tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344205772024-02-28T06:57:54.197-08:00daniel negreanus power holdem strategyDaniel Negreanu's Power holdem strategy | Daniel hold em Negreanus power strategy | Daniel NegreanuEditorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09220032033702940624noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34420577.post-18806530007329627982007-08-27T19:56:00.000-07:002007-08-27T21:44:32.183-07:00Chip value, not percentage increase is what counts.There's a lot of posts going on about laying down Aces... I by no means am for laying down aces to an all in except for 2 (and a half)situations. Situation 1 a supersatellite or qualifier when you're going to make the money and the payout is the same.<br />Situation 2 where you've just made the final table and everyone shoves all in... by folding you virtually GUARENTEE that you'll get 2nd or 3rd or 4th if there's split pots or the people that win have less chips and there's sidepots. This is MOST obvious if you only have like enough for one big blind,or hardly enough chips to have a shot at winning anyways<br />Situation 2 and a half is if there's under 18 players left, you have 35% of all chips or more you're in the money and there's someone that either has you outchipped or cripples you and he moves in on you. AND you're dominating the table, everyones folding and yielding to you, and there's no reason to get involved. You have a REAL shot at winning the whole thing, especially if this guys a maniac. It's a questionable decision either way, but if you fold you're getting top 5 90% of the time... due to the payout up top, and that you could still easily win without playing the hand, it's possibly a fold, not sure if I'd be able to make it or not because it's one that you'd question, over and over again.<br />anyways, the reason I'm posting it is because he compares some table going all in everyone at the tale and you having pocket aces and why it's a call... It's not that I question the call at all... but the comparrison of "not being able to multiply your chips by a factor of 8" is a little iffy since he only uses all ins as example... I have a little response<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">one thing I failed to address: </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span>In article XXXXX@news.xxx.net>,<br /><div id="qhide_294957" style="display: block; font-style: italic;" class="qt"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">XXXX</span>@XXXX.com> wrote:<br />>Probably because you went all in again with less than<br />>50% chance of winning and got bounced out anyway (of the money<br />>position).<br /><br /></div><span style="font-style: italic;">Ah, the mystical attachment to 50%. </span><br /><p style="font-style: italic;">Let's say you will magically be offered a series of heads-up 54/46<br />matchups, such as QQ vs. AKs, and you get the good end of the stick<br />each time. Three times you can double up your entire stack with<br />the best of it -- even MORE than a 50% chance!<br /></p><p style="font-style: italic;"> 46% of the time you are busted after the first.<br />71% of the time you are busted after the second.<br />86% of the time you are busted after the third.<br /></p><p style="font-style: italic;">So this "amazing" opportunity leaves you with 8x your stack 14% of<br />the time and busted the rest.<br /></p><p style="font-style: italic;">Whereas calling with AA left you with 10x of your stack 31% of the<br />time and busted the rest.<br /></p><p style="font-style: italic;">How's that 50% sound now?<br /></p><p style="font-style: italic;">But wait, you're better than that. You'll always get your money in<br />with 60/40 edges, such as AKo vs. QTs.<br /></p><p style="font-style: italic;"> 40% of the time you are busted after the first.<br />64% of the time you are busted after the second.<br />78% of the time you are busted after the third.<br /></p><p style="font-style: italic;">So you get 8x your stack 22% of the time. Still not looking so hot<br />compared to a 31% chance at 10x.<br /></p><p style="font-style: italic;">You're even BETTER though. You always get in as a 2-1 favorite,<br />such as KK vs. ATs.<br /></p><p style="font-style: italic;"> 33% of the time you are busted after the first.<br />56% of the time you are busted after the second.<br />70% of the time you are busted after the third.<br /></p><p style="font-style: italic;">Finally we're close to the AA situation in terms of probability<br />of survival, though recall that we had 10x stack improvement with AA<br />and you only get 8x with the "three double-ups" approach.<br /></p><p style="font-style: italic;">Is any of this clear yet?<br /></p><p style="font-style: italic;">The only way around calling with AA after nine people move in is if<br />you think you are so good, you never have to go all-in, and that if by<br />some awful twist of fate you do end up all-in, you will always have<br />the most dominating situation imaginable (e.g. always pair over pair.)<br />That is much like the brand of delusion hellmuth lives with, and it's<br />the reason he is the person I mentioned who might fold AA there.<br /></p><p style="font-style: italic;">But hellmuth is the most extreme case of this alive, and I'm fairly<br />sure even he couldn't live with himself if he folded.<br /></p><p style="font-style: italic;">It's not even close.<br /></p><span style="font-style: italic;">-- </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> Paul Phillips | Love is a wild snowmobile ride across a frozen lake that </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> Future Perfect | hits a patch of glare ice and flips, pinning you beneath </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> Empiricist | it. At night, the ice weasels come. -- Matt Groening </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> ha! spill, pupil |----------* </span><a style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.improving.org/paulp/">http://www.improving.org/paulp/</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> *----------<br />---<br /><br /></span>sorry<br />The calling with aces after all those all ins are obvious, not to mention that 31% of the time you are alive you get to see all those situations QQ vs AK, or whatever...<br />However, I think it should be noted that there are a lot of players out there (like say Scotty Nguyen) who are hardly EVER all in and manage to accumulate chips just the same, perhaps more steadily and slowly, but by the time they are, they have amassed a lot more chips so there all ins are MUCH more significant chipwize<br /><br />Just for fun and arguments sake lets say a player like Daniel Negreanu chops away and play lots of pots, instead accumulated 3 times their stack while not even getting involved in an all in, they may play an occasional pot with aces, but by the time they get ALL there money in, they have a HUGE edge.... even so, by this time you have to account for there increase in chips<br />Situation 1 he goes all in with aces goes from 10,000 to 80,000<br />he THEN accumulates 30,000 without getting a large portion of his chips in... this puts him at 110,000 with a 31% chance of survival.<br />Situation 2 he doesn't get this opportunity, but he chops away all the way up to 40,000, THEN gets his Kings against AQs or overpair vs a flushdraw and is about 70/30 to double up... putting him at 80,000 with a 70% chance of survival. Which is better? a 31% chance to get to 110,000 or a 70% chance to get to 80,000? I have to say the second one.<br />But lets just say situation one continues and he has 110,000 and again gets it in with the best of it 60/40 and goes to 220,000 and then accumulates 50,000, while situation 2 accumulates 50,000 more to 130,000 then gets it in as a 60/40 favorite...<br />Situation 1= player has 270,000 just over 15% of the time<br />Situation 2= player has 260,000 about 36% of the time....<br />Do you catch my drift?<br />If you can accumulate chips, double ups are increasingly important as the tournament goes on... Giving up on one 60/40 double up early because the 40% of the time that you get knocked out you'll end up missing out on an opportunity to accumulate chips up and up and take a 60/40 that means much more as it's later, when you have more chips, and it's at a point<br /><br />If you are a better player, it's not necessarily that you get your money in BETTER, it's that you accumulate chips by chopping away, betting 2.5X the big blind, betting half the pot... Getting a larger pot, but still not risking elimination. By the time you DO, you have amassed enough chips that it's much more valuable, blinds and antes are higher, pot size is larger, and it means a LOT more than it would early. And usually the players that play small pot poker are able to chop away, and they get played back at, or someone trys to trap them and slow plays too long and they're good enough not to bite, and they might even hit, and when they do they'll get PAID OFF BIG! Lets say a Negreanu style of player has K8s and opponent has AA. If the opponent reraises Negreanus probably folding. So the opponent tries to set a trap... Flop comes 294 with 1 spade... "Negreanu" bets opponent just calls because it's not a dangerous board at all, turn comes Q of spades opponent checks ready to check-raise, but "Negreanu" recognized that opponent wouldn't call out of postion there without a hand, so he checks PLUS he gets a freecard, even if his opponent is weak he might bluff into a made hand... Now the river comes an ace of spades. Opponent gets nervous that he won't get paid off if he checks so he fires out a fairly small bet. Daniel Recognizes that his opponents strong, and that he won't be able to get away from it, so he reraises HUGE OVERBETTING the pot. His opponent has seen this guy in virtually EVERY hand, and he really just doesn't give him credit for catching a back door draw, so he either moves in, or calls a huge bet, maybe even calls ALL his money. This is the type of thing that happens. They keep the pot small and try to chop away, but if they hit a big draw, they bust an opponent who's virtually drawing dead who can't get away from his hand. The pros might not fall for it, but there's enough amatures in these HUGE fields. Now He goes back to chopping away, not risking a large amount of his stack at any time.