NLHE Theory and Practice: Week 2.

Sup Feesh.

Week 2's discussion is now underway. We're looking at pages 25-44. This section covers the following main themes:

Pot size - how you might go about manipulating the size of the pot with a strong hand in order to stack your opponent. Very important for micro games imo, more pot building less aimless slow playing = a happy winrate at micros.

While overbetting in order to inflate the pot can be really good vs some opponents in some situations (mainly vs a total station who'll passively stack of with any top pair type of crap, but the stacks are too deep and the pot too small to get it all in by just potting or underbetting each street.) I wouldn't reccomend you take his suggested line too often for value because you'll just be rediculously unbalanced vs regs and deprive yourself of any action from the weaker parts of ranges that definitely wont fold the flop for a normal size bet. You'll also discourage people from playing back at you with air or weak draws etc. So yeah, I just mean to clarify that Sklansky doesn't mean you should take this overbetting line frequently in standard spots or anything.

Implied odds - there's some good stuff in this section about how to use implied odds, especially deep, which we have already touched on a bit in last week's discussion. There's also tips on how to make sure you're cutting back your opponents implied odds; basic stuff, but essential.

So what do we think about this section?