not linear imo

Those %s are reaaaaaally tight fwiw, you'd struggle to win playing that tight today

Even at the micros (.1/.2)?

TDA answer has a short term/ long term component that he did not address. But yes, your range (especially early) is a bit too (ever so slightly) tight.

You have stated that you are a completely new player. If ALL you do is breakeven during your learning then you have done well. Tight is right. IMO, once you have played very tight for 10,000 hands, adjust your opening requirements....certainly in the CO and on the button. Then after another 10,000 adjust again.

My bad, I meant 1 cent/2 cents.

Edit: Oh, and thank you for your replies, they are all much appreciated.

Good regs Are often opening something like 14/15/15/18/18/28/45/50

Hi guys!

I have a hand that I'd like some advice on.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-h...234_C2F0B3E236

Can I find a fold on the turn? The bubble is coming up, he has a 1.50 bounty on him too. Was my bet sizing too small? I was trying to preserve chips so I min raised but perhaps if I had 4bet and gave him 2:1 odds he might have folded pre-flop?

why people can't just post hands, idk, too lazy to click on whatever the heck boomplayer is

Tourney players can probably give a better answer but I wouldn't be looking to fold top pair at this SPR, especially against this ******ed line.
You don't have much room for making bigger raises pre with these stacks. Pretty sure raising over 3bb is an effective shove.
I don't think a 4bet means what you think it means, look it up.

I recently played in a very loose 1-2NLHoldem game.
1. 9 players
2. Five way action
3. 3 players position 6,7,8 have stacks of $95
4. Button's stack is $250
5. My stack is $425
6. Preflop $5 straddle from the button
7 4 callers to me in position 5
8. I hold KQ off and raise to $30
9. Position 6,7,8 call leaving each with $75 increasing the pot to $115
10. The button raises $65---Pot is now $180
11. I fold
12. SB & BB fold and Positions 6,7 & 8 all call and are all in ---Pot is now $390
13 Button shows AA, Position 6 shows AJ suited in hearts,Position 7 AK off, Position 8 shows 4,5 suited in spades
14. Flop is K,7,10 rainbow
15. Turn is a Q of hearts
16. River is a 2 of clubs
17. No possible flushes or straights and the AA takes the pot!

Question: Was my fold for $65 more correct and what are the odds of KQ off beating AA by the river.

The aces have 86.07% equity. You can go to equilab.com and download the free equity calculator to crunch numbers in cases like this. If you don't know how to use it Google some videos to get instructions.

Thanks for that! I definitely was trying to see a flop in this position since I was so close to the bubble. He didn't cover me in chips though, so maybe shoving would have been okay too (since he wouldn't win my bounty).

*** Newb Question **

Hey guys, in a little bit of a quandry as to how to I'm going to proceed, so thought I'd ask the question and hopefully get some advice from guys who've been in my spot. Little bit about me, currently studying the game, reading books, watching online tutorials, playing as much as time allows and trying to learn and put into practice the absolute basics trying to get my ABC poker play a little more solid in micro MTTs. Not stressed about becoming a winning player atall just trying to steadily improve my game.

Now I'm quite busy so I've really only got time to play around 3-5 SNG's or 2 larger (100+ field) tournaments per day weekdays, can put in more time through the weekends but it's certainly not any decent volume in comparison to what I've seen lurking these forums. Possibly 1-2k hands with maybe 60-70 SNG/Tournaments a week, might not be 100% accurate but you get the picture.

So my question is, should I 2 table and go for double the volume with a little less accuracy and thought process put into each play (for the first couple K games as I presume my reasoning and thought process when playing 2 tables will improve), or should I stick to 1 table and put the maximum amount of thought into each play, pick spots better but with half the volume? Which method worked the best for you guys and why? I understand everyone learns differently was just interested at the approach other players have used.

Thanks in advance, I understand my question is total newb but after using the search function i couldn't quite find anything.

tldr; volume > quality?

quality.....and don't forget to budget time to do a session review.

1 hour of play = 1 hour of review

Got so into pushing more volume I wasn't really doing much hand review after the fact, thanks for the heads up will follow.

Hi y'all. I'm getting into playing limit holdem. I'm super new. Decided to play a low limit game two weeks ago to see what it's like. They had to explain what blinds and calling and all that meant, lol. It was fun and I think this is something I'm going to get into. I come from playing blackjack and like the idea of AP play without heat.

My newbie question is: how does variance in limit Texas holdem compare to variance in blackjack? How about tournament holdem? Or rather what size bankroll is appropriate to have for various limit games?

Thanks in advance. :-)

I'm just at a loss on how to play low pockets in 6max cash? Especially OOP.

In position I do a standard 3/4x raise and cbet good boards to cbet or boards that I hit a set on

Early position I feel like if I raise I just have to fold to a 3bet? But when I get called and don't hit a set I'm just in a horrible spot OOP and end up giving it away on the flop anyway.

Should I just be limp/calling from early position and set mining? But again that just feels like a leak because a lot of the time I'm not getting the right odds to flop a set am I?

In terms of balance (which I don't think anybody even pays attention to at my stakes) I also limp/call my suited connectors OOP so it's not like it's completely abusable right?

I just feel so lost when I get say, 22 or 33 from early position. To the point where I sort of just want to open fold them but I know that's stupid

??? Folding junkiest pairs from earliest positions is pretty standard, especially at full ring.
Just folding them is probably best unless you have a huge whale behind who'll call any two and give you his stack when you flop a set.

What about a 6 max cash table though? Is it still worth it to fold them there? I just assumed at 6 max I shouldn't be throwing them away

I will sometimes play small pairs from early position, but it's very situation dependent. If you're at a table where there is a lot of limping going on and you think that there's a decent chance that no one will raise, go for it. If you're in early position and there is a preflop raise on almost every hand, limping with 44 probably isn't going to work for you.

FWIW, I play a lot of suited connectors small pairs, suited aces, anything I think that I can get away with. In my last live cash my two biggest pots were when I hit while opening with 87s and 33. But when I did that, the conditions were right:

1. I had an image as a tight player so no one would expect me to open from UTG+2 with suited connectores.

2, There was so much limping going on that I had a felt I had a chance to take down a big pot.

3. There were stacks that were pretty wild postflop, giving me good implied odds.

If you use a tracker, check how profitable you are when you play speculative hands. Or, just mess with your strategy a bit. Try going with speculative hands only from highjack/cutoff/button and see how that feels.

I'm always tinkering with my game, forcing myself out of my tight old white guy comfort zone, but I do it very gradually, maybe adding one more position where I'll make a certain play, or adding hands to my opening range a few at a time.

I'm always mixing it up. Sometimes I will iin early position with KJo just because no one will expect it. But I've been playing for ten years of fighting against my very conservative nature, spending 25% of my poker time studying and figuring out what works for me.

I'm always trying new things. Sometimes I decide my new bright idea isn't working and I go on to something else.

It depends on what you're comfortable with, what the table has been doing, the stack sizes, and other factors As the saying goes, the answer to every poker question is, "It depends."

What's a "good" total AF these days?

Obviously we need more information.

6max cash? I know you can always say it depends on table dynamics, but surely there's one that's standard that majority of somewhat balanced regs share.
Say if you will winning regs at 50NL+ on Stars.

about 3.50

mrno, I am not playing online any more so my database is too old to help.

Try asking the same question in the other BQ sticky thread about stats