I'd like to share my personal strategy and see what peoples think.
I did well so far on pokerstars with it, except that I made some mistakes, because Im not a good player yet. Mistakes = not following my strategy, or not reading the game correctly.
My mistakes have cost me like 10$ so far. My biggest one was to think I had a full house when I only had a straight... didn't see my cards correctly I guess. I also made a "probe bet" of 0.40$ when I thought it was a bet of 0.04$...
Group 1
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Premium Hands that will be raise and re-raised from any position. Goes all-in and/or call all in if needed:
AA, KK, QQ
Group 2
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Raise the blinds and one/two limpers. Will call if I am shortstacked:
a) AKs, JJ, TT (willing to reraise with those, but not as much as grp 1)
b) AQs, AJs, Ako (will call up to a 4BB bet)
(Basically I want to see the flop relatively cheaply with those, but I want to 'fatten' the pot first in case I hit).
Group 3
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Raise the blinds in late position if no raise before me. Limp in all other positions:
a) AQo, AJo, KQs (willing to call up to a 3BB bet)
b) KQo, ATs, 99
Group 4
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Call in mid to late position, raise as the small blind:
A9-A5s, AT-A8o, 88-44
Group 5
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Call in late position or as the small blind:
A4-A2s, 33-22, A7-A2o, KJ-KTs, KJ-KTo, QJ-QTs, QJ-QTo, JTs
I usually enter a table with a medium stack. Ie: half of the maximum buy-in.
That way if I go all-in and get a bad beat it limit my loss, and it give me enough leverage to push peoples around or to steal pots in head-up situation.
I'd like to include suited connectors in my strategy, but I think I would like to try those in play money game first to learn to use them before using them in real money cash games. (Because those suited connectors are what costs me the pot when I have AA-QQ apparently...)
Ill discuss in a later post what I don't like in the shortstack strategy. Maybe it will explain why I want to try mine first...