*** A Complete Guide to Beating the Micros ***
04-22-2010
, 01:46 PM
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Example 2
CO: $25.60
Hero (BB): $27.05
Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is BB with A
A
4 folds, CO raises to $1, 1 fold, Hero calls $0.75
Action with aces! You like it. You'll just call so you don't scare him away.
Flop: ($2.10) A
K 8 (2 players)
Top set on a board like that! "Hot damn!" you think to yourself. Your opponent could be sitting on AK, AQ, KQ, any number of hands. You decide to be crafty and check to let your opponent bet.
Hero checks, CO bets $1, Hero calls $1
Turn: ($4.10) T
He seems like he may have something worth playing, so you lead small on the turn to keep him leashed.
Hero bets $1.50, CO calls $1.50
Nice!
River: ($7.10) 6
Hero bets $2.50, CO calls $2.50
Final Pot: $12.10
Hero shows A A
CO mucks 88
What!? He flopped a set too! What happened here? You slow played top set while your opponent was sitting on bottom set. This hand is a total disaster. Had you have been aggressive in the hand you could have stacked off on the flop or the turn very easily. In a hand like this he was more than likely getting all his chips in on the flop or turn had you been betting and raising. The river card killed the action and had him worried about a straight or a flush, so he only called. In this situation your slow play cost you an extreme amount, to the tune of about $19.00. That’s 76 big blinds. That is huge.
CO: $25.60
Hero (BB): $27.05
Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is BB with A
A4 folds, CO raises to $1, 1 fold, Hero calls $0.75
Action with aces! You like it. You'll just call so you don't scare him away.
Flop: ($2.10) A
K 8 (2 players)Top set on a board like that! "Hot damn!" you think to yourself. Your opponent could be sitting on AK, AQ, KQ, any number of hands. You decide to be crafty and check to let your opponent bet.
Hero checks, CO bets $1, Hero calls $1
Turn: ($4.10) T
He seems like he may have something worth playing, so you lead small on the turn to keep him leashed.
Hero bets $1.50, CO calls $1.50
Nice!
River: ($7.10) 6
Hero bets $2.50, CO calls $2.50
Final Pot: $12.10
Hero shows A
ACO mucks 8
8What!? He flopped a set too! What happened here? You slow played top set while your opponent was sitting on bottom set. This hand is a total disaster. Had you have been aggressive in the hand you could have stacked off on the flop or the turn very easily. In a hand like this he was more than likely getting all his chips in on the flop or turn had you been betting and raising. The river card killed the action and had him worried about a straight or a flush, so he only called. In this situation your slow play cost you an extreme amount, to the tune of about $19.00. That’s 76 big blinds. That is huge.
I vote we lock this thread. If the games change where this strat advice becomes outdated, a new post will undoubtedly come along and takes its place. Until then, the only replies seem to be "TY" or "I have a question about a hand I just played".
It's the "I have a question" that needs to addressed imo. If a poster wants to ask something specific about this thread, wouldn't it be better in the form of a new thread? In the form::
"I was reading sircuddles' guide and have a question of strat. I had a hand come up last night that was "X" and thought that the guide said the strat should be ......."
Otherwise, this thread could run forever as a collection area for HH that would be better placed in individual HH threads.
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04-28-2010
, 04:07 PM
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04-29-2010
, 12:59 AM
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judging from that thread, insane amounts of analysis? i occasionally try to read that thread, but my eyes usually glaze over, i know i should do more homework but don't seem to get around to it as often as i should 
looking over that thread i see i actually have a reply in there, but i just couldn't keep up with the mad infostream and lost the thread of what he was talking about, made a little more sense this re-reading but still glazed over towards the end of the first page.
w/r to the graph digger posted, i would say that in my inexpert estimation, 25K hands might not be enough to reliably extrapolate a winrate, and plus regardless of what digger might say in the thread, it was still him playing the hands so he'll have a bigger expected w/r than someone of less skill and experience playing the same preflop strategy.
anyway i've only really played upto 25NL so maybe you're already in a better position than me to know what is needed at 50NL?
looking over that thread i see i actually have a reply in there, but i just couldn't keep up with the mad infostream and lost the thread of what he was talking about, made a little more sense this re-reading but still glazed over towards the end of the first page.w/r to the graph digger posted, i would say that in my inexpert estimation, 25K hands might not be enough to reliably extrapolate a winrate, and plus regardless of what digger might say in the thread, it was still him playing the hands so he'll have a bigger expected w/r than someone of less skill and experience playing the same preflop strategy.
anyway i've only really played upto 25NL so maybe you're already in a better position than me to know what is needed at 50NL?
umm I think it is poorly structured.
It was really a revision work of mine done in thread.
I expect that I could do a better more readable one now.
And as an auxiliary point - it was not so much focussed on maximising winrate but to get people over the bridge of profitability.
And also to provide some tools and examples of review - that others could imitate.
I suspect if I did a review of it now - I might disagree with some of the stuff in there. But I have not really read it since and around the time I wrote it. But having played these limits constantly - I feel that yes the games might be slightly harder - and that it is harder to mass-table profitably using just these things for an extended period of time without supreme discipline - I would be very suprised if it is not a basic winning full-ring template for micros still primarily because the equity is on your side almost always.
