steve7stud

Everyone has given you great advice thus far. If this is your first time at a "real" casino, and you're getting married. Just go and have a good time. If you're with friends, it will be a lot easier anyway. I'm sure you'll love it. Good Luck.

I think that Daniel is a great poker player. I also think that he is wonderful for the promotion of the game. He's done a great job with this site, and with helping other players. However, in my opinion, poker and religion don't mix. It almost seems like some people are beginning to idolize Daniel. I'm not on here enough to see if anyone ever disagrees with Daniel. Not that I'm saying that you should. I just think it's a lot of pressure to put on one person. Hope this post makes sense. Good Luck.

Unfortunately, I won't be in Vegas. But I do want to say that I love the idea of players here meeting up with each other. It's a great forum to discuss ideas about poker, and furthermore........showing a sense of community is really important. I wish that I could make it. I hope that other people will post about these types of things in the future. Please let me know if you will be in Los Angeles as well. That goes for all players, I hope that we can better one another as players. Good Luck.

To those who responded. It's great that we all seem to be on the same page here. Lets try and do our best. Everyone will benefit. Good Luck.

First of all, I am im impressed with your posts. For the most part. Everyone on here seems to have a pretty good understanding of the game of poker. Especially the newer players. Which to me is really incredible. I wish I was that knowledgeble when I first started playing.Comedy and laugher are some of the key elements in life. I personally find humor in just about everything. I never try to take life too seriously. However, I didn't get a chance to respond to the anti-semitic remark. I was offended. The reason being, I'm Jewish. I don't think that the original writer actually meant any harm b

I want to preface my response by saying that this could take a little while. The reason is, stud in general is a game that is not given much attention these days. And I would like to give some history about myself. I hope it will be insightful. When I started playing poker eight years ago, the first game I learned how to play was stud. 3-6 in particular in Northern California. Artichoke Joe's, Lucky Chances, and various other Bay area casinos. I had fairly good card sense, but realized that I needed to learn much more. So, I played more. I think I proved to be a slight winner, but I reallywas

Finally, a question that's not related to holdem, lol. Stud hi-lo is one of my better games. However, I don't really like to play it online. First of all, the lower limits are a waste of my time, and the higher limits tend to have players making few mistakes. And even the higher limits are still pretty low. Casino's are a great place to play. Los Angeles casino's in particular. And during the world series they used to have a great 50-100 stud 8 at the Horshoe. That game was so incredibly juicy. Stud Hi-Lo can be played with a kil or without a kill. That is a factor in determining what your br

What really amazes me is not the question of buy in. People just "assume" that the game is hold'em these days. I know that everyone watches the WPT on TV. But despite what the vast majority think, life outside hold'em does exist. Don't get me wrong, I do play hold em. But I also play virtually every other form of poker as well. I think one of the keys to being a good poker player is to learn how to play ALL games well. You can learn a lot from playing various games. It's been a long time since I've played 4-8, but since that was the question, I will try and address it. I'm going to assume that

Okay, I just read the original post again. I do understand what was intended to be said here, I think. My only real comment is, if you think the player on the button would have called any raise, and any bet on any flop. In a way you are a bit trapped. But that is short term luck. I can't seem to focus and write much more. But the post does make a bit more sense after I read it three times.

I know that I sound like I'm totally contradicting myself here. But after what Smasharoo wrote, I cant stop laughing. I'm serious. I LITERALLY am laughing out loud. This is the one post that I have seen that might be an exception to the rule. I can't stop laughing.......Okay, Smasharoo is right. If you can rephrase this question, it might help. A LOT. LMAO.

When I first started playing poker, I tried to get advice from everyone that I possibly could. Actually, it was after I endured some healthy losses that I sought help from other players, lol. My problem was, I was looking for THE answer. Ironically, most people will tell you different things. To this day, answers and advice will change from player to player. One thing to take into consideration is the limit that you play. The reason that I wrote the previous article inquiring about what limits most people play on this forum, is because certain strategies work well at 2-4 that won't work at 20

Just out of curiousity, what limits do most of you play? Online or in a casino?

