**** Beginner's and Low Content Questions Thread****

[rocaerix]

Originally Posted by Get In My Poster

Primo's hu from scratch is a good place to start, also skates videos and cogs vids are excellent. Its about time I go premium myself so I can explore the rest of the library.

Originally Posted by MrRunsGoood

@ rocaerix - check out the forum and under "video discussion". Posters make a few suggestions on which vids to watch.

Cheers guys. I went looking in Videos forum before coming here but didn't look hard enough at all (obviously...). Also seemed quite quiet so thought it'd be simpler to ask here.

[RomeoXak]

Originally Posted by coke

This might me helpful:http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/58...estion-144437/

Thank you

[jacket882]

I just lost 10 buyins against a guy in 15mins i played him the 1st match and he all-ined me on every hand.. i waited until i had AK called his all in and lost against 35o

he wanted a rematch and i lost that on hand 1 with 88 vs Q5 (i called cos i knew he was doing it with every hand)

next match AJ vs K7 lost

I won 3 matches out of 15, most of the losses coming with 60-70% pre flop equity and a couple when I ran my 77 into his 99

should I have stopped? isnt it +EV long term playing a guy who shoves all his cards every time? i guess I was just unlucky eh?

[coke]

Originally Posted by jacket882

I just lost 10 buyins against a guy in 15mins i played him the 1st match and he all-ined me on every hand.. i waited until i had AK called his all in and lost against 35o

he wanted a rematch and i lost that on hand 1 with 88 vs Q5 (i called cos i knew he was doing it with every hand)

next match AJ vs K7 lost

I won 3 matches out of 15, most of the losses coming with 60-70% pre flop equity and a couple when I ran my 77 into his 99

should I have stopped? isnt it +EV long term playing a guy who shoves all his cards every time? i guess I was just unlucky eh?

Don't you think you answered your long term EV question by saying you were a 60-70% favourite to win in most cases?

[spamz]

Originally Posted by coke

I would check the turn against a very agressive oponent a decent amount for pot control though.

why would you ever do that?

[coke]

Originally Posted by spamz

why would you ever do that?

Looking at the hand now i think that checking its pretty bad too since the turn its a total brick.So yeah,betting half pot is much better then checking.
Thanks spamz.

[Quimp]

Edit... Cliffs: skip reads if you want, this looks like a std hand/spot as played but I'm curious at what frequency we want to actually donk the flop instead of check-raising.


Villain is a terribad nit. I'm looking at how to play with top 2 on a wet board. I'm not sure what is essential to determine this, so here we go (small sample):

- He folds maybe 50% IP; his standard PFR is 3x.
- He's 3bet me 3x 2-3 times but min-raised A7, which he checked down on TQK T X.
- He was passive vs my 3 limps.
- Villain lead for a PSB with 89 on 853, lead large-ish on the turn that paired and checked a low blank card.


Given this portrait, how do we intend to play this hand on the flop? I know nothing about his cbet frequency but we have a hint from the A7s hand.

Do we straight lead into him? I obviously don't care that he folded, that's not the point.

Full Tilt Poker $6 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players
2+2 Hand Converter Powered By DeucesCracked

BTN/SB: t1170 29.25 BBs
Hero (BB): t1830 45.75 BBs

Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with K J
BTN/SB raises to t95, Hero calls t55

Flop: (t190) K 8 J (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t155, Hero raises to t480, BTN/SB folds


Thanks

[De_Evolution]

its wet but you have tons of options, given that he wont cbet often you could donk a retarded amount like 80 and hope he will raise there or flat and try to take it away on later streets but its prob not happening bc he wont attack these boards often so cring looks fine, maybe c/c c/r turn would be ok but he is nitty so prob c/c lead turns, kind of depends what card rolls off, the dryer it is the more likely i lean toward trying to get him to steal it before he folds

[urgkorv]

Is there any monthly graphthreads in the hu forums? if not, why?

[MrRunsGoood]

Didnt think my hand was thread worthy

Villian was really passive, he limped every hand pre and played fit or fold post. I havent been raising his limps to light as I can usually just lead the turn and he folds a good % of the time.Pretty much been running over him though the last couple of hands, however, he has push/3bet me, and c/r pushed a 56K flop (so he got a few chips back).


Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players
2+2 Hand Converter Powered By DeucesCracked

BTN/SB: t1320 44 BBs
Hero (BB): t1680 56 BBs

Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 9 9
BTN/SB calls t15, Hero raises to t100, BTN/SB raises to t540, Hero...


I know folding 99 is pretty nitty but Villian has made it clear I have no fold equity and vs this player I think I'm crushed (flipping at the very best) - standard fold?

[Shove]

i jam. seen lower pockets to much that i would fold. donks dont care about bet sizing.

[coke]

i jam too

[Skaplun]

hey guys, i took up husngs a couple days ago and so far so good. I have 2 main questions: whats a decent sample size in order to assess roi and move up in stakes. For example my roi in the 2 dollar
Games is 60%/50 games. Move up? and the second question i have is how do you deal with the urge to kill urselves vs passive opponents? I know im not the only one who dies a lil inside when villain constantly limps button and plays completely straight forward with min bets.

[jacket882]

I understand that the consensus was that FTP was better for micro husngs cos of rakeback while Stars gets better at higher stakes cos of better FPPs and more action.

With the changes announced this week ,has this changed? I am playing up to $10 at the moment and would like to progress towards $33 over the next months.. is FTP still my best option?

[miniwiz]

Originally Posted by jacket882

I understand that the consensus was that FTP was better for micro husngs cos of rakeback while Stars gets better at higher stakes cos of better FPPs and more action.

With the changes announced this week ,has this changed? I am playing up to $10 at the moment and would like to progress towards $33 over the next months.. is FTP still my best option?

Ye stick to FT.