I am by no means a great player and still have lots and lots to learn about the game. You say that playing ABC poker is easy to ready and people catch on, which is true against a better player. Most of these guys are total stations!!! I watch people all the time calling huge re-raises out of position praying to flop a set, calling down every street trying to hit their gutterball and so forth.
One thing about this article I disagree with is betting hard with top pair or better. I prefer thin value bed with my solid pair and two pair, as to not get pot committed while still getting value.
A set or better then sure, start pumping it up. I do agree that ego is one of the most damaging things you can add to your game, but to tell a bunch of beginners that might be checking out this site, that sticking to TAG play when starting out is wrong, shows that your ego is getting the best of you right now.
None of you are long-term winning players. Including the author of this article. Seriously, this article is fucking terrible. I want to gauge my eyes out. While poker is a skill game and any luck is pretty irrelevant, skill is probably the least important part. Then comes the understanding that poker is a JOB.
You have to play a minimum of 50 hours a week while limiting your expenses to almost null. If you play here and there just to make a couple of hundred bucks, unless you play 3 times and never play again for the rest of your life, it will catch up to you and you will lose. Poker is not a game you can just play once in a while, you MUST keep your mind sharp to consistently parlay.
Low stake NL winners? I have to type the following in caps to emphasize a point:. Onto the skill of playing NL poker. Impossible, literally. First of all, your play becomes obvious. When your hands become transparent you lose all implied odds. Secondly, ABC poker or tight-aggressive is the average field.
I see tons of these types of articles and the strategy works most of the time. The problem I have is that a lot of people are reading these types of articles and the fish are starting to disappear.
I play in MICH. We have these charity places all over the State. I also loved the Beginner Poker Tips article on this site too. This stuff was OK, but there was really nothing contained therein which is not old stuff!
Sometimes the jargon that is used becomes corny. One learns, when one actually sees and experiences a particular set of circumstances.
Not too many can learn or better yet recall, by just reading! I also won the most money that night. I am the harpoon!!! For many poker is like fishing.. Gimme boring any day… I will take my chances at the poker table with all the impatient fish. URel pretty much says it all… this is what I do and I regularly make 2 or more buy-ins on each visit to my local casino.
Sometimes the players are a bit tricky but most of the time the table and players are very easy to adapt to in order to take full advantage of their generosity.
If your style resembles that of a 60 year old nit then so be it as long as you are taking money off donkeys, fish, wideboy wanabies. Whatever it takes, just adapt to the table, players and punish them.
A fair few replies to this article are from the fish that this article discusses. Thanks fish, i really appreciate your ignorance and total lack of any common sense. Thankfully many people are like this and no matter how many decent articles are posted in an attempt to educate them they will never wise up… all winning players need such ignorant fish… so please fish dont ever wise up… cheers.
Good article with solid advice… this style of play is very profitable. This is exactly the way I play and I consistently make money. Sure, its a grind playing tight but once you suss out the players at the table you can mix up your game a little depending on the situation. If your smart enough you will soon see where your and other peoples leaks are.
This article is just a great style to adopt from the outset. I agree with Gunnz and Solly on your points too. I love it when people argue regarding strategy, its usually the ones that have zero patience and keep blaming the loose players for their losses..
These are the sort of players you want at your table and if you think otherwise then you are seriously deluded! Thanks for this great articl,,,,i live in las vegas and most of the time played tournaments and limit games,,,,could not figure out in last 2 yrs why its so hard to win a tournament,,,played win only 2,,,so even if u win just count the lossess….
Great article. For those who say you should play looser you are correct and incorrect. Most novice players will do better by playing tight and not getting in tough situations. If you are a very good player and can dance around the other villains then yes play more hands and out play them but you open yourself up for more variance and possibility of costly mistakes vs sitting back and grinding.
I like playing tight at these tables because you establish this tight table image. Once you have that image the good players at the table will fold when you are in a hand unless they have a very strong hand and the bad players call your raises like you want.
You just need to know when to fold. I like raising when I have a strong pre-flop hand but unless it is very strong I dont raise so much that I get pocket committed before the flop. By this I mean even if you raise 8xBB trying to get only 1 or two callers you could easily get callers due to the loose villains at the table.
So your dillema is you still need to raise pre-flop when you have a hand but dont bet so much that you or your villains get pocket committed before the flop comes out. I like raising 2. In this level it is very important to know who the players are and who the fish are because the skill range is so varied. If you are a good player you can play the player but you need to have the cards to back it up. Poker is about winning money.
