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Theory of Poker, a book by David Sklanksy.

Hey man... recently started to play on 50$ NL holdem. Never had a lot of action til I got this set of 2s

Tell me if I've been doing good or not in this hand


Simply check river?

**** dealing down cards ****
Dealt to Jossnaz [ , ]
davos9 checks.
gianluca calls $0.50.
pooldica calls $0.50.
Andr calls $0.50.
Revolution folds.
Jossnaz calls $0.50.
y2jason calls $0.50.
smw20 calls $0.25.
DrunkMan checks.
**** dealing flop **** [ , , ]
6 checks
Jossnaz bets $3.
y2jason calls $3.
smw20 folds.
DrunkMan calls $3.
3 folds
Andr calls $3.
**** dealing turn **** [ ]
DrunkMan checks.
Andr checks.
Jossnaz bets $16.
y2jason folds.
DrunkMan calls $9.69.
Andr calls $16.
**** dealing river **** [ ]
Andr checks.
Jossnaz bets $41.05.
Andr calls $41.05.
Jossnaz shows three of a kind, twos [ , ].
DrunkMan mucks [ , ].
Andr shows three of a kind, nines [ , ]. :shock::shock::shock: that's been slightly more than 10% of my bankroll


Actually I know I shouldnt be playing these tables with a bankroll of ~500 but I've been reading papers for university, and as I normally played 4-6 tables of 10$ I thought playing one table of 50$ is as good

Hi Xas - much appreciated to see you in the well!

Question: please advice on DS NL strategy adaptation for short handed play.

My current DS FR play:
I now play only deep stack full ring (usually 5-6 stacks are 200+ BBs). I dare say I do it rather well (have read the new Sklansky over and over - understand most of it ok). I play very positional and essentially trying to see cheap flops and win huge pots with little crap cards like 97s and worse. Calling small preflop raises (<5BB) in position and often making smallish preflop raises (3-4BB) from the CO and button if I can expect other deep stacks to stay in blinds or OOP. (this small pfr size of course also includes big hands like KK/AA). I loose a ton of small pots, but take down some monsters. I often call flops in pos with any small piece of it, and I love to semibluff push strong draws against "good" players on turn.
I essentially win by manipulating pot size - big pots in pos with unlikely hands - small pots with vulnerable TP stuff.

In deep FR, I tend to play rather loose, though I dont cope well with the frequent shorts stacks - the pay off for playing my sneaky 75o etc is too low if some SS often bets flop and scares away my deep targets...

But now I want to try my "luck" att short handed (5-max). The main reason being that I want to play more hands in position against deep fish.

What is a "good" VPI to aim for?

Any suggestions - perhaps adopting an ultra tight game UTG and in the blinds (say only PP/AK/Axs) and playing something like 50% of hands on the button - a little less in CO?

(50% button, 40% CO would provide ca 10+8=18% to VPI in 5-handed)
?

thanks for your time & input!

Snok