Got A Netbook… Don’t Play At Everest Poker

I thought I’d give Everest a whirl the other day only to find that after downloading their poker software, the lobby screen wouldn’t fit within the screen of my laptop. I use a netbook with a native screen resolution of 1024×600 so sometimes some sites need resizing a little. Not possible with Everest unfortunately. I checked their FAQ’s and in black and white I could see that the minimum specifications for software download is a screen resolution of 1024×768.

Remember the 1990’s when occasionally you had to check the minimum specifications for a piece of software? Well apparently in 2011 a poker room wants to curtail its user base amongst an entire set of Internet users. Given that sales of netbooks are outpacing traditional laptops significantly and the native screen resolution for a typical netbook is 1024×768 you would think that software vendors would want to cater to users of netbooks. I was sure that Everest wouldn’t be so stupid to design software so badly and that there would be a workaround so I got one of their support bods on instant chat and asked them to confirm whether people using a 1024×768 resolution are unable to use Everest software? The entirety of our conversation consisted of my question and his rather enigmatic “Yes”. So that was it.

My attempt to give an online poker room my hard earned money was scuppered by a software development team that apparently doesn’t do usability tests. Everest poker uninstalled…

PokerStars Hyper Turbo Sit N Go Strategy

PokerStars offer a range of Hyper Turbo Sit N Go’s at varying buy in levels, format and field size with the only real constant being the low stack of chips that each player starts with and the manic speed with which the blinds and antes increase – usually every 3 minutes.

Common Hyper Turbos over at PokerStars include the following

FPP Hyper Turbo SNG’s to tournaments such as the Sunday Million, Sunday 500, Sunday Quarter Million, and Turbo Takedown. These can range in buy in level from 5,400 FPP for 4 seats guaranteed in the Sunday Million in a 10 man Sit N Go field, through to as little as 1FPP for 6 seats from a field of 300 to qualify for the Sunday Quarter Million.

Cash Hyper Turbos can be played to qualify for all of the major tourneys (as mentioned above) at PokerStars and can range from $220 for a 2 seat guarantee from a 6 man field for the Sunday 500 down to $10.20 for 4 seats guaranteed to the Sunday Million from a 90 strong field. One of the most popular cash buy in Hyper Turbos in the $88 game to qualify for the Sunday Million which has a regular buy in of $215.

What Are Hyper Turbos All About?

Essentially at PokerStars at any one time there will be numerous Hyper Turbos running which will invariably offer qualification to one of the more expensive buy in tourneys. This allows PokerStars to lure in players that would baulk at paying e.g. $215 for a tourney entry if they could try to qualify for the fraction of the price. It helps PokerStars to increase the numbers playing in their main tourneys and gives aspirational players a chance of playing in some of the biggest online poker tourneys going.

Hyper Turbo Format

The most important aspect of a Hyper Turbo is the speed with which the blinds and antes kick in. The clue is in the name, you aren’t just playing in a Turbo, but a Hyper Turbo! Usually you will start with 300 chips in a PokerStars Hyper Turbo and blinds will start at 25 / 50 with a 10 ante and increase every 3 minutes. Field size as well as the qualification method and number of qualification places can also vary based on the particular Hyper Turbo SNG you have selected.

One of the most popular Hyper Turbos is the $88 Sunday Million SNG. In this SNG the field is 6 strong with the top two places gaining entry to the Sunday Million and third place getting $87.68. Other Hyper Turbos include double, triple or even quadruple shootout elements. In other words for a triple shootout you would need to win three, 9 strong tables to win the event overall. Essentially the equivalent to winning 3 consecutive Sit N Go’s, but with the field getting better at the later tables (theoretically).

Why Play Hyper Turbo Sit N Go’s?

There are pluses and minuses applicable to Hyper Turbos as there are with all types of poker games. Adapting to the special rigours associated with Hyper Turbos can be difficult for some (I’ll be going into Hyper Turbo strategy and providing tips in the next section), but many people enjoy playing in Hyper Turbo SNG’s for the following reasons.

1. If you are short on time, playing in Hyper Turbos maybe your best option as they rarely last long, even the events with largish fields.

