Hosh’s Poker Tip Of The Week
July 23, 2009
Hosh’s Poker Tip Of The Week
If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. Quote by Alex Williams. How true this is in learning and mastering poker from the beginner to the very best players. The best worked hard and used their imagination to become good now they shape the world around them. Example: Phil Ivey, Tom Duan “Durrr”, Patrick Antonius
You can play loose and still be patient at the same time. Patience in poker means having the discipline to wait for a good opportunity. Sometimes good opportunities will present themselves more frequently when there are especially bad or weak tight players at your table. Jedi Method http://www.pokerstrategyforums.com
Hand coordination is the relative strength of your hand compared to your opponents’ hand, and it’s probably the single biggest factor determining whether you have a good or bad session in poker. If it’s working in your favor, whenever you flop a monster, one of your opponents will also make a big hand, just not quite as big as yours. In this situation, playing your hand as fast as possible usually gives you the best chance to make the most money. Brandon Adams. The rest of
Overheard At The Bellagio Tables
Lady: So your some type of Baseball Player.
Baseball Player: Yes
Lady: So you make about 1 million a year right.
Baseball Player: Lady don’t cut my salary that low. I make 25 million a year.
Lady: Who are you.
Baseball Player: Alex Rodriguez.
Table: Everyone laughs. Alex laughing the loudest.
Lady: Can I have your Autograph
Table: Everyone laugh harder.
Overheard On The Golf Course Between Poker Players
Chip Reese 11th hole: What time is it Mike
Mike Huculak: 1:35pm
Lon Hinkle (PGA Proffesional):How much you got ridding on the game Chip
Chip Reese: 50k on the Dodgers
3 minutes pass
Chip Reese: My back is hurting. I am just going to have to let you boy’s go.
Howard Lederer: Chip you always do this everytime you have big money on the baseball game you quit.
Chip Reese: But really my back is terrible.
Howard Lederer: Gives him the look that he has seen this all before. What time does the game start?
Chip Reese: 2:00 You got me.You know me to well Bubb.Ok I will stay.
Howard and Chip both laugh. Mike and Lon shake their heads laugh.
Hosh’s Tip
The difference between no limit and limit holdem mostly comes down to hand ranges. The ranges in limit holdem although large at the beginning are also wide at the end. Many times you have to call down lightly if you feel the opponent was on a draw. In no limit holdem due to the amount of money that you may have put into the pot, you have to be much more careful with the handling of the hand ranges. Most likely you will be putting all your money in against two or three combinations that you can beat. But many times all your combinations will be dead as your opponent has the absolute nuts. So when playing no limit holdem the trick is to tabulate the opponents range. Calculate where you fit in that range and the most important part can you beat most of the hands in that range. This allows you to put all your money with the best hand. In limit on the other hand because the bets and pots are small you may have to call down with as little as ace high as the ranges can be very large when their happen to be a lot of draws on the board. For new players who want to know what ranges of hands usually win happens to the key things that players need to learn. It is not good enough just to play and play at high speed. Time must be taken on the first three cards of the board. This is where the calculation of ranges come into play is not good enough just to say there is a flush draw on the board. Remember there are many flush draws out. One of them just happens to be the nuts. You must break down the hand starting with full houses, trips and there are 3 of them on the flop, flush draws straight draws and then pairs. If you do not have anything that can beat these hands you are either bluffing or are going to lose your money. That’s only half of the problem when calculating these ranges. When you make a bet and he calls he has most often has some part of that range. Where the truly great players are special is that they calculate the opponent’s holdings. If they have him down to a few hands in which he cannot win at all, they are able to make bets which will keep him in the pot yet maximize the earn. If the opponent folds their will be no money to be made. They closely calculate his range allowing a bluff or great lay down. With a little luck they become huge winners over the year but they have refined this to a fine art a place where you want to become a place where you make enough money as to where you can dictate what you want a place where you can shape the world of poker around you. Play good and Have Fun! Hosh.
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Poker Tips
April 26, 2008
Whether you plan to play on Party Poker, Pokerstars or Full Tilt Poker to play your poker games. You must learn how to play poker. This includes players from the capital of Brazil to the beaches. This is not brazil oil that just keeps pumping producing money here you will have to work hard to produce money. You must study to become a holdem genius to become a big winner. Texas holdem is going to be your game a simple game with a complex strategy.
If you play free online poker or play to the highest level of holdem poker there is a right move and it has to be made all the time. Like all strategy games your poker strategy has to be accurate and correct. Your game has to start with average standard play. These are the plays you will make all the time and then plays that allow for you to vary to each player. But you must first start with the standard average play.
When building a strategy for any strategy games that includes holdem you must build it careful looking at all angles. You must always ask yourself does this play cost to much to make or will it cost to much later in the hand. You must weigh the risk verses reward ratio as has to be made as in any business strategy. Many players search for a free online strategy but usually many do not contain enough detail to enable you to win. Your plan must be in detail as many players have gone before you and they may be using a very good strategy.
You must then post the standard average strategy on the wall and do not waiver from it until you have tested the strategy for a long time and have either proven or not proven the strategy valid. You cannot massage the figures till after you have done at least 40000 hands worth of play. This will all for enough time to test your theory on the game of holdem.
Now let me get you started to enable you to start building. If you play no limit. You can play any pair in any position. 22-AA and start with a raise. With any AJ or higher from any position start with a raise. JTs or higher start with a raise. This is very simple strategy buy you get the idea. Always start with a raise. If you want a better startegy you may want to look online. But remember make sure the guy has thought about the game. Poker is simple but the behind strategy is compicated so you must have some type of complicated startegy.
For example most players look over. What do you do with AJs with one raiser and you are in late position. What do you do with a raiser and caller. What do you do if you have two limpers. Do you see how the strategy has to be complete.
On top of the strategy you must then try maximize earn, minimize your lose when you have a losing hand, get free cards and not give free cards.You must drive out opponents with worse hands or sometimes drive opponents with better hands. This is the key to poker this will have to be done on the flop, turn and river when playing poker. Remember use the standard average play at the beginning of the hand and do all these other things to maxamize your earn. Most players get part of the game right. The look at only the starting hand. This is not good enough if the game was about the starting hands there would be a perfect strategy. But the game really begins after the flop. I hope you learn and you play the best game possible. I will give you tips to help you along your way. So get started today try to find or build a standard average play strategy.
