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Does anyone here live in NYC? I'm newly divorced and back into playing and would like to try to find some games in the city (Manhattan/Brooklyn). Mostly looking for 1-2 NL or $100/$200 tourneys. Any help would be appreciated. I looked on homepokergame.com but not sure that I really trust anything on there. Thanks

If my math is right, his final bet leaves him with $1.25. That strikes me as odd for his line. If he made the (nut) flush I think he'd put it all in. Sounds like he's bluffing... I think in this game, unless you have a really good read, you gotta call.

26-19-14I have a bunch of ones that could swing... and of course in most of the ties somebody will eventually cash so that's where most people will swing.

fold preflop

Sorry, maybe i should clarify... i'm talking in the early levels.If you see a huge over-push early in these things it's almost never a super strong hand... i believe doubling up early in these is worth the risk and you will almost never find yourself dominated. Most "smart" players aren't going to open-push or re-raise a 3x's the BB bet by pushing in.... you'll find most of your donks are slow-play maniacs with their big hands... These low buy-ins are waiting games and you have to catch some cards (especially if you're playing the turbos). You're not going to see that many good hands. I'd

Don't be scared to call all-ins with AK... you're probably giving up way too much value in your AK hands in the early stages. Someone said above that people are like "it's only 2.20 soooo allll-in"... which is completely true... If it's heads up i'm never laying down AK at any point during a sit n go when it's all-in preflop... you are VERY rarely dominated and most of the time you are dominating or in a coin-flip. And you just gotta win some coin flips sometimes. Depending on how the opponent has played the first round of hands i might call with AQ as well... I will lay down down AK if i r

I STRONGLY agree with the 1.75/18's and the 3.25/45's... hey maybe all you donkeys are playing in them lately so that's why i haven't been doing so well!I need to check my ROI but it's usually pretty good in them... i'll also play the 6.50/18's too when i feel like playing outside the BR... I don't reccomend the 6.50/45's because first is only $84... first for the 18's is $42 i believe... so you have to beat 27 more people and only get double the money...

Interesting... what site do you typically play on? I've found the 2-4 and 3-6 limits at stars have a lot less 3-betting and capping without premium hands... which may possibly be why i do better at 3-6 than 1-2 because i open up my range and people respect my bets more. Not sure though...

If this was a 2-4 or 3-6 game i'd say you were up against AA or QQ...since it's at .25-.50 stakes people are going to three-bet with a lot more starting hands...Therefore i think you could be up against AQ and you gotta call it down, but the cap on the flop scares me.Take your medicine.

Why did you 3-bet the flop then check the turn and river? That makes no sense to me.

the Krups panini maker looks like an Xbox...so yeah... 89 pages and i never knew there was a dedicated Pens topic. The Penguins-Flyers game at Beaver stadium will never happen in a million years... Penn St. will never let their precious field be used for anyting but football. The Special Olympics wanted to use the stadium one year and was denied. You think they'd let them put ice on it? hahahaha... If it ever happened i'd go see it though...Go Pens

Especially since i've played a million of those tourneys... insta-hellmuth-call

so many great lines just in that one scene...-How you feelin' Mac?-GOOD ENOUGH TO F*** YOUR MUUU-THER!!!

I just love that Acid's quote is from Super Troopers

Side question:If it was folded around to you on the button do you raise with KQs and an M of 14 (soon to be 10)?

Your M is really only about 10 if blinds are going up the very next hand... I think if you're going to play the KQ here you've got to push or fold preflop. Push to make him lay down a small pair or AJ/T/similar. In a live situation where i think the guy is pretty solid, i'm going to pass and wait for a better hand.I see nothing wrong with playing the KQs on the button if you're deeper... but the M is really what gets you here... you put in 15% of your stack in and then laid it down when you paired the flop... if you're going to call with the KQs when you hit your flop you gotta move. After

Same thing Waylander said... i used to play in a free tournament league same situation. You basically just have to take some chances early and hope you can build a stack. Once you build up a decent enough stack to have a decent M then you can wait on it a bit because the short stacks will start pushing in with everything and hopefully you start picking some of them off.

The type of players he described playing 3/6 wouldn't bluff raise.they just don't....i'd bet by the way.

Yeah he did mention that. But i really think you can still play some small ball online. You just have to look for the right opportunities... but near the end of a tournament the blinds just get too high and it's hard.I guess you could say i play modified small ball.

This is really pissing me off. It's the situation you set up your entire session for!I would've been Phil Hellmuth-insta-shove-knocking-over-my-chips-getting-them-into-the-middle-ments.Then realizing that it's only pot limit, and i'd have to take some chips back....

Ah, but see here's where you're wrong.He raised pf, UTG with 44. This was obviously an attempt to take down the blinds, not hit a set.(sw)And if you're going to fold a set on the flop, on a two flush board, that's not even connected, may I please have your address so that i may send you a personalized invite to my next home game?

I'm just going to pretend that there's not a heart beside the subject of this post.*ahem* Protect your cornhole bud.

So many different factors between online and live... I used to read about tells and being a mostly online players who's first live games were TOUGH $20 buy-ins with other college students who studied the game, i'd wonder "what are these tells about? i never see them, i think they're made up."My first trip to the Indian Casino was amazing. Looking down at chips, readying their hand to be thrown away early, eyes lighting up when looking at their hole cards, the list of tells just goes on. The 1-2 NL and 2-4/3-6 games were much easier at the casino than my typical $20 buy-in home game... All t

3 shots at one table sattelites to the ME... then you just gotta cash...If i ever moved to vegas i'd still look for a real job... I work in restaurant management, and i'd find a job somewhere and play on the side... but i think i might just wait a month and see what happened with that 3k or whatever's left in the pocket when you get there... haha.I also find it amazing/appealing that you can pay all your bills and still eat on 10k for a full year in vegas... that's just my share of the rent in NYC... so brutal

I guess when you work a job that you're tired of and you think you can make more playing poker even if it's not much more, it seems like an awesome idea. But I can definitely see the point that grinding it out eventually just sucks, but I'll probably never really know the true answer...