<br /><br /><br />You cite the fact that you'll never get a chance to amass 8 times the amount of chips in front of you putting it all at risk... THAT"S NOT WHAT"S IMPORTANT... the overall VALUE of the chips is what's important....<br />This is a common mistake people make all the time when it comes to opportunity costs and economics, If a $20 CD was 50% off, or a $1000 computer was 10% off, and you could only have the time to get one, or it was a rebate and you could only do one, which would be more valuable to do? Assuming you were buying both? The computer of course... saving $100 is MUCH better than saving $10... 10 times better.<br /><br />I'm not saying I wouldn't take the aces all in, I definitely would, and THEN if I got to accumulate more chips and happened to go against someone with more chips my double up would mean that much more... The BEST part about that is, the 31% of the time you win, your chances of winning the tournament go way up, your ability to survive goes way up... You basically get to find out very early in the tournament what kind of shot you're going to have, if not you go home, and can tell quite a story, and start playing the cash games... and save a LOT of time.<br /><br />So what am I saying? Your example fails to recognize that the great players accumulate a lot of chips BEFORE they have to get it all in. The bigger the field, and the easier it is to accumulate chips WITHOUT having to go all in, the more value the double up later on.<br /><br />I just watch all the guys that end up doing very well, and even the ones that got extremely lucky, usually did there "getting lucky" part LATE not early... how many times have we seen people take risks and become the chipleader day 1 only for it to mean NOTHING later? Heck we've seen HUGE stacks get UNLUCKY late or get too aggressive and give away everything, but they risked a lot more 1st to get where they were, 2nd after they accumulated chips they didn't slow down and they gave there chips away in a couple hands. And what about all those players that end up SHORT stacked at the final table when the blinds are HUGE? Joeseph Hachem and Steve Dannemen were BOTH pretty short stacked.<br /><br />Obviously if I have the aces I call, and If I fold the aces, I won't Magically get hands that I wouldn't if I called and won.... However, if I had a choice between getting aces the first hand with the entire table going all in and being card dead afterwards, or getting a series of hands with time between to continue to accumulate chips, and you ignore the time spent, and opportunity costs (being able to play in another tourney if you go out) I'll take the second option anyday.<br /><br />However, If I could choose to have aces and have everyone all in on the BUBBLE... or have KK QQ JJ and AA headsup all in early and middle stages... I'm taking the aces on the bubble EVERYTIME.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09220032033702940624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34420577.post-91947072581625103792007-08-26T22:13:00.000-07:002007-08-26T22:16:26.469-07:00My post about taking coinflipsI recently made a post on the twoplustwo forums about taking a coinflip later rather than sooner.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br /></span>Hi guys, I've read these forums before, but I finally decided to sign up and make a post. I've heard many people talk about the debate over whether it's correct or not to take a coinflip early in order to get a stack that you can use towards accumulating chips. My thoughts on it are that a double up early isn't very useful at all, and is a very poor risk/reward to take.<br />Doyle Brunson was asked about this topic and he said he doesn't believe in it (doubling up early) because he says "really what difference does it make" . I have to say he's right here. You know Phil Helmuth wouldn't take it early. Daniel Negreanu wouldn't early either. Well there's many reasons on why this is... You could argue "well your chips compound, one double up leads to another, etc." But if you're playing a style that requires multiple double ups, and that's how you move up in money, you're not playing optimal anyways. Look if you get it all in with aces, and are still short stack everytime, you are expected to be knocked out half the time with 4-5 all ins. While this "double up early" bit might work out ok in smaller fields, in the big fields you simply can't expect to survive if you are risking it all, especially early. What about Scotty Nguyen, who's always consistant, who finished 11th in the main event... he NEVER likes to get it all in.<br /><br />How do these players do it? They start out playing a tight game, but when they get involved, they play small pots. Throw in Ivey in that list of names for small pot players. But THEN they get to the bubble and that's where a lot of pros if they can just survive to, they can go from a short stack to a big stack very quickly and have a chance at going deep. A coinflip on the bubble isn't bad at all. What's the difference? Well first of all taking it all in early and then "coasting" into the money is simply NOT worth your effort, you all know how top heavy they pay out these tournaments. You might get an extra 2000 from doubling up early, but by then the blinds are like 250/500... and with the ante that's less than 4 rotations of chips. On the otherhand, a double up on the bubble not only means a lot more chips (assuming you can accumulate chips) from the double up as you'll have a bigger stack and the blinds will be bigger... But a double up on the bubble also means knocking out or crippling someone who is your only competition at the moment to steal the blinds. You knock down or out someone who's raising every pot near the bubble, and now you have control of the table. I might even take a risk with a small -EV in order to gain the opportunity to steal the blinds, figuring out the table is so much more ++EV if I can take that guy down before he amasses too much chips. Also, after the bubble chip position and your Q becomes so much more important. Usually after the bubble, all the short stacks and even others go all in a lot more after they make the money... Some people after making the money THEN decide to go all out and try to get a chance to go after the money that's all up in the top 3-5 places.<br /><br />Well you're either going to need to have enough chips to call these players off to take your small edges without risking a large amount of your stack, or you're going to need enough chips to sit back and wait for a hand, or at least until everyone that's in all in mode knocks each other out so you can start stealing again. Blinds get big and it becomes easier to get back in it if you blind down a little bit, I like to gear down just a little bit, try to pick it up, and then I'll be much more cautious, and I'll do more trapping. When the blinds are this big, you aren't risking that much by letting your opponent see a cheap flop if you just say flat call a raise with aces. Trapping becomes Key.<br /><br />Now don't get me wrong you can't just sit back and blind down to half your stack and double back to where you were either, but if you are a good enough player to survive the "donkfest" early, then gradually increase your stack after that by just chipping away at small pots, your double ups will mean SOOOoooo much more later on.<br />If you are good enough to accumulate pots risk free, by putting yourself in a situation where you're getting knocked out 50 or even 40% of the time early, you're missing on 40% of the future EV that you'll get from accumulating those risk free pots. The early that is, the more future EV you're giving up.<br /><br />Additionally, lets compare.... just say for example that in tourney 1 you take a coinflip early, you end up getting it all in and doubling up 4 other times. So that extra 2000 you got became 16000 and you end up making the final table.<br />Now in tourney 2 you take the same exact course of action, except you FOLD the coinflip situation early, so you have 3 all ins. Now if all other actions are the same, lets just say for tourney 2 you have 160,000 at the final table for tourney 1 you have 176,000. But the blinds are 5000 and 10000 now. So which do you take? You pay a buy in and go to the final table with 160,000, or flip a weighted coin for the price of the buy in, heads you lose the buy in, tails you're at the final table with 176,000. If that's not clear enough, you can take a coinflip NOW with your 160,000, and you'll have 335,000(after blinds, not including the ante) with the SAME EXACT chances of survival as you did in tourney 1... AND even if you LOSE the coinflip now, you still cashed, and the blinds probably.<br />You may notice a patten with a lot of the players that do well in tournaments. They catch their rushes, and win big hands late. Even Chris Moneymaker had a talk about how he "played scared" the first couple days and he thought the pros had aces every hand. Steve Danneman(sp) and Joe Hachem were pretty low in chips towards the end. I think if I remember right Raymer won quite a few coinflips late. You'll see Helmuth play tighter than anyone LATE in the tourney.. (However doesn't seem to kick it into high gear when it gets 5 handed and less as you'll see against Matusow and Corkins at the TOC he wasn't able to adapt from his tight ways)<br /><br />You'll even see Matusow slow down and although he's known to blow up, if he makes it deep he has a REAL shot at winning because he knows when to switch gears and slow down, and kick it into high gear short handed.<br />I think I heard that B Micon says the same thing about how late you'll be shoving all in with KQ and hands like these... It's one of the paradoxes in poker, it's only when you're to the point in a tourney where you're playing for the MOST money, that you have to put all your chips at risk, when you have to rely on luck when you have to take the most risks and play the least poker and really just find the range of hands that your opponent will call with, determine averaged distributions of hands, how much M you have and how much your opponent has... It really becomes an all in or fold math problem.<br /><br />The bottom line is, don't risk it all on a coinflip early, while it's true you might want to widen your hand range and<br />And while it's true that if it allows you to play cash games that you're going to have a bigger edge, you may have an argument on "opportunity costs" and why it's better to go big or go out so you can play in the cash game, or not waste your time on an unknown...