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Depends completely on the game. If you win 20bb pots 1/3rd of the time you showdown a hand, you're doing fine. I'd be thrilled if 1/3 of my stocks quintupled and the rest went bankruptRight, but also I was trying to take in to context the rest of his post. If you are playing a game like .5/1 hold'em, chances are that 33% doesn't compensate for the losses.

Your plays here really confused me.You shouldn't be playing this hand like it's pocket sevens, first of all.Your flop play tells the button you are not very strong. He probably has you on a good drawing hand, like 4-5 suited, or a middle pair, like you have.If you want to stay in this hand, you need to show strength here. You either fold or raise, because you aren't drawing to winning hands right now.I like the bet on the turn if you had shown strength on the flop. It tells me now that the Button is not very strong, maybe top-pair but not a good kicker, he could really have a # of things.Layin

I don't know if I'm in a slump.. if I'm not folding enough, or what, but I seem to be hovering around 1/3rd. Thats.. I win 1/3rd. People cool calling two pairs, flushes, straights, ect. I am perhaps a little confused here.There's a difference between showdown % of the percentage of showdowns you win, if you know what I mean.If you are winning 33% of your showdowns, I would choose a new hobby. Would you continue to play the stock market if only 1/3 of your stocks showed success?As far as the number of showdowns you see as related to the hands played on a full table?That should be a very small n

here's another question, should I have been able to dump this on the turn, or was I commited to seeing a showdown. I hear what everyone was saying on the checkraise and it caught me off guard, but really could I have gotten away from the rockets hereI don't think dumping this hand on the turn is a horrible move at all. I certainly still don't like the raise, but it will give you information about where you are at. He three-bet your raise, which tells you that you are beat.IMO, you have to get away from this hand. A smooth call on the turn and river maybe, but I don't think a fold is bad either

Not with this pre-flop action. More than 50% of the time you're seeing KK or QQ or even JJ here. Maybe JJ, but I think KK or QQ gets capped pre-flop.

It's possible to put him on a hand like A-9 here, or maybe 8-8, since he didn't cap pre-flop, you can't think he has QQ or KK in the hole.The check-raise on the flop here puts him on something like 8-9 suited (which some players consider a raising hand pre-flop), 8-8, or A-9. A-9 is most likely here (but 8-8 still scares me), so the three-bet on the flop is OK.But keep in mind he check raised you on the flop, which means he's strong. And this turn card HAD to help him, if he has A-9 or 8-8 or 8-9 suited, he's got you, and these are all likely possibilities.So when the 9 comes on the turn, you

If there's one post you can bank on seeing on a weekly basis, it's who the best poker player is.Use the "Search Forum" feature before you make such outstandingly general posts please.Thank you.

Smurdogg said: Have vested interest in other players, play differently knowing it benifits both of you to win Smasharoo replied: If that's cheating half the players in tournamnets are cheating.Smash is right here. Paul Phillips has a lot to say about this issue on his livejournal. In any big tournament, I would say at least half of the players have a piece of someone else in the tournament.This isn't so much cheating, because I don't think people buying in to a 10K tournament are sending their chips anyones way.But look at it this way. (Completely hypothetical)If Daniel decided to take a piece

to state the obvious, there is a seperate forum for this

After Day One of the PPT Freeroll, here are a few of the chip counts.Daniel is still in it with 48,500 chips, which seems to be about the average stack, so he's doing ok.Another interesting note is that one of the starting tables featured Ted Forrest, Phil Ivey, John Juanda, Phil Hellmuth, and Chris Ferguson.The top five stacks are...ASHER DERI 126,700 GREG RAYMER 100,200 ROBERT WILLIAMSON 93,900 CHRIS BIGLER 83,900 NOLI FRANCISCO 83,300 Also still involved..JOHN JUANDA 83,000ERIK LINDGREN 52,200 SCOTT FISCHMAN 13,500Also here are a couple pieces of the tournament blog I have been reading..7:3

Me and my friend watched this video, and it's ****ing hilarious.i mean, come on, you got chris moneymaker and barry shulman "teaching you the basics". i know this video isn't supposed to teach anyone advanced poker theory, but it's still very, very, funny.

I am sitting on about 43,000 in chips (average stack is around 15k). I will preface this by saying that I had a pretty good read on the table, and any big moves I made would keep position and my reads of the players in mind. So, I am sitting on 8-8 one off the button (9 handed game), and there are three callers (my read was that these callers would not play to a raise) so I too, with good position here just called (maybe a smooth call here is bad, but I liked the situation at the time)The button folds, SB folds, and BB checks, so five players in the pot, and the flop comes 4-9-J rainbow.The bl

I need more information here. What was your stack, his? What were the blinds and what was the "standard" raise.As for your call, I have to agree that you need to wait for a better spot to bust him. You need a pocket pair or to hit the flop better here. Even a better kicker might justify a call.I would say your call was just as loose as his bet, but I need more particulars.

