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Strategy and practice without playing. Strategy and practice without playing.

06-25-2020 , 07:15 AM
Use a random card generator. Generate Aces-eights in one suit.
Use a random number generator. Generate 4 numbers for this practice.

1) is for if your to open the pot with a raise.
2) Is for if its already being opened and there is players left to act behind you. The strategy here is to call.
3) Your last to act. Your opponents are less experienced. Your stragegy here is to raise.
4) Your last to act. Your opponents are experienced. Your stragegy here is to call.

Some practice hands.

1) As 6s 4s.

The number generated was the number 4. This hand is a call since we are last to act against experienced players who figure out what hand we have if we raise.

2) 6s 8s 4s

The number generated was the number 2. This means someone has put in a bet and we should call trying to play a mutiway pot.

This is how I'm learning how to play stud 8.
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06-25-2020 , 11:28 PM
It's nowhere near that simple. It depends a lot on things like what your upcard is and what upcards you're against.

Numbers 2 and 3 are also both basically wrong and somewhat inverted. Having players behind you other than the BI is even more incentive to raise with a large number of hands, particularly ace-high ones, for example.

Also with number one proper stud does include a limping range.
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06-26-2020 , 10:41 AM
RUT, for #3, are you saying it's better to flat? For 2 the point is to raise and get folks to call incorrectly/build the pot, yes?

(also I hate being a grammar nit but the misspellings and the your instead of You're ....)
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06-29-2020 , 02:14 PM
Agree with RUT that specifically in Stud8 you will be limping first-in and overlimping some hands. Those would also be the small number of hands where your #2 applies.

Per your #2, It is extremely rare for you to be in a position to raise multiple uninvolved opponents behind you and not want to do it, not just because you want to build a pot but because 3-card starting hand equities run close and you will want to discourage hands with equity from playing correctly by joining a multiway pot.

The rest have some significant exceptions, and I think using this kind of axiomatic play is not going to help you very much. First and foremost, you need to learn to read the board and derive players' intent using all available dead card information. Watch some expert play on video (WSOP final tables, cash mixed games, old training videos), try to understand their rationale for playing the way they did, try to come up with valid exceptions and ask yourself what you would do if conditions were changed slightly.

If your play is predicated on these kinds of standard rules, your better opponents will unpack them pretty quick.
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