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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

Grinderschool Seeking 6max Instructor

Hi guys, For a variety of reasons (mostly related to outside careers and developments in personal lives), several of the Grinderschool 6-max...

Started by JeffreyGB, 09-27-2009 04:28 PM
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09-27-2009 04:28 PM

1/2 - playing AA passively after 3betting vs. 2 regs

Both opps are winning regs. Button is one of the better players at these stakes and I've played with him at 2/4 as well. He runs 24/20/4.5, raising...

Started by zook, 09-22-2009 09:37 PM
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09-27-2009 03:35 PM

100nl 3 fish + me... or, 4 fish

Stats are old-style vp$ip/pfr/af/hands No-Limit Hold'em, $1.00 BB (5 handed) - Hold'em Manager Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com Hero...

Started by dev, 09-26-2009 12:51 AM
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09-26-2009 07:13 PM

1/2 - AK vs. fish on ugly board deepish

Don't know much about this fish besides he's running 52/9/1.9 over a fair number of hands and he squeeze shoved AA pre a few orbits earlier and got...

Started by zook, 09-22-2009 09:31 PM
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09-24-2009 11:15 PM

100NL 3b pot vs. tag reg

he's running at 23/18 at the time his 3b was not very high, 6% if he ships in his AK as a 10 out semi-bluff I have OK equity, but he overbet the...

Started by , 09-23-2009 02:54 PM
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09-24-2009 10:36 PM

WTF party

Was hoping for some easy money since BJsaust was sitting at a good table. Tried to sit and this popped up? WTF

Started by jyms, 09-22-2009 10:49 PM
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09-24-2009 09:33 AM

Unconventional hand, unconventional line

I'd only just started on this table but as I recall villain was your standard TV poker watcher with stats of something like 32/12. My notes said he...

Started by Ash256, 09-22-2009 08:06 AM
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09-23-2009 11:44 PM

100NL c/r river as a bluff vs. nitty player

villain is 15/14 I think I would easily do this for value with trips or a boat Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, $1.00 BB (6 handed) - Full-Tilt...

Started by , 09-23-2009 02:59 PM
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09-23-2009 11:41 PM

100NL 3b pot with suited connectors

villain looks like a reg, has auto-top up on, but I don't know stars regs so it's a tentative read he just 3b me IP last hand and gave up on QQ3...

Started by , 09-22-2009 10:04 PM
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09-23-2009 04:11 PM

Line check - deep

villain is like 33/25 over 50 hands, stacked him once pre QQ vs AK CO vs button, pretty standard PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $1.00 BB (5 handed)...

Started by mxiu, 09-23-2009 03:40 AM
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09-23-2009 04:05 PM

100NL: experimenting with turn donks

Villain is your standard 23/18/6.5 (3b) TAG Turn is a card he could barrel, but I think he's going to check it back more often because he's going...

Started by , 09-23-2009 12:39 PM
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09-23-2009 12:57 PM

Set v's fish (100nl) deep - basic noobie type question

Villain is the fishy target on the table. 50/20 type. I have a solid (I think) read that 1/2 pot bet means he'll fold to a raise and full pot means...

Started by bjsaust, 09-22-2009 11:07 PM
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09-23-2009 11:03 AM

Flopped straight on monotone paired board - 50NL

Opponent is a regular fish, 38/2 over 1k. Generally passive but has a habit to donk lead TPish type hands on either flop or turn. We´re never good...

Started by XTR1000, 09-22-2009 07:44 AM
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09-22-2009 09:41 PM

100NL TAG flop raise I can has overpair

He raised a similar drawy board texture a few hands ago and I folded flop Should this make me less or more likely to call him down? PokerStars...

Started by , 09-21-2009 08:39 PM
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09-22-2009 06:04 PM

ISF Theorem

Amazingly, when I was hi yesterday from some horrible weed, I came to a breakthrough thought in my poker game. I called sauce up and explained to him...

Started by IowaSkinsFan, 08-03-2007 03:42 PM
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09-22-2009 10:52 AM

Poker Essay Competition - WISDOM WANTED

We are asking for your help in adding more quality content to our great library of poker-related articles. The deadline for the current contest has...

Started by Xianti, 09-21-2009 08:09 PM
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09-21-2009 08:09 PM

Poker Essay Competition - WISDOM WANTED

We are asking for your help in adding more quality content to our great library of poker-related articles. The deadline for the current contest has...

Started by Xianti, 09-21-2009 08:09 PM
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09-21-2009 08:09 PM

Poker Essay Competition - WISDOM WANTED

We are asking for your help in adding more quality content to our great library of poker-related articles. The deadline for the current contest has...

Started by Xianti, 09-21-2009 08:08 PM
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09-21-2009 08:08 PM

100NL playing flop/turn with nits

guy is a 17/15 nit so I didn't raise flop because he might fold his aces afraid of da 33 setminan him but turn is super ugly I convince myself he...

Started by , 09-16-2009 09:11 AM
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09-21-2009 07:13 PM

TPTK oop facing raise on flop - 100nl

4th hand at the table, no idea what he´s up to. I got no other option, do I? $0.5/$1 No Limit Holdem 5 Players Converted at weaktight.com ...

