Naismith

Okay, then, why were you acting like what he said was contradictory? He was saying your play showed tremendous strength as opposed to calling, which would not look as strong. You responded to that with:"Is it only me that sees the irony in this post?First you said you dont see how raising looks weaker than calling, then you say my play is elementary level?"

It's fairly evident that you don't welcome his opinion.He wasn't saying your play was elementary level. He was saying it's the standard way new fish play monsters.

Also, if you're planning on raising that turn, there aren't many hands that call a minraise that won't call a real raise.

Here's all the info you need.

I think most people would say that Daniel played it fine and Bebop's preflop call is horrible.

Accepting all this, why would you not raise the flop? If you can't raise without the nuts, any 5, 6, 8, T, J completes a straight and any heart completes the flush. On the flop, you can rep a whole bunch of draws and it seems like that would play into your image extremely well (slowplays big hands, raises draws/air). It seems like that would be the best way to get a check-raise in plus three streets of value. I'm sure to some degree, the desire to play Daniel Negreanu effects the quality of your opponent at 5-10 more than it does at 100-200. You're certainly almost never going to have a recr

Ouch, rough getting burned by a guy who thinks Elezra plays perfect poker!

I'm certainly not an expert, but I would think the fact that you can't realistically rep JT against an aggressive opponent who can read hands well enough to know you can't have JT would make raise-call a very profitable river play.

LOL, you're much nicer on your real account name.

This seems like it should really be the end of any debate, though I doubt it will be.

I'm pretty sure all of the coaches watch videos from coaches from other sites, too.

I'm fine with the hand and think Deeb was being a little bitchy, but I disagree with the above. The majority of string raises I've ever seen, the person intended to raise but just screwed up. In this case, I think it's a difference between a lifelong live player doing something that's standard amongst live comments (making a comment that indicates he's going to raise without saying "raise") and someone without as much live experience taking a very literal interpretation of the rule.

There's nothing laughable about dropping down in limits to improve your play.

What range of hands would you be defending with?

Can you expand on this, please?

With the way this action went, just ship it all in preflop once the BB raises. The stacks are all small enough that you will easily get called by worse. No thinking player is going to give you credit for a hand as strong as AK here and it eliminates the positional disadvantage.EDIT: I want to clarify that I don't think this is standard; just that with two stacks of 250 and your limp from the SB, I think you get looked up with dominated hands.

I would call, but I tend to be a call station. I think he's repping exactly the flopped flush or weakly played over cards with a flush draw.As for the rest of the hand..."(i know probably should raise, but really, other than for taking the betting lead, that's all it was going to accomplish at this table, especially with SB state of mind)"This is really bad. Just raise coming into the hand. There are better 6m/FR players than me here, but I can't imagine open-limping from the cutoff is ever going to be an optimal way to play. That said, it's even worse because of the way the SB is playing. You

Shoving here would be pretty bad. The vast majority of players are only taking the check-call, check-call, donk line with a bluff or a monster.

No one got leveled. As someone pointed out, for it to be a level, he would've had to post his horrible advice and hoped that a bunch of people that hadn't posted in this forum in a long time happened across the thread, saw it and debated it so he could continue his ruse.

Luckily, our opponent doesn't play perfectly since he'll fold to any raise on the turn. Unfortunately, we can't raise one blind, but a minraise will make him make a mistake.

This one's easy. Check-minraise.

It's funny when a losing player questions the manhood of a winning player. You realize that money made is the ultimate scoreboard, right?Your buy in should be based on your skill set. Experienced players can be experts with 40 blinds and just decent with 100 blinds.

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No, Snamuh said the best line is to check-raise when we know he has AK if we can get him to call.

So what are you getting value from, exactly?