I agree that the call is probably the right move, but I would consider a few things.The way the flop was played, with the checks, you might want to put your opponenets on a couple face cards.The turn comes with the flush draw, I am guessing anyone holding a hand like J Q spades is gonna throw a feeler bet here because of how weak the flop came, thinking he could at least steal the pot or get a couple smooth calls and get money in the pot if the flush does come.I do think the correct play here is to just call.I'm guessing the blinds were .50/1, so you limped in to a three dollar pot.Then its ch

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by positional play here. Yeah, the "blind steal" is the most textbook positional play, but it's only the tip of the iceberg. Also any decent player knows about the blinds steal, so he's gonna make you pay for it before the flop if he senses any weakness.What I would call a "real" positional play is when you have good position, like on the button or one off, and you have the best opportunity to get a sense of the bets, and you also have the best opportunity to make pot-odd assessments.For instances, if you have a hand like 8-9 suited, the UTG player makes a t

I don't hate the call on the turn, but I don't necessarily agree with it.The only way your QQ is no good on the turn is if you had a raise on the flop. Then you would have to worry about AA, KK, 33, 77, 99, or 7-9 suited. But considering you made the bet on the flop and everyone just called, you have to eliminate those 4 hands.Then with a turn of 4, the only hand you worry about is MAYBE 4-4 from a very loose weak player.So basically your overpair is good on the turn, no one showed the strength of a pair bigger than yours in the hole, and the only hand you would ever have to worry about is a s

I actually like the aggression here.5 handed, everyone folds to him, and he has A rags. I can understand the bet there, because he probably thinks he has the best hand with A high, and a small raise really feels you out.He definitely went wrong putting his money in with A-3 when you came over the top, but you have to expect that online.I would disagree with the all-in move, because the SB raiser could have put you on a steal because his raise was so weak. Seeing as how you were the only other player and came immediately over the top all in, he might have put you on a semi-bluff with something

After Day One, Daniel is sitting in 10th place in chips with 77,400.In first place is Georgois Paravoliasakis with 118,500. Other notables with good stack are Erick Lingdren (my POY pick) in 4th with 95,000. Howard Lederer in 15th with 65,000. Chris Ferguson in 25th with 50,000.Chip Jett in 37th with 43,600.Also in the top 50 are Chau Giang, David Chiu, Freddy Deeb, Devilfish.

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im sorry, but sometimes you just gotta tell it like it is.and since people have being saying some pretty ridiculous things in this forum in the last couple of days, ill spit the truth.1. ill never win the world series of poker.2. john juanda is the best poker player alive.3. phil hellmuth isn't even in the top 20 anymore.4. futureWSOPwinner is dead money.im out like moneymaker in 2004

Blinds are 25-50I have about 3100 in chipsPlayer 2 has about 1200Player 3 has about 1050I am playing 6 handed holding JDQCPlayer 2 makes the first raise, double the big blind, I call because she is a weak player, as does the button.The flop comes 8C9CACPlayer 2 bets out 200, I raise it to 400, amd Player 3 moves all in for around 1000 total. Player 2 folds, and it's on me.The draw is nice, and something tells me he has nothing but A-rag, but it's still a tough spot. The pot odds don't necessarily demand a call, but to eliminate this player would make me the big stack with a nice position to wi

I just finished the book, and would love to know if "Jimmy" has anything else in the works. I'd love to see his depictions of side games or maybe even another crack at a World Series book.Anyone have any information about his future writing plans?

A good friend of Daniel's Erick "E-Dog' Lingdren finished in second place at the Harrah's WSOP Circuit Main Event, netting $430,521.Nice finish, and I imagine he's going to be making big moves on the Player of the Year standings in 2005.

I agree wholeheartedly here looshle. But, as said earlier in this thread, there is more prayer at a poker table than at most churches on Sunday morning. Otherwise, I understand the argument that gambling is not a sin. It *is* the responsibility of the man who puts his money on the table if he loses it or not. But it seems to ME, that if one were abiding by the Christian ideals (namely humility, compassion) he would feel a moral obligation to oppose such a situation, or at least try to better it in some way.This is not how I feel, like I said earlier, I am speaking from a Christian upbringing,

My immediate reaction here would be to smooth-call a very strong hand, and then let him raise you as he was doing every time. By doing so, you are trapping him while he thinks he has you trapped. Even a re-raise after his raise would steal the pot, but I am guessing he is going to bet whatever flop comes if you smooth call. As for the person on your right, it sounds like you need to take on the approach of the aggressive player more with him, force his blinds from him, and let him get frustrated with the lack of flops he is seeing, and when the time is right, move in.