RE: Poker Tip Man Armen- "Heads-Up Play"
Straights are more common than trips!!!
Not true. First off, there aren't 12 cards, each player is using 7 cards (5 community and 2 in hand). Here are the odds of making each type of hand in a 7 card hand: http://people.math.sfu.ca/~alspach/comp20/
You should change your strategy when playing late in a heads-up Sit N Go or heads-up in a tournament when the blinds are high and you only have 8 or less big blinds. I suggest pushing all-in with any ace, any king or pocket pairs. You can push with just about anything if the small blind just calls the blind. You can also push all-in on the button with absolutely nothing just to take the blinds if you're feeling it. Just be careful and pick and choose your battles.
This is really bad advice. First off, assuming you are only shoving or folding, you need to have rigorous ranges for what you are shoving and folding, and ace/king/pairs is not the range.
Assuming you only shove or fold with 8bb, this is the shove range:
61.7%, 22+ Kx+ Q2s+ Q4o+ J2s+ J7o+ T4s+ T7o+ 95s+ 97o+ 85s+ 87o 74s+ 64s+ 53s+
And this is the calling range of the BB:
47.5%, 22+ Kx+ Q2s+ Q7o+ J6s+ J8o+ T7s+ T9o 98s
That said, only shoving or folding is a bad assumption. You can double the amount of money you expect to win by not only shoving or folding. In fact, 7bb poker was solved and the solution is surprising: limp your big pocket pairs and big suited connectors along with some trash offsuit hands, shove most of the rest, and fold the bottom 10-15%. This raises your winrate from the sb from 1.5bb/100 (winrate only shoving) to 2.9bb/100.
I dont think you understand what I said about playing with 12 cards. 2 for for each player that's 4...3 burn cards and 5 on the board. That is equal to 12. Just try shuffling and grabing the top 12 cards and see what hands you can make with all 12 cards. Let's let others be the judge as far as being helful or not. I take your input into consideration maybe you can try to take my advice into consideration without your preconceived negative input. It looks as if your totally into badgering and harassing. I dont see you posting on other poker post and im sure you can come-up with something to say about other posts. So stop targeting and try to be more open minded to other poker styles. If you get 2 top pro's in a room, they will argue all day about who is right or wrong. Anyways thanks for your input.
I posted on your blog because I follow you. If I don't post on another poker thread it's because I don't follow that person or didn't see it pop up on my feed or in the poker section. But I have commented and corrected the mistakes of others in blogs I saw
examples:
@jokerpravis wrote a hand analysis that was pretty good but I slightly disagreed with and wanted to post my thoughts.
@goingpaper made a thread with some misplayed hands that I gave advice on.
I follow and respect @churdtzu, but posted my thoughts here in this one because I thought it was a ridiculous assertion that poker players use ESP.
I did not downvote you (and I've never downvoted you), and am not harassing, just correcting mistakes in a non confrontational manner.
Don't understand why @kushed is downvoting a well thought out comment with correct information that you may want to include in your post.
Poker is a complex strategy game that often has incorrect answers that need to be improved. As you said, sometimes there are situations where it's unclear what the absolute best answer is, but sometimes it's also clear there is a very wrong answer to something. For instance, imagine two pros arguing about what their 3betting or shoving range should be against a looser opener with a certain amount of big blinds, that is something where it's unclear what the best answer is because it depends on another piece of information.
Coming up with a perfect solution is usually difficult or impossible for humans at this current time, but improving an answer is much easier. Shoving only Ax, Kx, pocket pairs, or "anything" is not nearly the correct range if you were only shoving or folding, so I posted what the exact shove/fold range would be, and also posted that that strategy is not optimal, saying what the basic optimal strategy is for shortstack play. This is the type of situation where you have all the information you need, and two well-informed pros won't differ on their opinion of what is correct.
Also, it's not relevant that there are 3 burn cards and that the other player receives cards. If there were 30 burn cards it does not change the fact that each player gets 2 cards in his hand and 5 on the board meaning 7 cards. And straights are not more common than trips in any handed game of holdem, that is the point.
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Damn straight daut. This guy is just giving plain bad advice in general and making a mockery of poker.
Thank you for your continued support. I know what you can do to get some upvotes and make a couple of bucks. You can make a tutorials on how to down vote posts. You seem to be very good at that. I still can't figure it out. Another thought, you can do a post on how to be a daut44 gruppie.
You are just taking advantage of people who have no idea on how to play poker and you tell them shoddy advice that will probably make them lose money. I would love to make posts on my poker knowledge but it just isn't worth my time as I work a stressful fulltime job. All I can do is tell people when someone is trying to run a scam which is what you are doing. if you have actually won money at poker in the long term and haven't just run good, then I would be completely surprised.
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