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haha yea me too. I doubled up some donk when i hit 2 pair j4ss from SB on KJ4 flop and he had K4.

Senior year of high school I go on spring break to the Bahamas. There is a casino with a full poker room about a 2 minute walk from our hotel. Having just turned 18 less than a year, i am super excited to play my first No Limit hold em (i had played limit at an indian casino throughout the year). I play and play alot. I meet a nice guy who happens to be from a different detroit suburb about 40 minutes from where I live. We exchange numbers, etc. Vacation ends, and he calls me to invite me to his home game. At .5/1$ and 40$ min buy in it is slightly larger than the home games my friends

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not when your opponents suck so bad. Way more profitable than online with same BR, IMO.a typical 2/5 NL game live typically has a 25-35$ raise preflop with 2-5 callers. Also you can get reads on players waaay more easily live. Within 10 or 15 minutes of sitting down you know how to beat each player specifically, either by bluffing them or makign thin value bets.

i insta call probably. He either has 4 or he doesnt. I doubt he pushes all in with the straight unless he has 84 or nut straight. Probably missed clubs more often than not. Possibly ac8c even?

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So i started keeping track of my live sessions on 4.9.2009, in a great excel sheet thanks to Cwik. So now its 2 months later and I have logged 151 hours. I know variance goes alot slower live than online. How many hours do you guys consider adequate to judge, at the very least, whether you are a winning or losing player and moreover how many hours until you can actually find a somewhat reliable hourly win rate.If online players are reading this, i would guess that 150 hours is equal to about 5k hands or so.

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while he wasnt completely still, he was except for continuous chip shuffling which he repeated in the exact same manner for 5 minutes and he ddint move anything else. Also, when I acted like i was throwing my hand away he did not do anything to try and change my mind. he looked right at me the entire time, seemingly trying to intimidate me. Lastly, his adam apple bounced and he was not breathing normally, but rather not rly breathing at all. A combination of these things and the way the hand played out, allowed to make this call.

i tanked for a good few minutes, and thanks to mike caro's book was able to make the call. villian had9d4d from flopped Fd+gutshot, turned double belly buster.

congrats man, must feel awesome. enjoy the winnings, at least a little of them.

The 8 does not scare me, unless its Ad8d in his hand. What would be his reasoning for betting a naked 8 on the river? Even a naked ace if he has lets say Ad10d or something. The biggest mistake of live players is not betting for think value on the end. This is why I threw out all 1 pair hands from his range on the river. Its really either set, straight, A6, Ad8d, or bluff. I really do not evn think he bets 56 here.

If i raise the flop he pushes most of his range, laying down only hands that I have beat badly. his leading out range hypothetically includes sets, draws, 2 pair and occasional overpair. Even though I think that he slowplays a set/straight. Its a lose lose situation since I cant call a push. I never raise to "find out where I am" like so many people like to do. i think it is greatly -ev. i either raise for value or as a bluff. In this spot I am fine to just call down barring a diamond or something fishy, perhaps like him betting 300 on the river....

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Villian and I have alot of history this session. One hand I raised 20 utg with 10c7c and he and 1 other called. Flop 334 1 club, i bet 30 he called. turn 8c i bet 70 he called, river Kh i bet 120 he folded I mucked. Second hand we played I limped with 44 MP and so did many others. FLop was qj4 someone led out 20, call, i make it 100 he overcalls behind me and 1 other calls. Turn is 5 I bet 200 he pushes for 300 other folds, I call, he has QJ. Last hand we have together was I call 20$ raise in MP with 55 and position, but he overcalls on the button. Flop 468 Raiser bets 75, i call (real

meh, i play it the same way.

Two factors ( I am the same way):.10/.25 online players are better than 1/2 live players.If you use live reads or tells.

preflop: really? Why raise here? It turns our hand into a bluff. I understand fold>call, but what is your argument for raising? He wont call with a lesser hand.River: just a small value bet against QQ, KQ, JJ, A9, AJ (villian 2's range), etc.

game is 2/5 at MGM in downtown detroit (awesome city). Villian 1 is a pretty TAG player, played with him a few times; not much of a thinker though. Only plays his own cards. Prob a slight loser over the long run. Villian two i have never played against but so far this session (maybe 2-3 hours) has exhibited tendencies of a tight passive player.Stacks: Villian one: ~800, villian two ~400, hero covers.folds to Villian 1 who opens in like 3rd or 4th position for $30, which is slightly above avg raise with no limpers. Id say 25 was avg with no prior action. Villian two, directly on his left calls

thanks for all the quick responses.I folded. He mucked unfortunately. He said he was waiting for someone to bet. Could mean alot of things, obv AA or KK or just a bluff. To the first poster, the dude does not have k10 or jq here, he doesn't raise 30$ preflop with those. His value range is AA/KK/AK/1010 and that's it. He could def. be bluffing here since he could think that i have shown weakness and obv villain two has nothing. But at the same time, if he thought that, he would just call most hands since almost his entire PF raising range has hit this board. It was either he was bluff

game is 2/5 at MGM in downtown detroit (awesome city). Villian 1 is a pretty TAG player, played with him a few times; not much of a thinker though. Only plays his own cards. Prob a slight loser over the long run. Villian two i have never played against but so far this session (maybe 2-3 hours) has exhibited tendencies of a tight passive player. Stacks: Villian one: ~800, villian two ~400, hero covers.folds to Villian 1 who opens in like 3rd or 4th position for $30, which is slightly above avg raise with no limpers. Id say 25 was avg with no prior action. Villian two, directly on his lef

with any open ender + fd on unpaird board (esp against a single opponent, since it is less likely someone has a high FD) on the flop, personally i raise/push/etc and try to get it in on the flop under any but the most dire circumstanctes.

eh really looks like your beat, but id call just because its KK and your hand is underrepped, so he hypothetically could be value betting worse. He could have also had like 9cXc and now be bluffing.

my thought process was basically that his most likely holding is a two pair hand. Lets say he holds J10 with no flushdraw. I am 36% to win and the pot is laying me exactly 2-1. Pretty much a break even spot. I always call live in what I consider to be roughly break even spots, even with a tad -ev in order to build a stack and give myself a loose image where it looks like i cant be bluffed. I thought two pair was his base holding, and the likelihood of a straight/set was equal to a big draw that i had beat. So the call was pretty much break even from an EV standpoint.

I called 100 on the turn.River came an offsuit 10.I checked, he quietly said all in.I foldedHe tabled K8 of clubsFML ISAP