Poker Stratgies

FullOf..IT

Has anyone got a favourtie poker startegy?

I know of a few and would like to add them to my arsenal but dont want to go through every poker book to find some.

2 I really like are floating (which i heard about here) and the stop and go.

Any more? And how / when should they be used?..

5starpool

That is such a vague question, and I doubt you will get a satisfactory answer until you narrow it down a bit. Tailor your strategy to the situation. Play the player as much as the cards. Floating and stop and go are useless against certain players so you should know which moves can work against which players and so on.

Gholimoli

yip ive got antoher two

playing the turn
playing the river

Culchie

Folding alot.

luckylucky

Floating?
Stop & Go?

What are these?

A strategy I have employed on occasion is to deliberately buy-in for a raggedy amount say in a max buy-in game of $400 i might buy-in for something like $191.43 - it makes me look desperate which of course i'm not, it also gets overlooked as a non-threatening amount - which of couse is not strictly true it is almost half a buy-in after all and a double-up or in some case a triple-up can see me catapult me to one of the larger stacks and it can also unnerve some guys who had me penned with that desperate tag and cause them to make further mistakes. This was a strategy I had only started recently and I quite liked it, on a break from poker at da mo so hard to gauge how successful this strategy is from purely personal experience but I think it's a viable option. There are downsides of course with this strategy in that you are asking to get picked on more - though that can work out for you too of course, perhaps the biggest downside is if you are the best or 2nd best at the table you have not initially at least got the potential to maximise your returns. Still i think I like it ... on occasion anyway. So much about poker is about disinformation after all!

ArmaniJeanss

luckylucky wrote:

Floating?
Stop & Go?

What are these?

Floating -> Calling a bet with nothing, with the plan of taking the pot away on a later street, even if you still have nothing. Useful but dangerous ploy, used maybe against someone who you have spotted does continuation bets on his pre-flop raises, but gives up on the turn.

Stop&Go. Avoiding a 50/50 coinflip as follows. We both have 9BB. Say you 'know' I have a small pair, and I raise 3BB pre-flop. You have AQo and, if you push I have pot odds to call, so its a 50/50ish. Instead you call, and push on any flop. My small pair can no longer call a flop with 3 overcards, so even if you havnt hit, you win. Thats the theory, obv if I know you do Stop and Go's its different etc !!!

slegs

ArmaniJeanss wrote:

Floating -> Calling a bet with nothing, with the plan of taking the pot away on a later street, even if you still have nothing. Useful but dangerous ploy, used maybe against someone who you have spotted does continuation bets on his pre-flop raises, but gives up on the turn.

Stop&Go. Avoiding a 50/50 coinflip as follows. We both have 9BB. Say you 'know' I have a small pair, and I raise 3BB pre-flop. You have AQo and, if you push I have pot odds to call, so its a 50/50ish. Instead you call, and push on any flop. My small pair can no longer call a flop with 3 overcards, so even if you havnt hit, you win. Thats the theory, obv if I know you do Stop and Go's its different etc !!!

Stop and Go works well with serial blind stealers in tourneys late on..u dont even need the drawing hand in theory..u just need him to miss the flop

Norwich Fan Rob

stop and go also works well if u have a small pair yourself.
if u think opponent has big cards, ie AQ AK, instead of pushing pre flop and giving him 5 cards, just call and push any flop, thus giving him 3 cards to hit rather than 5, (even if u had 55 and he has JJ its hard for him to call on AK3 flop and if he has 77 88 he most likely folds, if he has AQ on 689 flop , your 22 may not have to worrry about a turn and river that pushing pre woulda involved). Obviously SnG only works when u are first to act after the flop.
Stop and go is best employed if u believe your opponent will call your re raise all in pre flop, and u are willing to play for stacks.

Obviously if villian is pot commited by raise pre, then it may not work, u need to retain some folding equity post flop, and it works better if blinds are worth stealing, ie dont be doing it in early levels of a tourney.

luckylucky

ArmaniJeanss wrote:

Floating -> Calling a bet with nothing, with the plan of taking the pot away on a later street, even if you still have nothing. Useful but dangerous ploy, used maybe against someone who you have spotted does continuation bets on his pre-flop raises, but gives up on the turn.

Stop&Go. Avoiding a 50/50 coinflip as follows. We both have 9BB. Say you 'know' I have a small pair, and I raise 3BB pre-flop. You have AQo and, if you push I have pot odds to call, so its a 50/50ish. Instead you call, and push on any flop. My small pair can no longer call a flop with 3 overcards, so even if you havnt hit, you win. Thats the theory, obv if I know you do Stop and Go's its different etc !!!

Ah I c - cheers was aware of both these strategies didn't know there was names out there for them. Yeah both are definitely appropiate strategies in the right situations.

Lafortezza

Call a raise preflop and the open-fold the flop! Gets them every time!

Habitualgambler

For some reason I can't quit calling raises with crappy cards and beating people. Not too crazy of raises. But if we're on the first hand a of a tourney and you raise three times the blind, and it's not too much comparitively, then yah I'll call a 4-7 suited or 10-8 off. It is the way to crack big hands without them knowing. Of course, I've been knocked out of tourneys on the first hand before too. haha.

C.R.

We're still up too!!