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Originally Posted by Hartmw82
I have been watching the "S&G micro stakes grinder" series from Vandweller and maybe it's just me but his strategy seems ULTRA nitty.
You have to remember the context.
I was taking a player who was totally clueless (all respect to veloblank), as evidenced by the hands we went over in Episode 2. He was making all kinds of spew mistakes, both passive and aggressive. My goal was to turn him into a winning player as quickly as possible, taking into account his lack of experience. Getting him to play a very basic ULTRA nitty game was the fastest and easiest way to get him to stop spewing and I daresay that's the case for the majority of n00bs.
Several times throughout the series (if I remember correctly) I point out that we might play such and such hand a different way if we had more experience or better hand-reading skills, but since he didn't, we are taking a more conservative line to keep him out of trouble.
Once you get a very basic tight-aggressive strategy down pat, you can then through in some extra hands and plays, but there's no way that a n00b like veloblank was prepared for that given his history.
Whatever you think of that approach, I receive emails and PMs more or less daily that pretty much say the same thing: "I was a clueless n00b bleeding money, then I watched your series and am actually winning money."
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I find myself always ending up in a race with 10 BBs and 5 people left at the table...
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