<br />There may be a certain point where you notice that you're being outplayed, and at that point you may want to wait for cards and shove in to minimize the edge the other players have on you, but if you really want to MAXIMIZE the edge you have over the donkeys early, see some flops, chop away with small bets, maybe hit your dream flop and get your opponents chips. Control the pot size, build up the pot big when you have it, keep it as small as you an when you don't.<br /></span>Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09220032033702940624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34420577.post-48329038424839539922007-08-26T09:09:00.000-07:002007-08-26T09:11:18.922-07:00Daniel Negreanu teaches power holdem strategy part 3<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ur7BDUq3lww"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ur7BDUq3lww" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09220032033702940624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34420577.post-48953945923922653142007-08-25T18:49:00.000-07:002007-08-23T20:02:37.312-07:00Risk Management Part 2 Take your risks LATER not SOONERIn part one I finished by saying that I don't think you should risk a 20% chance of being knocked out to get 2000 chips early. Of course that's debatable, and different styles mean different risks for you to take. But I really feel that the best poker players in the world know that it's foolish to take risks early. Now I will agree, if you're a player like Greg Raymer, and you're bullying everyone and playing big pots and pushing, and trying to get it all in with every coinflip that you have the slightest edge, then yes, go right ahead; but I believe that the style is less successful in the long run. Don't get me wrong, he went on a remarkable run at the main event winning the first and going VERY deep the following year with 6000 entries... But as you'll notice, he took one bad beat and got crippled, and got all his money in with Kings and busted. That's NOT badluck... He won all sorts of races before, and had all his money on the line or close to it quite a few times to get the dominating chip stack. His expected chance of busting out on at least ONE of those hands was pretty high.<br />Now take a guy like Phil Helmuth or Phil Ivey, or Scotty Nguyen... I'd put Michael Mizarachi and Gus Hansen in that category as well, but they sometimes take hands too far and take bigger risks and play bigger pots most of the time. These guys might not win every year, but they are consistently dominant. I'd also like to put Mike Matusow in that category as he's adapted his game and plays great small ball poker, but there are points when he does take big risks too. He wins big and often, but he also goes all in to attack weakness, he at times pushes all in when a small bet would be just as effective. He's trying to get paid off for his big hands, and he gets his money in when he hits two pair against aces. He plays small ball, but he also shoves it all in when he know he'll get called and sometimes he's a 80% favorite.<br />So ok, you know that small ball is a great strategy, you know that power holdem is the way to go, but that still doesn't explain why you wouldn't want to double up when you're an 80% favorite. I didn't say that you wouldn't want to do that, I said you don't NEED to do that early, and I'm going to give you the argument of why I don't think you should.<br />First of all, look at Scotty Nguyen... Finished 11th at the 2007 WSOP main event... outlasting like 8000+ people. Scotty has said before that he NEVER likes to go all in whether he's calling or moving all in. I did see Scotty Nguyen all in, but he had the nuts. I saw him play a big pot, but he had a big hand. It wouldn't suprize me if Scotty Nguyen made it as far as he did without being all in more than 4 times and in a field of 8000 that's amazing.<br />Second of all is the earlier the all in the MORE you are risking. I showed you in the last post why you're really only expected to get 2000 chips more, but you're risking being out 20% of the time. But the reason you are risking MORE early, is because ALL the pots you COULD be taking in RISK free if you fold the hand, you don't get to 20% of the time... So if you want the REAL expected value of folding vs calling all in, you have to say okay so if I fold I can probably pick up 10000 chips through the course of the tournament virtually risk free. I live to see another hand, I move on, I steal blinds, I end up picking up the nuts and getting all my money in, etc... Well if you fold, you'll see that situation 100% of the time because you'll live to see another hand... your equity(expected value) is 10,000 chips risk free, plus your equity from the risks you do take. If you call on the other hand, your equity is only 80% of that because 20% of the time you wont get the chance to accumulate all these chips. 80% of 10,000 is 8000... So NOW we find out that you gave yourself 0 edge by calling this all in... NONE... we've already established the fact that you only have one player with more chips, so you don't gain anything there at all. So you're really taking risk to get knocked out when in the long run, you haven't gained ANYTHING...<br />Alright, I have a feeling yall need some more convincing. That's why I'm here... Well you might say well if you're going to risk it all which you probably will have to do eventually, if you do it now it keeps doubling... Ok well lets say you do get up against people with more chips than you and they're aggressive, and you make the moves on the bubble and in the money to double up a few times so that extra 2000 becomes 4000 which becomes 8000 which at the final table becomes 16000. So now the arguement is, okay, well your expected value IS the same, but the 80% when you DO win the hand, you'll have more chips and more chips and it'll compound. Guess what... that 16000 is STILL NOTHING compared to the blinds. By the time you get to the final table a double up will mean SOOOOOOooooo much more in chip position anyways. Okay, so you have 16000 extra... By the final table, you'll have say 160,000 in chips, blinds will be 5000, 10000. Whoopdeedoo if you took a 20% risk of being knocked out it only equates to less than 2 big blinds?! You have 176,000 instead of 160,000<br /><br />And because you didn't take any risk that would knock you out earlier, lets say you pick up aces. NOW you can take the 80% chance to double up... It means SOOOOO much more in chip position, and will allow you to steal so many mor blinds... So 160,000 double up brings you to 320,000. OK, now you'll say, yeah but if you took the double up early and you take this you'll have 352,000... You forgot one thing... Your chance of being knocked out is 20% greater if you do that.... Where as if you want to compare apples to apples and why it's so much better to pass up the all ins early, you have to realize that in order for your chances of survival to be exactly equal, you have to give the person who didn't double up early an extra 80% chance... I know, you won't pick up aces if you fold anymore than you would, but I'm saying you either have 2000 more chips early extra by taking an extra 20% chance of ellimination early, or you have 144,000 even considering all the "compound interest" with exactly EQUAL amount of a chance of ellimination... And here's the thing... By the time you finally take that extra chance to equal things out, You'll have already been DEEP into the money! So with equal chances you have 144,000 more by doubling up later... with unequal chances (taking the double up late as well) you have 32,000 more (about 3 BB extra) at MAX, and you get no money an extra 20% of the time, compared to you getting money everytime, and a 20% increase in survival.<br /><br /><br /><br />You may say "well because of that move you might have a guy covered next time and can afford to take another risk without getting knocked out later" And "you might be able to wait longer for a hand"... That's BS! 2000 more will mean 4X the big blind later, and even if a guy has 10000 and you would have 9000 at that time had you not doubled up, now you only have him covered by 11000 and your 2000 chips means nothing because 99% of the time if you lose you'll be knocked out within the next 10 hands max anyways. Well your chance of surival is 20% greater by folding... that's huge. Now when does chip positioning matter the most? At the END of a tournament. You see, early everyone could double up and double up again, a double up doesn't even mean that big of a move in chip position, and certainly doesn't guarentee you win any more blinds or any more money overall... On the other hand, a double up in the final table usually means you either knocked someone out or close to it, and the chip positioning allows you to bully people and take extra blinds, increasing your position, as other people don't mess with you because they'd rather fold their way up a spot or two in the money first. That double up can allow you to forgo moving all in long enough for people to knock each other out, you move two spots up in cash and buy time to pick up a hand that gives you the win. Where an extra 4X the big blinds really means nothing in the middle of the tournament, it means EVERYTHING now. folding 40 hands extra could mean the difference between making hundreds and making thousands... okay so it gets 5 handed so it's 20 hands extra to see... well most structures the top 3-5 is when the money skyrockets. Which is exactly why ALL the risk you ever take should be as late in the tournament as you can.Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09220032033702940624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34420577.post-34557948615808229432007-08-23T20:04:00.000-07:002007-08-23T20:08:55.554-07:00Daniel Negreanu teaches his power holdem strategy Pt 2<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4d1VQLjZVVE"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4d1VQLjZVVE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09220032033702940624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34420577.post-26216623910125621272007-08-23T16:36:00.000-07:002007-08-23T18:47:01.325-07:00Avoiding Risk Part 1Many poker players think that avoiding risk means not entering a pot unless you have a hand. While this does have some merit in 10 person tournaments or maybe even 100 person tournaments, in the 1000+ fields, especially the 5000+ fields, this couldn't be further then the truth. The best way to advance deep into tournaments is to accumulate more chips than you pay for every rotation. Now this used to mean just playing tight, buying time and picking your spots against the tight players. But people play looser, they play more aggressive, and everyone who plays poker knows about stealing blinds. There's all sorts of tactics and counter tactics of defending blinds, re-stealing and all sorts of stuff. Plus other people accumulate chips like crazy, and even if you can steal the blinds long enough to tread water until you catch aces, to win a 5000 person buy in it would take some SERIOUS luck EVEN IF you only went all in with aces. EVERY all in individually is about 80% to win with aces... but you not only have to win a 80% chance... you have to win EVERY SINGLE 80% chance... the odds of winning with aces 3, 4 5 times in a row... are just not that good. Putting yourself at risk, even when the odds are in your favor is a VERY dangerous game, unless you know how to seriously accumulate chips and rise above everyone else, so that when your aces do get cracked, or when KK runs up against AA, you have plenty to work with.<br /><br />That's what Daniel Negreanu's power holdem strategy is about. Stealing blinds was the old age way to win, stop and go to defend your blinds, widening your calling range, restealing blinds and "squeezing" your opponents a little more recent and still fairly effective.<br />There are now 2 modern ways that work together in the new age of poker...<br />Trapping your opponents (this is the counter move for squeeze plays), and small pot poker.<br />Trapping your opponent means flat calling raises with AA. If you get reraised you can play a big pot. I know I said all that about aces, but this works because for one you're calling a raise and if no one reraises your aggressive opponents going to hand you a lot of his stack, but it usually won't cause you to risk all of it. Someone reraised on the other hand, the original raiser may call, putting a lot of extra chips in the pot. Now you can either flat call and cause the "squeeze" player feel like he has to bluff off his chips to you, hope the original raiser bluffs off his chips, or checks to you and calls down with a marginal hand because of the pot size. OR you can reraise, make both your opponents put more money in the pot, or cause them to fold, and rake in a pretty big pot with no risk. It's pretty likely that if theres 3 people still in right now that after you put in this rereraise that ONE of your opponents will try to isolate headsup so they can increase your chance of winning. So they'll probably push, and the other may fold, or not. Either way, now you get a much larger pot then you normally would, you have an 80% chance of winning, and since you're going to be accumulating chips anyways, you probably will have more chips after the hand then almost everyone if you don't already.<br />Well if you're going to do this trapping, whether it be to limp with aces at an aggressive table, or even limp in late position with an aggressive blind stealer in the big or small blind, or whether you're just calling a raise with a monster... You're STILL going to want to have a way so that every time you do this you have the guy outchipped.<br />How do you do this?<br />By employing <a href="http://powerholdem.blogspot.com/">Daniel Negreanu's power holdem strategy</a>.<br />Phil Ivey, Phil Helmuth, Daniel Negreanu, and some of the other best poker tournament players in the world employ a similar strategy.<br />This strategy is raising, mostly with position, with all sorts of hands... But you are raising small amounts... You WANT the blinds to call you, because you can outplay them, you understand pot odds, you understand that with unpaired cards they'll only hit the flop 36% of the time, and from a small blind or big blind they'll have a random hand, probably with a weak kicker that they're uncertain about. You understand when they're strong, when they're weak, you understand the power of position and you understand what a maniac image this gives you... and you also understand that when people play back at you, eventually they're going to play back at you, and you're going to have a hand. But you also understand that you don't need to bet big and commit your opponent to the flop, you don't need to bet big to take the pot down. You also understand that if your opponents are passive you can see the hand to the river, and decide if it's best and bet accordingly. You also understand that if they're passive aggressive (bet if checked to, call if someone bets, occasionally raise if they have a big hand, but not against someone who keeps betting) and you're out of position that you can play more hands because if you're on a draw you can bet small and control the pot, and you can bet small for information on the flop and bet big enough for them to fold their weak hand if you think they will. If they're passive with a monster hand, you can get paid off because you'll hit your 4 outer, and they won't be able to get away from their hand. Others will look at this hand and think you're a maniac, giving you a perfect image.<br /><br />Granted, you have to adapt to your table and make adjustments... If someone is reraising you every hand, this is when you trap, knock down the aggressors, and then make the same play of calling raises with position, with drawing hands to scare your opponents. You can just call a bet with nothing against an opponent you think is weak, if he checks to you on the turn you can usually bet and take it down. You can bet the flop with a backdoor flushdraw, and then your opponent may call and check expecting you to bet and you check and hit the backdoor flush, and your opponent who was maybe slowplaying a hand might give you all of his chips. If you flat call to bluff on the turn, you might also pick up a backdoor flush draw, and your opponent may think he can push you off of a hand, and he'll commit a lot of chips and you'll reraise a small amount and he'll feel like he has to call because you checked and you'll get paid off. If you have a weak ace and you hit and your opponent calls a bet out of position you want to check... Maybe he has AK, maybe he has a draw, but the best way to get money out of him is to check behind on the turn... Now you know that if he bets out he either missed his draw or he has you beat. Well if you see a possible draw on board you can call and you just got extra chips out of him because you checked, but if not, you can fold or just call a bet to a much smaller pot. On the other hand, he could have ACE KING and you might just hit two pair on the river and get a lot of his chips as well. It's much harder for an opponent to get away from a hand when they hit against a player like you, and it's harder for them not to check and call to you, as you should be fairly passive against an aggressive player. They've probably seen you bet on the turn as well, you might have had it, maybe not... But they see you betting all the time, and expect you to. They think they can trap you, but you're not going to fall for it because you're not the maniac they think you are. It's a controlled mania, it's absolutely great. and of course there's going to come a time in a tournament when an aggressive player bets and you flat call (after doing so before) with aces, and someone trys a squeeze play at the wrong time and you get it all in with aces... There's going to be some opponents that check raise you with nothing, and you're going to hit two pair or a straight. When you play like this you really don't want to slowplay a monster because if you check after betting every other flop, your opponent should be able to figure it out. Since you're playing small pots, it's not that necessary to protect your hand by raising, because you're not going to fall for someone who draws out on you and bets the pot out of nowhere. If he does you can fold... If your hands vulnerable, it's not that strong to begin with... You'll be playing a lot of hands, so you're going to see a monster hand sooner or later. You're also not going to need to take risks protecting against hands when you have a maniac image because people might call and suck out, or call with a big enough draw that they hit... AND because it's such a small pot, you don't gain enough by betting big to protect your hand. Many times people get scared out of a pot that they have the best hand in... Say you have A9 and the flop is 9 high... Well a T a J a Q or a K could hit, but that doesn't mean your opponent has it. He has a 12% chance of hitting on the turn if he has 2 over cards, but A9 with 99 isn't that strong anyways. Keep the pot small and you'll end up winning more than your fair share of them. If your opponent has an ace, or even a lower pair with an ace, it would be a BIG mistake to chase him out because if the ace comes you have him and can extract value. You look like such a lucky player and joker, and maniac, and all the characteristics of a bad player when you play like this... But you're adapting to your table, and you know how they're going to adapt to you. You're folding a lot of big hands when they play back at you, others at the table think you have garbage, the person in the hand is upset he didn't get paid off. A player raised in EP playing the first hand in 40 hands! I had KQ of hearts so I called just HOPING he had aces so if I hit I got his whole stack. The flop came QJT with 2 spades and he leads out and bets. Now the hands I should put my opponent on are the top 1/40 hands or 2.5% of hands especially in early position... but lets just say he wasn't picking up a hand and give him credit for the top 4% of hands. This includes AA KK QQ JJ TT 99, AKs, AQs, AK...