Makes sense, but is this good strategy?

I read somewhere that for tourney play its a good idea to assign one or two mediocre hands (A5o, 910s) and always play them as premium hands? This is done so when those cards are turned over it confuses your opponents. Does anybody do this?

... no.

lol don't listen to whoever said that ever again

Originally Posted by martindcx1e

lol don't listen to whoever said that ever again

hahahahaaaa i do believe it was...Andy Bloch in a FT book. Maybe I'm not conveying all the concepts attached to this strategy but that was basically it. And at the time it made me think. It was listed I think in a section about starting hand requirements. BUT if it's complete bs then i will do my very best to erase it from my mind.

I believe David Sklansky was the first to come up with this idea. IIRC he picked random hand (Q5s or something) and played it exactly as if he had aces. In the long run that slight deviation from 'normal' strategy shouldn't hurt his winrate and occasional opponents who'd look him up were completely WTF!? with the extra benefit of losing respect and getting them to call more .... blahblah.

@OP: bear in mind that games where Sklansky or Bloch play are populated with more or less reasonable (good) players capable of folding. Not the stakes where most of us play.

In short: funny idea, now forget it.

If you ever get invited to play in one of the High Stakes Poker Tourneys you can use that advice. Otherwise fuggetaboutit.

A little hard to confuse opponents in online MTT's when they shuffle the tables almost at will. By the time you get settled in at a table, blinds are higher and everyone is short. I can't see this working at all. Not to mention, when your dealt about a 150 hands, the chances of getting two selected starting hands over that time is minimal at best.

I thought you were supposed to do that with ten-deuce offsuit.

Also 6-9 (Beavis: "Heh-heh... He said sixty-nine... heh-heh...").

At least those are the ones I see. Love when I look these goofballs up with a monster hand.

I do this in cash to some degree, but only pre-flop. Also I try to choose hands that play well (suitedness/connectedness) instead of crap like Q5o.

Originally Posted by GatorJH

If you ever get invited to play in one of the High Stakes Poker Tourneys you can use that advice. Otherwise fuggetaboutit.

hmmmmm...that makes me wonder how many of the strategies i read about will work at the stakes i play

Low stakes? Make good hands, value bet them. Win $'s.

Originally Posted by kingme620

Originally Posted by GatorJH

If you ever get invited to play in one of the High Stakes Poker Tourneys you can use that advice. Otherwise fuggetaboutit.

hmmmmm...that makes me wonder how many of the strategies i read about will work at the stakes i play

Whenever you read any advice about poker, test it yourself. Work out the logic in your head and try it in your games, see what works for you. Don't accept anything anyone says without considering it for yourself first.