2. They provide a quick and low cost way to qualify for a large tournament with a steep buy in level.

3. They can be excellent ways to build a bankroll.

Take for example the $88 Sunday Million Hyper Turbo. You would need to place in the top 2 from 6 players to get an entry to a $215 buy in tournament. Even if you finish third you virtually get your money back. Many people play this particular Hyper Turbo not to qualify for the Sunday Million but to place in the top 2 and ship the equivalent $215 buy in to tournament dollars which can be used to build a bankroll for other tourneys, or sell the tournament dollars to other players.

Hyper Turbo Sit N Go Strategy

Hyper Turbos are an extreme form of standard SNG Turbos in that there are a reduced number of chips to start with, the blinds increase quicker and antes are introduced straightaway, so in some respects if you have a solid Turbo game, you can alter it slightly to take into account the “Hyper” element. However, if this is new to you then you will need to carefully consider strategy because playing Hyper Turbos is very different to any other form of poker. By taking into account the following points you should be prepared to be unleashed into the world of the Hyper Turbo.

  • If you aren’t familiar with ICM, read up on it before you attempt to play in Hyper Turbos, this is also the case to an extent with playing standard Turbos also. ICM will help with determining dollar based equity decisions. You simply don’t have the time to make fancy plays or bluffs, so you need to be fully aware about how ICM can be applied to your play. SNG Wizard is a good tool which will help http://www.sngwiz.com/tiki/tiki-index.php
  • Due to the lack of time you will have when playing in Hyper Turbos you will need to adopt a push or fold type of game. You simply do not have the time to wait for killer hands so you will need to work on ranges of hands that are acceptable to go all in with. There is little point in calling bets in this format – it is either all or nothing for the most part.
  • The blinds increase incredibly quickly so you need to be constantly aware of the current blinds level and when its due to increase as this will help to determine your plays.
  • Given the low amount of starting chips and the quickly increasing blinds you will find that some players will try to steal blinds. Be aware that if you are the BB and have strong hole cards and all but the player to your right have folded then they might be trying to make a steal. If you have strong hole cards don’t be afraid in going over the top of them or raising them all in.
  • Any mid to high pairs should be immediate all in bets, along with ace and middle to high kicker.
  • If you are playing in a MTT Hyper Turbo SNG you might want to try to slow down the play. This isn’t a tactic that will go down well with some of the other players but it might make the difference between you cashing a ticket or not if the other tables have to see more hands than your table.
  • Bear in mind the hand ranges that you are prepared to play and when they arrive, play them hard. Don’t be tempted into playing lesser hands just for the sake of action; you must play a disciplined game to be successful in Hyper Turbos.
  • Most importantly, unless there is only one prize on offer (which is rare) it is not your aim to win the tournament. It is simply the aim to get the tournament ticket that is on offer so if the top 6 get tickets it doesn’t matter if you are 1st or 6th. For that reason you need to be aware of the bubble and don’t fall foul at the final hurdle. If you are approaching the bubble you need to carefully consider your chip position relative to the other players and use your discretion and knowledge of ICM to aid you. There is no point in a heroic all in even with a very strong hand that could take you into the chip lead by winning it if loosing it would mean that it would put your tournament at stake.

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How to Play Short Stacked In MTT’s

There are a range of very defined methods for playing short stacked in an MTT which are all derivatives of a main tenet of short stack strategy which in very general terms is to play only the best starting hands and play them very aggressively. When short stacked you can’t afford to go limping into pots or giving away BB’s unnecessarily, it is not in your interests to bleed chips to your opponents who will in all likelihood have larger stack sizes than yours. You need to have a pre-defined set of hands that you are prepared to play in a given position at the table when you reach a pre-determined level of chips. Most people determine that they are playing short stacked if they have a stack size in the region of 10-35 times the BB. Once you hit these levels you should consider your short stack strategy. When you are short stacked you need to take into account the following variables –

  • Stack size relative to the BB
  • Starting hand strength
  • Betting strength
  • Table position
  • Opponents betting

Stack Size Relative to the BB When Short Stacked

It’s fair to assume that if you are in the 10-35 BB range in a MTT tournament you need to start considering your options. If you are at the lower range, you need to start to seriously consider your options. Short stack strategy can be tailored slightly depending on how drastically short stacked you are. For example if you only have 10 times the BB you may need to consider betting big with lesser starting hands so you don’t fade out of the tournament due to the blinds and antes. Patience is a key factor in playing poker well, it is even more important when utilising a short stack strategy.

