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Well, I finally have a hand worth talking about. Here's one from a NL 600 game on Party. The BB is a very solid player, as he and I have pretty much bankrupted everyone else at the table.I did use the hand converter, but all-in bets still don't register as bets, so I had to do the river myself.Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $ BB (6 max, 3 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cxHero ($1340.48)BB ($1375.50)Button ($655.60)Preflop: Hero is SB with [Kd], [6h]. Hero posts a blind of $3. 1 fold, BB calls $12.Flop: ($36) [5c], [6d], [Ks] (2 players)Hero bets $20, BB calls $20.Turn: ($76) [5h] (2 pl

If it was me, I would have only raised to 30 on the flop so that you can get some action from top pair or a low overpair, and not put yourself in a position where making the same bet on the turn and river will put your whole stack in.Then, when you get two callers on the turn, if you're worried you can bet 30 on the turn and possibly fold to a raise, and if you just get called and still feel like you're being trapped, you can check the river. The thing is that by putting a third of your stack in on the flop, you're basically committing yourself to a hand where you're only likely to get called

I was just thinking about my advice from earlier, and I realized I forgot to name the one occasion when I don't usually continuation bet in a cash game. The situation when I don't bet is when I have a hand, but I'm not sure if it's good (i.e. something like A-6 on a flop of A-J-9 or J-J on a flop of Q-9-2) That way, I figure I'm more likely to get a bluff if I am ahead, and less likely to lose a big pot or risk folding a winner if I'm behind.

Well, actually with regards to continuation bets in tournaments, I was thinking more of either S+Gs or else the early stages of a MTT. If I've got one of the larger stacks after the second break or so, I'll definitely continuation bet at the smaller stacks.

Good point. What kind of serious, successful player would keep spewing out stuff like : I was so busy trying to explain his poker errors to him that I completely ignored the fact that he talks like a teenage gimmick poster who's never been to a real casino."Giving your opponent the death stare" to make him fold when you have two pair.Give me a friggin break.

Also, don't forget how easy it is to hit a flush with a low suited connector, only to lose to someone else's higher flush.In the example here, you could have very easily lost 7.5 BB on this hand if someone had hit a high flush. You're right to play the suited connector here, but the raises just reek of randomly throwing money around.If that's the best hand you've ever played, I'd like to play with you a lot more.

In general, in tournaments I almost never continuation bet, because if your opponent hits the flop at all, they tend to get the feeling that they're stuck on the hand, and just go all-in with a lot of hands you could move them off of in a cash game.As for cash games, unless there are at least four or five opponents, I continuation bet every single time. Seriously, every time. If they don't have something they usually just fold, and by the time they do hit, they're so pissed off that they'll pay you big if you really hit something.The trick is to keep your bets consistent regardless of what you

It's a THREE HANDED GAME against a VERY LOOSE PLAYER.I'm not saying that you should always check the nuts or consistently smooth call or anything like that. I consistently raise and reraise big hands when I think there's a decent chance my opponent has something.However, in this particular case, the player (you know the one that had been playing hands with this guy and didn't read about it on the internet), thought his opponent was likely to bet the flop and the turn with any holding, and would slow down if he didn't have anything.Given that he hit the flop about as solidly as he possibly coul

I really don't understand where the people advocating bet/fold are even getting the idea that it's a reasonable play. I thought the very idea of a WA/WB situation was that it was an automatic check.The people who advocated bet/fold are trying to save one bet when they're up against the ace, and they reason that if they check, they're opponents will bet anything and they won't know what they have. Well, if they'll bet "anything", then wouldn't about 1/3 of those turn bets be bluffs? I mean they're not going to hit an ace every time. If you get one extra bet for every two times you go against an

The point is that a lot of times, players like "villain" don't think clearly. That's why they're screwing around in a NL 100 game. They think that if they just keep pushing, they can make somebody back off no matter what. Also, a lot of times, they have no draw whatsoever. I've had about three times lately where somebody's bet on every street in a similar situation and had absolutely nothing; no pair and no draw.Smoothcalling isn't always the right play, but if you play any kind of a weak-tight game, it's the best way to get him to keep betting. Now if he knows that you'll come over the top of

At this point, you've decided to play the hand strongly. The only move on the turn is all-in.Checking would be silly after making a big raise like that and getting a blank on the turn, and all betting less would do is alert them to your hand and give them a price to draw. If you go all-in, there's a better chance that they'll put you on a bluff or a semibluff, and if they do decide to draw against you, they won't be getting very good odds to do so.

