MrConceit

OMG. You won't believe me but I truly thank you. I didn't mistype that, it was a true misspelling. I'm a horrid speller by nature and have slowly over the years gotten mocked and learned where I was wrong. This is one more! I'm getting closer to my goal of not sounding like a putz.YAY Blaze!

I think the tables I play at are awfully loose. 5-6 handed pots. You hate my posts and disrespect my opinions??? Wow, what did I ever do to you, MrConceit???"laugh smash"Gimme a break, he doesn't need your permission.Hah, sorry I perhaps didn't mean the EXACT opposite. I didn't know you were a "unique case". Sorry to imply he needed my permission! I just thought he was bing a bit nasty if you were trying to turn your game around.I'll take my foot out of my mouth now where it apparently got to.

Ace kicker? What?He kicked their Aces! :lol:GriffYeah, I'm not sure just what that "ace kicker" meant. I just copied and pasted it from my Poker Tracker records. But I like your version of it Griff It says that because somebody else had a flush. Namely the 72 .It will always say that when how high a flush you had was why you won, just like it says kicker when you win with an ace pair with AK vs AT. (this is on party, I don't know how each site does it.)

I agree with Smash on everything but his mistype. He originally mistyped (or missaw the board). He meant a Q , not the T . The Td gives AKo nothing here. With that proviso I think he's 100 percent on here.

I think you're utterly on. If you're in a loose-passive table where tons of people are seeing every flop, and no preflop raising, you SHOULD be playing all PPs and all suited connectors from every position. Thank them when they give you "advice" and tell them you're still learning. Or you're sorry but you came to GAMBLE! Those kinds of things would work I'd think. :)Oh, and like the second time I ever played live I was playing 3/6. I was button (or maybe CO), and like literally every person limped. I have 57 off and I'm like, this table is insane. I think I'll see the flop and see if I

Sadly crazy swings is very normal in poker. Low limit or otherwise. In higher limits you tend to get the swings more from the LAGs and in low limits you get it from the passive callers who hit ridiculously improbable draws. Yours was a bit extreme though. But if you helped out the downswing by tilting or playing timidly because of the swing that could have helped contribute.Losing 100 BB in 1 horrible long session or a few sessions in a row isn't that improbable. Losing 200 is starting to be ridiculous, but still not IMPOSSIBLE. You lost like 175 or something? My NORMAL swings in like 1

I've played on a few sites, but the bulk has been party and skins. So I guess I don't have as INFORMED an opinion as I could have through observation.My feelings is it's as random as you can get, and articles I've read has backed this up. In fact did you read the entire article you posted the link for? I would feel very safe after reading that. Hah. Although of course one should read articles also by people other than the site you're playing at.In my experience how many people are in the pot (and how far they play) is the biggest reason as to whether big hands are made or not. Does eveyb

I don't think your preflop was bad at all. You can either flat call and pray for a set (or all baby cards on the flop) and fold if you don't get it, or you can reraise and see what the flop brings (what you did), or you can reraise allin if you put him on a steal (or felt like gambling vs 2 overcards if you thought he had that).Your postflop stunk, but you knew that and that's what you said when you posted. If the flop had a J or T (high) I could perhaps see check-reraising allin because you didn't believe he hit and you still had the best, but a K is almost as bad as an A here. Best to eit

Yes Blaze, his original use was incorrect. And I normally don't correct grammer on a forum like this. I just had to tease him since he was telling us we couldn't use acronyms like IMO or whatnot. Me correcting him was a joke which I figured people would see (though I was right!!1 It was you're not your). Hence my like smiley and doing ! or !!1Ah well. Btw, your post Blaze directly above his complaining about my correction of grammer was PRICELESS!

Laugh Smash. I love your posts and respect your opinions. And JFarrall, well let's say the opposite. But do you really have to be snde to him when he's trying to ask for help?JFarrall - Yes, for sure get SSHE, if you read it and truly follow it, it should help you a lot for limit hold'em. Just remember that typically online tables aren't as loose as his loose model, though they very well might be at .5/1.

Saying you raise AJo UTG all the time is fine and good, but does that mean it isn't a borderline choice in whether or not to raise it? I limp it all the time too, and raise it the other amounts of the time. It really depends on what the table is like or what your mood is. If the table is tight but somewhat aggressive, and almost nobody plays until the button/CO, they often raise with Arag vs my AJo. I find this to be kind of fun. It's an added deception and usually nets me more money. The typical players I play against don't seem to respect any limp, regardless of whether your UTG or in

Very good post Rob. To all of you others, I do think it's easier to memorize pot odds ratios than percents if you don't already have this stuff down anyway.Know your basic ones.(roughly, rounded to whole numbers)Flush (9 outs) 4:1OE Straight or double gutshot (8 outs) 5:1Two overcards (6 outs) 7:1Gutshot (4 outs) 11:1Basically just look at a chart for the odds (not percents) of hitting various numbers of outs. If you know odds not percents it's child's play to see if you have pot odds. And if it's child's play you can more quickly calc to see if you have stuff like implied odds. So you can

Wow. I sure hope I only play you online. Be sure to tell us if you're gonna be in the WSoP so I can bring a gun if I happen to either give you a bad beat or you THINK I did. *shiver*

I definitely remember the mummy, but I have no recollection of a wolf. Boo-Berry was the ghost right? Damn I can't remember the mummy. Somebody who isn't a total young kid help us here!

