Quote Originally Posted by Strung
I'm not a NL player (but I might start to dabble here and there) but I found these hand histories neat and I had a few questions for you micheal or anyone else that could answer these.

1) I notice that you aren't playing according to any set starting hands but are mostly playing suited cards (connected or not), connectors and are raising the same amount every time. Is this standard for you ie: do you ALWAYS raise 4x BB? Do you just play whatever you feel like (I'm specifically referring to the K3o hand)?

2) At what level can you start getting away from starting hands and play a style similar to this? I know this wouldn't fly at a $25 NL table, what about $100? $500?

3) Same deal goes for actual tourney playing. At what level of tourney does this play style/reads come more important than the starting cards? I mean, I don't think you'd be able to play like this in say a $5 buy-in MTT compared to a $100 buy-in or is tourney just that much different than ring?
I'd have to say once you get to $600 NL, you get to start using your opponents cards against them a lot more than using "starting hands" because once you get up there, usually, the other people WILL be paying attention to what they think your hadns are.

Definitely not at $100 NL, I'd have to say, and $200 NL really isn't all that different. $400...iffy, but probably not.