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Moving for deep-stack to short-stack play implies numerous strategies changes. We examine those in the article below. The remarks are valid both for 30 BB cap games and for normal games where you are playing a short-stack of 30 BB or below.

A good way to learn poker is to analyze mistakes. For beginners, learning to avoid large mistakes is the first step to poker expertise. Luckily, there are now hours of televised poker available. Today's example is taken from the Aussie Million cash game. You can find the video here.

With blinds of 500$-1000$, Patrick Antonius open-raises to 3,500$ from late position with . A young player (who is unknown to me) called Robl reraises to 12,000$ from one of the blinds, holding . Antonius calls in position. Our two players started the hand with roughly 130,000$ effective stacks.

Prior to this hand, Negreanu has already been running quite bad. I think it is fair to say that he was badly tilted, and would have played the hand much better under normal conditions.Incidentally, this hand is a great exercise in hand reading.

With effecitve stacks of around 120k $, Negreanu open-raise to 2k$ with , and is called by Lindgren, holding . The flop comes .  Negreanu flopped the nuts, but Lindgren has flopped bottom set, a sure recipee for a large pot! Daniel bets 4k$ into a 5.7k$ pot, and gets a quick call from Lindgren.

While most of our series of article will focus on bad plays made by Negreanu (because bad plays are often more instructive than goodones), in this hand he used an interesting line. The video can be found here. We will only focus on play from the flop onwards in this hand. The flop comes , and the pot is 21,400$. Four player took the flop. After a check by Harman (), Antonio Esfandiari bet 14,000$ with . This bet is multi-purpose, giving him a chance to pick-up the pot right away, and protecting his meager middle pair against the numerous draws out there. Farha quickly folds the , but things get interesting when Negreanu calls with .

In this article, we are going to comment a hand from High Stakes Poker. You can find the link to the video here.

Players are apparently 200k deep or so, blinds are 300-600 with a 100$ ante. There appears to be a straddle to 1,200$. Negranu calls with , and Brunson calls behind him with . Greenstein calls with , before Farah raises it to 11,200$ with . Only Negreanu and Brunson call.

High Stakes Poker is a televised high stakes cash game, played in No-Limit Hold'em format. The show has been extremely popular, and is now in its 5th season.

Poker tournament expert Daniel Negreanu has both ran bad and made some weak plays on this show. He also has made some interesting moves, and overall many of his plays are highly interesting for players starting out in deep stack No-Limit Hold'em. You will find below a list of various articles reviewing specific hands, and commenting them for the beginning to average player. Enjoy!

While the loose-passive style is typical of beginners, it paradoxically creates many problems for aggressive players. More often than not, more advanced players have forgotten how to fight that LP style. In the first part of the article, we will define the LP style, and in the second part, consider some profitable adjustments against that style.

In No-Limit poker, continuation betting is a complex subject. Many parameters should be taken into account when deciding whether or not to make a C-bet. In Limit Hold'em, things are much simpler, and you should C-bet almost always when facing only a single opponent. Let's see why.