Small Ball Position Play

[HarlemzKing]

Originally Posted by DrummerBoy21

Perfectly quoted from the pokervt vid.

And to think, I've never joined PokerVT. I have his Power Hold Em Strategy Book (must buy for Negreanu's section) and I study any and all film that involves him playing.

[quitryhop]

i read somewhere that you should expect 1 1/2 bets per hour playing in cash games as an average. do you feel this is correct ? it seems small but i am relatively new to cash games and i am wondering if i am playing to many hands.

[rrumsey]

it depends on how you play, how good you are against the vast majority of villains you play, and your style of play, specific villains you happen to be playing and rake. 1-3 BB per hour is a good number for someone who is pretty much beating the game you are playing. Some people can just crush a game and make 5-6 BB an hour average profit. It really just depends. If you are playing like micro stakes morons you could run hot for a while and average like 10 BB an hour over a decent amount of time but that wont last

[doramider7]

Originally Posted by DrummerBoy21

Raising with something like 4-5 suited is perfectly acceptable in the small ball approach, It's just more dependent on stack size and position, obviously you're not going to raise with 4-5 in EP if you don't have the stack behind to justify such a raise, but in late position and being fairly deep stacked those are the kinds of hands you want to make your 2x or 2.5x raises to because those are the sorts of hands your looking to catch people out with and bust them.

I'm actually a firm believer and student of the small ball approach ONLY FOR DEEP-STACKED TOURNAMENTS. I really would like to find another player who has a god grasp of small ball to compare and share strategies and lab once in a while. If you are at all interested, please send me a PM. I believe this would benefit both of our games in tournaments.