<br />That's it... Now which hands am I a favorite over? Not many... Given that range of hands I actually only have a 28% chance of winning by the river. I know in traditional style of play you can't lay that sort of hand down.... if you don't have the best hand you could have 13 outs! But the pot isn't big because you didn't make it big. Your style is such that people are waiting for you to bluff them when they have a monster. This is usually a hand that I will just call down because I know if I hit I could bust the player... But I mean he either has 2 of my outs, a straight already and I'm drawing dead, or a set so if the board pairs my straight is still no good. OR he has 4 of my outs, and top pair. If you give him credit for possibly holding AQ he could have a pair with a flush draw and a straight draw.... BEST case scenario he has 99. But the point is, I hit my "outs" and they may not even be good. I should have been done with the hand but he bet the pot so quickly I didn't have much time to think, and I thought If I called I'd get some info. Well unfortunately the flush card didn't come He bet about 2/3 of the pot . I called again... The river was a 9. No possible flush, he bet the pot again. I hit my hand and still was thinking about laying it down... I knew he was strong, but I had already called it down so I called hoping he had a set, but it was AK and I lost a big pot. The funny thing is, given the fact that my 9 hit, I was STILL not even a 60% favorite over his range of hands. If not for my Negreanu style of play I KNOW I would've been dead and had all my money in on the flop. As it was I was still able to have some chips left<br />The more you learn to play this style well, the more you'll realize that you can afford to fold BIG hands. Another example was when I flopped two pair... I was eating the table alive, and there was only one person who had as many chips as I did. I raised with 96 of spades and the flop was 965 with two dimonds. The small blind immediately went all in... he was the only person left at the table who had more chips than me... I saw him go all in with top pair twice already, and was pretty sure I had him drawing to 3 outs. Well I was right but in hindsight I still shouldn't have called. He might have had 2 overcards with a flushdraw, and he might have had a pair of 5s with a flushdraw... I decided that he didn't have 78 because I had seen him slow play a straight. He could have had TT maybe too. Well he showed A9 and hit his ace on the river taking me out. It made me stop and think. How good were my chances of winning the hand... the answer is about 80%... But consider this... Early on I had 3000 in chips from stealing blinds and pots alone.. my opponent had 3100. If I don't call I'm going to probably get about 20% of all my opponents stacks at the table before it breaks... That's about 2500 chips risk free. So I'm either 100% to get 2500, or 80% to get 3000. Well 80% of 3000 is 2400, 100% of 2500 is more. Now the 80% of that 2500 (if I survive, I'm getting 2500 as well) is 2000... So you have to ask yourself, is 2000 chips worth risking a 20% chance of getting knocked out early on?<br />I say no... and I certainly have some clear arguments for it, but I'll get to that in the next post.Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09220032033702940624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34420577.post-61052853992158298242007-08-22T06:09:00.000-07:002007-08-22T06:25:46.639-07:00Math formula and poker Part 1Math is very significant in poker, but it is certainly more relevant in limit. Perhaps there can be some sort of formula to play holdem and win at it in no limit, but to be one of the best, you need the math plus the added edge of being able to read your opponent, or put him on a range of hands. However, given there are ranges of hands you can put your opponent on, and given the fact you know what knid of tendancies your opponents have, you certainly can use mathmatical formulas to at least get some sort of an idea of what to do.<br /><br />For example, if you have 99, and you decide you're not going to be able to play small ball poker, you're outskilled or whatever, or you're making a move and taking a stand near or on the bubble and your table isn't really letting you see a lot of hands, lets say you're on the big blind with blinds 50/100 and they've just raised it to 300 and you reraise it to 1100, and you have 5400 in chips, and your opponent has 5200. Your opponent just calls. Now the flop comes QJ2 rainbow(all different suits)... what's your chances of being ahead, what does your opponent have, what can you get him to fold. Lets assume that he's either going to move all in when checked to, or fold if you push. Lets say the range of hands is(AA, KK, QQ, insert range of hands). If you knew how often your hand is good here, you could know whether or not it's correct to shove all in, and if it's correct to fold.<br /><br />Fortunately there's a software called pokerstove (link coming soon), that allows you to figure that out. You can list your specific hand 9c9h, and your opponents range of hands. Then you can list the flop and see your equity (how often you're expected to win by the river). Well you can even determine that your opponent is going to call when he has a pair of queens or jacks... You can say he'll fold anything else, (other than AK which we'll also factor in the mix). If he folds, you're picking up say 2500 and at this point you're risking 4100<br /><br />This first post is just to get you thinking about how you can use math to make some difficult decisions. In the next series of posts, I hope to uncover some key concepts, show you specifically what to do in this situation, what to do if he had more chips, less chips, different hands, etc.Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09220032033702940624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34420577.post-80718972738755388442007-08-21T19:28:00.000-07:002007-08-21T19:30:32.060-07:00Daniel Negreanu teaches his power holdem strategyHere's Part 1<br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Xeeozbb2_FQ"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Xeeozbb2_FQ" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09220032033702940624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34420577.post-61746580041456649882007-08-21T11:11:00.000-07:002007-08-21T11:29:46.489-07:00I'm backsorry guys, had a lot going on, and then I ended up losing the password to log into the blog, I finally found the peice of paper I wrote it on and got everything changed...<br /><br />Somehow one of the blogs I linked to got shutdown so that may be gone as well but I'l be starting fresh again.<br />Anyways I plan on posting at least twice a week if not more, I also have an ebook coming out, and lots of good stuff to come. Thanks for your patience and I hope you learn everything you can from this blog.<br /><br />I plan on adding videos, maybe even creating an audiobook, and there's a lot of great stuff yet to come. I'll be focusing primarily on this site, I may add to the bankroll builder and other sites, but for now you can expect to see most everything here.<br /><br />As to where my games at, I've been really learning how to impliment Daniel Negreanu's power holdem strategy. I've been accumulating chips effortlessly and moving up. As you probably have heard, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson freerolled his way from 0 to 10,000 recently with proper bankroll management skills. I finished a similar feat freerolling 0 to $1000 by using the same money mangement skills. My goal now is to do the same thing again, this time I will log my time. I'm trying to learn everything I can about poker first and foremost and I think freerolls are great expperience. It's very difficult to bluff online, and even more so on freerolls, so it really allows you to focus on how to get your money in as best you can, and be very selectively aggressive, going after the rocks at the table. You have tochop away at the small pots because otherwize you're going to have to survive all in after all in, and even with aces, that's a tough feat... Dutch Boyd always talks about how aces all in 3-4 times in a row, and you're only about 50% to survive. If you watched the WSOP 2007, you'll noticed that Scotty Nguyen finished 11th... Here's a guy who's hardly EVER EVER all in, and that includes pushing all in as well as calling all in. The greatest risk reward ratio you can have is by gradually accumulating chips, and not getting it all in unless you are a MONSTROUS favorite AFTER the flop where your edge is greater. you might not even have to go all in even if you're getting your money really good because the risk is so great, especially early. When the blinds get bigger, okay, you're going to have to, when you get near the bubble, sure because everyone else is going to be giving you there blinds and you want to take out anyone who isn't making it easy for you to steal the blinds. But early on it doesn't make any sense. There's a podcast with Doyle Brunson and they asked him about doubling up early and he says hes just happy if he can have more chips than he started with, and he said "what difference does it make" for doubling up. Phil Helmuth said he really doesn't start playing until the antes get in because that's when you have the odds uin your favor and there's so much more to gain. I think that it's pretty easy to accumulate chips and avoid confrontation in freeroll, but it may mean folding hands when you normally wouldn't, but when you play Daniel Negreanus' power holdem strategy, you really don't have to put your chips at risk and it'll suprize you how good you can get your money in when people finally flop "something" and you flop a set. If you can learn to play a lot of pots and make these questionable decisions, you'll get paid off HUGE because you have the perception of a maniac.<br /><br />I'll have a lot more tips comming but for now I have to goEditorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09220032033702940624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34420577.post-1160696579248982332006-10-12T16:25:00.000-07:002007-02-22T19:11:20.933-08:00Attention Poker affiliates<h3 style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Who <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">ELSE</span> </span>wants to make money on <span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"><u>autopilot</u></span>?<br /></h3><h3 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(even if you're sleeping)</h3>Hey poker fans,<br /><br />Just the other day I made $50 from this website...<br /><br />But I'm not saying that to brag... 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"Poker affiliates" are people that tell the casino that they'll bring them new business on the occasion that the online poker rooms give them a share in the profits.