April 2007
No-Fold’em No-Limit Hold’em
Matt
Lessinger
Card
Player Magazine
November
2005
I recently received an e-mail from Brian, a reader with a very
legitimate complaint. He wrote, in part: I’m a winning low-limit hold’em player. I’ve
always stuck to the $2-$4 and $3-$6 games in my local cardroom, and have done
fairly well. But more and more, those games are being phased out in favor of a
$1-$2 no-limit hold’em game with a $100 buy-in. It became clear that if I
wanted to keep playing locally, I really had no choice but to start learning no-limit
hold’em. So, I bought several books and studied them carefully. After a while,
I decided I was ready to give it a try. However, I quickly realized that my
books did not prepare me for the type of game that I was in. Most of the
situations in the books were heads-up pots. Here, we have six or seven people
trying to limp in for $2 before every flop. If possible, these games are even
looser than the limit games I was used to. It truly is no-fold’em hold’em and
I’m definitely not comfortable playing in a no-limit game of that style, and my
books haven’t been much help. Could you offer any advice?
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To Flip or Not to Flip
Matt Matros
Card Player Magazine
November 2005
It’s the first day of a five-figure buy-in no-limit hold’em
tournament. You’ve gotten a good night’s sleep. You feel alert. You wade
through all the railbirds and all the media and finally locate your seat. Just
as you do, the tournament director announces, “Shuffle up and deal!” It’s your
big blind, and you toss two of your green chips onto the felt. You’ve now got
$9,950 in chips in your stack. Everyone folds around to the small blind, who
shoves all in for $10,000. You haven’t even taken your chip protector out of
your pocket yet, but you figure you probably won’t need it on this hand. You’re
going to fold, unless you look down at aces. But there’s a problem. The small
blind doesn’t have a protector on his cards, either, and when he looks down t
them one more time, he accidentally exposes his hand. He has the A K of
Diamonds. You look down at your hand, and find two black queens. You’ve done
your research. You know you have a 53.8 percent chance of winning if you call.
But should you?
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Too Chicken or Just Conservative? You be the Judge
Daniel
Negreanu
College
Card Player Magazine
November
2005
Now that the World Series of Poker is over and the tournament schedule is a little
lighter for me, I’m feeling rejuvenated and ready to get back into top form. I
got married on Aug. 19, so this would be the first bit of poker I’d be playing
as a married man.
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Common Beginner Mistakes
Justin
Bonomo
College Card Player Magazine
November 2005
When I first started playing
poker, I wasn’t fortunate enough to have a mentor. It would have been very
helpful to have someone telling me what I was doing wrong. I always figured I
was making small mistakes here and there. In actuality, I was making several
huge mistakes, and it’s a fact that virtually every beginning poker player
makes the exact same mistakes. If you want to make the leap to become a winning
poker player, then this article is for you.
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Are We There Yet?
Howard
Lederer
All In Magazine
November 2005
I am often asked what I think
is the skill that all professional poker players share. Could it be aggression?
Maybe. How about intelligence? Possibly. A thorough understanding of the odds?
Probably not. My answer is not really a skill, but a commitment. I believe that
all successful professional poker players have a lifelong commitment to
learning.
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Super System 2 (Special Excerpt)
Doyle Brunson
All In Magazine
November 2005
Thanks to the recent media explosion taking place around
no-limit tournament poker, learning how to play in tournaments is becoming more
and more advantageous for every poker player. Tournaments are vastly different
from cash games, because if you lose what you have in front of you, you are out
of the tournament. You will come across many opposing strategies as you and
your opponents wrestle with this fact.
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The Worst Play in Poker
Chris
Ferguson
All In Magazine
November 2005
There’s
a play that I occasionally see at the poker table that is so horrible it’s hard
to comprehend. I’ve even seen it made by some very highly regarded
players, too. The play is to bet a medium-weak hand on the river. Why is this
play so bad?
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Anatomy of a Bluff
Jay
Greenspan
All In Magazine
November 2005
You’re
no rock. You’re not the type to sit and wait hour after hour for the nuts.
You’ve got the cajones to throw a huge bet at a pot when you’ve got squat—no
pair, no draw, no nothing. Using plain old brute force, you can steal pot after
pot from its rightful owner. Or more likely, you can’t.
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