Remember the only remedy for variance is volume and more volume!
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Friday, July 15, 2011
Regarding coaching and staking deals
For the ones of you that has asked about coach/stake deals wait until the series have ended. If you still want/need additional coaching etc to move up in levels contact me again. Remember that the series is just basics info that every sngplayer should know. Also remember that the buy ins levels differs in play and that the pushchart is for the lower levels so is the information and tips. I´ll try to make a video or two, one were I play a couple of tables and perhaps discuss some more and one where I multitable 30-40 tables but with no talk as that is not possible at least what I think...
Remember the only remedy for variance is volume and more volume!
Remember the only remedy for variance is volume and more volume!
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Construct a Push chart
It is of course easier to construct a chart if you have played a large amount of sngs on the buyin level, I have to admit that i havent played alot of sngs on the 6 and the 10 dollars level but last year i played around 70 000 sngs. I will make a chart similiar to mine but this chart will be a lot looser because the majority of players here will be fish and they dont have a clue about icm.
Of course there is not only fish on this level. We got people that have realized that there is alot of all ins on the table and mimics the behavour without knowing what the are doing.
The next step is people that have googled about sngs tactics and found a useable article and perhaps stumbled upon a pushchart and learnt some handranges and started to adjust their game.
Another kind of opponent that you will encounter is the "regs" there is a bunch of different regs but they got one thing in common that is that they know icm and think that most of the have created a push chart and perhaps a call chart of there one and tinkered around with sngwizard! There is of course more kinds of oppnents but we will settle with that.
From this we will create a push chart and we can assume that the majority of oppnents will not consist of regs and semidecent players but fish. We assume that they dont know the mathematical part of a sng, and we assume that they not understand the prizepool and structure of a sng and that at the bubble that their calling range should be tighter and that they should push alot yadidayadaaa......
Fish just don´t care if there is bigstacks at the table and they dont care if a guy is 1 bb from bubbling they will still call with 44 and hope for the best! What we know is that they only care about their cards, and how often do you get a good hand? Therefore the chart that we will create will be loose we will be pushing alot!
We could create a chart that is thoroughly made and addresses all situations. But that chart would take to long to make and it would take to long time to look at it during play if you play several tables. So we will make a simpel but useable chart that looks something like this!!
I was thinking about showing you guys how you use sngswizard to create a chart but I have done that and I find it really really boring so I will modify my charts that I use to a Chart for this level. Hope that´s fine!
This chart is not carved in stone if you want you can change it for you liking!
Another tips is to use it but from month to month change the % you push. For example from the small blind with 10bb we push 52.3% you can change this and add 10% or remove 10% of hands to confuse people that use holdemmanager or take notes. But that is another advanced topic. Learn about handranges and you will excel!
Of course there is not only fish on this level. We got people that have realized that there is alot of all ins on the table and mimics the behavour without knowing what the are doing.
The next step is people that have googled about sngs tactics and found a useable article and perhaps stumbled upon a pushchart and learnt some handranges and started to adjust their game.
Another kind of opponent that you will encounter is the "regs" there is a bunch of different regs but they got one thing in common that is that they know icm and think that most of the have created a push chart and perhaps a call chart of there one and tinkered around with sngwizard! There is of course more kinds of oppnents but we will settle with that.
From this we will create a push chart and we can assume that the majority of oppnents will not consist of regs and semidecent players but fish. We assume that they dont know the mathematical part of a sng, and we assume that they not understand the prizepool and structure of a sng and that at the bubble that their calling range should be tighter and that they should push alot yadidayadaaa......
Fish just don´t care if there is bigstacks at the table and they dont care if a guy is 1 bb from bubbling they will still call with 44 and hope for the best! What we know is that they only care about their cards, and how often do you get a good hand? Therefore the chart that we will create will be loose we will be pushing alot!
We could create a chart that is thoroughly made and addresses all situations. But that chart would take to long to make and it would take to long time to look at it during play if you play several tables. So we will make a simpel but useable chart that looks something like this!!
