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Posted by: starfall at June 16, 2006, 10:03 am

Topic: Three easy tips for poker freeroll sucess! Forum: Card Chat

Twizzy, I've already acknowledged that you don't keep playing like that, and that it's not about playing good, solid poker here, it's about basic maths. After that first hand you play with Patience, Power and Position. It is specifically to better allow you to do that, because you can Patiently wait for a decent hand after that because you have a much larger stack, Power because you'll have the chip advantage when you do play over most players, and Position has nothing to do with chip stack, so that's unaffected by this but no less relevant to your strategy.
What you're missing is that where a freeroll has no entry cost, that changes things, and it is a specific strategy for the first hand to make the most of this difference - in much the same manner as you have to play somewhat looser in a 'kill' game or tighter in a no-ante Stud game. Hopefully that last sentence has also indicated what I've already said, that this isn't just spouting without any knowledge of normal poker strategy.
I go all-in first hand, and then you try to cripple my stack because you think I haven't learned patience, then more fool you, twizzy, because I have, and plenty of it. After that first hand I don't keep playing like that, and fools who see that all-in first-hand play and assume I'm going to play loose after that will call with a weaker hand when I've immediately started playing tighter. Like I said, after the first hand, then you play solid poker.
Twizzy, look at things another way. If you play every hand in Holdem with patience then in the later stages you will get blinded out because as the blinds increase and get large relative to your stack you need to take a few more shots - premium hands don't come every 6 hands, do they? This is knowingly deviating from the sound patient strategy in response to a specific set of circumstances. So is the 1st-hand push concept. Anyone who can't understand that someone may push 1st hand and then play solid poker afterwards is at a disadvantage because they'll consistently misread that opponent afterwards, and is therefore a fool to make that assumpion. Like I said, and apparently have to say again, it's a specific situation where you deviate from standard poker strategies because of the basic maths of the situation. It's not a 'Standard' poker strategy, but it is a solid one, because solid ones are about getting a maximum return on whatever investment you're making. That it's apparently not immediately apparent benefits those that are willing to think outside the box.
It's not difficult to illustrate situations where you'd deviate from a standard poker strategy to benefit yourself. Another one is when , in a Satellite, where the top 10 players get a seat, and there are 11 or 12 people left, and you have one of the largest stacks, and pick up AA as your hole cards. Despite everything telling you that's the best hand in poker, and it's the hand that you wait for and dream of, generally you dont play it, because at that point you can be 99% sure of getting in the money by just not playing a hand, and less sure if you do play a hand. You deviate from solid poker strategies to ADAPT TO SPECIFIC CIRCUMSTANCES.
Another common one in freerolls is getting lots of sit-outs (say 5 or more at a table). Standard, tight poker strategy will get you a gradually increasing chip stack, especially with the number of uncontested pots when you do play, but it's hardly the best strategy - instead you want to ensure that you are taking most of the blinds. The unadaptive, tight player will even lose some hands to the sit-out blinds, when they check down with a missed hand, but someone who understands the maths behind poker rather than just standard strategies will adapt and make a lot more profit.

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