Started by XTR1000, 09-20-2009 07:18 AM
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09-21-2009 10:26 AM

interesting spot today

22/18/2 over 189 only real history i had is when i flopped top 2 on him and c/r him only to have the bottom card pair up on the turn, forcing me...

Started by mxiu, 09-19-2009 04:30 AM
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09-20-2009 10:36 PM

6 max is gay

Not many reads on villain, i dont recognize his name but he's definitely a reg and a tagg. He was running 23/18 or something so i thought the flop...

Started by Numbr2intheWorld, 09-15-2009 12:48 AM
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09-20-2009 12:54 PM

TPTK 3bet pot BvB v reg, bad turn

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $2.00 BB (5 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com SB ($93.50) Hero (BB) ($379.20) UTG...

Started by mixchange, 09-19-2009 06:38 PM
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09-19-2009 08:09 PM

Poker Hands Replayer: feedback, please

http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/forum/poker-hands-replayer-your-thoughts-have-you-tried-it-t89193.html

Started by Xianti, 09-19-2009 06:01 PM
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09-19-2009 06:01 PM

Tripple barrel vs. nit

Villain is a nit running at 26/16/3.4(3b) he basically doesn't 3b without the nuts Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, $1.00 BB (5 handed) - Full-Tilt...

Started by , 09-13-2009 12:52 PM
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09-19-2009 04:57 AM

1/2 - QQ vs. flop raise in 3bet pot deepish

Villain is a not great reg imo, a little on the spewy side. I don't have any specific notes on him though. He doesn't 4bet much, is running...

Started by zook, 09-17-2009 01:09 AM
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09-18-2009 05:34 PM

3000th post: confessions of a bluffer

First off, thanks to kmind for noticing I was at my 2999th post! Figured I should do something a little more substantial for my 3000th post, than...

Started by griffey24, 09-09-2009 09:02 PM
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09-18-2009 08:47 AM

First post in SH.. standard spot

Villain is running 23/14, only read on him is that he doesn't seem capable of folding top pair. I'm starting up some 6max for the first time...

Started by mxiu, 09-17-2009 04:08 PM
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09-18-2009 01:25 AM

400NL: Teh perilz of deeeeep tables

Villain has competent PF stats but I'm convinced he might be retarded... Runs something like 25/20. Full Tilt Poker $2/$4 No Limit Hold'em - 6...

Started by ESS123, 09-14-2009 11:49 PM
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09-18-2009 01:12 AM

FTP$ for PS?

Looking to get rid of a couple grand of PS$ if anyone is willing to trade for FTP$ please PM me. Thx.

Started by Marshall28, 09-17-2009 09:43 PM
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09-17-2009 09:43 PM

EZ fold to river bet against fish? 50NL

Villain is 61/18/1.8 over only 60 hands but is an obvious fish. I don't see him value betting worse so only question is wud he turn his hand into a...

Started by Sup3rM4N, 09-14-2009 03:44 PM
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09-17-2009 02:09 PM

100NL: blind defense leaks

I'm finding that I have trouble defending blinds and that I suck at playing OOP, I play too passively and seem to lose money with hands like AJo/KQo...

Started by , 09-15-2009 04:36 AM
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09-16-2009 11:48 PM

$100NL where'd I go wrong?

pretty much a fish 39/11 over a couple hundred hands. He's spewy on the first two streets either donking or Cbetting but shuts down unless he hits...

Started by jyms, 09-16-2009 12:20 AM
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09-16-2009 02:31 PM

2/4 - speaking of hero calls...

These hands are all from last night. Hand 1 -villain in this hand is fast eddie, thinking reg who 3bets me like madness cause he thinks i fold...

Started by griffey24, 09-16-2009 07:55 AM
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09-16-2009 12:41 PM

50NL Hands

1. UTG+1 is playing 32/10/3 with 3.6 on the flop over 400 hands. SB is 21/2/0.4 over 60 hands. Full Tilt Pot-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (6 handed) -...

Started by kmind, 09-15-2009 01:45 PM
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09-16-2009 05:10 AM

Potential winrates HUv6max

Just a quick question. In general will a winning HU player be able to achieve larger winrates than a player with equal skill who plays 6max? I...

Started by cleanup.that, 09-12-2009 09:50 PM
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09-15-2009 09:07 PM

100NL: turn bluff

If I check I can't call a bet, if I bet I expect to get called by one card flush + pair combinations but if I check/raise maybe he folds those one...

Started by , 09-15-2009 03:02 AM
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09-15-2009 08:05 PM

How did villain do?

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4693806 I 3b QQ+,AK so my range for raising this flop is air, pair+gs, JT and possibly AQ shouldn't this be a better...

Started by , 09-15-2009 02:33 AM
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09-15-2009 07:55 AM

Need a plan nl 100

Villain is 15/14/3,2/2,8 over 320 hands, so pretty nitty player. Hasnt made any noteworthy moves so far. Pf 3 bet is maybe a tad too small. Flop...

Started by Andypandy, 09-13-2009 01:23 PM
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09-14-2009 05:25 PM

TIme for a hero call? NL 100

Villain runs fairly active 30/25/0/1,3 over just 50 hands. Hasnt 3-bet yet. I think the doublebarrel is completely standard. On the river i cant see...

Started by Andypandy, 09-13-2009 01:17 PM
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09-13-2009 01:56 PM

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