Your article is very good. Those who think it is not, will not be long term winners. I read and studied this strategy and i have to say i went to the casino the next week and left with a huge profit. Its true just bet and wait for good hands and have patience, and of course position, position, position. Thanks for the awesome comment! All really good stuff and so good to hear it from your personal experience.
GL at the tables! I flopped a flush draw, called a small raise from the raiser, who only had a pot sized bet remaining. The next card paired me and gave me a gut shot to boot. He raised again, I reraised and got him pot committed. Made the straight to his overpair with one of my 14 outs.
If he had bought in proper and 3 bet me hard or all in for like 2 or 3 hundred I would have had to fold. This rule also means buying back in if you get low on chips. Add another or so to your stack and get back in the hunt or pack it up and go home with enough for a tank of gas.
If they call and they usually do , then they probably are not getting proper odds to chase and you are more often than not going to get paid. If they fold then your table image goes up. The flop hits me with a rainbow broadway which I check off. An early raise, a late position short stack goes all in, and I just call the all in as does the raiser. The next card is a blank and I raise big. The remaining hand calls. The next card is another blank, I bet again but not too big to scare him off.
He calls and I show the nuts while he shows two pair. The huge bet on the turm was too tempting for him even though the 10 J Q was on the board and my bets are clearly repping a straight. He was not getting proper odds to call to see the river to make the boat but called anyway. The all in also flopped the str8 but on the small end of it. I have many stories like this where I check-raise some absurd amount but they call anyway only to feel committed on the river and then to find out at showdown that they were chasing a two-outer the whole time.
Just bet big especially when you trap them and the fish will call. Buying the button is a bargain for the position it offers and I will if I take a break and the blinds have passed me, but at a new table waiting for the big blind lets you observe the table for a few hands. With 10 seats and only 2 blinds you are more likely to sit outside the blinds when you arrive at the table.
Wait for them. You can pick up a lot of info on the table by watching a few hands, especially when the table is soft. If I sit down and each of the 6 hands I see goes with maybe one raise and a bunch of limpers otherwise then I probably sat at the right table.
A table full of nits all the way around will make for a slow night and cautious play. Tipping the wait staff properly and politely ensures that they will help to keep you comfortable. Being comfy lets me focus on the math and reads on the table. Again, these things make me play better so I try to create the environment that I play best in. If it puts people on tilt listening to me call out their hands at show down, or comment on their game or talk about whatever sport is on Tv then the better is for me.
Create your optimal table environment. I recall a guy once sat down at our table and tried to be a bully. I got in to a hand with him early on and bluffed him off a pot. I made sure to show the bluff. He acted like it was all good but it just got him boiling. He went through a grand in 60 minutes and every other player at the table got paid off.
He only got action when someone had him beat and he wondered out loud a few times about how shitty his luck was that night. And it all started with an exposed bluff, along with some trash talking. But that environment didnt just help me grow my stack but everyone else too. A tuesday afternoon will be full of grinders, building their stacks off their initial buy-ins so they can bully and rape the few fish that trickle in on the weekday evenings.
As long as your poker room is big enough there will be enough fish to go around, just make sure you know who are fish and who are making a living at your table. The tables I play at are a little differnt its no limit but the min is and the max is People play so loose there ive been getting pretty frustrated, about a weak ago i raised preflop 80 with AK and had 2 callers A-3 and k-9 and lost when flop came k off suit and a river a 5.
This is an excellent article. I only played online for fun at either Pokerstars or Full Tilt. Everything this author said is absolutely correct. And I was just really going to have fun!! Love it!! Online however is a different story as you will find much better players even at this limit.
GL and may your hands hold up against those 2 outters! See I have a bit of a dalima.. Where I live the casinos have just opened and the poker room is nice small but nice having 16 tables.
So I think that my situation is different. Talk all the trash about this and that, thinking your the best player in the world I love all of you out there that think they are something special. Poker is a game of situations no matter what your bankroll is. I see many people criticising this article…. As a beginer i think this article is great,it acctualy makes you a bit better and after you figure this on your own skin then you might be able to improvise something….
Really enjoy reading your articles. Drop me a line sometime and we can catch up. Fish always believe that they have all of the answers. What a bunch of tools you are. This is a solid winning strategy vs very unskilled players. Just pay attention so you know when and on whome to make your moves. It works well for me. Low limit cash games are all about getting maximum value, not trying to out play the fish.
