voiceofjoe Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 As my 'Prize Winning' rant against Negraneau's views on the WSOP Main Event proves I'm not the greatest 'Kid Poker' fan - But whether I agree with all his opinions or not, I must admit he's an excellent Poker Player. Reading through his Blog the other day a couple of quotes stuck in my mind, which made me re-assess the optimium way of playing. Quote 1 I only min-raise before the flop and I NEVER re-raise before the flop. That kind of play is for donks who are accustomed to playing in tournaments with 20-30 big blinds, but that’s not the kind of tournaments I play in and that strategy is totally unnecessary in the big buy in events. I don’t care if I have AA, KK, or AK, I’m going to see a flop and wait until after the flop before I make a bigger investment. I up the raise when the antes are introduced, but only slightly. For example, at the 500-1000 level with a 100 ante my standard raise was to 2200. I will make it 2400 at a slightly tougher table, but would never go past 2500 unless I was actually going all in on a short stack. Quote 2 We must have played 7 handed for 4 hours, no joke. I've been deep in almost every tournament I've played since early September and I've noticed a major trend. While its still very easy to get deep into tournaments by using a basic small ball strategy, by the time you get past the money, the majority of the remaining players are small ballers- and they are good. Back in 2004 few people had any clue at all how to play the deep stacked events. The re-raisers and blow up artists were many, but today, those players just don't get very far Going along with the Daniels theme of ignoring over agressive pre flop play I then found this simple but nifty spreadsheet that helps determine 'The Patience Factor' in tournaments (hopefully the link takes you strait to it) http://www.blackjackforumonline.com/content/Patience_Factor_Calculator.xls Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happyhornet Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 Re: The World according to Negraneau A lot of this is detailed in his book 'Power Holdem Strategy' (or something like that). The book itself has too many sections on either too basic a strategy or high stakes cash games (cos we all play those!!), but the 150 pages on SmallBall are fantastic and worth the price alone.:ok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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