Back to the Stars

Hope everyone had a great weekend. I went to the beach and watched a few videos, so nice and relaxing for me. Pokerwise I finished clearing my bonus at Full Tilt so I'm back at Pokerstars chipping away at that Supernova status. The one difference I have noticed between the players at Stars and Full Tilt is that while the Stars players are not necessarily better they are certainly a lot more aggressive. This means making a few adjustments to my game. I just need to be more patient and wait for the good opportunities, where on Full Tilt it is a lot easier to make your own opportunities.

I've got a $200 5x bonus to do at Tower Gaming sometime this week. Tower Gaming is part of the Ongame network an apparently the games are fairly soft. It's the best bonus available at Ongame and should clear quickly, I'll let you know what the competition is like.

Todays Topic: No Limit Holdem vs Limit Holdem

A couple of years ago Limit Hold'em was all the rage. Finding good games and making money was easy. Things have changed a lot since then. These days the limit Hold'em games are generally very tough and most of the fish have moved to NL Hold'em. NL is all the rage and the dominant game at all online sites. If you want to make the change to NL or have made the change and are struggling then here are my two best pieces of advice:

1. To successfully change from limit to No Limit you need to understand that Limit Hold'em is a game of winning pots, and NL Hold'em is a game of winning stacks. This means in Limit you can play hand like K J, A 10 profitability and hands like small suited connectors (3,4 6,7 etc) don't always have a lot of value. The opposite is true in NL. In NL you always have to be focused on how you can win your opponents entire stack. Small suited connectors and small pocket pairs are hand which can do this. Some players will not throw away their high pocket pairs and hitting trips on the flop is a great way to win a person stack. At the same time hands like K J and A 10 are likely to be dominated if any decent amount of money goes in the pot in NL and need to be played carefully if at all. In NL you sometime have to throw away the best hand when against multiple opponents and a lot of draws on board.
   
2. Purchase a copy of David Sklansky's "No Limit Holdem" book. It is the definitive guide to NL Hold'em and the advice in the book if followed is almost certain to make you a winning player.
   

Todays Link

This one is an Utube oldie but a goodie. The guy sold everything he owned, travelled to Las Vegas and bet it all on one spin of the roulette wheel. He bet $136000 and this is what happened. Link here