tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469485264948625106.post5235753965316815043..comments2023-04-07T03:58:04.025-07:00Comments on No Limit Doc: Who Moved My CheeseNoLimitDochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11519520473050502817noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469485264948625106.post-44097234142107776452010-08-12T20:32:21.154-07:002010-08-12T20:32:21.154-07:00Well done.Well done.Sultanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06506141014376919585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469485264948625106.post-67612122258493714382010-08-12T11:32:13.593-07:002010-08-12T11:32:13.593-07:00I like this alot...thank you... I will have to sta...I like this alot...thank you... I will have to start practicing this technique on poker stars microstakes heads up games.NoLimitDochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11519520473050502817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469485264948625106.post-78592622292481528252010-08-11T23:47:23.881-07:002010-08-11T23:47:23.881-07:00Oh here also is a good article about the Sage syst...Oh here also is a good article about the Sage system for head's up endgame situations - <br /><br />http://www.cardplayer.com/cardplayer-magazines/65582-19-2/articles/15250-are-you-sage-getting-an-edge-in-heads-up-no-limit-hold-39-emSultanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06506141014376919585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469485264948625106.post-83703176367840826812010-08-11T23:12:20.094-07:002010-08-11T23:12:20.094-07:00That is a handy little chart. I did my first 1 tab...That is a handy little chart. I did my first 1 table SNG tonight. Starting out well! :)<br /><br />PokerStars Tournament #300474144, No Limit Hold'emBuy-In: $6.00/$0.50 USD9 playersTotal Prize Pool: $54.00 USD Tournament started 2010/08/11 21:12:32 PT [2010/08/12 0:12:32 ET] <br /><br />Dear sularo, You finished the tournament in 1st place. A USD 27.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account. You earned 45 Sit & Go Leader Board Points for the Venus Division in this tournament. <br /><br />For more information about our Sit & Go Leader Boards, see our website at http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/promotions/battle/ Congratulations! Thank you for participating.NoLimitDochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11519520473050502817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469485264948625106.post-68067351691668981352010-08-11T22:41:41.607-07:002010-08-11T22:41:41.607-07:00I am not sure the Chen book is very helpful to to ...I am not sure the Chen book is very helpful to to most people as it mostly deals with toy games and their solutions. The chart I am talking about had been reprinted in other books like Phil Shaw's - Secrets of Sit 'n' Gos: Winning Strategies for Single-table Poker Tournaments. <br /><br />The Chen book has one chapter wherein they explain how they would incorporate some of the lessons they learned from the toy games which was good but the rest is pretty hard going and probably would not immediately help your game much. I wouldn't recommend that you buy the Chen book if are not a math lover so much as just reading that one chapter and making a copy of the push fold chart.<br /><br />An example of such a chart, and arguably a better one (without a description sadly of how to use it - the numbers refer to blind to stack ratios and when you can push profitably) can be found here: <br /><br />http://www.holdemresources.net/hr/sngs/hune.htmlSultanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06506141014376919585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469485264948625106.post-70488557361820044632010-08-11T17:20:48.943-07:002010-08-11T17:20:48.943-07:00I have Kill Everyone...sorry to say that although ...I have Kill Everyone...sorry to say that although they have some useful info I really did not like the book. I also have Lynch/Turner/Van Fleet's books. I found them to be very helpful.<br /><br />I have never read Bill Chen's book, mainly becuase I have an aversion to math but I will take your suggestion and get it. I also like the idea of playing smaller SNGs since you are dead on about the time the bigger MTTs take. <br /><br />Thanks for the good advice. Tournaments are quite new for me as I have classically been cash only. I can use all the advice I can get my hands on!NoLimitDochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11519520473050502817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469485264948625106.post-83954245744973566722010-08-10T19:42:37.275-07:002010-08-10T19:42:37.275-07:00After reading this I was thinking about what I wou...After reading this I was thinking about what I would do if I wanted to get better at tournament poker. I guess you could use chess as a metaphor in that tournaments can be divided into the three stages and the one stage that is most mathematically straight forward but requires precision and some memorization is the end game. It is also the easiest area to improve in. While it is not as interesting tactically and strategically it is a great advantage to play the final stages of a tournament in a reasonably close to optimal fashion In that context I would probably spend some time with some of the ICM training programs like SNGwizard or a tool like ICM explorer. I also would, if you haven't already, spend some time with the push fold chart in Bill Chen's book which really was incredibly useful. I would then go online and play an absurd amount of low stake sit n gos until I felt I had integrated the material that I did not know before. I would choose sit n gos because the time commitment is much less vast than multi table tournaments and the lessons I was trying to fold into my brain would present themselves more often.<br /><br />The best book I have come across concerning tournaments was "Kill Everyone" by Lee Nelson et al, which while not well written is filled with interesting information. I liked some other books in that vein including "Winning Poker Tournaments One Hand at a Time (Book 1)" by Lynch, Turner and Van Fleet but I am not sure that they are as comprehensively helpful.Sultanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06506141014376919585noreply@blogger.com