Pokerdrillz
June 20th, 2010
Hey, I have launched a new way to do poker training exercises at: www.pokerdrillz.com.
I think it is more fun and challenging. I am strongly considering building an Iphone app with these poker drills.
Why don’t you try it and let me know what you think?
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Pokertrainer Mythbusting #1 - Loose Aggressive is as successful as Tight Aggressive
January 25th, 2010
Well, under some circumstances it can be - and it can be even more successful.
But when opponents are playing good poker, at full ring table with average stack depth (100 big blinds) there is only one style that is truly successful and that is Tight Aggressive. By the way, I am talking Texas Hold’em No limit games here.
It took me a long while (years) and quite a bit of money to figure this out. I hope you will not make the same mistake. Because it is more fun to be splashing money around and outplay your opponents and put fear into their hearts than sitting around waiting for that good hand, right?
Some of you might argue that this might be true for cash games, but there is no way this is true for tournaments? Well, in a way you are right. But you are missing one thing. I mentioned that this is true when opponents are playing good poker. And you might also be missing the stack sizes, which are an important factor.
So what do I mean, are tournament players not playing good poker? Well, many of them are. But MANY of the tournament players are really scared of busting so they are playing very few hands preflop and fold after the flop if they don’t make a good hand. Especially in live tournaments. I probably would to if I had traveled 1000’s of miles and paid 10 000 $ to enter.
But that is not how you should play if you want to play good poker. And it is not the way most players are playing in online cash games or early stages of tournaments. From the levels when people start playing decent poker, let’s say $0,5-1, a lot of the players are Tight Aggressive and will not be bullied around be someone who is playing a lot of hands.
And now you are thinking, yeah, yeah, this guy has lost some money playing loose, maybe he’s just a bad player and now he is bitter?
That could have been the case. But it isn’t. What has convinced me of the merits of Tight Aggressive play on decent playing tables, regardless of if it’s a tournament or a cash game is deep analysis of my hand history database with 5 million played hands and 100 000 players. I have not yet found a cash game player who has been really successful and who is playing more than 25% of all hands at decent levels.
So I challenge you!
Show me a player who’s playing more than 25 % of the hands and who has a winrate of more than 2 BB/100 hands (2 big bets = 4 big blinds) on $1-2 or higher over more than 50 000 hands at full ring!
You will be rewarded with a book from my Recommended Reading if you are able to produce some kind of evidence of this (for example a Tracker screenshot). You will get lots of honor.
If you want to find out more about a winning style of poker, check out my Poker Dashboard. It has helped me a lot. Maybe it can help you too?
Cast a vote and make comments so we can get the debate going!
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Poker Dashboard released
January 6th, 2010
Ever wondered if you are a good or bad in poker - or just lucky or unlucky?
Check out the brand new Poker Dashboard and find out at: www.pokertrainer.se!
The Poker Dashboard will:
- Assess your luck, skill and winnings in poker
- Show you how to change the way you play so you play like the very best players
- Luck is assessed by looking at how often you got good starting hands, how often you won all-in situations with Aces or Kings, how often you flopped a set when seeing the flop with a pocket pair and how often you lost when you had a really strong hand on the flop
- Skill is assessed by examination of a number of parameters that characterize your play
The Poker Dashboard is a brand new feature so feedback is highly appreciated!
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Fold set on the flop?
December 24th, 2009
Hero is TAG (Tigth, Agressive)
UTG is TAG (VPIP 16, PFR 5, AF 2)
Would you be willing to fold bottom set on this flop?
| UTG | $212 | |
| UTG+1 | $29.25 | |
| MP1 | $207.45 | |
| MP2 | $199 | |
| CO | $205.40 | |
| Hero | $195 | |
| SB | $252.20 | |
| BB | $263.05 |
- Pre-Flop ($3, 8 players)Hero is BTN
- Flop ($30, 5 players)
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Loading ...Please explain your choice in a comment.
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Proof that poker is a skill-game
December 11th, 2009
This is really interesting!
Drawpoker has been proven to have a skill value of 0,45 in Dutch study!
So what on earth does that mean?
It has been analysed statistically by going through loads of hands. A simplified version of Drawpoker was calculated according to a certain formula to be on the level 0,45. This can be compared with Blackjack on level 0,06.
The needed level to be considered a skillgame according to the Dutch court was 0,20, so no problem for Drawpoker. And they consider Texas Hold’em to be on a higher level.
This is a recap of an article i Aftonbladet (sorry - in Swedish), I have not been able to find the study unfortunately. Please share if you find it.
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