Starting Hand Strength When Short Stacked

As a general rule you should consider playing these range of starting hands if you are short stacked at the following levels –

35 BB
* AA
* KK
* QQ
* AKs
* AQs
* JJ
* AK
* AQ
* AJs

25 BB
* AJ
* TT
* ATs
* KQs

15 BB and below
* AT
* KQ
* KJs
* KJ
* AXs
* AX
* QJs
* QJ

Betting strength When Short Stacked

Simply put if you are in the BB ranges as noted above and you don’t get a starting hand that is the equivalent to the starting hands I have mentioned, you should not be betting at all. If you have a poor hand on the BB and can check to see a flop, that’s fine, you could always hope for a lucky flop and take it from there, but do not under any circumstances call a bet in the hope that you can see a cheap flop. Invariably, a deep stack will see you calling and raise you. Therefore, if you don’t have a playable hand, don’t play it. On the other hand if you are dealt a strong hand in the range displayed above, it’s time for some action. There are two schools of thought if you have a playable starting hand using short stack strategy. The first is to bet half your stack with a view to potentially betting the other half post flop. The second is to simply go all in pre flop. Of course, there will be an element of luck in both betting options. Take into account the relative strength of your starting hands and also the historical behaviour of the table when faced with all in or large raises. A point to consider is that if you have to play short stacked for a while then you can become predictable if you choose to go all in when you hit a large hand every time. You will be faced with the frustrating scenario of nobody calling your all in which would be a waste of your great cards so try to mix up your play between large raises (half the pot post flop if there are callers or 4 times the BB for example) and all in bets. Folding equity is an important factor to consider when deciding to raise big or go all in. The higher the bet you make, the easier you are making it for your opponent to fold their cards. For example, say that you have 3 callers to your all in bet, 2 of those may not hit the flop and fold post flop due to the perceived weakness of their hand in relation to the amount of chips it would take to continue. Therefore, you are no longer against 3 other players, it us just you and one other player.

Table Position and Opponents Betting When Short Stacked

Table position is a critical element of poker when playing the short or deep stack so it is important to consider your table position and the betting strength of your opponents when you choose to play a hand. Take into account that if you are in late table position and nobody has raised before you and you have a playable hand that is even at the lower end of your acceptable starting hands list you should be confident to enter the hand with a big raise or all in bet. If in mid position with no raises, play your mid range acceptable hands strongly and if in early position play your very best starting hands strongly. If there has been a raise or multiple raises before you, it is important that you play the most powerful starting hands in your acceptable starting hands list very strongly. If you don’t have an ace with strong kicker or a very high pair you need to consider strongly whether to enter the pot at all.

Short Stack Strategy Factors to Consider

 

  • Select a range of hands to play when at a given BB level and play them hard. If you get a starting hand not in your range of playable hands don’t play it unless you can see the flop for free.
  • Don’t attempt to bluff. If you have a strong hand, play it very strongly and get the chips in the middle.
  • Don’t call any bets (certainly in early position), either bet big or make an all in bet.
  • Small pairs and connectors are useless starting hands when using a short stack strategy.
  • If you make a big pot and your stack size increases outside of the short stack zone, start to play your natural game again.
  • Have patience and stick to the plan!

Short Stack Strategy Series

Given the name of this blog I think it’s only right to delve into short stack strategy. I’ll be covering short stack strategies over the course of the next few blog posts with a view to covering only multi-table tournament play initially.

Even the strongest of online poker players have played in a MTT shortstacked. It’s the nature of the game that cards and momentum will ebb and flow unless you favour the uber aggressive style whereby you will either become a deep stack pretty quickly or go down in a blaze of glory before you have the indignity of being a table pauper.

