I'm a weak tight nit and I hate it! Is there any tips/advice/strategies/magic potions for overcoming this disease?

Stakes? SH or FR?

Best advice would be to do both these things:

• Post your stats in the Stats thread and get some responses on it there!
• Get someone to sweat you and tell you what you should do to transfer from a weaktight playingstyle to TAG.

Bad fold into super-nit running at 16/6pfr/27 191k hands?
I got a feeling that he set-mined me.

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

CO ($4)
Button ($3.94)
SB ($3.74)
BB ($8.67)
Hero (UTG) ($4.97)
UTG+1 ($10.66)
MP1 ($4.10)
MP2 ($1.52)
MP3 ($3.06)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with A, A
4 folds, CO calls $0.16, 3 folds

Flop: ($0.22) 7, 4, 6 (1 players)
Hero bets $0.18, Villain raises to $0.45 Hero calls $0.27

Turn: ($0.67) 10 (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $0.91, Hero folds

Total pot: $0.67

Don't post hands in this thread.
Make a thread in the Micro Stakes Full Ring forum.

what does mean a player is 'asleep at switch'?

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Where is your bet pf, and why do none of the pot sizes add up to what should be in there based on the action?

To be asleep at the switch is to not pay attention.

Sorry - I can't seem to get a HH converter to work for me.

Villain was running at 6%pfr over 191000 hands

Hero raises 4xbb 16c in EP with As, Ac, Villain calls
Flop 7s, 4h, 6c
Hero bets (0.18)
Villain raises to (0.45)
Hero calls (0.27)

Turn [ Td ]
Hero checks
Villain bets (0.91)
Hero folds.

NB. I looked in the FR forum for a place to paste this and there was no low content thread and I don't think it's worthy of its own thread.

You have to make your own thread there. It will give you much better response.

We are 100 BB deep @ NL5, we get the nuts on the flop (no flushdraws etc.), we are against a 50 BB stack.

How do we play these kind of hands? Should we bet out regarding the potsize (like 1/2 potsize), or is it better to bet regarding his stacksize (like we bet 1/3 of the effective stack), so we can get him potcommited on the river (or turn?)


And what if we are against a 25BB stack?

In most cases i check behind on flop to give villain a chance to bluff at it on turn.

what are pots oddds?

if pot has 20$, and you have to call 10$ to win it, its 2:1

Here you go.

does hem automaticaaly import pstars tourney histories? i'm used to pt3 where you have to import via e-mail

Is there any point in set-mining someone who can lay down an overpair?

What is a poker house?

A house with a bunch of poker players living in it.

(Yes, as simple as that)

Often for a set term (ie; "Okay, the six of us will rent a house in Vegas for WSOP") or in an exotic and/or cheap locale (ie; "Did you hear about all the guys setting up a poker house in Argentina?")

Yes

Yes

It depends, of course. When deciding whether to call with a small/medium pair preflop, you have to consider a lot of variables. Whether your opponent will stack off with an overpair is certainly one of them. You also have to look at stack sizes, the potential for action behind you, the chance that he even has a big pair, the direct pot odds, etc.

Depending on the board, stack size, and aggression of the parties involved, it can be extremely hard for any of us to get away from a strong pair. Even if we do, we might lose a lot of money before we decide our opponent has a set. They're very well hidden.

Also, the pot odds preflop can make setmining more attractive. Someone makes a small raise and there is a caller or two to you and you're in the big blind, for example, calling with a pp is easy. The implied odds you need are much lower, because you're getting better direct odds already. Getting 4:1 preflop on your 1:8 means you only have to win one more pot-sized bet (ON AVERAGE) to make it worth it.

You shouldn't automatically setmine against anybody any more. The days where a set=stack 4 times out of 5 are long gone.

Which hands play well multiway, which don't and why?

kind of. It can tell what you placed and how much you earned, but not other details like how big the tournament was. MTT results are quite buggy, and driving me batty at the moment. See my posts in the official HEM thread.

Does PT3 import accurately via email? I'm planning to switch that direction, because HEM is unreliable.

Thanks fore the answer - lots more to consider than I thought.

Hands which tend to either flop the nuts or huge draws and when they don't are generally easy to get away from. Suited connectors (sometimes unsuited connectors or suited gap connectors) and mid to low pockets.

You either flop 2pair, a set or a straight or a flush and stack someone. Or you flop a massive combo draw and get it in multiway in a very +EV spot. Or call with odds. Otherwise you just bail with air or a weak pair and no kicker.

Hands which tend to flop strong TPTK or overpair type hands that do well HU but take a beating against a bunch of players where the chance is much higher someone flopped a set, 2pair, big draw, etc. Hands like QQ, KK, AA, AK, AQ.

You're generally going to have a big one pair hand and if you play a big pot multiway it's often going to be because you're crushed by a set/2pair or better and it's tough to get away from these hands especially if you're playing donks who will overplay weak TP hands.