first of all i want to say that its not really essential to change your strategy at the lower limits. i think there is a good chance to beat nl50 with just the basic strategy with 1,5 or 2 ptbb++. if you play at pp there is another usefull article in the silver section:
http://www.pokerstrategy.org.uk/en/strategy/169/
i think you shouldnt start too early to spend too much attention to pt stats. first of all you need a big sample size especially if you want to play accordingly to you opponents attemt to steal or fold bb to steal.
there is a very good article (written by alaton) in the gold section about steals and resteals. but i think its not available to the english community. but shouldn´t take to long.
Originally posted by Nunki
Given that my opponents are not the best, what odds would I need to complete from the SB with just about ATC?
maybe i´m a bit confused but what does atc mean ?
//edit2: ahhh any two cards ? ^^
i wouldn´t play to much out of the sb at the beginning because you position is so poor but i think its all right to limp Ax suited (bit close) or pocket pairs when you are getting 5 to 1 or better. especially when your opponents aren´t too good and you can be sure that you will get some money when you hit your flush or set. its also possible to limp some suited connectors or 2 broadway cards (QJ e.g.) when there are 2 limpers in front of you. i think thats enough to start with. if you think you don´t play too well postflop its not necessary to play these hands at all.
I was able to see Alaton in his coaching yesterday. I was very interested to see how he played AK in position versus a very loose player (tried to check it down after missing the flop). Is it OK to take such a passive line OOP in a similar situation versus a very loose player or is such a line too likely to induce an immediate bluff?
first of all you can be pretty sure that most of the things alaton does are correct ^^. so in this special situation i suppose it was the right play but i didn´t see the hand so i can´t say much about it. but if you are not 100% sure that you are in the same situation (same stack size, same kind of opponent, same board texture) i think its sometimes better to stick to the basic strategy. but again: i didn´t see the hand so it might be better to ask alaton
Owing to timing, I regret not being able to see more of Alaton's coaching. NH Alaton+PS.
yeah i miss it often too
. great coach
but i´m a bit disappointed that he doesn´t use the top secret and high valued "brezel-system" in the english coaching as he does in the german one
The SSS starting hand chart obviously assumes a generic opponent. What would such an opponents VP$IP and PFR be? Are there any charts for adjusting to real world opponents?
alaton is working on it as far as i know. again i think its best to stick to the basic strategy at the low limits. it can get you in difficult post flop decissions when you try to isolate a loose limper with a mediocre hand or something.
i was able to beat nl50 with a good bb/100 value (and i´m for sure no sss expert. not even an above average player
) without using pt stats to influence my decissions. i just played the basic strategy with some additional steal hands which peterbee (german sss coach) mentioned in his coaching. i will have another look and post them here.
//edit:
hm didn´t find the thread but i wrote them down somewhere so i will post them when i got home.
was something like that:
only first in !!
CO: ATo+, KJs+, 77+
BU: A9o+, KJo+, 44+
of course you can steal much more than that (especially when you have special reads about your opponent) but again (i think i wrote that about 4 times in this post
) its not really necessary at the low limits !!