For the most of us, we will consider ourselves to be playing the short stack if we are in the range of 10-35 BB. Note that short stack strategy is determined by your stack relative to the blinds and not when compared to the stack size of your table competitors. In a nutshell short stack strategy dictates that you only play a small range of high value starting hands, and play them hard. The trick is to determine the correct starting hands to play in relation to stack size, table position, tournament position, opposition and a range of other lesser factors.

Playing a short stack style can be a fairly mechanical way to play poker because you should be familiar with which hands you are going to play in a given position which takes away some of the finer points of the game. In some respects because you are short stacked you have effectively relinquished the element of bluff to some extent – you simply don’t have the luxury to lose your chips to elaborate bluffs. This isn’t to say that bluffs don’t have a role in short stack strategy – they do, but they have to be played with more discipline.

With good judgment and a bit of luck, by playing a solid short stack strategy you should hopefully propel yourself from the realms of the short stack to a more manageable mid or deep stack. At that point you can pick up your normal poker style again and go for the win.

PokerStars Milestone Hands Observers

If you’re a cash game player over at PokerStars you’ve likely come across their “milestone hands” promotion which is part of their main 50 billion hands milestone promotion. Basically for every millionth hand dealt, PokerStars are selecting a table and for each player with cards at that table they will win a cash prize (with the winner of the pot having their prize doubled).

Quite a nice promotion and one that’s bound to increase cash game participation particularly when PokerStars have a countdown of hands played in the lobby and even display a popup during existing games (such as tourneys that aren’t even applicable to the promo) when a millionth hand is nearly there. No doubt punters are rushing to multi table cash games when a milestone hand is imminent in the hope that their table is the lucky one. The part that struck me about this milestone hand promotion though is not the players that are in the hand but the players that aren’t.

Let me explain. When a table is selected as being a milestone hand table it is publicised in the PokerStars lobby and the hand is paused for a minute or two until a moderator explains how things work, etc. This is the time when the vultures start to circle. Due to the fact that everyone logged into PokerStars knows which table is the milestone table literally a couple of hundred observers descend onto that table waiting in the wings. Now some of the observers might be bloody stupid enough to think that they can sneak onto the table somehow and grab some of the spoils, but most of them are there to basically offer their critique, ahem, on how the players played the hand. In other words post a stream of vitriolic abuse at how the players should have done this and that – not folded, etc.

What makes me laugh about this situation is that there seems to be a band of milestone hand observer “groupies”. Basically people that are just constantly following milestone hands around so they can wait until the hand has been played to add in their pathetic comments and abuse the players on the table. This can go on for hours. A whole sub culture of the same observers who bring up stories of bad plays (in their opinion) from hands played several hours ago. Nothing to do with jealousy of course, I’m sure they just want to share their knowledge with the other players. However, based on the level of grammar, wit, articulation and knowledge displayed by the observers sending in comments I wouldn’t trust them to sit the right way round on a toilet seat let alone offer poker schooling. A radical idea for these “observers” may be for them to actually play poker themselves, rather than spending hours abusing the play of others.

Drive the Dream Fiasco at PartyPoker

Out of interest I decided to play in one of the freerolls at PartyPoker that was geared towards the Drive the Dream promotion just to see what level the folks were playing at. What a mistake that was! Read on for details on why I believe PartyPoker is one of the worst online poker rooms around at the moment.

Basically PartyPoker ran 2 or 3 qualifiers in order to get through to the final $15,000 Guaranteed Drive the Dream Final Satellite that was to be played on 12th September. Anyway, I played in one of the freerolls which was so soft that I qualified for the 12th September 2010 tourney straightaway. Fair enough I thought, I might check out the action on 12th September as there are a couple of places on offer for the Drive a Dream Final in London. So I was sat in front of my laptop on 12th September at 14:00ET ready for the off along with 800 odd other players. The tourney kicked off at the scheduled time and we got about 2 hands in and that where things started to go wrong… After 2 hands were played our table was “paused” for a few minutes, this pattern then carried on for about 10 minutes after which we were then placed on a paused status for much longer. 5 minutes passed, then 10, the 20, then 30, during which time the other participants were getting restless and one even commented that is was a regular occurrence for PartyPoker to mess up monthly finals. I waited (foolishly) for 30 minutes on hold after which time I gave up and emailed PartyPoker support.

