We've learned from our new book that strategy in poker games changes as the number of players change. Thus when at a full ring game of nine or ten players we choose our strategy based more on our card holdings than our opponents.
This is the hit-to-win, or TAG approach.
As the number of opponents decrease we change the strategy based more on the way our opponents play. To reorient our thinking we begin to ask “How can we win without cards?”
When we arrive at heads up play, winning hands often is based on not arriving at a showdown.
Based on the above, a more sensible approach to moving into short handed play is to move more slowly from full ring to 6 max. Later down the line, perhaps September or October we'll look more at heads up play.
No comments:
Post a Comment