need help...newbie to no limit
Hi guys,
I play regularly $4-$8 limit live everyday. However, i wanted to learn no-limit too. So went and bought the book "mastering no limit hold-em" but russell fox and read it.
Logged onto party and started playing $25 no limit. I have no problem with patience. What i am having problem is extracting money on good hands. The only hands where i won some money (barely 5$ when i went all in against a short stack with KK, raised 5$ preflop where blinds are 10c-25c with QQ and went all in on the flop).
once i flopped a gutshot from my blinds, bet min on the flop and got called by 3 people. made my straight on the turn and checked so i could check raise all in. on the river when i bet big, everyone folded.
long story short, people are folding left and right whenever you bet something major. how do you get people to pay you off on your good hands.....am i not getting the game or its just a small sample of 1 night.
Thanks a lot for your help and advice
Re: need help...newbie to no limit
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Originally Posted by pokerlearner
So went and bought the book "mastering no limit hold-em" but russell fox and read it.
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Originally Posted by pokerlearner
once i flopped a gutshot from my blinds, bet min on the flop and got called by 3 people. made my straight on the turn and checked so i could check raise all in. on the river when i bet big, everyone folded.
I fear for what Ed's book is going to do for these games, if Fox's book didn't teach you better than this....
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long story short, people are folding left and right whenever you bet something major. how do you get people to pay you off on your good hands.....
Build pots, sucker them in, steal, etc.
Re: need help...newbie to no limit
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Originally Posted by pokerlearner
Hi guys,
I play regularly $4-$8 limit live everyday. However, i wanted to learn no-limit too. So went and bought the book "mastering no limit hold-em" but russell fox and read it.
as others in the thread have already pointed out, books are not a substitute for playing. get a few thousand hands behind you just to get a feel for the game. you should have the bankroll to afford this.
my own two pieces of advice boil down to:
#1. know exactly what you're playing each hand for--e.g. @ good tables, against solid players, marginal hands like kq/aj have to be played for twopair or straights. ak/aq are used to isolate weaker aces & milk value out of their dominated tp. aa/kk are ideally used to force somebody extremely marginal calls preflop for a large amount of money (usually when you're a 70/30 favorite or better; nothing better than having a douchebag call your move w/ kqs & say "i thought it was a flip" after your aces or kings hold up) or trapping ak/aq.
this is where it starts--w/ time, you can add more & more hands, w/ various uses, to your repertoire. i, for one, love seeing j9s or t8s in early position--gaped suited connectors are imo very valuable b/c #1. they're very easy to get away from unless the flop really hits you in the face like a ninja & #2. weak players pay like slot machines w/ tp tk or two-pair on a board where straights aren't obvious. find out what works for your style of play, fine-tune your approach (i've decided that i almost always go over the top w/ open-endeds on an unpaired rainbow board, e.g.) & then apply it consistently.
#2. know your opponents. personally, the thing that has made the largest amount of difference to my (relative; i'm sure there are others browsing this forum that have made much more cash) online success was consistently taking notes on the style of play, betting patterns & overall behaviors of opponents. if you see me online w/ the clock almost running out preflop before i make my decision, it's usually b/c im consulting the history for the last hand & jotting down pertinent info. i think i've written a minimum of 10 novels about the habits of absolute poker, p-stars & pp players. as w/ any type of poker, noting which players play which cards & how gives you an incredible advantage.
