Question:

I've been a break even or slightly worse player for the last few years and so I thought I'd give your system a try and see if it could teach me anything.

Well it definitely has and I'm really seeing the value in the super tight play and preserving the chip stack rather than taking risks to increase it.

However, this brings me to my one question. In one of your examples (the raising your hand article) you claim that you don't want pre-flop callers to your raise.

Whilst I agree that its generally preferable to take down the blinds than take a bad beat, in the early stages of the game the blinds are so miniscule, and under this system the player is playing so few hands, I don't understand how the player can be expected to maintain their stack when they are getting such minimal returns on such strong hands.

I am finding I am always badly short-stacked compared to the field by the time I reach the four handed/bubble phase. Players clock me for a "rock" who is only going to play premium hands and I am slowly whittled away unless I am hitting a raising hand once in every 8 played (two orbits). I guess I need to loosen up my criteria for raising hands at the four player phase but as soon as I do that I loose my tight table image and I'm back where I started, getting called and sucked out on over and over again.

Just wondered if you had any advice for this or if you think there's a gap in the articles there or something? A couple of the articles are a little contradictory (Tighter is Righter, for instance, seems to go against the whole tone of the rest of the site by advocated that "Simply put, waiting for great hands to play with and showing them down is not going to make you a winning six seat player." Isn't that exactly what the rest of your site suggests?)

Anyway, its a great system and I've definitely improved as a result of it.

Cheers

Adam

Answer:

Hello Adam and thankyou for your email,

John