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u/PokerHawk · 3 pointsr/poker

Read anything written by Ed Miller.
Here's a good one to buy.
Hunter Cichy does a good job making videos using Flopzilla.
Here's one example.
For $16/month you can subscribe to RedChipPoker.com. Both these guys do coaching videos here along with other pros. It's well worth the money.
If you're still a beginner, you can subscribe to James "Splitsuit" Sweeney's YouTube channel: The Poker Bank. He teaches a lot of good basics geared towards newer players.
I've got more resources too if you're interested beyond this stuff.

u/chopthis · 2 pointsr/poker

I would recommend these books:

u/lol_donkaments · 2 pointsr/poker

This is partially going to be a novel about how I got into poker because of a Royal Caribbean cruise, be warned. :) I was on the Freedom of the Seas during the summer of 2010, and spent a ton of time at the table.

My family had booked a cruise on the FotS during the summer of 2010, when I was 18, so there wasn't too much to do on the boat (can't drink, can't/would feel weird going to "teen" areas). When looking at what the boat had to offer, though, I saw there was a poker table... and I realized I would have something to do besides workout/eat great food/sit in the sun. I had played competitive M:tG for a few years then, and was looking to get into a game that was more socially acceptable (wouldn't have to hide from friends and females). I also knew that several pro M:tG players e.g. David Williams, Jon Finkle, and other lesser-knowns played poker. With nothing more to do on the boat, and coming off the high of winning a 4-person donkament at my friend's house the week before, I decided to dive into the realm of poker. I hadn't read any poker literature at the time besides "only play top 10 hands lolz" articles on poker-listings and other similar sites, but I can still remember a bit of the play that went down.

Anyway, after realizing how "high-stakes" the games were on the boat - 1/2 during the day, 2/5 at night - I quickly realized that I would be out of my element playing in the cash games. I was fine railing though... 500 dollars was equivalent to 10k in my mind. During the day, the table was mostly empty unless you organized a game with the people sitting around the night before. At night though, starting after 9 when the second dinner shift was getting through, the 2/5 game was almost always full. Competition was super, super, super soft. There was a ~50 year-old business man on the cruise with family who I got to know fairly well after sitting at the table so often, and he look at his hole-cards during the hands as I sat there. Details on explicit hands are fuzzy for the most part, but he was playing the standard "2+2 approved" 14/12 style and crushing pretty thoroughly. I remember one hand, where he open raised, went to the flop heads-up, completely missed, but still bet and made the other guy fold. My first exposure to c-betting. Ah, nostalgia. Anyway, real content...

On FotS, they had an electric table. No dealer, no chips. Each player had a touchscreen embedded in the table, with a ~30 inch screen in the middle of the table for the board, pot size, etc. I didn't like it then, and still don't now. It felt too "online-y" to me. Don't get me wrong, I love and most-often prefer online poker, but if it's gonna be live I'd like it to have chips at least. Most people at the table felt the same way. The business man I mentioned earlier said that he had been on one Royal Caribbean cruise per-year with his family over the past 10 years, and that he has never seen an electric table besides on FotS. I'm not sure how standard the electric table is on RC these days, but it's good to know that not every boat has one. If you're on one of the newer boats, though, I'd say chances are higher. Here's the table they had on FotS: http://www.pokertek.com/

As far as gameplay goes, the game was SUPER soft. There were probably 20 tops "regulars" at the table each night, some more regular than others, but only 3 or 4 of them had any idea what they were doing. Definitely softer than an average casino 2/5 game. I didn't think much of it then, but people were shoving with nothing on flops, playing 60% of their hands, and just generally being huge fish. Lots of middle-aged Asian guys who spewed off money, and a few rich-looking old white guys who would sit down with $500 and mention how they lose every night, but "it's been a great learning experience" because they'd never played poker before. If I had been in the game with my current poker knowledge, I would have been drooling. There was a bald Finnish guy at the table every night who would crush - always leaving with over 1.5k. He paid for his entire family's cruise at the table, which I thought was amazing at the time. Oh, and almost everyone buys in short - only a few guys ever bought in for a full 100bbs. The typical buy-in was around 200.

