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Mid Stakes ($50NL to $600NL): 6-max or less ring game NLH strategies including Heads Up cash game play.
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Sticky Thread Sticky: Some thoughts on posting HU hand histories

Poker is a very interesting game where many different styles of play can result in a significant edge on your opponents. HU is especially cool...

Started by Numbr2intheWorld, 08-12-2008 04:13 PM
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10-01-2014 01:28 AM

Sticky Thread Sticky: READ BEFORE POSTING: Short-Handed NL Hold-em Forum

General Guidelines This forum is for all material that relates to (online) short handed no limit hold'em strategy between $50nl and $600nl. ...

Started by pocketfours, 03-25-2011 01:59 AM
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03-25-2011 01:59 AM

Sticky Thread Sticky: SHNL & HU Digest

Here are links to the most helpful and popular articles written by our own forum members for players of short-handed NL hold'em. Articles ISF...

Started by Xianti, 08-29-2007 06:44 PM
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08-30-2010 12:09 AM

trips c/r 200bb deep

Villain is a good reg who I see playing a mix of 10/20 and 5/10. We don't really have any history I have him at 24/18 3 betting 9% over a meaningless...

Started by meeloche, 11-10-2009 07:02 PM
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12-11-2009 04:17 AM

Totally F'ed spot deep

Villain in this hand is Thousandair1, a smart, very aggro pl;ayer who usually plays hu. His biggest leak is he's a pretty big station, but this seems...

Started by Numbr2intheWorld, 11-12-2009 08:00 PM
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12-11-2009 04:12 AM

value shoving and bluff shoving

Hand 1 -not too many hands on villain, he was running 33/20 with a 3bet of 10 in 300 hands today -earlier hand he double barreled AT with a bet of...

Started by griffey24, 11-15-2009 04:37 PM
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12-11-2009 04:09 AM

FTR Shorthanded Coaches?

Hey all, I'm enjoying Rome, Italy right now but when I come back I'd like to find a coach for the start of 2010. I figured trusty FTR would be a...

Started by mixchange, 12-09-2009 01:13 PM
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12-10-2009 11:41 PM

November graphs!

Might as well post a graph since I promised last month. Played 30k hands in the first week of November, rest of the month was a fail. All 2/4 and 3/6...

Started by Alexos, 12-01-2009 12:42 AM
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12-10-2009 11:28 PM

Calling QQ IP, valueraising somewhere?

MP 24/14/1.3 over 82 hands, stealing >35% so definately positionally aware, folded to 3bets 2/2. BB is the table donk playing 91/21/1.1 over 39...

Started by minSim, 12-10-2009 02:33 PM
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12-10-2009 04:10 PM

Just a river c/r hand

Villain 23/14/3.0 over only 30 hands, stealing a decent amount. Not seen anything special of him. Basically questions are if you like c/ring the...

Started by minSim, 12-08-2009 02:44 PM
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12-10-2009 01:16 PM

AA 3bet pot, river pairs Q - 50NL

Villain is a pretty standard tightish reg running 15/12, 18% steal over 1.1k+ hands. Doesnt get outta line from what ive seen, He folds to 3bs 57% of...

Started by Sup3rM4N, 11-30-2009 06:09 PM
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12-10-2009 05:13 AM

Stars RB

I've read the threads and decided to try stars for a while. According to the calculators and Spoons post, it looks like 50K hands at $50NL/$100NL...

Started by jyms, 12-09-2009 04:29 PM
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12-10-2009 02:23 AM

How do you go on about playing...

players w/ deep stacks that limp with broadway cards (suited or offsuit) from any position, cold calls, and hardly raises. Do you just make the open...

Started by Off5th, 12-09-2009 03:42 AM
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12-09-2009 04:38 PM

Big Interesting 5 bet meta spot

So I had no idea what to do here. Villain is a solid regular and we have a history. Stats unknown but he's a little on the lag side of tag. I had...