<br /><br />And I'm not only going to <a href="Http://uspokeraffiliatereviews.blogspot.com">review all of the poker affiliate programs out there</a>, but i'm also going to teach you how you can <a href="Http://thepokeraffiliates.blogspot.com">do the same</a>.<br /><br />For reviews on what affiliate program is right for you click:<br /><a href="Http://uspokeraffiliatereviews.blogspot.com">Http://uspokeraffiliatereviews.blogspot.com</a><br /><br />For advice on exactly HOW to become a poker affiliate and what to do head over to:<br /><a href="Http://thepokeraffiliates.blogspot.com">Http://thepoker affiliates.blogspot.com</a><br /><br />-Mike<br />----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/poker affiliate" rel="tag">[poker affiliate]</a><br /><a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/online poker rooms=" rel="tag">[online poker rooms]</a><br /><a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/affiliate programs" rel="tag">[affiliate programs]</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.technorati.com/claim/iasqzjx8x4" rel="me">Technorati Profile</a>Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09220032033702940624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34420577.post-1160387504042202602006-10-09T02:48:00.000-07:002006-10-09T02:51:44.393-07:00More US informationA quick follow up to the last post, I have began a <a href="Http://uspokerreview.blogspot.com">review site</a> for all the US sites that plan to remain in the US. You can find this site at <a href="Http://uspokerreview.blogspot.com">Http://uspokerreview.blogspot.com</a><br /><br />I made sure to keep the site seperate in order to keep this blog relevent to Daniel Negreanu's power holdem strategy, but if you are a poker player make sure to <a href="Http://uspokerreview.blogspot.com">check it out!</a>Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09220032033702940624noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34420577.post-1160023613699096082006-10-04T21:46:00.000-07:002006-10-05T07:40:07.223-07:00Daniel Negreanu's power holdem strategy review site news: Gambling LegislationNow I like to keep things related and this article is not designed to promote Daniel Negreanu's Power holdem strategy book like the rest of the site so it may be a little off topic. But it's obviously a very important issue to many poker players out there, so I'm still going to cover it. If you are not from the U.S you don't need to read this article.<br /><h2>Gambling Legislation</h2>As you all know the United States Congress recently passed a bill. If it is not vetoed in 6 months all US transactions between poker sites will no longer be accepted.<br />Fortunately, since <a href="http://neteller.com">Neteller</a> is not a US company, any transactions between Neteller are still legal (even after the 6 month period until the law is in effect), since it doesn't violate any international laws. As long as those poker sites reside completely in other countries they aren't violating any international laws either.<br />Neteller and a few sites that have no companies or assets in the US will be safe as long as they stand their grounds.<br />The danger comes with sites that choose not to allow US citizens to play poker, and the casinos that act out of panic. Sites like Party Poker, pokerchamps, and many others fall into this category. Pokerstars another MAJOR site has refused to agree that they would continue to allow US citizens in the next few months, and has said that they have not yet determined how they would handle it, and that they are "carefully considering all possible options" (now if that doesn't sound like they are afraid and preparing to backdown without having to recieve as much violent oposition from poker players, I don't know what does!)<br />But rest assured, Sites like <!-- Affiliate Code Do NOT Modify--><a href="http://www.absolutepoker.com/main.asp?host=a_77a_21620b_963">AbsolutePoker.com<img src="http://affiliates.absolutepoker.com/processing/imp.asp?memid=21620&creative=963" alt="" border="0" height="0" width="0" /></a><!-- End affiliate Code-->, and<br /><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://www.pokercs.com/_5948151efd33df3abc0fd67135679ed6/">Poker.com</a> will remain available. And you can play with confidence, because the law does not penaltize US citizens for playing poker online.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.pokercs.com/_5948151efd33df3abc0fd67135679ed6/">Poker.com</a><br />recently issued a <a href="http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Number=7506986">statement at twoplustwo.com</a> that they will maintain their usual business and make no changes. They will accept US business and I expect poker.com to grow to be one of the larger poker sites as their are millions of party poker players looking for <a href="http://www.pokercs.com/_5948151efd33df3abc0fd67135679ed6/">somewhere to play.</a><br />(That's where the $50 refer-a-friend promotion comes in handy)<br />Also there are some that question whether poker sites violate the law since they view gambling as betting completely 100% against the house. Basically since Poker is designed to bet and play with other players rather than the house (with the house taking a small fee), lawfully it's not too different than a membership for software such as foreign exchange trading software or any other program that allows exchanges and/or transactions such as itunes, or even internet explorer or firefox as they allow more efficient trading, or even a bank service with a "transaction fee" service such as paypal.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Neither Neteller nor poker.com are U.S. based companies so all transactions will be safe.</span><br /><br />From what I understand the law does not make poker or gambling itself illegal, it basically just makes it more difficult and requires foreign transactions, and it greatly discourages sites from allowing US customers. But the only thing the law really does is designed to not allow US transaction for gambling sites.<br />Check out the <a href="http://www.pokerplayersalliance.org/">http://www.pokerplayersalliance.org/</a><br />to help keep poker legal there's still hope.<br /><br />An estimated 3.3 billion dollars could be made from the US if they regulated poker... Imagine if we used that funding to go towards curing cancer and other major diseases.<br /><br />But politicians are more concerned about staying consistant and representing strong (fake) values just so they can win the next ellection and win one more lousy term then taking a stand to make this world AND the US a much better place. 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He is a two-time World Poker Tour champion, winner of four bracelets at the World Series of Poker, and a contributor to Super System 2. Since 1997, he has won more major tournament than any other player in the world. In 2004, Negreanu finished in the money in five World Series events, and won the Player of the Year award. As of August 2006, his total live tournament winnings exceed $8,400,000. He is the second all-time leading money winner on the WPT circuit, trailing only Tuan Le.<br /><h2>Tournament finishes of over $50,000</h2> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th bgcolor="#ffebad">Event</th> <th bgcolor="#ffebad">Description</th> <th bgcolor="#ffebad">Place</th> <th bgcolor="#ffebad">Prize</th> </tr> <tr> <td>2006 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions</td> <td>Freeroll No Limit Hold'em</td> <td>2nd /27<br /></td> <td>$325,000</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2006 National Heads-Up Poker Championship</td> <td>$23,438 No Limit Hold'em</td> <td>5th / 64</td> <td>$75,000</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2006 Jack Binion WSOP Tournament Circuit-Grand Tunica</td> <td>$10,000 No Limit Hold'em</td> <td>1st /241</td> <td>$755,525</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2005 L.A. Poker Classic</td> <td>$2,778 No Limit Hold'em</td> <td>3rd/180</td> <td>$60,000</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2005 The Sixth Annual Jack Binion World Poker Open</td> <td>$10,000 No Limit Hold'em</td> <td>3rd /512</td> <td>$384,322</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2004 The Five Diamond World Poker Classic II</td> <td>$15,000 No Limit Hold'em</td> <td>1st / 376</td> <td>$1,770,218</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2004 Borgata Poker Open</td> <td>$10,000 No Limit Hold'em</td> <td>1st / 302</td> <td>$1,117,400</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2004 Championship Poker at the Plaza</td> <td>$10,000 No Limit Hold'em</td> <td>1st / 68</td> <td>$310,000</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2004 World Series of Poker</td> <td>$2,000 Limit Hold'em</td> <td>1st / 287</td> <td>$169,100</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2004 World Series of Poker</td> <td>$1,000 No Limit Hold'em</td> <td>3rd /538</td> <td>$100,940</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2004 Party Poker Million III</td> <td>$7,000 No Limit Hold'em</td> <td>2nd /546</td> <td>$675,178</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2004 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure</td> <td>$7,500 No Limit Hold'em</td> <td>3rd / 221</td> <td>$192,270</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2003 Showdown at the Sands</td> <td>$10,000 No Limit Hold'em</td> <td>6th / 197</td> <td>$67,900</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2003 World Series of Poker</td> <td>$3,000 No Limit Hold'em</td> <td>2nd /398</td> <td>$210,980</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2003 World Series of Poker</td> <td>$2,000 S.H.O.E.</td> <td>1st /135</td> <td>$100,440</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2002 World Series of Poker</td> <td>$5,000 Omaha Hi/Lo Split</td> <td>2nd / 79</td> <td>$85,400</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2002 L.A. Poker Classic</td> <td>$300 Limit Hold'em</td> <td>2nd /591</td> <td>$84,987</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2002 L.A. Poker Classic</td> <td>$500 Pot Limit Hold'em</td> <td>1st / 227</td> <td>$113,500</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2001 World Series of Poker</td> <td>$10,000 No Limit Hold'em</td> <td>11th/613</td> <td>$63,940</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2001 1st Annual World Poker Challenge</td> <td>No Limit Hold'em</td> <td>3rd / 171</td> <td>$82,935</td> </tr> <tr> <td>1999 United States Poker Championship</td> <td>No Limit Hold'em</td> <td>1st/ 70</td> <td>$210,000</td> </tr> <tr> <td>1998 World Series of Poker</td> <td>$2,000 Pot Limit Hold'em</td> <td>1st / 229</td> <td>$169,460</td> </tr> <tr> <td>1997 World Poker Finals</td> <td>$1,500 Limit Hold'em</td> <td>1st / 64</td> <td>$96,000</td> </tr> </tbody></table><br /></div>Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09220032033702940624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34420577.post-1158952735731725752006-09-22T12:17:00.000-07:002006-09-22T12:18:56.280-07:00Daniel Negreanus Power Strategy - A way to Holdem Success<p class="MsoNormal">Hardly anyone that is successful in anything got that way without help.