#2: Starting ABC: Positions and Opening

Our openings-range depends on the table. You can pretty much hold on to the following chart if you're learning the game, and open up more as soon as you'll get comfortable, just as when the table becomes even more loose passive as it's usually is.

We'll kick of with the Table Positions for those who aren't familiar with it:

While for a 7-Max Table it'll be:

1. UTG
2. MP
3. HJ (Abbreviation of Hi-jack, the seat before the CO)
4. CO
5. BTN
6. SB
7. BB

I hope you'll get the picture :) It's handy knowing positions while discussing hands in the future, since position is Mega-Important. (double-capital-important!)

Over here I´ve got an opening guideline:

Early Positions (UTG1 - UTG3)(Relatively same as UTG - UTG +2)

Raise; AJs+, AQo, KQs 77+

Middle Positions: (MP1 - MP3)
Raise: ATs+, AJo+,KQo,QJs+ 66+
Overlimp range: Low pocket pairs, Axs

Late Positions: (HJ - BTN) 
Raise: Axs, A8o+ K5s+, K9o+,Q8s+, Q9o+, J7s+, J9o+, 67s+, T8o+, 22+
Overlimp range: Low pocket pairs, Kxs+

SB:
Pretty much the same as Late Positions, but tighten up a bit because of the fact we're Out Of Position. Something like:
Axs+, A8o+, K5s+, K9o+,Q9s+, J9s+ T9o+, 78s+, 22+

But as you'd probably expected, there obvious are a lot of limpers. I can make a schedule which says which hands I recommend playing with X amount of limpers, but that'll turn out pretty obscure. Also in my opinion it's way better to think about it yourself, so I'll sum up some facts and assumptions which are going to determine our range.

• Is the table playing fit or fold? --> Raise much pre, C-bet small a lot of the time
• Are a lot of players at the table capable of calling 2 barrels with bottom pair, 2 overcards, or a weak draw? Tighten up a bit and play close to the schedule, a bit looser if you're feeling comfortable.
• Are there people who make it clear they come to dump money? Isolate them a lot.

And so you can go on, and it's all logical stuff that you just need to think about a little bit at the table, and adjust your play to the situation. Easy as Dell. Again, this is just a guideline. You're openingsrange at MP3 obvious should be wider then at MP1, and all depending on the table, but I guess that's crystal clear.

I hope you guys got an idea about how to play. There's not one single play that'll work, more ways will lead to Rome. But for the beginning live player, I recommend to just play ABC, and pick your spots carefully. Also really try to practice adjusting to other players. If you're able to adjust quick, you'll be printing money in no-time!

#1: Intro to Crushing Live Low-Stakes NLHE

Hi there!

Welcome to my blog!

I decided to make some informational blogs, and as it seemed fun to me, I decided to make a blog about crushing Live Low-Stakes (up to 2/5) No Limit Holdem! I guess this blog will look something like this:

• Small part (~20%) technical talk: Like theory and Hand discussing
• Pretty big part (~60%) meta-game talk: Importance of being friendly, things like that
• Another small part (~20%) about random poker talk, like variance, stop-loss etc. 

There are lots of places where you can play some live poker. Most common and accessible for people are the Casino's. A lot of people there to have a good time, but also some people who play poker as a profession (regulars).

Obvious the most easy money you can get, is getting a lot in pots with people who come there to have a good time. Most of these people don't understand the game all that much, but saw some High Stakes Poker on TV and decided if these guys at TV can do it they also can.  They love to play every hand, and prefer limping. That's live poker: Limping Limping Limping. From here comes our core strategy: Playing ABC, and targeting the less-educated (pokerwise) people. 

Then there's another significant part from where we can make our money from. Exploiting the regulars. Low-stakes No Limit live regulars aren't good. Actually, they pretty much suck, and I'm a firm believer you can make more money from these "regulars" then playing against the people who come there to have a good time.

We're going to talk about exploiting regulars later, while we'll kick of with some ABC concepts.