Gun Fight at the OK Corral – Live Pot Limit Holdem A True survival guide by Gypsy Tea.
Around the UK casinos and card clubs you can always find some sort of live cash pot limit game.
The most dangerous form of poker for your wallet, trust Me, and because its usually some sort of “on the fly” game formed during a tournament with expelled tournament players, most players I have seen, are ill prepared for the murderous carnage of the full assault minimum buy-in £25 Pot Limit Cash Game.
Most Professional Poker Players tend to view this type of game with a relish of “Its Friday Its Pay Day” I be Loose Hyper Aggressive, and have 5K in My pocket just in case some FOOL can play poker. YOU LOT THINK I AM JOKING!
No I am Not, what the Gypsy tells this forum
is to STOP you wallets getting picked on Market Day, and everything I tell you Guys is from Experience and with Brotherly Love.
Now what every your starting hand IS, I am telling you somebody is going to call you to the turn, no matter what you have, what they think you have, or for that matter what THEY have in their starting hand! Now STOP and think about this:
Write down what I said and LOOK at it!
Now add some NUTTER with a few grand in cash in their pocket, and contemplate HOW MUCH YOU ARE GOING TO TAKE TO THIS GAME?
£25? £50? £100? I read somewhere that pot limit is the TEST cricket of poker, where No Limit is the Crash Bang Wallop,
Well if they had added “Tournament” to any part of that I would tend to agree, but cash, it’s a Matter of How Much you have with you to buy the Game!
ITS THE GUN FIGHT AT THE OK CORRAL of POKER
Most seasoned Pro’s know this, and if you are going to play PLHD cash, you better switch on to this fact Quick Babe or you’re going home after being up a little without your rent money.
I recommend the following as a minimum of:-
Min Buy-in £25 I think you need a minimum game roll of £500 (you put 100 down on the table) = a factor of 1:20, so the rest you can work out yourselves.
Starting hands.
Well I like good poker at any level and I think basically if you are tight/passive/passive, and let other people bet for you, you have a better chance of weathering the storm, bearing in mind it’s hard to push players of pots, you may be able to do it on the turn or river with a large pot size bet, but generally I see people calling with 2 pairs vast amounts without the mathematics for the call.
I also strongly believe, if you’re going to bet a draw make sure it’s the NUT DRAW!
My personal favourite starting hands in pot limit holdem are AA, KK, QQ, JJ, AKs, AQs, AJs, I may play TJs, 9Ts, 99, 88 78s 65s, out of my blinds, but most of the time you can only put me on one of those hands.
I can wait for a hand in PLHD, I will be there for 7ish hours and I might as well relax and enjoy looking and analyzing, just how bad people play poker. GRINDING is the ONLY WAY TO Play the game!
I actually prefer Pot Limit Omaha if I have a choice in the matter, but that’s Me for you.
Please feel free to add anything to the conversation, Play Well and Good Luck.
The Gypsy