I was thinking about showing you guys how you use sngswizard to create a chart but I have done that and I find it really really boring so I will modify my charts that I use to a Chart for this level. Hope that´s fine!
Another tips is to use it but from month to month change the % you push. For example from the small blind with 10bb we push 52.3% you can change this and add 10% or remove 10% of hands to confuse people that use holdemmanager or take notes. But that is another advanced topic. Learn about handranges and you will excel!
Monday, June 27, 2011
Use a HUD!!!!
This is how my hud looks like:
Big blinds - number of big blinds
Name - name of the player
VPIP - Voluntarily Put $ In Pot
Preflop raise - Raise preflop
3-bet - BB is Bet 1, a raise is bet 2, the next raise is bet 3. (3-Bet)
Fold to 3-Bet - How often a player folds to a 3-Bet
Hands - number of hands (more hands more accurate)
EP Preflop Raise - Early position raise preflop
MP Preflop Raise - Middle position raise preflop
CO steal - When someone raises from the CO when the pot is unopened
BTN Steal - When someone raises from the Button when the pot is unopened
SB Steal - When someone raises from the SB when the pot is unopened
BB Fold Vs Steal - When the BB faces a raise from either the Cut-off, button or SB and they fold
SB Fold Vs Steal - When the SB faces a raise from either the Cut-off or button and they fold
BB Call VS Steal - When the BB faces a raise from either the Cut-off, button or SB and they call
SB Call VS Steal - When the BB faces a raise from either the Cut-off or button and they call
Flop CB - Bet the flop after being the Pre Flop Raiser Preflop
Fold to Flop CB - How often they fold the flop when faced with a continuation bet
You can change the stats abbreviations to what you want.
If this ist the first time using a hud this can be a little bit tricky to understand but start of slow. I´ll go through the most important stats to get you started:
Vpip - if the vpip % is high they are entering a lot of pots, through limping or raising. Guys with a really high vpip call them down light and remember toppair is enough.
All the third row stats raise/steal stats is another very imported stat that you use all the time.
Example we are on the bb with 10bb and sb pushes all in with 10bb, what is our calling range here? Without the third row we would have to make a default call with a default range, but lucky for us we got our hud on and it tells us that the sb steals 40% we then proceed to look at our callchart and see that we can call with 15%. It is like cheating using the hud but hey it´s allowed!
If something is unclear write a comment and I´ll try to answer it!
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Big blinds - number of big blinds
Name - name of the player
VPIP - Voluntarily Put $ In Pot
Preflop raise - Raise preflop
3-bet - BB is Bet 1, a raise is bet 2, the next raise is bet 3. (3-Bet)
Fold to 3-Bet - How often a player folds to a 3-Bet
Hands - number of hands (more hands more accurate)
EP Preflop Raise - Early position raise preflop
MP Preflop Raise - Middle position raise preflop
CO steal - When someone raises from the CO when the pot is unopened
BTN Steal - When someone raises from the Button when the pot is unopened
SB Steal - When someone raises from the SB when the pot is unopened
BB Fold Vs Steal - When the BB faces a raise from either the Cut-off, button or SB and they fold
SB Fold Vs Steal - When the SB faces a raise from either the Cut-off or button and they fold
BB Call VS Steal - When the BB faces a raise from either the Cut-off, button or SB and they call
SB Call VS Steal - When the BB faces a raise from either the Cut-off or button and they call
Flop CB - Bet the flop after being the Pre Flop Raiser Preflop
Fold to Flop CB - How often they fold the flop when faced with a continuation bet
You can change the stats abbreviations to what you want.
If this ist the first time using a hud this can be a little bit tricky to understand but start of slow. I´ll go through the most important stats to get you started:
Vpip - if the vpip % is high they are entering a lot of pots, through limping or raising. Guys with a really high vpip call them down light and remember toppair is enough.
All the third row stats raise/steal stats is another very imported stat that you use all the time.
