Thank you very much! I'll check out both of those programs and the threads. Right now I have everything in Excel, but I'd love to transfer it over to something a little more analytical.

Where can I find Baluga's original Theorem post? Trying to locate it for a friend, spent the last half hour searching, but can't for the life of me remember where it is.

Link please

I really <3 this thread

Time for some "stupid questions":
-Is it true that 5NL is simular to 2NL?

I was thinking to move up to 5NL. Does anyone has some good advice in this regard? Like How should I play 5NL (which hands,...).

-Is it possible to steal at 5NL? If yes... with what can I steal...

At 2NL they call almost everytime lol...

Tnx for all the great advice already!

Name on Pokerstars is TaniaSux

Does anyone know where I can find some really good pokervideos which tell you how to play microstakes (2NL,5NL)? (for free )

at 5 they still always call so don't try to steal. at 10NL it seems quite a bit different though.
I honestly didn't notice much of a difference between 2NL and 5 NL when I played them but I only played a few thousand hands so I'm not the most reliable source. If you are using pokertracker or HEM then it will be easy to spot the people you can steal blinds from but I wouldn't expect to see many of them.

Are you referring to this one?

http://archives1.twoplustwo.com/show...Number=6607951

yes, and if they don't call it doesn't matter

Where can I find step by step guide or instructional videos how to use Holdem Manager 1.10.01?

What exactly is aggressive poker?
Is agressive just another word for 'optimal'?

Aggressive poker is basically about betting and raising, rather than passively checking and calling... though aggressive players also make occassional aggressive plays based on check-raising, "floating" to steal on a later round, or even betting one round to pick up a "free card" on a later round if called... so it's not about betting *every* opportunity that presents itself.

Aggressive play is good poker. Don't confuse it with the frequently used word "optimal," though, which some posters/theorists use in a very specific sense relating to game-theory. By this definition, "optimal" play is the play which can not be exploited by an opponent who is playing optimally himself. In a sense it's a defensive strategy, though it may very well involve a high degree of aggression.

I understand your point, and you probably understand my points before I make them, but still I'll object.

The quote above is not technically correct, or at least if they *sometimes* call and they *sometimes* don't call then it *does* matter what you "steal" with. A semi-bluff becomes preferable to a naked bluff. And certain good hands need to be shown down rather than bet if they're in a situation where they can't get called by worse, because a bet would "turn the hand into a bluff."

Additionally, if your opponents are observant, you obviously can't bluff with every hand you're dealt, on every betting round. To do so would invite the obvious bluff catch. So it's necessary to pick and choose when to bluff, and to find the right frequency of bluffs.

Now, I may have added some wrinkles to the discussion, I have to drop the ball and admit that I can't actually list all the hands and situations where it's correct to bluff at specifically a 0.02/0.05 NL table.

But what I can say is, add some semi-bluffs to your play, betting hands which have some chance to improve if they get called... maybe look for an occasional pure bluff if there's something to represent and the bet is consistent with the way you've played the hand up to that point... and focus on position, trying to play a wider range in late position, and making some more aggressive semi-bluffs from there. Then see how it goes against the particular opponents you face, and adjust from there.

I was hoping someone could explain to me how to get a picture onto a post. Do you copy and paste, or what??

Sorry not very tech-savy

Please be specific; Thanx

"yankeedawg"

click insert image above the text box and paste the images URL. DOn't 'hotlink' whatever that means

How to change avatars and post pictures

Optimal play is the play that cannot be exploited by ANYONE, playing ANY strategy. It is not merely defensive. In a zero-sum game, If one player is playing an optimal strategy and the other is not, the optimal player will tend to win and the non-optimal player will tend to lose. As in the FTOP, the optimal player profits from the mistakes of the other player.

But optimal play won't necessarily win the most. Consider a head-up poker game with no rake. Player A somehow knows the optimal strategy. Player B plays a strategy with some leaks in it. Player A will win slowly.

Now imagine Player A', who has sussed out Player B's strategy and its leaks, and plays to exploit those leaks. Player A' will *not* be playing optimally, and will be taking more money from Player B.

And the levelling game can enter in. Imagine Player B', who intentionally plays the leaky strategy in small pots, but in big pots plays so as to maximally exploit strategies that exploit those leaks, so that A' wins a little in small pots over time, but is more vulnerable to getting stacked. So Player A" plays a strategy to exploit the B' strategy, and B" counters A", et cetera, on down the hall of mirrors.

So in the end optimal play really *is* a defensive strategy, but what it defends against is getting leveled.

Chasing straights and flushes.

Are thier any guidlines for chasing straights and flushes?

Can someone please tell me how i should deposit now that it wont take my banks E check!!!

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $0.04 BB (9 handed) - Party-Poker Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Hero (Button) ($5.69)
SB ($3.61)
BB ($0.62)
UTG ($4.06)
UTG+1 ($4.06)
MP1 ($4.20)
MP2 ($4.59)
MP3 ($2.19)
CO ($5.64)

Preflop: Hero is Button with A, A
7 folds, CO calls $0.28

Flop: ($0.34) 5, Q, 6 (1 players)
CO checks, Hero bets $0.61, CO calls $0.61

Turn: ($1.56) 9 (2 players)
CO checks, Hero bets $0.99, CO calls $0.99

River: ($3.54) J (2 players)
CO checks, Hero checks

Total pot: $3.54

Please comment on whether I shoulda bet on the river and why.

Also, he raised to 12c and I reraised to 40c and he called 28.

Are there any multi-tabling shortcuts on FTP? Like on stars you can use ctrl+9 or 0 to arrange them.

I think the only options is to push the layout-button on the upper left side and pick your options.

You should give us some stats about your opponent, but betting is okey in most cases.

Tnx for the advice!

Tnx! I will try out some semi-bluffs to start with and then build it up

cheers. i totally didn't even see that!