Small Stakes Hold Em and "The Hill"?

[ctswpt76]

Just wondering if anyone here has used the SSHE book (Miller, Sklanski, et al) techniques up the Hill at the 2-4 or 2-5 Hold em tables and what was your result?

I finished the book and it had some really good pointers, I highly recommend it to anyone who hates Limit HE as much as I do.

Anyway, just curious what to expect the next time I'm up there. Will definitely be going to the Gilpin as I haven't seen their room yet. :cool:

Thanks, hope you all have a happy new year! :drink2:
Chad

[pseudoswede]

I haven't read that book, but Lee Jones' Winning Low-Limit Hold'Em really help establish how I play up there, and I've been doing pretty well on the 2/4 tables.

[Wetdog]

I read SSHE and agree, it is a great book. For the most part it works well up the hill, unless you have a whole table of suckout artists who chase all the way to the end. Then you really need to be even more selective as to what your play will be.

Lee Jones's book tells you how not to lose; Ed Miller's book explains how to win.

[ctswpt76]

Thanks guys, will let you know how it goes when I get back. I haven't been up since May.....lost $100 in about 2 hours....it was a horrible night.

Like flopping the K high flush and getting rivered by a guy with the A, he even said under his breath "There it is" when the 4th Heart came, and I still bet and he raised and I called....it was ridiculous.

So I'm hoping now with SSHE under my belt, I will fair a little better next time I'm up there......

Thanks again!
See you at the tables :xcool:
Chad

[Timmay]

I haven't read that book, but Lee Jones' Winning Low-Limit Hold'Em really help establish how I play up there, and I've been doing pretty well on the 2/4 tables.

I found this book has some good insight to it, I may try the other as well.

Best way to avoid all the suck outs, at least from what I have seen, is going during a weekday, when the tables first open. Ususally you will find the "older", less, suicidal players.

[Rick]

Ususally you will find the "older", less, suicidal players.


Hey, I resemble that remark :)

Every time I have gone I have got there at the open. Much quieter and a lot more sane.

Besides, they have lots of people just standing around then waiting for the crowd that can help me carry my chips to the cashier to cash out ;)

[ctswpt76]

I always get the urge to go on a Friday or Saturday night which sucks....

Too busy and crazy play...I will have to try a daytime midweek run. :moneybag:

[nrkofover]

I find that the Double Eagle in Cripple Creek on a Friday or Saturday night is great, primarily because of the crazy play, young drunken arrogant players are my favorite.

I have a simple formula, if I win 1 of 3 hands I play all the way to the river, I'll be up. I play really tight, and I bet max if I have the best hand of the moment. I really like the 2/5 spread for that reason, $5 matters as a bet and the more callers the better, if they suck out, they suck out and it happens, but when your hand holds, you get a huge pot, and on the flip side, I have no problem riding a four card flush/open straight to the river and sucking out on others. And the simplest rule, no bluffing ever. I slow play and check raise a ton because once other people have bet, they feel committed to the end.

I've only lost money three times (this past weekend was one of them when it seemed every flop was three single-digit cards, an Ace in your hand was dead before you bet it :)) in probably 25 trips.

I've never read a poker book of any kind but I feel like experience helps so much more, if you sit at a table with a relatively similar dynamic on a regular basis and know how to win at those tables, that's worth forty books worth of reading.