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Originally Posted by tom.hunter
Hey
I was reading phil helmuths book play poker like the pros, and he said somthing interesting the advises a supertight strategy playing only the top 10 handes when your a beginner being
AA
KK
QQ
AK
JJ
TT
88
99
77
AQ
(In no particular order here)
I was woundering maybe instead of me playing looser tha this supertight stratregy at the micros maybe if i played say $1-$2 limit with this strategy i could observe beter play and hopefully not adjust my play and pickup bad habbits cos of how loose and aggressive they are at the micros.
Cheers, what do ya think of his strategy and my idea of using it?
Obviously when i got better i would try and introduce more strating hands, but i dont mind being patient
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Is this for Cash or tournament play? I can understand this list more if its for cash play, since has already been said the early stages of tournaments are about building a chip stack, and considering you might NEVER get these hands dealt to you in a tournament well then that puts paid to that strategy.
Its all well and good playing ONLY certain hands but what happens when you get AJ in late position and everyone has pretty much folded around to you, do you fold because its not on your list?
What about when there are 5-6 limpers in the pot and you get a pocket pair of 66-22 do you fold, because I dont because im getting odds on them to call, its about 8-1 on flopping a set. I know that a lot of the time if someone raises big with AK vs 22 and the flop comes Ax2 i can pretty much stack them there and then.
Those are just a few situations in which hand charts dont consider - you can stick to that chart and use it as a base guideline but there are lots and lots of OTHER things to consider.