I won’t go into details with regards to the level of support offered by PartyPoker suffice to say that they couldn’t find me on their systems, and only accepted I was a player once I provided a screenshot. It went even further downhill from there. Additional attempts at resolution were even less satisfactory from the hapless support staff there.

So essentially, I am none the wiser as to why the tourney didn’t progress and there is no opportunity to re-play that I can see. The PartyPoker support staff are worse than useless and there has been no official communication to players that were due to play in the tourney so I guess that’s it! Serves you right for playing in a freeroll I hear you say. Fair comment. I won’t be doing it again, certainly not at PartyPoker.

How to Increase a Small Poker Bankroll for Beginners

If you are starting out with a small bankroll you will want to try to maximise your chances of increasing your bankroll with the least risk possible. The difficulty comes in finding the most efficient way to build your bankroll. Different folks advocate different methods and of course your particular playing style with dictate which works best for you. I’ll let you into a little tip if you are starting out, have a reasonably solid game and you play at PokerStars. Go look for the Sunday Quarter Million $2.20 cash satellites (avoid the 6 seat tourneys and go for the set time tourney). You can find them by logging into your PokerStars account and clicking the following tabs – Tourney –> Satellite –> Cash

A Little Background into What You Will Be Playing

When you sign up to one of these $2.20 satellites you’ll be playing for entry into the popular Sunday Quarter Million tournament which has a standard $11 entry. Now you can play one of these satellites and actually play in the Sunday Quarter Million along with the other 40,000 hopefuls or you can do the smart thing and win entry to the tournament via the satellite and cash the price of the $11 ticket back to your PokerStars balance for a rainy day. Rinse and repeat. I advocate that you opt for the Sunday Quarter Million $2.20 satellite that has a fixed start time as opposed to the fixed 36 entrants. If you go for the fixed start time you will be playing against anywhere from 70-130 players and you will have an average a 1 in 5.5 ratio of getting in the money. These tournaments are no-rebuy and no-addon tourneys that have an extended 10 minute registration time. Do yourself a favour and sign up towards the end of the late registration period (just before the entry closes), that way you will have already lost between 5-10 players and the average stack will only be 50-100 more than what you will start with. In fact when you start, your position will inevitably be halfway through the (already reduced) field.

Sunday Quarter Million $2.20 Satellite Strategy

If you’ve taken the late entry route you’ll probably be playing against 90 or so players depending on the time of day you have decided to play and your ratio of getting to the money will be around 1 in 4. These are very good odds considering the weakness of the field and the small initial $2.20 outlay. The good news is that these particular satellites are extremely easy to dominate. Alternate between a TAG (tight aggressive) and a LAG (loose aggressive) style and you shouldn’t have any problems making the paid places in this satellite. After about 1.5 hours when the blinds start to get steep and the antes kick in, the other players will inevitably start the risky plays so if you have a healthy stack you can sit back and watch the carnage. If you’re mid placed you will still need to play aggressively where appropriate as the blinds will swallow you up. If you’re shortstacked deep into the tourney, you know that other shortstacked players are going to be making misjudged steals at some point so stay alert and hold your nerve. Go after players that appear to be stealing in late position by making big raises to shake them off the pot. Typically these satellites last around 2 hours, so you will be getting an $11 return from your $2.20 entry. Clearly this method for increasing bankroll isn’t for everybody as we are taking very small change here, but if you are starting out and have a small bankroll to begin with you could very easily play 4 or 5 of these daily and win through at least 4 times making you $44 to add to your bankroll. Do this for the whole month and you’ll make over $1,300.

Who Or What Is rs03rs03?

If you’ve ever played in DON (double or nothing) Sit N Go’s over at PokerStars you will likely have come across the user name rs03rs03 at your table. I did, but thought nothing of it. When he was on my tables day after day after day I started to get suspicious. There is actually quite an interesting story behind it…

If you find the same user on your table all the time one assumption could be that the player has been taking notes on your play and believes you to be a fish worth hooking. It is possible to basically follow you around the poker site and play at whatever table you decide to hit. I didn’t think this was the case with rs03rs03 as I’d previously taken notes on this player to the effect that they were very tight and not a very strong player to be honest. So I decided to have a mooch around the Internet to see what was with this rs03rs03 guy.

