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Recently I was looking at what made the difference between a winning session and a losing session for myself. I began looking at more than hand selection, and focused more on the why one session was so much better than another. I came up with a few different reasons why a session turned into a losing one for me.
There are two types of strategies you can go for in tournament poker – you can act as though any hand could be your last in which you’re going after the win or the loss, or you can play whats known as tournament survival strategy. In tournament survival your goal is simply to outlast your opponents so you can move your way up the payment ladder.
Dan Harrington introduced the Tournament M Value to poker players in his book Harrington On Holdem Volume 2 End Game. The tournament M value is a math equation you perform to determine how you should currently be playing at the poker table based on your current chip stack. Different size stacks represent different actions that need to be taken to win the tournament.
There’s nothing worse than having a tight opponent at the table. Well, actually, there’s nothing worse than having a tight opponent at the table when you’re playing in a home game with low blinds or a tournament where the blinds don’t increase very quickly. That’s if they have some chips, of course.
As you begin learning and more and more about poker, your intuition begins to sharpen. You become better at pinpointing opponent hand ranges, or in some cases even putting them on an exact hand. Every pot your opponent plays or doesn’t play gives you more information as to their way of playing poker. Each bet he makes reveals that much information for you to go off of. But as your intuition sharpens, you need to remember to listen to it.
Truth be told I haven’t seen as many poker home games that operate under regular old cash game rules (minus the rake of course, as that would be illegal) but they do happen. The first thing I want you to realize though is this won’t be like your usual cash game at your favorite card room, casino or online poker site. When you’re playing in a licensed card room you have the option to stand up and walk away whenever you’re up. When you’re playing amongst your friends at a home game, well, you’re supposed to be playing for fun first and winning their cash second so there are some different rules and expectations for you.
Lately I’ve been on a rant about keeping focused at the poker table. Today is no different. Last night I had a decent session going, had almost tripled up my stack within about 30 – 40 minutes of loose aggressive play. Then take a wild guess what happened. I took off my poker face and my plan all started to fall apart.
Yesterday I hinted at loose aggressive poker players having a healthy relationship with money. Your first step in becoming a loose aggressive poker player is being able to let go of your cash. Once you deposit, put it on the table, whatever your cash is gone. All you have are chips, and your goal is to accumulate more chips through deception, aggression, reading your opponents, and becoming the table aggressor.
Yeah, this is way less about poker strategy than anything but I thought it would be a fun article to write. Being that there are 4 basic categories of players – the tight passive, the tight aggressive, the loose passive, and the loose aggressive we’ll be addressing each table style and what it says about your life, your relationship to money, and much more.
Well as you know there are different payouts, buyins, and a variety of characters at poker home games so covering a blanket strategy is very difficult to do. I’m going to try to break it up in different groups to give you a decent strategy plan. Let me say though that if it’s a group of friends playing together, have fun first, then play to win for bragging rights. Otherwise, it’s not a fun game and no one will want you back.
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