MrConceit

This post is worded nicely, reasoned nicely, and is ridiculously off in typical party tourneys, especially 20s. Somebody else said something similar, but...You will get called by a ridiculously larger range of hands than just AK/AA/KK. The range of hands increases directly proportional to the size of the initial raisers stack.You could get called by AK-AT easily, any suited ace if the guy is a moron, which there are a lot of. PP's down to 99 for sure, and down to 55 depending if it's the "gambling" type, who deludes himself into thinking any raise means 2 overcards and he's likely a slight

I had a discussion with KramitDaToad about completing in small-blind and if raised should you ever fold.I was basically saying there were times where it was possibly you would and he disagreed. We debated it a bit, and then because it happened to be in Smash's thread on his experiments Smash told us it had all been decided a million times before by pros and stop trying to reinvent the wheel and I was clearly wrong.Other than yelling at Smash for being thought police I dropped the matter (it was in his thread after all). But when I was reading a slightly outdated cardplayer issue, I came acro

Yeah, talking good streaks is kind of pointless on a BB/100 hands thread. But it's fun. The huge streaks balance out your bad beats. I've won around 100 BB in 100 hands before, but it's not like that's meaningful. Those dream days don't come very often, and they just balance the days the fish hit every improbable draw against you.

Jesus, it givs the votes online people have given on Batman vs Spiderman as 6.74 mil to 4.4 mil? That proves how much crack the average webbrowser is smoking.Our forum here gives much better opinions and stats to back up our claims that spidy is a favorite.

Yeah, it's fine not to buy it and just read online, but some of us get tired of staring at the screen 24/7 if you know what I mean. If I'm going to play endless hours of poker, sometimes I like to sit in my easy chair or couch and read a magazine without looking at my damned computer screen.

Yeah, you should either get a monitor/laptop capable of 1600/1200 resolution, or play at UB, Prima, or one of the other ones that have mini-table view for multi-tabling.I can't leave the fish at party so I go the 1600/1200 route, but even with that I think I'm gonna get a second monitor. It's hard to scan for new tables or chat or look at a webpage while 4tabling.

I don't think any of this matters very much at all. I personally think stop-loss stuff of any type is kind of pointless, but I'm utterly fine that other people want to do them. If I'm playing poorly, tilting, or strangely there are really good players at a table, I leave. Up or down. If I lose 25 or more BB due to monster suckouts, running into AA with my KK, or missing 8 straight flush draws, so be it.If the table is good, stay, if it isn't, leave. Only if your play is off from too many bad beats or you have a prior engagement or something, should you really leave for reasons other than

That is related to this idea, but not where I got it from.When you hold AK and flop comes A K 4 4 8, the 4's are worthless to you. However, they help a guy with 2 4. I just don't see how this protects the better hand? I'm not saying to call this "three pairs". I still want to use only 5 cards, but I want to protect the stronger (in this case) pre-flop hand.EDIT: Maybe I haven't proven yet how this will help the better players (us forum members, hopefully), but you guys have not proven how it will hurt good players. The only pure argument here would be that you guys don't want to "change

what makes u assume the guy playing AK is a "better" player than the guy playing 24 in your example?it may protect the tighter players who play higher cards... but whats the point of that?Just away to minimize the luck a little more, and maximize skill. Maybe you need the luck, I don't know.You need a proper balance of luck and skill in poker games or that sub-game of poker tends to die off. For a while Omaha was very rarely spread because the fish won so rarely at it. It's only since the poker boom that Omaha has gotten really hot again. If the fish never win from being lucky, they will

I totally agree that the number is small who do more than 4-table, but it's not non-existent as you're implying. And it's not "maybe four" either, tons and tons of people do 4-5 tables. I have 2 friends who 8-table and a few people on 2+2 talk about doing it regularly.But all this said.... yeah it's a rare guy who 8-tables compared to the general population.

Yeah, as he said you can just click on the converter link. But here, I'll give it to you anyway.http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconver...hhconverter.cgi

Your really worried about this? Or is this a joke? It's easy to basically cap with QQ on that flop, but you woulda had to slow down a bit after that, until you hit the nuts on the turn. And then on the river you're asking if you should have worried your 2nd to nuts would lose to the nuts?No. go crazy on that river every time. If you're playing where there are infinite raises HU then slow down after 5-6. If you're playing a "normal" 3 raise, 4-bet-max cap system, then cap that river just about every time.[edit]My comments were based on assuming it's normal online play. You cap the river

Yeah I play at UB as well. Phil doesn't censored at the micro limit tables. But you should watch him play the $80/$160 2-7 Triple Draw games. Especially when Spriit Rock/Mahatma is in the game. 'How can you check raise with a 456 with one draw left?'Good stuff.Yeah my friend plays these games too, they are fun to watch. And there are reasons to checkraise or bet and 3bet with a rough hand with 1 draw to go.Like if you have a T low, and you can get a 8 or 9 to break his hand and draw. You're the favorite over basically any draw with a made T low.Not that I know a ton about TD, but I've

Bah, may as well ask if Online Poker in general is legal for U.S. citizens. That's in doubt too, but the government does nothing about enforcing it. I would hazaard a guess that Ladbrokes sports betting is illegal in the US, but you won't get taken to task for it.But maybe somebody will post next who actually knows for real.