Example we are on the bb with 10bb and sb pushes all in with 10bb, what is our calling range here? Without the third row we would have to make a default call with a default range, but lucky for us we got our hud on and it tells us that the sb steals 40% we then proceed to look at our callchart and see that we can call with 15%. It is like cheating using the hud but hey it´s allowed!
If something is unclear write a comment and I´ll try to answer it!
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Important programs
Tableninja
A necessity when multitabling, it got hotkeys that you can program that will make you fold with a simple click of a button, it autoclicks the timebank for you. It even autoregister for you and get rid of all the pesky pop ups!
Holdemmanager
Tracks your opponentes tendencies, if there is a spot that you are uncertain of if you should call or fold, you just check their stats in your hud. Nothing more to say really but a must have! There are similiar programs out there if you think its to expensive,
SngWizard and Pokerstove
Good programs to fiddel around in and learn about handranges and equity. If you want to move up in stakes and learn more you should take a look at these.
A necessity when multitabling, it got hotkeys that you can program that will make you fold with a simple click of a button, it autoclicks the timebank for you. It even autoregister for you and get rid of all the pesky pop ups!
Holdemmanager
Tracks your opponentes tendencies, if there is a spot that you are uncertain of if you should call or fold, you just check their stats in your hud. Nothing more to say really but a must have! There are similiar programs out there if you think its to expensive,
SngWizard and Pokerstove
Good programs to fiddel around in and learn about handranges and equity. If you want to move up in stakes and learn more you should take a look at these.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Cbet the flop
What to think about before cbetting!
1) Own hand
Stronger hands - bet bigger
Weaker hands - bet smaller
2) Board texture
Board drawy - bet bigger
Less drawy - bet smaller
3) Opponent
High fold to cbet - bet
Calls cbet alot - bet with good hands otherwise check, or cbet and follow up with a turnbarrel. Because a lot of your opponents are callingstations so a flop bet will not do it but if you follow up with at turn bet, they will let you know if they got something.
Make it simple people still won´t pick up on what you are doing!
Opponent tendencies if Fcb is high cbet more.
If its checked around on the flop and we are in position cbet 100%
When we cbet we are not trying get our opponent to fold big hands, just nothing hands. For example on a A T 6 flop your opponents 88 have now become a "nothing hand" We are not and I´ll repeat not trying to make them fold a Ax hand just 22-99, 78, 89, K8, K9, KQ etc you will notice fast if they are able to fold. If not take a note and only valuebet them.
Just keep it simple and don´t spew to much postflop, if you are unsure on your postflop play. We will still crush them with the help of our Pushchart.
Wet flops 2 connecting cards and a flushcard etc
* Bet good draws
* Pairs
* Make sure we got a piece of the flop if we cbet.
Cbet the flop:
There are diffrent kinds of flops obvious...for example.
1) A 2 2, K 2 2 cbet close to 100%
We dont need to make a big bet around 1/2 pot cause the flop is so dry.
2) K 9 2, K 8 2 cbet close to 90%
We dont need to make a big bet around 1/2 pot cause the flop is so dry.
The flops above are hard to hit so cbet alot.
Some examples:
1) A T Q cbet 100% cause its dry
2) A 5 A cbet 100% cause its dry
3) K 8 2 cbet 100% cause flops is completely disconnected
4) T 2 4 cbet 100% cause flops is completely disconnected
5) A 9 4 cbet 100% cause flops is completely disconnected
6) K 8 3 cbet 100% cause flops is completely disconnected
7) A 9 8 cbet 80% one high card and two connected lower cards
8) A K 6 cbet 100% two high cards connected and one low card
K Q 6 more check behind
J T 6 more check behind
Q J 6 more check behind
Why check more on the later flops? Because both low cards and high cards can connect more versus the first one.
9) 4s Ts Q don´t cbet check behind, two middlish cards with a flushdraw
10) 7s 2s 5 cbet 100%, because here all high cards combinations miss.
