Welcome to the game Caio.What exactly do you mean by a hand chart? Hand strength? Shove or fold tables? Raise or limp or fold tables?Most of that will not be easily found nor very helpful/accurate.In general, hand strength can vary a lot, depending on your opponent and stack depth.For example, a common hand strength difference occurs with hands such as 54s, or 76o, speculative hands you could say.At deep stacks, if you can see flops for 2 and 3bbs, you'll usually have an acceptable "risk-reward" to play these hands (or at least it's rarely horrible to see flops for 2bb with these hands deep). This is because these types of hands primarily benefit from the large value they receive when they hit their big draws, which won't happen too often, but when it does can lead to big pots. So if you're risking 2 or 3bb to win an opponent's stack that has 70bb in it, that's a pretty healthy risk-reward ratio.Now, when you're short stacked, you can risk the same 2bb but maybe only have the potential to win 15 or 20bb. That's not nearly as appealing on the surface.Of course other variables can be important as well. If your opponent folds often preflop, you'll want to raise any type of hand at any blind level for the most part. But even if your opponent calls every hand preflop, if you have a lot of fold equity on the flop, that can turn a hand like 42o (very weak in of itself) into a positive expectation hand (or at least better than folding). And I'm just scratching the surface with basic examples of when you can play otherwise "weak" hands.If you want to really get the best value out of your time, I would suggest studying adjustments and ways to adapt to various strategies and types of opponents. What do you do if your opponent bets every flop versus checks 50% of hands? What types of hands would you 3bet if you saw your opponent call 3bets with K7s, 43o and AJo, never folding out of 3 instances in the first 15 hands? These are questions you want to strive to answer, as they will happen quite frequently and the better prepared you are with the correct, maximum edge response, the better your bottom line will be.Don't look for a shortcut or formula, because there really isn't one. And that's a good thing, because it keeps people from jumping into the game, finding a basic chart they can blindly read or a very basic strategy that they can follow, and winning. It keeps heads up sng poker in its place as one of the best games for rewarding hard work and constant, focused thinking.
thank you man!it really helped! Im just starting thinking by my own... thats what thinking really means. not making what someone told. but think with logical reasoning... i feel happy but im just starting, happens only sometimes... i would like to have some kind of training this thinking but just with practice, i mean, i need to play more.caio
Definitely.And don't worry, many of us when we started at the $5 or $10 levels, we all looked for charts, shortcuts, and focused on things we didn't need to be focusing on.Preflop hand charts used to be very popular in this game, but I think over time enough responses by good players of "this will NOT really help you at all, you need to change your ranges based on your opponents" started to be repeated often enough to where this isn't asked as often on husng.com or 2p2. I do see a lot more of that question on much smaller and low key forums on the internet though, forums where good husng players don't really participate it. You'd initially think "good, they won't learn how to play" but honestly if somebody can't learn anything quickly they will probably just go on a bad losing streak and quit. That's probably why those forums are completely dead.
Welcome to the game Caio.What exactly do you mean by a hand chart? Hand strength? Shove or fold tables? Raise or limp or fold tables?Most of that will not be easily found nor very helpful/accurate.In general, hand strength can vary a lot, depending on your opponent and stack depth.For example, a common hand strength difference occurs with hands such as 54s, or 76o, speculative hands you could say.At deep stacks, if you can see flops for 2 and 3bbs, you'll usually have an acceptable "risk-reward" to play these hands (or at least it's rarely horrible to see flops for 2bb with these hands deep). This is because these types of hands primarily benefit from the large value they receive when they hit their big draws, which won't happen too often, but when it does can lead to big pots. So if you're risking 2 or 3bb to win an opponent's stack that has 70bb in it, that's a pretty healthy risk-reward ratio.Now, when you're short stacked, you can risk the same 2bb but maybe only have the potential to win 15 or 20bb. That's not nearly as appealing on the surface.Of course other variables can be important as well. If your opponent folds often preflop, you'll want to raise any type of hand at any blind level for the most part. But even if your opponent calls every hand preflop, if you have a lot of fold equity on the flop, that can turn a hand like 42o (very weak in of itself) into a positive expectation hand (or at least better than folding). And I'm just scratching the surface with basic examples of when you can play otherwise "weak" hands.If you want to really get the best value out of your time, I would suggest studying adjustments and ways to adapt to various strategies and types of opponents. What do you do if your opponent bets every flop versus checks 50% of hands? What types of hands would you 3bet if you saw your opponent call 3bets with K7s, 43o and AJo, never folding out of 3 instances in the first 15 hands? These are questions you want to strive to answer, as they will happen quite frequently and the better prepared you are with the correct, maximum edge response, the better your bottom line will be.Don't look for a shortcut or formula, because there really isn't one. And that's a good thing, because it keeps people from jumping into the game, finding a basic chart they can blindly read or a very basic strategy that they can follow, and winning. It keeps heads up sng poker in its place as one of the best games for rewarding hard work and constant, focused thinking.
thank you man!it really helped! Im just starting thinking by my own... thats what thinking really means. not making what someone told. but think with logical reasoning... i feel happy but im just starting, happens only sometimes... i would like to have some kind of training this thinking but just with practice, i mean, i need to play more.caio
Definitely.And don't worry, many of us when we started at the $5 or $10 levels, we all looked for charts, shortcuts, and focused on things we didn't need to be focusing on.Preflop hand charts used to be very popular in this game, but I think over time enough responses by good players of "this will NOT really help you at all, you need to change your ranges based on your opponents" started to be repeated often enough to where this isn't asked as often on husng.com or 2p2. I do see a lot more of that question on much smaller and low key forums on the internet though, forums where good husng players don't really participate it. You'd initially think "good, they won't learn how to play" but honestly if somebody can't learn anything quickly they will probably just go on a bad losing streak and quit. That's probably why those forums are completely dead.