ok....I really love your site and as a croixdawg and hokiegreg fan I would like to see some more vids coming from them:)
I've heard a lot of players saying that first 10 hands of a husng are very important and that picking up information from those first hands u can fell how your opponent is playing. I would like to ask all active forum guys to tell me what type of tells or what kind of information they've picked up from their first 10 hand experience and what was the mistake their opponents made for making this possible .
My second question : do you high roller players change styles depending on the buy in? lets say between 200 and 1k or more...
thx a lot to everyone
I think the number one thing to look for in the first 10 hands is how loose and how aggressive your opponent is playing.
The answers to those seem to have the biggest affect on the changes you make to your game plan as you stray from default play to opponent dependent play.
You also don't necessarily control what happens in the first 10 hands. Maybe you pick up a bunch of good value 3bet hands OOP and you find out your opponent is a station to your 3bets. Maybe then you make sure you're almost only 3betting for value (strong hands) and you might even bump up the sizing of your 3bets, particularly if your opponent plays poorly postflop.
There are dozens of other things to pick up on, but those are the two big ones in my mind. The whole game is like that though, not just the first hands. It's just that the first 10 hands are often going to force you to make the biggest adjustment, since you start at "standard" or "default" play and once your realize your opponent is loose/passive/tight/aggressive/weak you'll be making a big adjustment and often only slight adjustments thereafter.
It's almost like being blindly thrown onto a highway with your car. You don't know if the MPH are 35, 45, 55, 65 or even 75, you don't know if the road is bumpy or smooth and you don't know if the conditions are night or day and wet or dry. You figure that out in the first minute or two, then you adjust your driving to those conditions. After that, if the MPH drops or increases slightly, you make a much smaller adjustment.
Obviously, there aren't many realistic situations where you'll be blindly thrown into a highway without any knowledge of the conditions, but maybe you drink a lot and blackout and can relate. I think the comparison works though.
It shouldn't matter if you are playing a $5 game or a $5000 game, what matters is how your opponent is playing.
I think there is a difference between the stakes.
At the lower stakes i find that the players only think one step ahead, where at higher levels there are more thought process.
There are people like that at both levels; it might be more lopsided just because better players are going to tend to move up in stakes, but you can't just go into a game and be like "ok, this is higher stakes so the opponent has to be better." I've been called down all-in on the river by the second nut low in a $550+20 before.