I have seen very loose agressive players do well in these games too but they tend to have wild swings. Be nice when they river a mirical. Well, all I have to say is….. If the players are truly bad, there is more than one way to beat them. I do however realize that there is rarely ever just a full ring of donkeys. I mean, you do have to occasionally just throw a wrench in now and again to be deceptive.
I just try to keep an eye out for my relative position to each player and adjust accordingly. I will open up my range if the better players are out of the way or sometimes I will call with hands that I know are beaten or raise preflop to isolate certain players. I think one should always be limber as to the particular situation. One example I got two As in hand flop comes up A K K, I checked as I sometimes do, one of the fish went all in on A 5 in hand and another went in with K 10, needless to say I took 5x tourney chip lead over 2nd with 30 left on tables.
All in all, I think the author has very good advice for most players. But you have to remember, no matter how tight you or loose you play, this game still has a cretin amount of luck involved. But you have to remember, no matter how tight you or loose you play, this game still has a certain amount of luck involved.
Very good piece. The whole concept is making your post-flop decisions almost automatic. Silly post. Using post-flop skills against a fish who has no clue what you are trying to do is futile. If your post-flop skill is good enough to know when your outkicked, try not getting involved. So if your only loosening up in position and a good position only comes around 3 times per revolution, how loose are you?
Sounds a bit contradictory to me. What sums it all up is this. Everyone has an opinion. Exactly what did that accompolish? A pride boost. As a general rule of thumb, the smaller cardrooms have softer games than the more established casinos.
Of course, if you can bear staying up until the small hours the games can become excellent, as players become tired, drunk, or even better, both! In Vegas the time of week is also vital. During the week there are far fewer casual players and less action. This means the games are tougher, although many of the players are tight-weak and can be easily beaten. If you are more into tournaments rather than cash game check out " Best poker tournaments in Vegas " article.
Top Menu. How to play. Download Now. Category Menu. Beating Vegas Live Cash Games. Las Vegas is awash with low stakes cash games and exploitable players. Deliberate misinforming of stack size. Phantom checking. Making a raise look and seem accidental. Lying about hand strength at showdown. Live Poker Tips Wrap-Up Keep these tips in mind and your live poker win-rate will thank you: Punish limpers as much as possible — there will be a lot of them.
Turn up your aggression on the button, especially against weak players in the blinds. Keep an eye out for softer tables and be ready to change tables at any time. Control your mouth so everyone else at the table stays happy. Play faster so you get in more hands per hour. Be wary of cheaters and watch out for yourself. Keep an eye out for weaknesses to exploit.
Watch out for the hole card check live tell on monotone flops but use it selectively. Until next time! Related Posts. What is a Poker Straddle? And Should You Ever Straddle? By Geoffrey Fisk May 6, April 21, August 22, George Mathias Poker Strategy Nov 15, About the Author. For some professional insight on how to warm up for a session, check out our 3-Step Poker Warm-Up Routine.
No one likes being a loser, especially when you have bills to pay. You may as well handle them the right way. A session Doug played against Ben Sulsky on September 29th, This can become especially tricky in cash games, where you can leave at any time. If you always chase your losses, you will play some long and frustrating sessions that end with an unnecessarily big red number. Doug Polk has 3 questions that he asks himself in these situations.
Try asking these to yourself next time you find yourself stuck in a cash game:. Every time you see a player limping you should see an opportunity to take their stack—or at least a big chunk of it—in a rather short span of time. Since most limpers are weak players, you will want to isolate them by raising over their limp with a wider range of hands.
Forcing a limper to call your raise preflop, out of position, and with their weak range, is one of the most profitable situations in poker. As far as sizing goes, find the perfect size to put the weakest hands in their range in the toughest possible spot. The general rule of thumb is your standard raise size plus one big blind for every limper. So, if you usually raise to 3 big blinds and there is one limper, you should raise to 4 big blinds.
For more, check out this detailed guide on how to destroy limpers. In preparation for this post, I reached out to both Doug Polk and Ryan Fee to ask for their most valuable piece of general cash game advice. When playing in cash games, the single most important thing is to be playing on an amount of money you are OK losing. That way if you have to put your opponent in a tough spot, you can comfortably go for it. You want to be the most aggressive player at the table in cash games, especially low stakes, especially live.
But with that aggressive style comes the occasional big downswing. At the end of the day, aggression is going to be a big part of the reason you are winning and you always want to be comfortable coming back to it, even when it goes wrong. Whether you are playing poker for fun or you want to make some extra income, these 10 tips will help you play a stronger game and make more money:.
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