<span style=""> </span>Everyone models themselves after someone they admire in someway.<span style=""> </span>But whether it was intentional or not, the successful people modeled themselves after successful people, or at least those with some successful habits.<span style=""> </span>Sure they may add or develop a few of their own, but for the most part they have created from other peoples habits, their own model of how to be successful.<span style=""> </span>If you want to be successful, it is imperative that you find someone who has already been successful, and model your behavior after someone who is.<span style=""> </span>And although you can take anyone who’s ever been successful in anything and apply a few of the things they do to what it is you want to be successful in, it is often more relevant and more efficient to just find an expert in the field you want to be successful in and model yourselves after them.<span style=""> </span>The trick is to be as specific as you can.<span style=""> </span>If you want to be a professional Texas Holdem No Limit Tournament player, rather than modify yourself after some random Omaha or 7-card stud player that plays cash games, try to find someone that is successful in no limit holdem tournaments.<span style=""> </span>Sure, you may find that they have also learned to play other games, and you may learn that playing these other games enhances your ability to play no limit holdem.<span style=""> </span>But regardless the point is the same.<span style=""> </span>If you want to win lots of limit tournaments, then find some of the best limit players in the world and do everything that they do.<span style=""> </span>But rather then just follow their style around and do what they say they do on the poker table, you can really gain an advantage by learning to walk act move and talk like they do… To act as if you are already a successful no limit holdem pro.<span style=""> </span>Because if you do that, your mind will begin to process information the same way they do, and soon you will begin to think the same way they do.<span style=""> </span>This will dramatically speed up the time in which you learn how to win like they do.<span style=""> </span>This is why it is important to get Daniel Negreanus power holdem strategy.<span style=""> </span>Daniel Negreanu has gotten together several of the best poker players in the world in each holdem game, cash, or tournaments, limit, no limit, you name it, to make possibly the greatest poker book ever created.<span style=""> </span>Sure if you want a course in power poker there’s always the classic Doyle Brunson’s super system.<span style=""> </span>However things that happened back then are not the same as the things that happen now.<span style=""> </span>People have learned how to play holdem better and better, and they all learn different strategies.<span style=""> </span>They have gotten less and less patient, and more and more aware of steals and bluffs, and resteals and semibluffs.<span style=""> </span>You have to be a little more careful depending on who you play.<span style=""> </span>The game has changed, and if you want to learn how to win now, as quick as possible, I recommend that you get Daniel Negreanu’s<span style=""> </span>Power Holdem Strategy.<span style=""> </span>When you read it, pay attention to the patterns in which they use to write, and you will really start to tap into their mind and suprizingly, you’ll actually start to get a sense for the way that they think.<span style=""> </span>There’s almost a sort of scientific approach that they take to the game.<span style=""> </span>They’re always sizing up opponents, always studying them, always looking at things logically, psychologically, and economically.<span style=""> </span>Always analyzing their play as well as opponents tendencies, betting patterns, tells, odds, you name it.<span style=""> </span>But they have 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Every human being has the potential to be pro poker player, to make thousands of dollars every day, but very few will put their mind to it to do something as simple as learning what it takes to win…<span style=""> </span>so by now, I just want you to ask yourself… How bad do you want it?<span style=""> </span>Do you want it bad enough to pay under $30 to buy a book that could make you thousands?<span style=""> </span>Do you want it bad enough to put a safe amount of money by you at the table that you can afford to play with; gradually working your way up from rags to riches?<span style=""> </span>Do you want to have a lot of fun while you do it? Well then, that means that now it’s time to make a choice.<span style=""> </span>Either you can choose to not buy Daniel Negreanus power holdem strategy, and not even look at another word until the next time you enter a poker tournament.<span style=""> </span>And then when that day comes you’ll look back and regret everything and wonder what could’ve been.<span style=""> </span>But if you want to use your brain for a change, (and not just any change, but a very positive change), you’ll realize that you can make a wonderful choice to invest in not only Daniel Negreanus power holdem strategy, but you. <span style=""> </span>Because you see, when you buy Daniel Negreanus power holdem strategy, you’re not only investing in a great poker book, but you’re also investing in yourself.<span style=""> </span>To enjoy your life and earn some money while you’re at it, and then you can find out just how good of a poker player you can be.<span style=""> </span></p> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">By now, you’ve tried enough strategy and ideas that were either old books that worked great 20 years ago when they made the book, or other books that just basically copied some of the same ideas in their own words.<span style=""> </span>Well by golly, after trying all that stuff, you’ve tried too much to not try a different book.<span style=""> </span>One that will help you win.<span style=""> </span>One that’s by the great pros like Daniel Negreanus, made for anyone interesting in learning Daniel Negreanus power holdem strategy so that they can play like a pro, and win like a pro. <span style=""> </span>So buy Daniel Negreanu’s book… why, you owe it to yourself to at least try Daniel Negreanu’s Power Holdem Strategy.</span>Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09220032033702940624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34420577.post-1158349407719600182006-09-15T12:43:00.000-07:002006-09-15T12:43:28.276-07:00Daniel Negreanu's Power Hold Em Strategy - Key to advancing deep in holdem tournaments<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">The <i>key</i> to <u>advancing deep in tournaments</u> is to <span style="font-size:78%;">minimize risk</span>. However avoiding risk altogether won't get you deep in a tournament because you have to seek out reward as well, or at the very least maintain your chip stack.<br /><br />And anytime you enter a pot there is some risk involved. Despite that fact, I have discovered that the best way to minimize risk over time is by using <i>Daniel Negreanu's Power Holdem Strategy.</i><br /><br />Originally I thought that the best way to minimize risk was to fold a lot. Because obviously the best way to avoid risk on any given hand is to fold. You cant lose chips if you don't enter a pot, right? Wrong.<br /><br />Every hand you don't play is about 1/6th of a big blind. And as the big blinds get higher and higher, your chips dwindle faster and faster. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">Throughout the course of a tournament, you're going to have to take some risks to stay alive at some point anyways, so you might as well learn to use your chips as muscle and develop negreanu's policy on holdem,<br /><br />Well you might say, well putting chips in every pot every hand, and representing strength in holdem might be Daniel Negreanu's course of action, but it's not my plan.<span style=""> </span>I'll just wait for premium hold em hands, Aces, Kings and Queens. Then I'll double up and be back in it. That must be the way to avoid risk.<br /><br />Although that used to be my line of thinking, I know now that is simply not true. Although <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1580422047/danielnegrean-20?creative=327641&camp=14573&adid=1G5VX0FYYMQNBKXEXGXK&link_code=as1">Daniel Negreanu's Power Holdem Strategy</a></span> is risky for those who don't know what they are doing, the greatest risk is not learning how to use the power holdem strategy. Dan Negreanus </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><br />Dan Negreanu's power poker tactics are a better and safer way to accumulate chips. If you don't play a hand in ages, people are gonna stay away from you unless they have something big.<br /><br />Which means all the waiting got you was the blinds. And they'll have much more chips then you by that point so they'll be able to force you to risk a large portion of your chips. So if you don't drive people out at the holdem table using Daniel Negreanu's scheme outlined in Daniel Negreanu's book Power Holdem Strategy, then in order to get back in the game to the big stacks, at this point you'll almost have to go all in.<br /><br />Which might not be a bad thing, but by doing all this waiting, even if you double up you probably won't be the big stack, and you'll dwindle down again and be left with less chips then most. On the other hand, if you learn how to use Daniel Negreanu's plan of holdem power, his a policy of strength and aggression that will give you the authority and control over the poker table. