12 Responses to “TPE Theory: Shortstack Play (Part 1)”

  1. lafauriea

    Great stuff Matt, looking forward for next episodes.
    Suggestions, but I guess you already recorded all the serie and/or you already adressed this suggestion:
    some calculations with HRC where you compared R/F vs R/C vs Shove at different stack size would be great. In the same area, 3b shove vs 3b/Call to induce or 3b/fold range (in this case can we build a 3b/fold range at 25bb and less).
    Also flatting strategies discussions when shallow would be great.
    thanks

  2. BogeyB13

    Excellent first part to what looks like a great series Matt! Like the HRC stuff and look forward to more shortstack analysis by you.

  3. theginger45

    Flatting strategy is tough to analyse in the same series as this stuff. I think I outlined it in some of the future videos as best I can. You can look forward to the shove versus raise-call analysis in future parts too. 🙂 Thanks for the comment!

    Oh, and in answer to your point about building a folding range at <25bb…we can, and we should. You should see that in parts 5 + 6 of the series.

  5. coffeecup

    Hi, Question. I play live only, so when I watched your very good shortstack play 1 video, I thought how can he do this, I can play only one hand (two cards) against another players (two cards), so how can you show a video and get a true analysis when you play a range of hands against an other players range of hands???? a hand is two cards vs two cards. If I run my poker cruncher with 2 cards vs 2 cards I get a much truer answer. Please help me understand. thanks

  6. fatal_unicorn

    I have been playing with a push/fold chart for three weeks and having horrendous results by using the sheet as a prescriptive tool. Every website about charts said that were perfect mathematically, but instinctively I felt that something was terribly wrong – I then tried using the charts based-on effective stack size and things did improve a little, but the outcomes were still not awesome. This video proves that I’m not going nuts and that charts are dangerous.

    Since memorising charts has no value, how can we learn how to push/fold in a way that close resembles GTO?

  7. theginger45

    A hand is two cards versus two cards, but while you know your own hole cards, you don’t know your opponents’. Thus, the only way to accurately analyse any poker hand is to consider not just what your opponent has right now, but what he or she could have – in other words, if you played the same hand an infinite number of times, what types of hands would your opponent show up with?

    Poker is all about the long run. What your opponent actually has doesn’t matter in the slightest – it’s imperative to think in terms of ranges. I recommend watching Andrew Brokos’ series on hand-reading if you’re struggling with this concept. Thanks for watching!

  8. theginger45

    Someone just asked me this on Twitter – maybe it was you. Anyway, the short answer is, the same way we get good at anything else – time and effort, or rather, effort over time. I’ll be writing an article soon that will outline some specific training methods, though. Thanks for watching!

  9. MJ23STYLEz

    I just seen this and had to give my $.02

    In my opinion, do NOT use a push/fold chart when you play..yes, it’s good to know that stuff but like you said “instinctively” you felt that something was wrong and that’s bc EVERY situation in poker is unique and can’t be figured out perfectly by charts, graphs or HUDs…math in general helps but poker is not a card game, it’s a people game that uses cards. If you start to think of it like that then you will begin to look at each poker hand you play as a short story rather than a math problem, and as you read more of these stories you will get better at figuring out what your opponents are trying to tell you. Like the ginger said, it’s going to take a lot of time and effort but you will get better bud, just always stay positive and most importantly have FUN!! Poker is a game so enjoy it! Remember, there’s no such thing as losing..you either win, or ya learn something.

    but hope that helps some, take care bud.

    -MJ

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