January 20th - Table selection.
Monthly goal: $7.000
I'm at $767
I am going to a party tonight, so I tried to squeeze in a few hundred hands before I lost all my weekend poker action to hang-overs and partying.
After a couple of hands I remember thinking that I am in kind of a bad spot on one of the tables I had running. Against my better judgment I decided not to stand up and find another table.
500 hands later I had won about $650 on the other three tables and lost about the same amount on that one bad apple.
T9s in the Small Blind: It was after this hand that I thought about standing up and leaving the table. Both players at the table were loose and running well. Playing 3 handed in-between them proved not to be the best idea.
Make sure you read the comments to my entry on the 19th. RoiDa makes some good comments about open limping.
4 comments:
Again I'm going to point fingers at your play. :P
NEVER complete sb when there's just the BB left to act. Raise/fold are personally my only choices. It's just so hard to get a correct strategy to work for when to complete high pocket pairs and when to complete with hands like K7s.
If your planning to complete many hands in the SB in heads-up pots, then you'll have to apply a strategy that I'm not even sure works at 2/4. The players are simply too unaware of their opponents play, and thus they will not see that you play K7s the same way as AA.
/RoiDa
I don't agree with you there. I have had a lot of success completing in the Small Blind.
I generally raise in the SB with the top half of the hands I raise with on the Button. But I find that the BB plays back a lot more if I steal with more hands.
Instead I limp with the bottom half of hands and bet out any flop where I catch a pair or a draw.
I am pretty sure this has been a very profitable strategy for me so far.
If the BB is a good player that raises every time I complete, I revert to raising or folding.
It's absolutely right what you say. :)
The raise/fold strategy should only be used at good players who will play the BB agressively.
What hands do you fold on the SB?
P.s. I think I'm going to try out your tactic. I feel that I could make more money on my blinds play. So I'm going to try it out. :)
/RoiDa
I remember reading somewhere about playing the Small Blind. And the guy wrote that something like Q8o is the absolute worst hand he'll limp with in the SB.
Because it depends so much on the Big Blind, I don't really follow any rule.
If the BB is a tight player that I feel I have an edge on, then I'll complete or raise with any Ace, any suited King, any pair and any two cards 9 or better.
If we have a conflict or two in the Blinds I might tighten up or loosen up depending on how the outcome has been.
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