Comments on: Reflecting on Alex Fitzgerald’s Most Important Thing

By: Paul Gearan

Paul Gearan — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 14:09:17 +0000

In reply to Serge. Congrats on your first tournament final table! A nice way to start and it sounds like you employed some of Alex's strategies well. Alex has a slot of great insights and has done some really valuable webinars at APT. He has another one coming on December 7th, so check that out.

By: Serge

Serge — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 17:50:44 +0000

Great article, I have watched Alex’s series and you have articulated some of the main points very well. I really appreciate your evaluation of his acronym, PBSH. I feel after reading your article, I have a much better grasp. It’s always nice to hear/read someone else’s perspective. I played in my first tournament after going through Alex’s class and I made the final table. I was aggressive when I had superior hands and I would check-raise with a bit of a wider range. All my check raises worked, I only did a few but made sure I maintained strong with my bets on the following streets. in other situations. I think the balance helped my image and feel as I get stronger at following through on Alex’s teachings, I should see much better results. I have written down some of his tips as suggested and will continue to isolate what is working and focus on what other players are opening with. Big key to knowing when to 3 bet on certain players.
Thanks again.

By: Paul Gearan

Paul Gearan — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 21:46:47 +0000

In reply to Robert A Townsend. Yes, you definitely have to adjust even generally good strategic moves to the style played at your regular card room (or sometimes specific tables). Alex certainly was advocating in the seminar 3-betting with generally strong hands, and in lower buy-in tournament poker where you may not have to worry about balancing your range as much, this may be more profitable. Sounds like at the Winstar you may need a very tight 3-bet range if what people are shoving with is very strong. Although if they shove that often their range would be pretty wide so hopefully you'd be ahead a fair amount.

By: Robert A Townsend

Robert A Townsend — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 20:00:27 +0000

I enjoyed his article but where I play in Oklahoma at Winstar Casino if you three bet to start and get very big with the bets someone will go all in on you hoping to get those bets. So you better have a hand capable of defending an all in are you lose your bets.