MrConceit

He laid it down when there were 3 hearts on the board, 4 hearts (had he known they were coming) would have given him the nuts. He had A of hearts.

Shrug, after the beginning you should be buying books that make you think about things. Or examine aspects of play you haven't thought of a lot. Not all poker books are about ABC beginner play. Obviously you get past those after a bit. Not that I'm saying you have to be wrong about books being able to help you (anymore). Everybody is different. It just seems like you think all poker books are like written at a 5th grade level.

PokerMountain basically has nobody on it hardly ever (except props). It may someday turn into a great site, and/or already might have great software, but there's simply nobody to play there.Fulltilt looks ok, but still not a huge playerbase. But you can definitely find games there. Though smaller limits I think are easier to find stuff in. But when I was checking it out they did have like 2 6man tables of 15/30 also going at prime-time. A number of people on here seem to like fulltilt.

There are a couple diff ways to play it in multis online. It's not like you can say playing a bit looser and/or gambling in earlier stages is WRONG. It's just more people tend to think it's better to remain tight earlier because the pot sizes aren't worth messing with because of the small blinds.And in my experience people (on average) aren't total lags in the start. Some are for sure, but not the bulk. Quite often you can see flops for pretty cheap, and then can take advantage of people playing poorly postflop. If you do choose to wait for only premiums, if you aren't fortunate you can e

lol, you sent a link written by Lou Kreiger, the guy he is complaining about. I also found this link very helpful.Haha, I also found that amusing. Though the article is good, I'm not a huge fan of the way he laid the graph out. I think people talking about chance of making over 2 cards leads new players into bad calls/bad thinking. In GENERAL you should always be figuring pot odds purely based on 1 card to come, but whether to BET/RAISE based on 2 cards to come on the flop.A flush draw it won't matter very much because in almost all circumstances (in limit) you'll be calling to the river a

No I expect him to raise me here on the end. It just irk's me that he has the nerve to check it knowing full well I'll bet b/c I've bet it through (this makes me realize that he is FULLY AWARE that I was strong the whole way through. And he still chased.) I expect the raise though. But for this guy to check-raise me and then have to flip over K 3 suited and I see that, it just amazes me. The balls on this guy...he deserves to be berated if he check/raises and I find out he was in with K 3. If this was a brick&mortar I hope he doesn't have the balls to do that crap. "I'm gonna check-

Yeah, it all depends on what you call a pro. If you say you're a pro if your only source of income is from poker then I'm a pro atm. But I'm being a loser about it because I'm living at my parents house while I try to first make it, so little to no living expenses. I probably make roughly 1500 a week playing 15/30. That's obviously just an average based on X hands and Y months and past results.When I've built more of a nest egg or I'm making more like 3k a week then I'll consider myself a real pro, hah. Since by then I'll be living on my own again. Oh, and I'm exclusively online, as far

All in doesn't matter... absolutely it matters, because implied odds count... if he had 5 or 10 bucks left, you know if you hit, he is going to call you... I think if I am getting the right odds with the nut draw (which you werent) you call, and if you don't have a read... then you can fold assuming you believe him.I don't get it, he went all in on the turn (i had him covered), how am I getting any implied odds??You aren't, and that's his point. He was referring to the guy who said the allin didn't matter. Though the guy who said that was correct in what he said, how he said it. Allin does

First off, you can link various accounts together to combine all the hands for cumulative stats in tracker. It's called the alias function as I recall, you might want to do that. That's what I've done for my various like 5 different accounts at different places.I was going to laugh at you when I read your 3.53 BB/100 (in terms of it being horrible), but then I read you are doing PL/NL ring, and I have no clue what is good for those in terms of BB/100. For limit 3.53 is ridiculously good overall (assuming you could maintain it). Your vp$ip looks very solid, preflop raise I would have said i

I'm 29 and live in the Chicago area. Been playing a bit under a year now, almost entirely online, though a bit of live.I'm very into it, and own like 25 books and keep getting more. :)Only a few duds so far (books), I mostly go off friends (real life and online) recommendations and book reviews. Mason Malmuth gives quite good book reviews imo.

I'm 100 percent with Miles here. I don't know why you'd ever want the site with less fish. I realize bad beats can get frustrating, but bad beats prove you were slated to the win hand, and are playing against bad players. Note, lots of people's definition of a bad beat is a bit off. If you lose to a flush draw when they were calling with proper pot odds the whole way, sure, it's annoying, but I don't really consider that a bad beat. They were playing correctly. Unless you're talking about preflop calling a raise cold with T5s or something.

Yeah it is sunday isn't it... Ugh... I know all that, but seriously, It's so frustrating that instead of outlasting the swings I just bleed more money. Not tonight though, I lost those 2 hands and said forget it... and left. Put the bad chick on my buddy list and went on my way. I'll find her and get it back another day when she's in the minority, and the whole table isn't full of dumbasses.It was already said, so I'll say it again briefly, hah. That guys play (I agree with original poster) was horrible. But your call on the river was horrible too. You were paying 1 buck to split a tiny

Yeah, without a real read given on the player given, I personally think TYPICALLY this is an easy call. (based on pot odds and likelihood also that he could be bluffing/semi-bluffing) I don't think it's a given that anytime somebody raises allin on the turn there that they have the flush. He tried to raise preflop himself (even if like the min), and I don't know why you'd give him full credit for having the flush. And regardless what he has you have at least 7 outs to win anyway. The 7 for sure outs, the likely other possible outs (if he had random two pair), and the possibility he was bl

Yeah, I personally use neteller myself. I'd recommend using either neteller or firepay. I'm not a fan of doing credit cards, and lots of credit cards won't let you use them for "known gambling sites", from what I hear. Though obviously some work .You usually need a checking account to use firepay/neteller though, so you need one of those. (I guess I'm not SURE you can't use a credit card for neteller, but if you're going to do a credit card, why not do it directly with the site.)