I play some O high, but not H/L. My first experience or two with H/L irritated me so I haven't gone back. Heh. But I plan to eventually.So I wanted to say THANKS. This all looks like great info. It was well written and obviously well thought out. I'll probably bookmark this thread and reread it after I've read the H/L section of SS2 or when I'm gonna try some low limit H/L.Thanks.

You'd need to make Negreanu take it seriously enough to make it a really good contest. You need to either make the prize pool HUGE or tell him that the poker world thinks Ivey is a huge huge favorite to win. Make him feel his back is against the wall and you'd have the HU match of the century. :)But seriously, it would be a very good matchup. Especially if it wasn't horse and they had choose the game selection by voting and veto until they had like 6-8 games. Ivey surely does play more Big Game and crushes it convincingly, but it's not like Negreanu doesn't play it or do well in it eithe

Yeah stars has some of the best tourneys period around. But they seem to feel they have a solid player base and/or enough publicity so they don't offer nearly as many of the deposit bonuses or perks that some other sites do. Sorry!In fact I need to deposit there again so I can win my seat into the WSoP, since obviously this year will be a 3peat from Stars right? It would be bad mojo to try to qualify on another site.

I'm impressed you didn't tell them anything. That would have been hard. One guy I can ignore easily (especially when he's so obviously wrong, and/or biased because you busted him). But when like half the table goes at me (verbally) I might tend to go off on them, and accidentally educate them. I applaud your self control. And yeah, calling with any two is rather a no-brainer there and that table is either A) stupid or B) that guy's friends.I mean laugh, with like 25 or 26:1 72 off is a fine call vs a known AA right?It's funny that when these "pros" go to "school" and memorize their hand s

I agree that belittling to belittle is very bad. There is also a difference between a preflop mistake and a postflop mistake in limit. Everybody just fucosses on preflop IE: their exact two cards. If somebody is posting actual hand histories, they appear to want criteques. I told someone (when his set of aces got cracked) that betting the river was a Bad Idea. The only likely draw out there was a flush, and it hit on the river (he got checkraised). I was just trying to help him avoid losing bets in the future.I guess if people don't want comments on their postflop play when posting bad

It was 6handed NL. What's wrong with QJc? I might raise with it.

Laugh, this is the first good reason I've heard for this normally horrible play. Snicker. You do it to keep the small stack in so you can keep bullying. I dunno if that actually comes up very often, or if I believe that that's usually why it's done, but ok. A semi-valid reason finally given for this.

Yeah, there's no fee with neteller if you use electronic transfer. That 8.9 percent fee you mention is because you were impatient and did insta-cash. I think you can get a check sent if you want though. But there is no fee to transfer back to neteller and then neteller EFT to your checking account. Is EFT the right acronym? Electronic F-something Transfer? Hmm. Anyway. No fees if you do it the slow and steady route. Slow being a few days to go from neteller to checking account.

I don't think I can ever remember winning more than 40 BB in a single pot, though I have friends who have won like 55. Crazy stuff. I think my biggest 2/4 pot ever was like 132 bucks, which is like 33 BB?I started keeping records of memorable hands by the time I got to 10/20. I have won larger money pots in 15/30, but this is still the biggest BB pot I've ever won to my memory.Party Poker 10/20 Hold'em (9 handed)Preflop: Stilez is MP1 with 2d, 2c. UTG calls, UTG+1 folds, Stilez calls, MP2 folds, MP3 raises, CO folds, Button calls, SB 3-bets, BB folds, UTG calls, Stilez caps, MP3 calls, B

This whole thing has gotten blown out of proportion, how shocking. I agree it's every person's right to use any information that is available to them if they aren't breaking any rules. I wouldn't go OMG YOU'RE A CHEATER to all of those fine money-hungry young lad who have posted in this thread and ganged up on the Moral Minority dude. But I personally will always be telling somebody if they are showing their cards. I don't want to win like that. I personally think it's wrong. And I'll tell the guy across the table whose cards you've been avidly watching for a rotation or two also. Imo i

Yeah all the big sites pretty much have cash games for high. Party's PL25 is always hopping, the higher PL limits didn't seem nearly as active though. The thing I hate is Party doesn't have omaha high tourneys, only H/L. But I heard like stars or paradise has them, so I'll be checking those out eventually.