After reading his response, he made some interesting points. I'm actually in agreement with most of what he said. But, what we all seem to focus on are the straight and flush possibilities here. The real power came from the two 2's that flopped. That's just one of the beautiful things about this "junk" hand. Why would you play a hand like 2,3 suited? For exactly the reason that often comes up. It's almost impossible to put someone on that hand. It's hard not to get married to Aces on a flop, turn and river of that texture. There don't seem to be any scare cards. The only likely hands that I wo

What really amazes me here, is that I don't believe it was said whether this hand took place online or in a casino. I guess everyone just assumed that it was online. Maybe I missed something. Anyway, the call WAS correct. The reason is not because you figure to have the best hand. It's quite obvious that you in fact, have the worst hand. But, it is a hand that you can bust someone with. The advice I'm giving is VERY sound. Playing online is a bit tougher, because you have to depend on betting patterns and hand history. But in a live game, a hand like that can do a lot of dammage. I play for mu

After reading some of the responses, I want to add a few things. When I started playing poker seriously, it was not nearly as accepted as it is now. We didn't have internet card rooms, so I had to play in traditional casinos. To this day, I still play primarily play in traditional casinos. When two people are face to face, the comments that are made are MUCH different than what you will hear on this site or during internet play. It's easy to sit behind a computer and bash away at someone for hours on end. While you might think it's funny, you're scaring away the very people who provide a healt

A few years ago, I e-mailed Daniel about a hand that I played in a high stakes no limit tournament. It was fairly deep, and I was one of the chip leaders. I looked down to find Ace King. A player raised in front of me and I pushed all in. Another player who had NOTHING invested in the pot, but had roughly the same amount of chips that I did, went all in himself with Q 10 off. The orignal raiser folded. This is not the Phil Hellmuth story, don't worry, lol. As luck would have it, a queen hit the flop and I busted out. I got up, said nice hand, and walked away completely furious. Later that ni

I really want to try and clear a few things up. I've been playing poker for several years now. If I said that I have played or do play with some of the top pros, it should be implied that I do keep records. You seem like an angry guy, and have a lot of hostility in general. Please don't use this as a forum to take it out on other players. I for one, really don't care. I'm confident not only in my game, but am fully aware of my strengths and weaknesses as a player. Fortunately, keeping records is pretty fundamental. It's a question that most of us don't even discuss these days. More like, how w

One of the problems with playing online is that it becomes a VERY mathematical game. That is 1/3 of the equation in poker. I clearly understand the math in which you're speaking of. If I didn't, I wouldn't have been able to provide the example of 15-30 in comparison to 3-6 with similar bankrolls. One of the major problems that I have seen with internet players of late, is that they act in a way that is NOT good for poker. I'm not making ref. to the previous post. The things that people are saying during the game would NEVER be said in a public casino. As a poker player, I have nothing to prove

[/size]Losing $200 playing $3/$6 online is a barely noticable slight downturn for me and happens at least once a week. If it's your entire bankroll you're GURANATEED TO LOSE IT ALL UNLES YOU GET EXCEPTIONALLY LUCKY. I don't think a person needs to get extremely lucky to take a bankroll of 200 with stakes at 3-6 and turn it into profit. I actually play considerably larger limits than that. And I generally play at casinos as well as online. But "guarenteed to lose, unless you get lucky". That's just plain wrong. You can easily turn that 200 into profit at a 3-6 level. In turn, that can be profit

I should have been a bit more clear on the difference between a recreational player and a pro player. Most people have various definitions of what a "pro" is. But at the same time, it's common knowledge that if the majority of your income is coming from poker, you can call yourself a pro. Pro's come in all different shapes and sizes. What I mean by that is, you can play 3-6 and survive on a very LIMITED income if you play a ridiculous amount of hours. Or you can play as high as 4000-8000. If you are a winning player at either game, and that's where the majority of your money is coming from. It

One of the most difficult problems that a poker player will face is what limit to play. It's not the actual dollar amount that you'r playing. But once you move up in limits, it's quite difficult to step back down. The theories about how much you need to play at various limits, and what your hourly expectation should be, are VERY subjective. Ironically over the last few years I have often asked Daniel about this issue for my own play. Without going into too much detail, his advice was "it depends". I think that is true for every player. I'm not a fan of what people say you should or shouldn't p