The Poker Academy Session 6: Short and Medium Stacked Postflop PlayA Session By Session Look At The Poker Academy's No-Limit Hold'em Tournament Course |
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Last time we looked at session 5, Deep Stacked, Heads-Up, Postflop Play. Let’s move on through the course.
Session 6 — Short and Medium Stacked Postflop Play
While the last session closed the book on deep stacked play, this session focuses on how to play with a shorter stack. Obviously, because the stacks are shorter, there will be less options and your decisions will get a little easier.
In the first video, site instructors Rep Porter and Rick Fuller break down the concepts of fold equity and pot commitment. The second video shows how to find a balance between staying aggressive, while also keeping in mind fold equity and pot commitment.
“We’re going to talk about sizing our bets a little differently, mostly smaller” said Porter. “To avoid getting into those situations that give our opponents really strong leverage.”
After breaking down how effective stack sizes relate to pot commitment, the duo stresses the importance of generating fold equity by putting your opponents in tough spots.
“When you are playing in a pot with an opponent, its very rare that you will both have the exact same amount of chips,” explains Fuller. “One of you is going to have fewer chips than the other, and that’s the effective stack. This concept can make hands play very differently from each vantage point, depending on which one of you is the effective stack. If you have a P of 10, and your opponent has a P of 1.5 and you make a bet of half the pot, that’s only 5 percent of your stack, but it’s a third of your opponent’s remaining stack. It’s not pot committing for you, but if your opponent does decide to continue, it will be for them. So this is a situation where you can put an enormous amount of pressure on your opponent.”
After a question and answer session, the course teaches you how to determine how many bets are in a medium stack and how to target all-in situations. Whether you are doing this with strong and medium strength hands, value hands or weak draws determines your bet sizing, which in turn controls the commitment point.
The final video before the second question and answer session focuses on short stack play and how to manage your commitment to the pot. Despite being short on chips, you can still find ways to generate fold equity as long as you can spot bets from your opponent that negate that fold equity.
Next time, we’ll take a look at Session 7, Advanced Pot Odds Concepts.
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