Pmc, you're totally ignoring a lot of important factors here that change the situation dramatically.This is a low stakes, short-handed, online poker game. Many of the players are way too over-aggressive, and will be more than happy to bluff off their chips on two or even three streets. This is not a 10-handed game full of tight players, where you can afford to limit your winnings so dramatically when you have two pair.In the situation where you're ahead, the opponent is drawing to between zero and four outs. If he has zero outs, (which I would say is close to half of the time in this game), yo

I disagree with the sentiment here. Pretty much any decent-sized bet on the turn was going to commit you to the pot, so it really wouldn't have helped at all to commit less chips. I say that if you don't think he has the flush, (which he didn't), your best move is to jam on the turn to make sure you get paid off if he's drawing. There's not much you can do about him drawing out on you, but at least you'll be giving him a worse price to play with you.Oh, and also, do you always give a min. raise open from the button with Q-J suited in the later stages of a tournament? I'd say you definitely wan

OK, lots of things don't make sense here.1) Why not follow up the bet on the flop? You'll get credit for an overpair most of the time, and even if they don't believe you, they'll probably fold anyway.2) When you actually hit your second ace on the river that almost ensures your ahead, why do you fold? With the pot odds, you've only got to be ahead one time in five to make the call worthwhile, and based on the betting, I'd say your ahead half the time at the very least.3) How did an ace of clubs come on the river when you had an ace of clubs in your hand? Did the suits get lost in translation s

I have to say that's one thing I always give people too much credit on.I always think "he can't be stupid enough to think I'll fold just because I'm comforted to see his cards, he must actually want a call". I've been wrong on that one more than once.

OK, let's look at the pertinent facts here. 1) New player.2) .25/.50 blind gameNow, sure a lot of people will play AA or KK this way, but there are also a lot of donkeys that will push with almost anything in a low-limit game, especially when they're new to a table, and think no one will dare call them.The odds that you ran into a donkey are much, much, better than the odds that the new player happened to pick up AA or KK his first hand at the table. Given the situation, this is an automatic call as far as I'm concerned.

This is honestly the most nonsensical post I've ever seen.You make up reasons about how you just need to hit your hourly goal, and you don't need to win a big pot, etc., etc., in order to justify how you don't want to get your money in as a heavy favorite. Honestly, some of your strategy ideas seem more well-suited for Pai Gow than Texas Hold 'Em.Honestly, I think that you made a great play on this hand, but it was a total accident. That's right you made a great play because you won the pot on a bluff.I'm pretty sure that your opponent thought that no one on earth would go all-in with top pair

No, I've only been playing the 400s for a week or so, but in the other thread, someone was playing a 5-5 NL game and bragging about winning an $800 pot, so I thought mine was pretty good.Also, I forgot to mention some details of my flop play on the hand. First off, I'd been consistently either flat-calling or giving a decent-size raise when I had a hand, and I figure he'd read a minimum raise as something that was trying to move him off the hand. Also, when I raised, he hesitated a short amount, short enough that it wouldn't be fake hesitation or trying to move me off the hand, but more like i

I was reading an old thread in the forum for DN's results, and somebody posted the biggest pot they'd ever won. I thought it might be kind of an interesting topic so I decided to post a new topic here.Anyway, I won my biggest pot ever last night playing NL 400 (2-4 blinds) on PartyPoker. I was going up against a maniac who was acting even more manaical after I bluffed him out of a $900 pot and showed. Anyway, here's the hand:#Game No : 3001948782 ***** Hand History for Game 3001948782 *****$400 NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, November 08, 08:08:32 EDT 2005Table Table 71387 (6 max) (No DP) (Real M

All right, that's fair enough. I was actually planning on setting myself strict guidelines when I restarted, trying to keep myself at least 200 big bets for limit games, and at least 800 big blinds for no limit games, and cashing out half of my winnings whenever I moved up a level.I did it for a while, but pretty soon I just kind of let loose. I tell myself I'll just "try" a higher limit game and play a few rounds of blinds, and then I end up putting in a five hour session. I don't really like to move down levels when I'm winning, so I'll stay where I'm at for now, but I'm definitely not going

I've got a couple that I got for free at the local casino, but I certainly wouldn't buy one.And if I go over there wearing it without noticing, I feel like kind of a douche.

OK, so technically I'm a compulsive gambler. What's you're point.I actually feel fine about my poker play, as it's constructive in the long run. The only time I really feel bad about gambling is when I lose money playing blackjack, and I haven't done that at all in a few weeks now.

Well, right now I've got $1600 in my PartyPoker account, but I've cashed out $1300 in the last week.I was losing until about three weeks ago when I decided to deposit $50 and try again. I can't stop playing over my head, so I've already moved up to playing $100 S+G and $400 NL in that time period. I even made some money playing $600 NL, but I decided that was too far over my head, so as of last night I'm done with that.I don't agree with whoever said that a world-class player would definitely lose all their money if they like to buy in for around 20% of their roll. I mean sure, they easily cou