Then I renounce online poker forever =)I hope not, it'll happen eventually, or an equivalent.

Yeah I knew Dylan had originated a lot of the songs, though I'm a come-lately to Dylan myself. I'm 29. I knew he did Knocking on Heaven's Door and some others, but I didn't know he did Forever Young, I thought like Alphaville did that first, hah.I had 1 song on a playlist by him somebody recommended to me a few years ago -- Desolation Row which I loved, but then didn't bother getting more of his stuff until l ike 6 months ago when I went crazy and got like 12 albums.

I second this, 10 is too small. I know some very good SnG players who have had 8-10 SnG losing streaks multiple times. At least 20, and more likely 30 buyins is more likely a good amount (for a minimum).But I mean it doesn't really matter if you have another 10-20 buyins to redeposit on the spur of the moment. I'm talking if this is your whole bankroll for poker and you don't have an easy way to put more money in.Or if you're talking 200 or higher buyin SnGs (for most people). Most people don't just have an extra 2-4k sitting around for if they have a bad streak while playing 200+15 SnGs w

I hope you know you are an idiotAQo v. 910s is NOT a coin flipsomething likeA3o v 910s....thats more like itShrug, to you and Blaze, he's just using the TV definition of a coinflip that they overuse. As someone else pointed out, it's like 57/43 for AKo vs QQ.Just to give an example I'm sure blaze already knows, but I'll give it anyway.This is AQo vs T9 suited.http://tinyurl.com/64n5dEV is 59/41JJ vs AKo:http://tinyurl.com/4xg7oEV is 57.3/42.7So yeah, I don't see how it's such a huge thing to call T9 suited as a coinflip when you're calling AK vs JJ a coin flip. It two cases are very similar.

I've seen some of the hand histories from the bad beat jackpots, but I personally have never:1) Lost with quads period2) Lost with a SF period (and yeah, I have had the "dumb end" of a SF before"3) Beaten a boat or better with a SF/royal, best I've done is beat a set/tripsI have beaten boats with quads numerous times of course.I've lost with Ace high flush to a 1 or 2 card SF about 5 times, sadly.Oh, and I've also beaten Ace high flush with SF at least a couple times.The closest I came to 1) was to flop quads with 99 after raising UTG. Flop came down 99T, 2 diamonds. A guy was really playing

This is just a judgement call on the player. Continuing to bet is very logical if he often calls the flop with little and releases on the turn. You obviously have nothing and almost have to fold if he raises, even if you know he often raises as bluffs. Or are you thinking he has a pair of Js or worse and your two cards are valid overcards to his likely holding, along with your gutshot? Since this guy bluffs a lot, it makes your turn bet really rough. Of course if you don't bet you're effectively giving him the hand, since he's almost for sure gonna bet and you don't have odds to call at

You had a good first day, and kinda went crazy on trying everything regardless of limit or game type. It happens a lot. Why would you deem 1/2 beneath you at that point? You'd played for a day or two, and had 700 bucks. You "should" have 500-600 bucks to play 1/2 anyway. You also were constantly playing new games to you, which is ok, but you should be playing them at the lowest limits to start, not jumping in on 3/6 or 5/10 because you didn't see any games you liked at low enough.It's fine to take a stab at a higher limit if the game looks juicy, but it's a little dicier if you've never e

why the hate?Because he's smallminded and bitter? Perhaps he got cheated once or because he never made a mistake in his life. Who knows which.Who cares either.

What the hell. You're right, and it doesn't even say "censored". Is this forum turning stupid that quickly? Or did some admin just decide to be silly?It seems silly, but if they're going to start banning words like che.at, then that's probably enough FCP for me, I don't mind moderated, in fact I almost prefer it, but censorship to the point of saying we can't say che.at? That's utterly ridiculous.

Yeah I agree with the guy who posted a response first. You weren't getting away from this hand really at all. JJ would have called your raise if it was allin also, you would have looked desperate. I still would have gone allin for how low you were I think, but it isn't a huge deal. KJo just might have folded to your allin preflop, but you still would have lost this hand.

Is there a way to disable seeing avatars entirely? I wouldn't do this normally, because I find a lot of them amusing/interesting. But the ones that constantly move or blink or whatever -- they really irritate me.Call it a pet peeve, call it whatever. Without naming any names, seeing Homer constantly moving up and down or some chick acting like she's disrobing over and over, it all just really gets on my nerves while trying to read a thread. The movement keeps catching my eyes. It's like advertising crap on normal web pages, but without even the point of advertising.So my question to the a