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NEW! Isolating Limpers: Finding and Plugging Leaks in Your Isolation Game

In today’s more complex no limit hold em environment, exploiting loose passive players who limp in ahead of you is trickier than ever. It should still be a mainstay of a profitable strategy, but, increasingly, I am seeing significant leaks creep into the isolation plays of good players. In this article, I will discuss the basics of a successful isolation play strategy.

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Top 3 Reasons to Switch From Poker Tracker 3 to Hold ‘Em Manager

mpethybridge, April 3, 2011

Switching tracking software is a big decision for three reasons: you will have to pay twice, you will have to learn a new set up and you will incur a significant cost in time in re-importing your hands into your new tracker. So the question becomes: Does it ever make sense to switch poker tracking software?

In my view, it makes sense to switch to HEM if you have PT3. Read why you should switch

A Restealing Tour of the Micros

This post is a duplicate of my post on 2+2. It guides micro stakes players through the adjustments to 3 and 4 betting necessary to move up through the micro stakes.

Read the free article here

Thinking About Hold Em Manager’s River Call Efficiency Stat

by: mpethybridge 08.24.2010

River Call Efficiency is one of Hold Em Manager’s many “Goldilocks Stats;” it should neither be too high, nor too low, but should fall into a range that is “just right.” Read more about River Call Efficiency in my newest free article, and join the discussion in the forum.

In this newest forum post, I give an example of how River Call Efficiency works, and how you should be interpreting what it is telling you about your river calling game.

Setting Up Poker Tracker 3 as a Leak Finder Tool:

by: mpethybridge 08.13.2010

This 5 part series celebrates Poker Tracker 3′s triumphal return to my computer. This article follows me through the process of setting up Poker Tracker 3 and its position report, general report tab and the heads up display.

Read it all or pick and choose the parts you might find useful:

Find Hidden Leaks Using the Hold Em Manager Winnings Summary Report

By mpethybridge 08.10.2010

The Winnings Summary Report allows you to diagnose two different leaks in your game: Whether the amount of short handed play in your grind is too much or not enough, and whether you are adjusting appropriately to the short handed tables. Both of these leaks are hidden leaks, in the sense that you’ll never identify them doing standard hand history reviews or analyzing your game from the position report page. Spend some time on the Hold Em Manager Winnings Summary Report Page, and you may find some free money hidden away there.

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Configuring Hold Em Manager’s “By Stakes Report” as a LeakFinder

by: mpethybridge 08.09.2010

Most hold ‘em players do no use the full capabilities of their database. Everybody uses their tracker to store their hand histories and to check their results periodically. Many players use their tracker to perform session reviews in which they study key hands and situations that arose in their most recent session. Some players attempt an analysis of their game in greater detail, looking for certain situations in which they make or lose money. Almost no one realizes the full potential of the tracking software as a powerful aid to improving their game. Using the tracking software carefully and exploiting its full potential can not only tell you where you are losing money, it can also tell you how you are losing, and how to change leaks into profit centers. This article introduces the concepts of configuring and then using your tracking software as a powerful aid to improving your poker game.

More on Hold Em Manager By Stakes Report.

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