Apparently rs03rs03 is pretty famous (or infamous) over at PokerStars. There are entire forum threads questioning how rs03rs03 seems to always be on the DON tables, to the extent that other players have been questioning whether rs03rs03 is a poker bot or not (a poker bot in this instance would be a piece of software that is programmed to automatically join low level Sit N Go games and play via a pre-programmed algorithm on a large scale – hundreds of tables at a time). It seems that player rs03rs03 had been on the radar at PokerStars for some time and unusually PokerStars themselves decided to make public their investigations into the legitimacy of the player.

Just to add some perspective to this. PokerStars confirmed that when rs03rs03 was playing to full capacity his averages would be – 175 concurrent tables 100,000 (approx) hands in a single day Now some people are comfortable in multi-tabling. It isn’t that unusual to hear people playing 30 odd tables at once, but 175 at once! Of course it would be pretty much impossible to play this many tables at once without some custom tools… something that PokerStars would be very much aware of so they took the step of analysing rs03rs03’s play by running several tests as described in the following quote from PokerStars themselves –

We have been monitoring and examining ‘rs03rs03’ using those tools for quite some time, and the player has always shown very human characteristics, and an ability to pass various tests, including CAPTCHA and many others. Despite this, we, too, have been concerned with the seemingly astonishing volume of play exhibited by this player, especially in recent weeks as his volume has increased dramatically. As such, we recently froze his account and asked the player for a controlled demonstration, and the player agreed. We dispatched a PokerStars representative to the player’s home to observe several hours of play on June 1st, 2010. That observation convinced us that the player is not using a bot. We cannot violate the player’s privacy — the player has asked to remain anonymous, and not to discuss their strategy. However, among our observations: 1) The player uses a set of self-written hotkeys similar to many commercially available suites (TableNinja.com comes to mind). – The hotkeys manage automatically joining tables without regard to opponent selection – The hotkeys close unnecessary popups like “It is free to check”, automatically – The hotkeys require the player to enter every bet, raise, check, or fold manually 2) Both in prior play, and during our in-person observation, we witnessed many “mistakes”, such as pre-flop folds of AA and KK. 3) The player was able to verbally chat with our representative during play, while continuing to play. 4) We took video of the play at various times, and conducted tests at various times during the observation (such as unexpectedly asking the player to remove their hands from they keyboard, to observe whether play stopped… and it did). We observed well over 3 hours of play, and then compared the play we observed to historical records of past play. We cannot divulge exactly what we compared, though we can say that it did include comparing his hand selection, action timing, and many other aspects. The resulting comparison very strongly indicates that the prior play is statistically identical to the observed play. In short, our bot detection tools have borne themselves out here very nicely. The tools always indicated that the player appeared human despite ever-increasing hours of play and concurrent tables. Now, through our observations, we’ve independently confirmed those findings.

It must be said that PokerStars should be applauded in terms of the breadth of the tests that they have carried out and also in making this public. To actually attend the player’s house and watch a few hours play is incredible and is a great testament to the rigorous standards PokerStars places on fairness in the game. Well done PokerStars! Full post at over at the Two Plus Two Poker Forums

Where to Sit on an Online Poker Cash Game Table

The position that you sit at a cash game poker table is of immense importance. If you’ve gone through the routine we have suggested in order to select the best cash game table to maximise your chance of profit, but choose to sit in the wrong position at the table you will often be in a worse situation than if you were seated at a totally unsuitable table. This is the reason why you will see full tables that have several players waiting for the chance to join them in correct seat position whilst there are hundreds of other tables with free spaces available.

Why Is Seat Position Important At the Poker Table?

When you are playing Texas Hold ’em it is important to have the aggressive players that have a habit of raising to your right hand side and the looser players that will simply call and check to your left. The reason for this is that by having loose players that constantly check to your left means that you can Continue reading