http://peterbirks.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] peterbirks.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] peterbirks 2006-05-14 05:55 pm (UTC)

Re: "Ferguson style"?

I'm unaware of any discussion online, but since I make no searches for such things and read 2+2 only sporadically, I am probably well-wrong.

It was just a bit of short-hand for a low buy-in followed by a push pre-flop strategy. The low buy-in serves both to protect you and to encourage the larger stacks to call because it is rarely more than 20% of their total stack size.

This would be hopeless against any competent player cognizant of what you were doing, but it's a pleasant intellectual experiment.

Actually, I adapted it fairly quickly, throwing in a limp on the button holding 88 because I knew that SB and BB hardly ever raised pre-flop. Missed the eight on flop, turn and river, but still won the pot :-)

PJ

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