Yeah, as the first guy said; Party and Empire have the same ring games. Plus the same SnG/2-3 table tourneys. The skins of partypoker are like backdoors into the same casino. Only multis and promotional stuff (like step tourneys) aren't available in the skins. The same ones I mean. Each skin has its own multis and does whatever promotional stuff it wants.Partypoker's skins I know of:EmpireEurobetIntertopsMultiPokernow (a bit different than the others)Pokernow does have the same multis, and says it's powered by Partypoker. So it's sort of a unique skin. I'm not sure 100 percent how it w

You missed the point completely. Rosenberg wasn't saying HE thought everything else was garbage, just that MrNegreanu did. Oh, and Cloutier's book sucks. So does Hellmuths. Phil Hellmuth is a broken-down-hack-fool who peddles his wares like a traveling salesman, trying to make a quick buck before he's asked to move onto the next town. Personally, I have no problem with Daniel referring to someone else's work as garbage... I have a feeling it's not so much that he thinks their ideas aren't useful, but, rather, that they teach ONE style of play... and THAT is useless. Anyway, I can't wait t

I think it's a fine idea. Though Daniel is surely familiar with 2+2 and RPG and other stuff, and he hasn't bothered creating seperate ones. So dunno if it'll happen. It could just be that he didn't know how large the forum would get when he started. Or it could be he didn't like the seperation, hah. He'd have to answer for himself.

Freerolls are great if you're dirt-broke. Otherwise do the small buyin tourneys imo. 5s and 10s at least. I prefer 20s as the lowest, but that obviously depends on the person and what money you have. In my mind, freerolls are utterly equivalent to doing play money in ring games. Sure, you can win some cash if you get lucky (in freerolls), but they're clusterf@cks. It can help you see how the client works, and if you are actually trying, it can help you practice figuring odds, but not a whole hell of a lot more.Your second thing question: I don't know of any other sites that have a mac C

Two things. First I basically agree with you about dying fast if you don't get in the money. This especially applies to small buyin tourneys, things less than 100 dollar buyins. There are many different tactics that go along with this mindset. You just gamble a lot early, try to accumilate chips, and other kinds of things. The normal thing for a good tourney player is to avoid close things like coin tosses if possible, but your goal should just be to get as many chips as you can early. You have to decide your goals when starting.The second point basically is just, if you want to get mone

Heh, I started to write something about your being sure you said something dumb, but I deleted it. The WORST mistake you can make in deciding to call or fold is because YOU personally invested money in the pot prior to this point. That should have no bearing whatsoever on what your decision is. Your decision should be based on the pot odds, implied odds, and reads typically -- but never because you already put some money in. The reason it's sometimes good to call a raise in big blind isn't because you've put money in, it's because the pot is typically offering you 3.5 to 1 on your call.

Heh, what you're missing is the fact that your country is GREAT on this issue. As far as I know, Canada doesn't tax online gambling (maybe any gambling? not sure on that). I've heard this in various places. Now I haven't looked at your law books, so this obviously isn't FACT, but everything I've heard says that.So no, YOU aren't missing anything. Those of us in the US (if we follow the law by the letter) are missing quite a bit of income - to the good old IRS.Though to be truthful, I don't know that I'm claiming anything. But you didn't hear me say that.

You have to remember to take into account how loose-tight and passive-aggressive the table is. You're saying on a loose table that isn't extremely aggressive after 3 people limp, you wouldn't play suited Arag... Sure it could be raised after you, but you already know 3 people limped and likely both blinds are playing. Do you need all 6 or so people to limp ahead of you before you decide to finally play Arag suited? This kind of hand is a moneymaker in really loose tables. You just have to know when to lay it down when you flop an ace. You can't apply tight table theories to a table where

Well, such programs exist. The two main ones I know of are PokerOffice and PokerTracker. Tracker is better for stats, and Office is better for live-tracking stuff. Although (nowadays) both are ok all around. Tracker has improved its live possibilities though still not nearly as easy as Office's live-tracker.But you're kind of asking for something that doesn't exist. They don't "analyze" your hands, though they allow you to replay them (at least PokerTracker does, you can see it exactly how it happened). What they mainly do is show statistics so you can see how loose/tight you're being, w

I had Q J and flop came K 10 A , and I didnt announce it to the world...You'll have a lot of flops like thatGeez, that was pretty mean. The guy is obviously new to the game, and he got his first quads. And I'm amused you think you flop royals all the time. I've had royals perhaps 10 times total ever in 45k hands? If that many? I'm too lazy to go into tracker and add all the various limits together so I could see. And that's all five cards, as opposed to flopping the royal. Sure SFs are more common, and Quads far far more common than that. But it was his FIRST.

Yeah, I somewhat agree, but it's considered somewhat rude to say it outright to devout christians (or those of any faith) to their faces. The majority of them were brought up that way, and you're in effect telling them that they or their parents can't "handle the truth". Oh I do also feel that it's a bit more of a "way to explain the world" thing than fear of death, though that factors into it quite a bit. I'm talking about the origin of religion, not christianity itself per se. Humans have always explained the things they don't understand in terms of greater powers beyond their ken. Win