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Sep 24 2010

Tournament HUD file for Holdem Manager

Here’s a screenshot of the HUD I use in tournaments lately. The auto-rate icon is first, and those auto rate rules are in the post below this one. The first actual number is the player’s tournament M, color coded to the Harrington system. The two numbers separated by a slash are VPIP / PFR and the last number is the number of hands to indicate sample size. I have used HUDs with more info in them, but I can get 3bet and fold to 3bet stats from clicking on the VP/PFR, and those are the only other stats I really use.  Stats like W$SD and AG% (which I use in my cash game HUD) just aren’t very useful in tournaments because the sample sizes are never big enough for them to be accurate. Between the autorate system and the few stats in this HUD I know enough to make most of my decisions pretty clear.

Right-Click HERE and select “Save link as” to download the exported file. If the download doesn’t work, you can copy the text below the picture, paste it into a blank text document and save it. Then rename the text document with a .xml extension and you can import that file into Holdem Manager.

To import the file -

Open Holdem Manager and from the very top of the program, select HUD Options and then Player Preferences. This will open up a window where you can control most of what goes on in your HUD. In the top middle of this new window you will see Import and Export buttons. If you click Import and select the file you just downloaded or created, it will import that layout. Then you can set the new layout to be active during tournaments and it should work fine.

MTT_HUD

HUD1

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
- <HUDexport>
<General />
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- <mttone HU_NL="False" M6_NL="False" FR_NL="False" TT_NL="False" HU_FL="False" M6_FL="False" FR_FL="False" FR_TT="True" M6_TT="True" HU_TT="True" font_size="8" font_name="Verdana" font_attr="1" background="0" alt_background="1" text_color="7" show_abrev="True" main_popup="DEFAULT Main Popup" opacity="10" card_opacity="10" seperate_panels="True" pots="0" site_index="0" games="All games" avg_vpip="False" fix_my_stats="True" show_notes="True" disable_hero="True" scale_fonts="True" drop_shadow="False">
- <TrnyM dim_sample="False" abrev=" " villainHero="both" format="0" old_popup="False" min_samples="0" popup="Default_Winrate">
- <Ranges>
<Range color="1" upper_bound="6" />
<Range color="10" upper_bound="10" />
<Range color="16" upper_bound="20" />
<Range color="2" upper_bound="1000000" />
</Ranges>
</TrnyM>
- <VPIP.total dim_sample="False" abrev=" " villainHero="villain" format="0" old_popup="False" min_samples="0" popup="Default_Preflop">
- <Ranges>
<Range color="26" upper_bound="1000000" />
</Ranges>
</VPIP.total>
- <PFR.total dim_sample="False" abrev="/" villainHero="villain" format="0" old_popup="False" min_samples="0" popup="Default_VsPre">
- <Ranges>
<Range color="26" upper_bound="1000000" />
</Ranges>
</PFR.total>
- <Hands dim_sample="False" abrev=" " villainHero="villain" format="0" old_popup="True" min_samples="0" popup="Default_Winrate">
- <Ranges>
<Range color="19" upper_bound="1000000" />
</Ranges>
</Hands>
</mttone>
</config>
</HUDexport>


Jul 27 2010

The book is finally available!!!

My long awaited book on no-limit Holdem cash games is finally available for preorder and will be shipping within a month. The focus is learning how to think for yourself and handle any situation as they appear rather than trying to to learn what to think and memorize every possible situation.

You can buy it and read about the no-limit holdem book including a sample chapter and table of contents.


Dec 7 2009

Short Stack Charts

I ran some numbers today on when to call short stack shoves after you raise and they come over the top. With a simple spreadsheet and Poker Stove these things are easy to figure out. If I still played a lot of cash no-limit Holdem, I would make a bunch of these charts so that I was prepared for any possible short stack poker situation. Here are the two I put together for a couple of my students.

Assuming you have made a standard raise to three times the blind, the 20 BB short stack has come over the top all-in, and no one else is involved in the hand, you should be calling a hand that has about 42% equity against his range.  That gives you the following chart for that situation -

Opp Hand Range  =  Opp Percentage       Correct Calling Range

JJ+, AK                                 3 %                                      AKs, JJ+

99+, AK                                 4 %                                     AKo, JJ+

99+, AQo+                            5 %                                    AKo, TT+

88+, AJs, AQo                     6 %                                    AKo, 99+

77+, ATs, KQs, AQo          7%                                    AQs, 99+

77+, ATs, KQs, AJo           8%                                    AQo+, 88+

66+, ATs, KQo, AJo           9%                                    77+, AJs+, AQo+

44+, ATs, KQo, AJo           10%                                 66+, AJo+

44+, ATs, KQo, AJo           11%                                 66+, AJo+

If you get one caller before the short stack raises all-in for 20 BB, then you can call a little wider because of the extra money in the pot. In this spot you need to have around 39% equity against their range, and I dropped that in to a spreadsheet as well, with the following results.

Opp Hand Range  =  Opp Percentage       Correct Calling Range

JJ+, AK                                 3 %                                      AKs, JJ+

99+, AK                                 4 %                                     AKo, JJ+

99+, AQo+                            5 %                                    AQs, TT+

88+, AJs, AQo                     6 %                                    AQs, 99+

77+, ATs, KQs, AQo          7%                                    AQo, AJs, 88+

77+, ATs, KQs, AJo           8%                                    AQo+, AJs, 77+

66+, ATs, KQo, AJo           9%                                    77+, AJs+, AQo+

44+, ATs, KQo, AJo           10%                                 66+, AJo+

44+, ATs, KQo, AJo           11%                                 66+, AJo+