First 500 hands

One of the most common confusing spots fish will play passively in are with weak draws. For instance, on a Q26 flop, if a fish is holding 45o you better believe he's calling. Hell he might call with T9s hoping to hit a backdoor draw of some kind. The other common hand is going to be a pair of course. Depending upon how loose they are will dictate whether or not you can bet JJ on a Queen high board. There are plenty of players I am happy to cbet for VALUE against even if the board reads A782 and all I have is JJ. But to be quite honest, you really cant go wrong with checking back the vast majority of turn cards if you dont like how the hand is progressing. It's very rare for a fish to suddenly pounce on your weakness and bluff you. They wont even read your check as weakness, they'll just see it as another opportunity to hit their draw for cheap. And even if you do get bluffed on occasion, it's not the end of the world. You WILL get bluffed out of very obvious spots where you are giving up sometimes. But dont worry about it, because 90% of the time you'll actually have the goods and be making it back 10x in value bets anyway.

Oh, also regarding the maniacs who crush the table, remember this is only temporary. If you could look up their total winnings they would most likely be huge losers. Yes they seem to do well playing every hand at your table, but it really is just luck. It might work out for them longer at smaller stakes because even though they are playing loose hands, people are paying them off too loosely as well. What usually happens is some fish wins a $20 at NL2 in 30 minutes, then moves up to NL50, puts the whole thing on the table, and loses it back in about 30 seconds. The players are higher limits are simply more experienced and know how to combat this kind of play where smaller players dont.

yeah man dont be afraid to check turn. even if they make there hand they are happy to make it 100% obvious to you by betting 80BB into a 20BB pot

Ok, so checking is probably best at that point?
Is the bet at flop right thing to do?
I realise this depends on their style, but as a new player (amongst other new players...) I have kindof low statistics on almost everyone, even with the HUD.

Good to hear about the maniacs, I'll keep it in mind. Is it fair to compare it to some bad cheesy rush in starcraft, that will win you a lot of games at low levels, but is autoloss at higher levels?

Is there a way for me to try to turn that slope from the blinds around? Like trying to steal blind more often or something. Or should I just accept that I will be paying the price for the blinds to eventually get a good hand that will win me back the money? I would probably be scared to deviate from the preflop chart, which is my only safe ground right now.

thanks for replies!

for that paticular hand it would depend on the stats of the villian yah, you can get a pretty good idea of the way someone plays from a very small amount ih hands ex if they are 75/ 66/ 20 over 30 hands they are either slowplaying a huge rush of cards (super unlikely) or they are a calling station (super likely).

your red line at 2nl is always going to be negative i think because ppl refuse to fold hand so most of your money comes from showdowns w/ premium holdings. As you log a ton of hours you'll notice that there are some other "regs" playing with you that are ultra nitty and have like rediculously high "fold to 3bet" stats so you can take advantage of that by 3betting all day and stealing their blinds as well

(I tried playing 2 tables at once, and omg did I get confused!) and play really a lot of hands,

must be a protoss player lol

ok, so this is where my noobness shines: what does 75/ 66/ 20 refer to?
I have seen many use xx/yy/zz but never really got what the number were. :/
I guess those three numbers, whatever they are, should go on the HUD? I think I currently use VPIP (what kind of hands will they bring to flop?), AF (will they fold or raise my cont bet?) and number of hands (are the other number reliable?).

And I shouldn't worry too much about losing the blinds, ok. Thanks.

I play zerg! Is there a "1a" strategy in 2nl? Problem with multitabling is probably that I have 500 hands. I still have my chart that I have to look up all the time preflop, and on flop and after I panic entirely. I think (hope!) that I will be able to multitable once I start to understand what to do in the most common situations. Atm almost every flop is a first-time experience for me.

xx / yy / zz means VPIP (voluntarily puts $ in pot) / PFR (Pre-flop raise) / 3-Bet

also, if I'm not mistaken AF is aggression frequency, which means the ratio between betting/raising or checking/calling a bet So (again, if I'm not mistaken), the higher the number is, the bigger someone's ratio of betting/raising is to calling/checking. I am pretty sure most winning players have a high AF, but there are multiple winning combinations of stats to succeed at poker :D

ok, thanks Fujikura!

first 500 hands

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i'll bet you make it - only if you follow all the guidelines and play great solid patient poker for a few years

if you listen to that, and continue to get better non stop by posting hh's and watching videos and playing hands, then you will be a super mega baller.

gl,
Ryan