What kind of poker are you most familiar with? If you're used to playing 100bb deep 1/2, you won't feel out of your element. If bringing a 2.5k bankroll for 2/5 seems too steep, just short-stack it and keep all your commitment decisions on the flop. You really can't go wrong playing 14/12, 90% c-bet, take everyone to value-town on later streets poker. For quick tips, if you haven't read this book before, read it. It's basically the rock that every live 1/2 strategy-profile is built upon: http://www.amazon.com/Professional-No-Limit-Hold-em-I/dp/188068540X Also, just read a ton of hands on the Live Low-Stakes No Limit section of 2+2. If you play tight and don't get out of line, you should win. The rake is absolutely killer though - 10%, no cap, IIRC - so watch out.

That's all I can recall for now. If you have any more questions feel free to ask! GL and HF on your cruise.

P.S. - I forgot... I only mentioned cash games because they're what I play now, but there are tournaments on the boat as well. Not very many, though. Once a day they ran a 9-handed sit'n'go where the winner would qualify for a championship sit'n'go at the end of the cruise to compete for all the prize money. Besides a $50 sit'n'go the night that you get on the boat, I think those are the only tournaments they spread.

u/sutureself8 · 1 pointr/poker

Well, without getting into too much detail, once you get down to 12ish big blinds, you need to start aggressively stealing blinds and going all-in preflop to double up, or else the tournament will pass you by. A good rule of thumb is that once you have bet 10% of your stack, you are "committed" to a hand. Occasionally, if you know your opponents well and you have a suited connector in late position and you just want to see if you hit the flop in any way, you can limp and then push the flop. But generally in tournaments, you never want to be in a situation where you need to double up twice just to get back into the thick of things.

It's all about position. I agree that weak aces are frustrating hands to get when you're short stacked, but if it's folded around to you in late position, you need to go with it.

One nice thing about pushing with 10BB as opposed to 2BB, is that you have a lot of fold equity still. People are pretty much going to call a 2BB raise with almost anything (esp. the big blind), but if you start shoving when you have more money, they are much less likely to call, and the blinds/antes are a huge win for you.

This book is awesome, and although it's not specifically about tournaments, all the concepts apply: BOOK

u/Evstar · 1 pointr/poker

Buy/Torrent and then read these 3 books. They'll give you a pretty fantastic grounding of cash game strategy.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1880685000 (read this first, however it's not strictly a NL Hold Em book, it's just important to read)

http://www.amazon.com/No-Limit-Hold-Theory-Practice/dp/188068537X

http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/188068540X

u/fopkins · 1 pointr/poker

http://www.amazon.com/Professional-No-Limit-Hold-em-I/dp/188068540X
http://smallstakesnolimitholdem.com/


These are two of the best books you can buy. You can find them both on several torrent sites if you don't want to pay. (I definitely wouldn't pay for SSNLH, $100 is fleecing the market.)

u/midas22 · 1 pointr/poker

Why should you only play 100bb? It's probably the most difficult stack size to play. That's why casinos use it as a standard and many people tell noobs to play it. It's certainly easier to play 40-50bb or 200bb+ although you have to play your stack size of course.

Read Professional No-Limit Hold 'em if you're interested to read more. It's one of the best cash game poker books ever written in my opinion and it deals extensively in this subject, how you should adjust your bet and raise sizes depending on your (and your opponents) stack size and commitment thresholds.

u/Omitson · 1 pointr/TrueReddit

Both books crickets mentioned.

The Mathematics of Poker by Bill Chen and Jerrod Ankenman

Personally I've enjoyed Professional No-Limit Hold 'em by Matt Flynn, Sunny Mehta and Ed Miller

THE best forum for poker is 2+2

If you decide to go into playing, and not only studying this game, contact me.

Good luck.