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catch2002
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 Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 2:53 pm Post subject: shorthanded |
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| is there any good resource for describing how your strategy should change when the O/8 table gets shorthanded? many times online you run across 6 handed O/8 tables and I feel I could improve my play there vs. the full table |
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KGBlovesOreos
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| Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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| well, the general rule for ANY poker game (when it's shorthanded), is that you should get just a little more aggressive, and raise more often than call... sticking to this strategy is good for both cash games and tournaments... |
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catch2002
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| Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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| good point, but I always feel lost in how to get hyper aggressive with O/8. O/8 to me always seems to be a game about patience, having massive edges against people who play the wrong hands, building the pot, and very occasionally getting frisky in position against one opponent. I don't know how to play a smart "maniac" O/8 game |
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KGBlovesOreos
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| Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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well, if you dont understand how to play the smart maniac role, i could offer you other advice... (this also applies to all forms of poker) pick out the weak players at the table and try to target them... play a few more hands with them, and really outplay them postflop since this is where your edge lies... anybody can play cards preflop, but postflop play weeds out the bad players and the good players rise to the top... try to avoid playing hands with players who you know are better than you (for now) if you want to build up your bankroll... target the weak, and get aggressive against them...
another piece of advice... checkraising is a very powerful tool (not against stations, but against players who understand what checkraises usually mean), so maybe if you build up a tight table image early, players will fold hands to you later on if you checkraise them in big pots... |
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DJ Ninjah
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| Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Another important thing to remember, when an Ohama table gets down to about 6 players, preflop raising suddenly becomes very effective. It may actually put you heads up with someone. In fact, once, I ACTUALLY STOLE THE BLINDS/LIMPS FROM THE BUTTON. It was amazing, I would have posted the hand history since I know that not a single person reading this is believing me, but that damn debug error prevented me from doing so. |
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