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6-max, I'm re-raising with TT pre-flop any day of the week and twice on Sunday. I do understand your point of view though--the middle pairs from 77 to JJ can be hard to get away from sometimes when an overcard comes. The flop is gravy for you, but puts a draw out there. He leads out, and I'd make him eat that bet. Assume he's got the OESD, 8 outs twice (approximately 32% by the river). The pot as is is $2.35 when the action is to you. You gave him 3.1-to-1 on his call, and he's about 2.125-to-1 to get there.Raise more on the flop. I'd have raised to $3 or so to make his call incorrect

ESPECIALLY Limit Holdem. Great points.OP: Your flop raise slowed him down, turned him into a passive player. That generally means that he can't beat what you're representing there. If he's not a donk, he's afraid of the jack, he may be on a spade draw.What does he have that beats you there? An overpair? Possibly, but he (again assuming he's not a donk) wouldn't assume you'd hit your set just due to a flop raise. He flat called your raise and checked the turn behind you. He doesn't have a set, because in the absence of a flush/straight draw out there, you jam a set to death in LHE. Yo

Think of it this way:When I played FR, my VPIP/PFR was in the 18/13 range, and I had an AF-T around 3. That's tight and extremely aggressive. Since I left online poker and recently returned, I'm playing SHLHE and my VP$IP/PFR is around 38/25.Think of it this way, if you're playing 20% of your hands at a 10-seated table, you're playing 2 hands per orbit. To do the same thing at a 6-seated table, your VP$IP increases to 33%.As far as aggression goes, you have to look at things this way: Aggression is the only way you can successfully win in LHE in the long term. You don't have the "all-in"

I get sick of people bashing Josh. He's a solid player. Period. Can he make another final table? Yes. Would that put him among the greats? Abso-freakin-lutely.When Harrington won it all in 1995, and this is not to diminish his accomplishment, there were 273 entries. Dan is one of the best tourney players in the world. His back-to-back final tables (3rd and 4th) with 839 and 2576 entries respectively is arguably the most amazing performace in WSOP history. If Josh makes a final table this year (and Harrington doesn't), that would be back-to-back top-10's with fields of 2576. and an est

I never wear sunglasses at the table, ring or tournament. If I did, I'd wear my Oakley A-wires.

I suppose it's more a difference in styles. I don't really consider the low suited connectors to be a +EV play in my mind. I mean, here's a guy who had a inside straight draw (which I actually missed when I first reviewed the hand), and he just calls down to the river when he gets the low straight. I've laid down low straights with the right read (and been right in doing so). T9s, I can see. Maybe even 98s in an unraised pot. Anything lower just can't be +EV. It's just my own hang up, I suppose. T9s is -EV except in LP98s is -EV any place before seat 787s is -EV except the button76s is

Thanks for the encouragement all. Very much appreciated.

I felt I didn't have a great raising hand in ATo. I wonder if I would have raised, would he have called with suited connectors?The flop gave him nothing. He needed runner-runner to do anything. If I bet out straight from the start, he had to know he needed runner-runner.The reason I capped at the end was because I couldn't (in my own mind) see anyone playing 76s after catching AT BEST and open end straight draw on the turn. He had a 4-outer on the flop, and an 8-outer by the turn.My frustration is with the fact that this continues to happen to me in downswings. When it happens, I lose big

Looking for some general advice. I'm a tight aggressive player, and I started playing 1/2 Limit a few weeks ago on Stars. I've done fairly well until recently, when a combination of bad cards and bad beats have cost me quite a bit in the last 3 days (40% of bankroll).My question is this: How does the TAA player play against the maniac when the maniac just keeps getting lucky?A hand from the losing streak:POKERSTARS GAME #1292898521: HOLD'EM LIMIT ($1/$2) - 2005/03/02 - 11:54:33 (ET)Table 'Sorga' Seat #8 is the buttonSeat 2: Dromen ($14.50 in chips) Seat 3: martinbh ($8 in chips) Seat 4: cool

nada that I know of. AC or bust.

Easy. Play tighter. Wait for premium hands, and play them fast. If your friends suck out on you, it's the luck of the cards. To prevent that, like I said, play premium hands, and RAISE them hard. You'll still get bad beats, but when you're playing premium hands, you'll get premium results.

