Poker Strategy: Find Your Game With Advanced Poker TrainingCheck Out APT's Array Of Poker Training Tools |
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Skill in poker is relative. Sure, there are some objective markers. For example, those who open-raise most of the time are likely stronger players than those who open-limp most of the time. But poker skill is relative, measured largely by who else is seated at the table.
Most players have had the experience of being in a cash game that quickly underscores their weaknesses, and then getting a table change and suddenly feeling competent. You can be a star at a $100 buy-in tournament at one room and then find yourself trying to stay afloat against relentlessly aggressive sharks at another.
Finding a game that meets your skill set is not easy. Trial and error is expensive, and egos can get in the way of admitting that a game may be over your head. Advanced Poker Training (APT) offers an array of tools to assist in the leveling process.
Most critically, their no-limit hold’em (NLHE) simulator allows you to vary the difficulty level for the game of your choice (9-Max, 6-Max, MTT). You can place yourself in Phil’s Garage, for the weakest player mix, up to KGB’s Dungeon for the most challenging. You can also mirror lower live stakes ($1-$2) on up to high stakes. Finally, within these choices you can vary the aggression level by setting the player mix to be more or less aggressive than is typical.
APT’s ongoing reports will identify your strengths and weaknesses as you navigate increasingly challenging games. Are you responding to stronger play by open raising and continuation-betting more? Are you continuing to the river when you are ahead on the turn? Are certain hands, formerly profitable against weaker opponents, now turning into losers? Are you starting tournaments strong when deep stacked, then wilting against skilled virtual opponents in the middle-to-late stages? APT’s weekly Training Plans will highlight these problems and provide structured practice sessions to address them.
As you move up to play stronger opponents on APT, you’ll find where you shift from profitable to break even, and perhaps even start losing. When you then enter online or live games, you’ll have an idea of what skill levels give you trouble. You’ll be prepared, or perhaps forewarned, that moving from games with moderate limping and almost non-existent three-betting, to games where late position reraising is the norm will bring an abrupt halt to your profitability.
Bottom line: don’t move up to more expensive, stronger games without the requisite skills to compete. Nothing damages bankrolls more than venturing into depths before you’re ready. Use Advanced Poker Training to find your skill level and then improve until you’re ready to take on all comers.
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