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Gaining A Title
Sep. 5th, 2007 02:03 pmIt struck me, as I was pumping away on the cross-trainer, cursing my ever-ageing body and how it's now become a daily struggle simply to maintain stasis, that Flynn, Mehta and Miller (FMM) should not have called their book "Professional No Limit Hold'em". They should have called it "Stack Control in Pot Limit and No Limit poker games".
Then, instead of talking about TPTK hands and the like, they could have discussed "hands that get bad reverse implied odds", "hands that get not-so-bad reverse implied odds", "hands that make their money from implied odds", "fit or fold" hands, etc.
To be honest, I don't think anyone reading this book is going to need lessons on calculating pot odds. This book (the useful part) is all about stack control.
I like taking stuff from books and aplpying it to other areas (which is why I like the Stoxtrader book so much). While I was sitting there and thinking about the now famous Stack-to-pot ratio of 13 and how the "frequent" example that they gave cropped up about one time in many thousand in my NL games, it occurred to me that their writing was actually more likely to be of use in Pot Limit Omaha. Now, here the whole situation described, where you have the Omaha equivalent of TPTK or an overpair, and are OOP to the button, occurs much more frequently.
In other words, take the SPR chapters, ignore the hand examples and think in terms of general principles, and then transfer the argument to PLO, and you have a winner.
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I shall be making my Olympian apperance (once every four years) at the Gutshot on Saturday. Michael Rosen is over from New York and is missing live action now that the clubs in NYC have become harder to find. I rather fancied the Vic or the Empire, but Michael had already been to the Gutshot 9and so had I) and it's not a bad place to get to from Canary Wharf. I can't decide whether to play the tournament ofr the cash game, but I might actually play the cash game. That would be my first live cash game outside of Vegas since around 2001.
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Then, instead of talking about TPTK hands and the like, they could have discussed "hands that get bad reverse implied odds", "hands that get not-so-bad reverse implied odds", "hands that make their money from implied odds", "fit or fold" hands, etc.
To be honest, I don't think anyone reading this book is going to need lessons on calculating pot odds. This book (the useful part) is all about stack control.
I like taking stuff from books and aplpying it to other areas (which is why I like the Stoxtrader book so much). While I was sitting there and thinking about the now famous Stack-to-pot ratio of 13 and how the "frequent" example that they gave cropped up about one time in many thousand in my NL games, it occurred to me that their writing was actually more likely to be of use in Pot Limit Omaha. Now, here the whole situation described, where you have the Omaha equivalent of TPTK or an overpair, and are OOP to the button, occurs much more frequently.
In other words, take the SPR chapters, ignore the hand examples and think in terms of general principles, and then transfer the argument to PLO, and you have a winner.
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I shall be making my Olympian apperance (once every four years) at the Gutshot on Saturday. Michael Rosen is over from New York and is missing live action now that the clubs in NYC have become harder to find. I rather fancied the Vic or the Empire, but Michael had already been to the Gutshot 9and so had I) and it's not a bad place to get to from Canary Wharf. I can't decide whether to play the tournament ofr the cash game, but I might actually play the cash game. That would be my first live cash game outside of Vegas since around 2001.
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