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[Hoopy]

Important preflop adjustments?

[Micro2Macro]

Important preflop adjustments?

there is less room to splash around preflop when dealing with 20bb stacks (as opposed to 100bb etc). this doesn't mean you can't play loose preflop...one of the biggest winners ive seen that plays cap is approaching 30/25 territory. you just really need to have a really good idea of why you are making every open, every 3bet, why you size your bets the way you do and so on. so many people playing poker just don't even think about what they are trying to accomplish, they just copy what everyone else is doing because its 'standard'. the player who goes beyond standard and isn't doing what everyone else is is the one who takes the money.

seat selection gets more crucial with short stacks in my experience as having the wrong combo of players to your left seriously limits your options with only 20bb's, unless you've got a very strong grasp on open limping and leveling the shit out of everyone on top of that. you can't just sit back and rely on implied odds like u can deep though. after playing cap and spending a lot more time at 100bb lately ive found that 100bb regs are still fucking god awful at preflop play at 200nl and its 2011. higher than that my recent samples arent good enough to judge accurately. i think becoming proficient at cap and focusing on preflop theory (it really just boils down to a few numbers that u can figure out urself) has increased my edge at 100bb a metric fuckton because no one understands why they do anything at poker (as i said before) they just copy shit they see in videos and stuff and you can exploit the fucking hell out of that.

if there is anything u ever do in this game, it should be figuring out why you're doing something whether its preflop or on the river.

[Penneywize]

nice post.... /thread imo

[Micro2Macro]

nice post.... /thread imo

ya i just summed it up therrr lol

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you just really need to have a really good idea of why you are making every open, every 3bet, why you size your bets the way you do and so on. so many people playing poker just don't even think about what they are trying to accomplish, they just copy what everyone else is doing because its 'standard'. the player who goes beyond standard and isn't doing what everyone else is is the one who takes the money.

...... no one understands why they do anything at poker (as i said before) they just copy shit they see in videos and stuff and you can exploit the fucking hell out of that.

if there is anything u ever do in this game, it should be figuring out why you're doing something whether its preflop or on the river.

This is a friggin awesome post and pretty much sums up some of the most important concepts all of the few great players I have met have said.

Nice one M2M!