Started by Toaster, 12-08-2009 03:47 AM
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12-09-2009 10:52 AM

Some SUPER STANDARD preflop spots this weekend

I'm gonna question some super standard preflop spots to get a feeling how you guys deal with them. They're definately related, but somewhat different...

Started by minSim, 12-05-2009 06:03 AM
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12-09-2009 10:18 AM

2/4 - couple tpgk in 3bet pots.. could be boring/standard

Hand 1 -villain in this hand is fast eddie, reg on stars, calls lots of 3bets, peels lots of flops etc -early in session, so no dynamic this sesh...

Started by griffey24, 12-03-2009 09:32 AM
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12-09-2009 09:09 AM

50nl - rivered 2 pair vs some random facing overbet

guy just sat down bought in for this amount. I'm guessing this is just a standard muck until we get some sort of read right? (sorry if this is...

Started by Micro2Macro, 12-05-2009 07:10 PM
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12-07-2009 07:23 PM

dealing with hyper-aggro early street aggression

I hate posing these type of questions but ive really been having trouble. You're playing hu or super shorthanded (like 4 or 3 handed) with a...

Started by Numbr2intheWorld, 12-03-2009 02:08 PM
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12-06-2009 04:06 AM

3/6 - couple turn spots

hand 1 -villain in this hand is the type that calls all 3bets (fold to 3bet 40%) and is the type that will peel utg just cause he thinks it "looks...

Started by griffey24, 11-29-2009 11:07 PM
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12-03-2009 01:54 PM

QQ oop with strange preflopness 100nl.

So this was our previous hand... $0.50/$1 No Limit Holdem 4 Players Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com Stacks: CO Hero ($109.45) ...

Started by AnTman_69, 11-24-2009 10:37 PM
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12-02-2009 02:27 PM

QQ overpair, turn minraise.

Villain is a 35/15 with 1.2 AF after 38 hands. Pretty dry flop. 89 just got there. TJ just got there. TPGK probably just wants to call down...

Started by Pelion, 12-01-2009 04:14 PM
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12-01-2009 04:37 PM

fake play?

I just saw a poker vid with 2 poeple who were "fake playing" eachother. Whatever program they were using they were able to set up a fake HU cash game...

Started by cleanup.that, 09-23-2009 10:31 PM
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11-30-2009 07:12 PM

Fold effective baby flush? 50NL.

Villain is 12/8 over 35 hands and looks pretty straight forward. I can't see sets not raising this flop and playing this slowly. Can I fold here? If...

Started by Carroters, 11-21-2009 09:51 AM
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11-30-2009 06:30 PM

3 Hands

1. Villain was reggy but a tad on the tightish side over 83 hands. I had 4bet bluffed him a hand or two prior and he folded. What do you think about...

Started by kmind, 11-29-2009 09:18 PM
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11-30-2009 06:17 PM

all in on the flop with JJ [nl50]

villain is 28/11/2 (196) with 3Bet 7, WTSD/W$SD 57/55, flop CBet 50, fold2CB 50 and when he's UTG he's limping all the time with everything except...

Started by funkeefeesh, 11-30-2009 09:10 AM
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11-30-2009 04:43 PM

I sqeeuze and now YOU are repping the K ?

Villain 18/13 over a couple hands. Not enough hands to use the 3bet pot stats, but my general feeling was that villain was tight and his calling...

Started by minSim, 11-29-2009 06:30 AM
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11-30-2009 01:51 PM

A river 3barrel spot

No help on villain. PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (5 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com UTG ($57.95) MP ($50)...

Started by minSim, 11-29-2009 06:25 AM
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11-30-2009 08:41 AM

2/4...Straight vs GP333

No history....I've 3bet him a few times, first one he's called ** Side Note: I would have made it 45-50 pre but I didn't realize he 4x'ed it until...

Started by OP, 11-24-2009 01:51 PM
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11-30-2009 08:38 AM

Running bad, and coaching

1. All in EV says I'm -21 BI on the year (and -11BI for last yr). I don't know what to think. The Economics degree in me says that AIEV is just one...

