question

Originally Posted by Reggggy

to everyone that plays long session cash games online i was wondering do all of you use poker calculators like holdem genius or texas calculatem?

Hmm... I mostly play NL RG's and STT's and according to my experience these so called pot odds calculators lika Holdem Genius, Poker Pal and Texas Caculatem and primarily for use in Limit holdem where a strictly matematical approach can make you farly succesfull or at least not loose that much.

In NL where you can loose your hole stack in one hand the most important thing is to play thight-aggressive, by aggressive I mean selective aggresion by wich I mean to know when to push a good hand and also when to fold it, that reguire two important skills that no pott odds calculator in the world can give. They can actually make you play like a fish if you aren't carefull, so stick to low-limit holdem if your reading skills suck and you have to use a pot odds calculator.

You have to read your opponent and correctly place him on a hand and you have to be able to play the player (Even if your matematical chance of winning is only 5%, your real VC could well be 70% if you make a raise aganist an opponent wich you think has a better hand than yours but not a monster and will fold to your raise most times in those situations.

The only software I know of that can help you with that is profiling software like Poker Tracker, Poker Office and similar so buy one of them instead and learn to use and interpet the information they give you correctly, practice makes perfect as they say.

BTW! Nice avatar rubixstreub