticky!

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I have a small problem with this. At the stakes that Biondino is talking about, and the quality of play by Hero's, the flush is the first non 0 level thinking a beginner learns to recognize, it becomes the scare card that will make villians fold or play back if they complete. They all start playing any two suited, paying to see flops even when raised, and if the board had the draw, they stay in at all costs to catch. When we're talking about beginners, they need to learn to see what the board is representing and be aware that weeker players, at $2NL, $5NL and even $10NL, will draw to any two suited flush draws, no matter what you bet. Bet the hell out of them and don't stack off because "he couldn't have the Flush after calling those bets". My point isn't to fold it up because there is a completed draw, but to preserve the stack, and not drop 100BB because no A came and your holding KK. Yes value bet. But be wary about the draws, they will draw out at any price. Don't stack off was my point, not fold.

For you it's different slev.
Play no looser than 15-10, ever. Play 6-5 UTG and UTG+1 - that means folding AQ and 66.
oh, and stop over-valuing card combinations cos they're sooted

Ah ok thanks Daven much appreciated

Thanks for the reassurance Robb, - I was down a couple of buyins in lighteneing quick time because I got into trouble with PPs in late position, since then I've decided to really tighten up now. In fact I just folded 10s in the SB to a raise and one caller, and it felt good. You've got to do whatever it takes to beat what ever stakes your playing right? And if that means being more of a rock than the cliff at the coast so be it.

Since i've tightened up things have already started to improve. I'm actually really enjoying folding at the moment, that Kenny Rodgers song comes into my head everytime i'm folding my low PP's etc... and I feel good knowing I'm playing a nice tight strategy Smile

I'd call TT for set odds and fold my overpair to a lot of action

That was an awsome post on the micro limit NLHE stakes I agree fully on the 5xBB + 1BB per limper when your opening up at the $10 buy-in level . I also know that alot of donks at these levels will push all-in with any two paint cards so you may want to pay close attention to player your up against and watch what his push range is if anyone ever calls him down. But the 5x BB rasie should be enough to push alot of decent players off a drawing hand if they know what there doing. I also like the last sticky I read from AOK the one about playing like a professonal and getting up and leaving if your playing off emotions or on tilt becuase your more likely to make bad decsions when you play on tilt or paying on emotions becuase you just know someone bluffed you off a hand so you want to get them stop that it is not playing like a professional get it together and play positive EV hands or just get up and leave becuase your gonna get stacked if you don't.

Let's break it down even further - let's say we want to look at our stats with AA. Well, in 10k hands you can expect to be dealt AA forty-five times. But we've already discussed that TEN THOUSAND hands is a poor sample - so forty-five is an almost worthless one!

To illustrate: let's say that the first 44 of these hands return a BB/hand of 5 (which is about normal for a decent player). At $10NL, this equates to $44. Then, you receive AA on hand 45. You have a big stack - say $20, thanks to previous good play - and so does the villain. he pushes pre-flop - yes! - and you call gleefully. But this time, his QQ hits a Q on the river and he takes you down.

I dont get this straight.
Please correct me.

You're saying that when you're dealt AA pf you'll have 5bb/100 in NL cash game winrate over AA hands ONLY?

... OR.. what seems logical to me , you'll have a 5 bb rate over all 10k hands ....

also 5bb/100 means you won 500bb/ 10k hands at 10nl where bb=10cents ----> 500x0.1= 50$

please excuse me if im wrong here, im a losing player over 90k hands played at micro limits

I just wanted to bump this back up for the new folks out there... I am guilty of this myself and working on this leak. I see bad sessions and think I'm in trouble, when I know what I have learned so far is good...

This is a long, long road we are on, let's keep our eyes on the horizon, not the pebble in front of us.

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