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1580422047/danielnegrean-20?creative=327641&camp=14573&adid=1G5VX0FYYMQNBKXEXGXK&link_code=as1">If you learn to use Daniel Negreanu's power holdem strategy</a>, you'll see that Daniel Negreanu's come up with an approach to rule the holdem table. The next time you watch Daniel play poker, notice that Negreanu's guiding principle is to out muscle and control the texas holdem and poker tables, as he gradually builds up a massive chipstack, Danny Negreanu's texas hold em fundamental gameplan is to use his poker ability to project superiority and command the holdem table.<br /><br />Heck you could even use Daniel Negreanu's Power Holdem Strategy against Daniel Negreanu himself! On second thought you might want to be careful against him, I heard he's pretty good :)<br /><br />Anyway, while going all in with a premium hand isn't super risky; not getting yourself in a position where you have to go all in is a much safer solution. And that means<b>... </b>Accumulating chips, and grinding away... Picking up small-uncontested pots without having to risk large percentage of your chipstack. And that usually means playing a lot of hands, and that usually means implementing <b>Daniel Negreanu's Power Holdem Strategy... </b><br /><br />I've been mixing this style into my game and it really helps me to move up in chips consistantly throughout tournaments. My old habits still make me tend to want to take risks that I don't have to and call an all in or go all in with a hand that I could easily fold and wait for a better situation. The more I use Power Poker Strategy, (Daniel Negreanu's along with a little bit of my own style) the more foolish it becomes to put all my chips on the line preflop.<br /><br />Really with the tools, and that ‘Daniel Negreanu’s influence’ on others, this holdem blueprint strategy provides you with the power so you don't need to take as many chances, and you don't need to call all your chips off as less than a 60% favorite, and as you use to learn it you don't even need to be doing that as a 70% favorite.<br /><br />That's why you see some very successful poker proffesionals lay down hands as good as Queens to bets that would put them all in. As good as Jacks, Queens or AK might look... (Espcially against some maniac) it should be a fairly easy fold if you have to put a significant amount of your chips on the line.<br /><br />There's simply more value in risking 80 chips to get 200 over and over again, then risking all your chips to double up. If you get reraised 10 times in a row you still will have plenty of chips left, (and obviously if that was the case you would adapt before then anyways).<br /><br />If you catch a hand a couple times when you get reraised, you can often make a large portion of that lost money back quickly. On the other hand, if you lose just once when all in, you're done, and there's no way you can ever earn it back.<br /><br />You could even have Aces, but after about 3 all ins you're 50/50 to be knocked out of the tounrament from one of those. Of course hopefully by then you'll have enough chips to cover you, but even then you'd still be greatly crippled unless you had some other way of accumulating chips. And of course, I can't reitterate enough how much Daniel Negreanu's Power Hold em Strategy can help you in this area.<br />It allows you to accumulate chips through muscle and strength. It allows you to establish a line of attack for Texas Holdem dominance (as well as other games). It allows you to use Dan Negreanu's plan to influence holdem players and accumulate chips.<br />The Hold em Strategy outlined in Daniel Negreanu's book is Negreanu's plan for holdem dominance every single time he sits down at a table.<br /><br />The fact is that if you can gain chips by chipping away and winning small pots,(and you're at much less risk that way), you have a much greater chance of advancing deep into the tournament than if you sit around and wait for aces.<br /><br />That's the beauty of <b>Daniel Negreanus Power Holdem Strategy</b>, it allows you to accumulate chips gradually at low risk, and in the meantime it's unpredictable, allowing you to make big plays when your opponents least expect it. if you want to take your game to the next level, and consistantly advance in tournaments, (and have the chips to do a lot of damage when you get there), I urge you to buy, borrow, or trade or whatever you got to do to get your hands on</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><i><u><span style="font-size:13;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1580422047/danielnegrean-20?creative=327641&camp=14573&adid=1G5VX0FYYMQNBKXEXGXK&link_code=as1">"Daniel Negreanu's Power Holdem Strategy"</a></span><br /><br /></u></i></b><i><u><br />Daniel Negreanus Power Holdem Strategy-<a href="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=danielnegrean-20&amp;o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=1580422047&fc1=000000&IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&lc1=0000ff&bc1=000000&bg1=ffffff&f=ifr">the greatest poker book</a> since Doyle Brunson's Super System I a course in power poker<b><o:p></o:p></b></u></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p>Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09220032033702940624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34420577.post-1158341809365684232006-09-15T10:21:00.000-07:002007-01-12T05:42:53.226-08:00Daniel Negreanu's power holdem strategy reviewI'm not gonna do a book review just yet, but rather a little review on the strategy as a whole.<br />If you've ever seen <span style="font-weight: bold;">Daniel Negreanu's</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">power holdem strategy</span> in action, you know that he tends to play a lot of pots and he like to mix his game up. Many people bring up <span style="font-weight: bold;">Gus Hansen</span> when they mention his style of play, or a <span style="font-weight: bold;">Gavin Smith</span> type style. Obviously when you play more pots you have more chances for your opponents to make mistakes against you, but you are also more prone to mistakes.<br />Which is why if you intend on adapting Daniel Negreanu's holdem power gameplan , you're going to need to know a lot about holdem, or at least be good at making those tough decisions.<br />Of course the idea is to force your opponent to as many tough decisions as possible, (and as <span style="font-weight: bold;">Doyle Brunson </span>says put your opponent on a decision for all of his chips), but you want to avoid those situations yourself. So that's why you want to be the aggressor, it's much easier to make a bet then it is to call a bet.<br />If you just call you have to worry about the opponent raising on the turn or river, and if you raise you're putting more chips at risk when you don't know what your opponent has.<br /><br />The best part about <span style="font-style: italic;">Daniel Negreanu's power holdem strategy</span> is not only that you get a chance to gradually chip up as you take small pots, and not that it seems to give you control over the table, but that once you learn this power strategy you'll be unpredictable, and able to disguise your monster hands and really get paid off. Especially when you have something like T9 and the flop comes 8JQ.<br /><br />It's also a strategy that you can use almost regardless of what kind of table you're at.<br />If you have a bunch of people playing tight preflop, you can steal a lot of pots, if they play tight post flop, you can outplay them on the flop.<br />If you have a bunch of people around you playing loose preflop, you can afford to play a lot of hands with it and look to get paid off pretty decent if you have strength, especially if they're loose after the flop.<br />If they play tight after the flop you can really represent the flop, and have some profitable situations even if you don't win every other hand.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">This brings up a <span style="font-size:100%;">valuable point</span>... <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"></span><br /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">The long term goal is not to win more pots than you lose, but to win more <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">chips</span></span> than you lose.</span><br /><br /></div>So if with you and 3 loose players in the flop comes AA8 and you bet half the pot, you would only have to take down the pot 1 out of 3 times to break even. After 2 turns you'd lose a whole pot size worth of chips, after the 3rd you'd win the whole pot and more or less would be back where you started. That's ignoring the times that they'll just check/call and say you catch a flush or something.<br />But the best part about this is NOT that you'll probably win more than you lose, because even if you lose more chips than you win here, it's still profitable... The best part about it is your IMAGE...<br /><br />Here's why, lets say next time you have pocket 77s and get an AA7 flop, well you've just flopped a boat and now you come out betting just like you always have. Someone could have JJ and think it's good against a player like you. Against a tight player they wouldn't dream about raising with Jacks, but they've seen people play over the top of you, and they've seen you dump hands to reraises, and they think there hand is good against you.<br /><br />Now rather than folding, they play back over the top and you get much more chips than you would... or even better yet they just call thinking you'll fire another bet with nothing, and THEN they'll play over the top of you.<br />Well, now you go over the top again and take down a <span style="text-decoration: underline;">huge pot</span> or you end up against AK or he feels pot committed and you get the entire stack. Something you obviously wouldn't have been able to do if you had been playing tight and passive.<br /><br />No limit holdem has and will always be a people game. The best way to set up your opponent is to keep them guessing, and wait until they guess wrong then BAM their chips are yours. And in the meantime, you might as well use tactics of authority, a plan of control over the holdem table, Daniel Negreanu's an excellent poker player and he knows that if you keep that drive and grind an an opponent, that eventually the force on him will be too great, and he won't be able to stand your holdem scheme. 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