STT
General
- good start for beginners.- Of course, the FAQ
- Tournament strategy at TightPoker - this is all you will ever need to start making profit at low-limits. Of course, crushing the games is a different ball game :-)
- A bunch of favourite links by the shadow - a must read. A lot of links to many interesting posts.
- Who want's a robotic strategy to beat low-limit SNGs - interesting strategy, may not work in the new party structure.
- Beginner's Guide to Self-Analyzing SNG Hands
Strategy
- Using small bets as strategic weapons - when/when not to make small bets.
- Optimal Heads-up strategy with fixed blinds - some good math, but may not be that useful against rising blinds. Might be quite useful with slow structures (15 minute levels).
- Lazy-aggressive strategy - I sometimes answer a few questions about the strategy with "the table conditions helped me to make the right decision". In other words, sometimes, ICM is not only thing that help you make a decision. Many, many, many subtle points here.
- Getting most chips when you have nuts - Dave's strategy.
- HU play - Dave's strategy.
- The (in)famous Gigabet dilemma - making -EV calls, well you have to be Gigabet to be making such calls. Questionable, but worth thinking about, especially when you are a big stack. I think this is more useful in MTTs than in SNGs.
EV, CEV, FE, ICM, odds, and magic
- ICM/SNGPT rambling thoughts - a lengthy discussion of ICM + SNGPT stuff. Must read
- Shove EV
- My blog article on mathematics of all-in confrontations - almost the same as explained by Zeejustin in the above post.
- Folding equity and the theorem of blind stealing
- CEV vs EV
- Calling with 2:1 odds - should you do it?
- Odds and probabilities - classic from RGP FAQ
Party Step Tournaments
- Party Steps are always criticized as sucking in a lot of rake - do they really?
- True EV of PP Steps tournaments - some nice analysis of steps EV.
Bankroll
I never had much of a problem with my bankroll, as I usually start with 20 buy-ins and move up as I acquire sufficiently large roll for higher buy-ins. Then, I cash out and re-start. This helps in a lot of ways, as I don't always feel like playing the more competetive higher buy-in games. May not work for everyone.Specific hands
- When should you fold JJ?
- JJ from EP
- A really quick and dirty primer on playing AK by Adanthar
- Playing AK in various scenarios - Curtain's gives detailed explanations - pretty standard, but worth reading
- JJ vs TT - Why are they so different ?
MTT
- Rebuy strategy for 1-rebuy + 1-addon - a lot of math explained by Jurollo, and ZBTHorton
- General Rebuy-Addon strategy for party rebuys - my rebuy strategy
SSNL
- How to use PT to analyze your game?
- whiteline's excellent posts
- A few things unique about NL25 6-max
- Blind-stealing, absolute must for profits - why and how?
- Varying flop bets
Stats, stats, stats ...
- Poker efficiency index - if there's a such thing, very interesting read.
- Poker DB - a database of stats, free
- OPR db - has ranking too, similar to poker db
Everything else
- Taking blind stealing to the next level - raising on the button when some one limps might work well for stealing in low stakes but 2/4 and higher, I don't think you are going to make much profit.
- Collective wisdom of 2+2
- Goofy's math analysis of implied odds and suited connectors
- Great questions and answers by ahnuld
- TightPoker's best of the forum links - some of the links from old forum are missing.
- Comphrehensive list of SNG structures
- The difference between Success and Failure by Irieguy, and a response by Gigabet
- ICM quantified - or is it really? A good read, but very difficult to use the results.
- Why should you avoid making plays? - donks don't fold, don't even try that move.
- SSNL - some good list of links
Leaks and how to exploit them
hereIn the Well
- El Diablo in the well - a summary by me
- Greadvice from cts - learn more about re-raised pots here.
- Yvesiant's well summary
WSOP 2006
Trip Reports
- JohnFR's report - more of normal reading, less of hands or strategy.
- kutuz_off's report - a few hands
- Awesome report of Event #41's runner-up report - Part I
- technologic, who made the final table's Day I report
- technologic's Day II report
- KramerTM's long report - yes, you can get people to fold a set of 4s !
