Full House
Join Date: May 2005
Location: st. paul, MO
Posts: 966
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Jiggus, I empathize with you because I have a problem knowing if I play a good no-limit game. I do fine with the tourneys and SNGs, but the ring seems to usually confound me. I am primarily a limit player, but very much enjoy the no-limit game. I have some advice to give, which you will probably not take because I am sure it conflicts with your style. But that's cool.
First, I also play at Paradise, and when I want to blow off some steam and have some fun, I play the $2NL. I find it almost ridiculously easy to beat. I've probably played about 8 hours of it 3 tabling, and I know that's a small sample, but I've never played more than an hour at once and never made less than 15BB/hr/tbl for a session. As a whole, it comes out to around 50BB/100. When I play these tables, I see about 50% of flops. While my strategy is total crap at a decent table, at these tables it works very well, and there are several reasons for this that I will not go into in this post. I will mention that there are 2 keys to the strategy. The first is to see as many cheap flops as possible with almost any 2 cards if you think you can do it for .02. There is no unplayable hand in the SB if noone has raised for example. The second key is to extract the maximum with premium hands. Find out what people will call with at your table and when you get pocket aces or kings, or flop a set, drop the hammer. When I play these tables, if I notice that half the time one or more people call when there is a preflop all-in, if I have AA or KK, I will go all-in preflop with these hands ... the times people call more than make up for the times they fold ... get their money in the pot before they have a chance to suck out on you. When you know you have the best of it, bet a ton, because they will call you because it's only a $2 table. I'll try to post a more extensive description of my strategy for these tables later tonight. I would recommend it only because it will quickly get your bankroll high enough to play a more realistic table like the $10NL, after which you can throw my advice out the window.
Second, I recommend learning limit poker. The reason for this is that limit is cut and dried. The correct decisions are well defined until you get to the point of needing to read and play individual players for profit. You can go over your hands and know whether you made the right play with almost complete certainty, and if you can't, you just post it here on the limit forum and the other players will let you know. The basic theoretical, mathematical knowledge of limit poker is very useful and applicable to the no-limit game. Assuming a prior background of hold-em, and a good ability to learn, and a good teacher, anyone can make $8-10 an hour at limit hold-em with a $200 bankroll with probably only a week of study a few hours a day.
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