Good evening everyone,
Today we had another great coaching session with many listeners... Nice to see you all again. Also we had many interesting hands and a lot of questions, because today we introduced an intermediate Starting Hand Chart. This Chart goes beyond the basic SHC and gives you more hands to play with. This is one of the exclusive offers made to visitors of the basic-coaching.
Some first timers today, which is always really nice to see. Only saw raki22 saying it was his first time... Micha1180, who is normally playing FL, having a look @ SSS. And of course cjsilva, who as proclaimed beginner asked a lot of interesting questions. We also had Subar, who is a Russian basic and silver SSS-coach, really nice to see such a mixed audience and I hope you all enjoyed it 
One of the expansions on normal SSS, is that I advice treating min-raises pre-flop like a limp. On the lower limits people usually do this with many weak hands. So on NL25 for example, where the BB is $0.25, someone would min-raise to $0.50. I would always treat this as a limp and raise to $1.50 (3x the original amount). If there was one limper I would raise to $2.-, etc.
This enables you to play more hands then the usual range, as you would normally only play hands where you would reraise with. In this situation you can play any hand with which you would normally raise.
An example is this hand of last weeks coaching:
$0.1/$0.25 No Limit Holdem
9 players
Converted at weaktight.com
Stacks:
UTG ($26.25)
MP2 ($6.22)
BTN ($49.60)
Hero ($4.30)
Pre-flop: ($0.35, 9 players) Hero is BB Q♠ A♠
UTG raises to $0.50, 2 folds, MP2 calls $0.50, 2 folds, BTN calls $0.50, 1 fold, Hero says "wat"?!?
Almost everyone said this should be folded. But pushing here is really profitable.
Fanti1 asked a lot of questions, the most interesting being: "so if i havent got stats do you think its better for me to play bss where i can play nl 10 or 25 than play sss nl50 without stats"
Well, to be honest, I think NL50 can really be played profitable on any platform playing with a bit more advanced SSS charts, which is offered in the coaching channel. Stats is not yet needed there. If you are using stats, I would read up on stealing and such for NL50. Sure, if you enjoy BSS, you can also do this, but it isn't necessary to have stats be profitable on NL50.
Raki22 wanted to know a bit more about discounting, which is very understandable, as it's a difficult subject. A bit of theory on the subject can be found here, but also the Bronze+ SHC offers a table with advice on where to discount and how much. This leads to easy post flop decisions on draws. Understanding this and employing it, is vital to becoming a better player.
urmo1 asked:"what about stealing i haven't heard anything about stealing?"
Well the reason for this, is that stealing shouldn't be done on NL10-NL25 imo. Especially if you havent got stats. When you make a mistake here, it can be very costly as 80% of your stack goes in post flop. The additions suggested in the new SHC are already a big addition to the basic SSS and should give you enough to play around with I hope
A last note I would like to make is that slowplaying is almost never an option. Pushing however does give you lots of action a lot of the time, since many players on these limits think this is a weak move by a shorty. My advice is to push any hand which you would normally raise with after 3 or more limpers...
Some examples of todays session, where there were some weird calls:
http://weaktight.com/273997
http://weaktight.com/273998
Please feel free to leave any feedback.
Have a nice weekend all!
Groeten,
Leo
reporting from spain atm for a little as 5 minutes. I read through your review Leo, very interesting, could you give me a download link to both the russian SHC and your Intermediate SHC for SSS ?¿