Started by mixchange, 05-10-2009 04:57 PM
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11-28-2009 06:30 PM

2 hands against what seems to be a good thinking player

Both hands against same Vil. Hes running 30/25/9 3bet over 266 HH. I have played with him before but no real history. He prob views me as fairly...

Started by Dragon Slayer, 11-28-2009 01:29 PM
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11-28-2009 06:16 PM

UIGEA delayed!

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/152/fight-poker-rights-ppa/its-official-uigea-regs-have-been-delayed-six-months-643966/#post14898870 not sure...

Started by Numbr2intheWorld, 11-27-2009 03:06 PM
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11-28-2009 02:46 AM

OOP AJ vs habitual min-3bettor.

Villain is like 35/30 and has been making these small 3bets vs me a lot. I folded the first couple with hands like A5o, and 4 bet one which he...

Started by Pelion, 11-25-2009 03:03 PM
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11-27-2009 08:58 AM

ITT I Bloof with 0 equity

Villain seems like a bad reg(table coach). He's on 3 of my tables full stacked, playing pretty weak pasively with what seems to be random fits of...

Started by OP, 11-21-2009 12:47 PM
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11-25-2009 02:14 PM

wtf insta shove by fish on river - 100NL

Less than 10 hands wit villain but he is an obvious fish. He couldn't have shoved river any faster. Standard to fold and wait till I have more info...

Started by Sup3rM4N, 11-21-2009 01:13 PM
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11-25-2009 01:17 PM

OOP with flush 100nl

Main UTG vil is 18/13 and haven't seen anything out of the ordinary. Seems a below avg player with stationy tendancies and predictable postflop play....

Started by AnTman_69, 11-24-2009 10:29 PM
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11-25-2009 11:29 AM

Lost in small 3bet pot - help!

Villain was a 27/21 over 31 hands. Was not a prolific 3bettor and didn't seem at all out of line. $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Holdem 4 Players Hand...

Started by Ash256, 11-23-2009 04:30 PM
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11-24-2009 08:48 PM

100NL Deep, Overpair

Every option feels dirty. Villain is reggish and playing pretty taggy (No HUD stats) but he's probably getting fed up with me because I'm 3betting...

Started by OP, 11-23-2009 12:24 PM
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11-24-2009 03:08 PM

ITT I get tricky with hooks

Villain is a 30/24 sLAG who is generally pretty sLAGgy but can sometimes go into c/call mode, especially bvb.. He probs sees me as a super-standard...

Started by Ash256, 11-23-2009 12:27 PM
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11-24-2009 08:06 AM

How bad is a jam here?

Villain is loosefer a higher stakes reg who seems pretty aggro, so I snap sat when I saw him sitting at 1/2 to show him who the king of the castle...

Started by OP, 11-17-2009 09:26 PM
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11-23-2009 04:15 PM

50NL: flop bottom 2 on drawy board

Opponent is 78/2/2.0af (100 hands) which is pretty agressive, especially on flop where his aggr.frequency is 50%. So he plays a lot of flops and is...

Started by BigPapi, 11-23-2009 08:34 AM
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11-23-2009 09:06 AM

Carroters' thread about hands that have killed the red line.

Ok so I just feel pretty damn disatsified with my game recently and like I'm spewing in tons of spots where I end up folding. So here are a few of...

Started by Carroters, 11-21-2009 09:32 AM
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11-22-2009 12:59 PM

Good Bluff or Bad Spew?

villain is 19/15, 15% 3bet. 1.5 af. he has called me 3 streets with jt on qj4s5s7 and i showed him aq Hero (BB): $100.00 shipopotamus (UTG):...

Started by aka_red, 11-21-2009 07:54 PM
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11-22-2009 03:04 AM

Common response to questions about spots in 3bet pots

I decided to write this entry because I feel like I'm responding with the same answers to the same questions over and over and over about playing in...

Started by Marshall28, 06-05-2009 04:14 PM
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11-22-2009 01:54 AM

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