11) Q 7s 6s don´t cbet, unless we got a A or K in our hand because if our oppnent calls we still got some cards to hit.
12) T 9 6, don´t cbet, becuse no 5x, 6x, 7x, 8x, 9x, Tx, hand will fold. J7, J8, J9, JT, KJ, KQ, K8 will not fold.
1) Own hand
Stronger hands - bet bigger
Weaker hands - bet smaller
2) Board texture
Board drawy - bet bigger
Less drawy - bet smaller
3) Opponent
High fold to cbet - bet
Calls cbet alot - bet with good hands otherwise check, or cbet and follow up with a turnbarrel. Because a lot of your opponents are callingstations so a flop bet will not do it but if you follow up with at turn bet, they will let you know if they got something.
Make it simple people still won´t pick up on what you are doing!
Opponent tendencies if Fcb is high cbet more.
If its checked around on the flop and we are in position cbet 100%
When we cbet we are not trying get our opponent to fold big hands, just nothing hands. For example on a A T 6 flop your opponents 88 have now become a "nothing hand" We are not and I´ll repeat not trying to make them fold a Ax hand just 22-99, 78, 89, K8, K9, KQ etc you will notice fast if they are able to fold. If not take a note and only valuebet them.
Just keep it simple and don´t spew to much postflop, if you are unsure on your postflop play. We will still crush them with the help of our Pushchart.
Wet flops 2 connecting cards and a flushcard etc
* Bet good draws
* Pairs
* Make sure we got a piece of the flop if we cbet.
Cbet the flop:
There are diffrent kinds of flops obvious...for example.
1) A 2 2, K 2 2 cbet close to 100%
We dont need to make a big bet around 1/2 pot cause the flop is so dry.
2) K 9 2, K 8 2 cbet close to 90%
We dont need to make a big bet around 1/2 pot cause the flop is so dry.
The flops above are hard to hit so cbet alot.
Some examples:
1) A T Q cbet 100% cause its dry
2) A 5 A cbet 100% cause its dry
3) K 8 2 cbet 100% cause flops is completely disconnected
4) T 2 4 cbet 100% cause flops is completely disconnected
5) A 9 4 cbet 100% cause flops is completely disconnected
6) K 8 3 cbet 100% cause flops is completely disconnected
7) A 9 8 cbet 80% one high card and two connected lower cards
8) A K 6 cbet 100% two high cards connected and one low card
K Q 6 more check behind
J T 6 more check behind
Q J 6 more check behind
Why check more on the later flops? Because both low cards and high cards can connect more versus the first one.
9) 4s Ts Q don´t cbet check behind, two middlish cards with a flushdraw
10) 7s 2s 5 cbet 100%, because here all high cards combinations miss.
11) Q 7s 6s don´t cbet, unless we got a A or K in our hand because if our oppnent calls we still got some cards to hit.
12) T 9 6, don´t cbet, becuse no 5x, 6x, 7x, 8x, 9x, Tx, hand will fold. J7, J8, J9, JT, KJ, KQ, K8 will not fold.
Basics
One of the fundamnetal thing to know about sngs is that you should play tight, tight really tight no loose calls early in a sngs cause you want to save your chips, the chips you lose are more valuable then the chips you manage to win.You want to save as much chips to be able to make people fold when we are closing in on the bubble.
But as the blinds increase you need to be more aggressive and start playing more hands preferable pushing all in alot! And stealing blinds...
No one wants to be the bubbleboy! Thats why we have to know what to do when the bubble occurs! You need to know what is wrong and what is right! A lot of your profit comes from here, knowing when to go all in and knowing when to fold!
But as the blinds increase you need to be more aggressive and start playing more hands preferable pushing all in alot! And stealing blinds...
No one wants to be the bubbleboy! Thats why we have to know what to do when the bubble occurs! You need to know what is wrong and what is right! A lot of your profit comes from here, knowing when to go all in and knowing when to fold!
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