I've been playing his way for a while now. While on the net you WILL get sucked out on more (and in B&Ms as well), this book's tight-aggressive approach will likely make you money in the long run.Harrington didn't make back-to-back final tables in the main event in the biggest fields in history by being a crappy player.His accomplishments run right up there with Johnny Chan's 1-1-2 in 3 years. Book's great, and I can't wait for Vol.2

Dude, that's honestly pathetic. It's one thing when you claim to be something you're not. It's another thing when you represent that on the guy's own website. Considering that I was the one who questioned you on Stars when you asked "What is Negreanu?" and you responded that you didn't even know who Daniel was...I wish I played 2 weeks ago so I could actually dump a hand history on here to show the exchange. You can obviously play, but claiming to be Daniel is something else. :naughty:Mods, I personally don't care if he plays in the tourney--in fact, I could be coaxed to play if somebody

Harrington, without a doubt. Remember, they only show the big action hands on ESPN et al...He is almost definitely tighter than any of the big-name pros today. I'm waiting patiently for his book...

My system at work blocks Stars as well, so I thought the same thing--brought it in on a USB key, etc etc. Turns out it blocks the server addresses too. Not saying not to try it, but...

You can't bluff a bad player, mainly because they're (no insult intended) too stupid to know when they're bluffed or beat. Bad players will draw out on you, because they don't know when to lay something down. They will win many battles at the table. So long as you avoid tilt, and keep playing with them, you will win the war.

If I have AA, I'd take my chances. Sure you have a shot at being outdrawn, you always do. On any hand. Hey, AA vs. 23o with a 2-3-2 flop still sucks. But if you're going to go all-in and take the shot, I'd rather do it with AA than anything else. I don't think I'd lay down AA pre-flop if you put a gun to my head...That being said, I just laid down QQ pre-flop last night... <sigh>

Be careful playing with small bankrolls and buy-ins. Variance is a real b****. I try not to enter a limit game with less than 50BB. A NL game, 100BB. Just to sit at the table. With a limit game, you may get away with less, but if you play a 3/6 NL game with $50, prepare to get bullied. Congrats on your win, but just a suggestion: Don't go to a 6-on-1 gunfight with 3 bullets in the gun...Good luck!

Theory is a fantastic book. Not geared specifically toward NLHE, but will teach you a great deal. Another great book by Sklansky is No Limit for Advanced Players. Don't let the title fool you. It's not a bad beginners book, either, but reading Theory will help you with that one.Playing online is actually a great way to learn to read betting patterns. You're playing basically blindfolded. No physical tells, no voice inflection, just HOW the player bets and the speed at which he/she makes his decisions. I personally am still learning. I can't put someone on their exact hole cards (a la H

Funny you all mention the Hilton sisters...Last night, playing a single table NL SnG on Stars, I get dealt QQ in the SB on the 3rd hand of the tourney (little did I know that this would be the best hand I would be dealt all night). No read on players, nothing. We get two limpers and a guy in late position goes all-in. I do the only thing that a tight-aggressive player can do.I laid them down.And felt sick about it.Everybody else folded, so we'll never know.I busted out on the bubble--to the guy I laid down the queens to (and he was reasonably tight).Worst. Feeling. Ever.

In poker, you can always second guess. Second guess how much you bet on the flop to dicourage the fish, second guess re-raising in situations. You have to trust your reads. Right or wrong, you need to trust your reads. I hear everybody mouthing off, "call!" "call!" and what some don't realize is that if one of those players flipped over KK or AA, you're heading home. If they represent strength and you have nothing else pointing the other way, trust your instinct or your read.

Jay--I was being somewhat facetious. Yours is much more reasonable... :-)I was attempting to make the point that crushing a game is complete dominance. Whether it's a 5X return in sessions (don't we all wish) or consistently winning at a level over time, it's all crushing the game.

First, Doyle's hand was 10-2. He won both his main events with it.Second, Sklansky's theory of poker is (paraphrased): "When you make someone play their cards differently than they would if they knew what you have in your hand, you win..."--draw your own conclusion.With 4-5 suited, the first question I ask is "What were the blinds...", since you didn't mention them. If the blinds were 50/100, I might have called to 200, especially if I was already in the BB for 100 or even the SB for 50. After the flop, it wasn't a bad call. If he felt so good about him KQ, he should've protected it with a

Crushing a game is when you sit down at a table with 50BB, play for 6 hours, and leave with 300BB. Frequently. Almost every day. When you play dominantly at a level for a sustained period of time, you are crushing the game.

Best thing about the Taj, especially for beginning players is that the tourneys they run are freezeouts--no rebuy, no add-on. You start with T5000, and when you go, you go. I played at Trop in my first tourney, flipped the table on its ear out of the gate, then watched as people I had taken out just drop cash on the table and get back in. Also, Trop doesn't care how much you have left for a rebuy. I played a $50+10, and a guy went all-in with me with J10 versus KK, took all his chips, then he calls for a rebuy, plunks down $200 on the table, and suddenly has the chip lead, with 4 rebuys, a