MrConceit

There's this key on your keyboard called "Tab". Use it now and again. Or go back to 2nd grade and re-learn "Paragraph's", since it obviously escaped you the first time.Dude, stop being your totally insulting self when people are making sense. Your first post was right on because firstyearclay hadn't explained himself on his last point. He then explained himself (and was pretty understandable imo), but didn't seperate into different paragraphs enough for you. So you ignore what he said and yell at him to use "Tab".Anyway, his point is utterly valid, in the senario he gave, you should indee

All 4 royals I have in tracker are from limit, and every single one (oddly enough) I hit on the turn and only the turn. Oh and all 4 use both cards. :)I have at least 1 more from before I ever used tracker when I was starting out at pokerroom.com.First royal listed is on 2/4 June 6th.Second royal is on .5/1 (was helping a friend start out in .5/1 hah) on June 16th.Third royal is on 10/20 on Sept. 16th.Fourth royal is on 15/30 on Jan 26th.That's my sum total in tracker.All of them except the 10/20 got paid off pretty big. That one sucked because I flopped K high flush and turned the royal, s

He's saying it depends on your table, you decide based on the past X hands you've been there. But he'll answer for himself. But if every hand has 6 or more people seeing the flop, and isn't raised preflop a ton, you surely limp 55 UTG.

Yeah, you are wrong in this case. We're talking loose tables. You want in cheap,and you WANT the 4-6 limpers. You fold if you don't hit your set on the flop, unless the flop is like 346 rainbow. Raising on a loose table won't get you HU on the flop, and you're just killing your odds.On a crazy-tight table this might be a raise, but few online low-limit tables are ever that tight. Shorthanded is a diff story, real shorthanded I mean 3-4 people. We're not talking about that.

Any hand I didn't mention I think you played fine or it wasn't worthy of mentioning.Overall you played ok, but a bit too loose preflop. KJo and QJo are the devil unless you're in the Button/Co or maybe one before that.I read all the hands you posted but haven't read others responses yet, I'll post this first. I mentioned hands in order, but skipped a lot of them.QJh hand: You didn't play this too badly IMO, but I would have given up on river. And there was no diamond draw, the flop was rainbow. To me it was pretty likely he had the 9, or a PP. Though sometimes 2 overcards will call there

It's allin on the flop, he's 2:1 against making his flush, not 4:1, though your point about being against a set or potential overflush is valid to want a bit more than the normal odds of hitting a flush over two cards.Your point of not risking your whole stack on a draw is utterly valid, but he's already showed his proclivity for such risks I feel by check-raising half his stack on a semibluff.

Yeah, your play was kinda overaggressive, but I can see trying what you did. And because of your (perhaps) overaggressive play, you do have correct pot odds to go for it.You should essentially know your overcards aren't good at this point, pure flush draw say you need basically 2:1. I say that because it's obviously going to be allin. You said he just about covered you, I'll say he does completely since you didn't give more info.That puts the pot at basically 3650(ish) by my count and you have to call 1500. If you deem your flush draw to be live you want 2:1, it's possible he has a set her

As others have said, they tend to do this random 50 when you used to do real money for a while, then quit playing at party (like empty or near empty account balance). So to get you to play there again they'll randomly give you 50 bucks.If you never stopped playing at party you won't get the random 50. But you will have been able to get the reload bonuses they offer just about every month. Shrug.

Very true. Some european site has a kinda built in multitabling thing too. UB and that site make monitor space not an issue, which is nice.

Boy this thread is old, hah.As far as Hellmuth only have 2, that's somewhat because he mainly plays NL tourneys. You can't chase as much in A) NL games and B) tourneys.I've had about 5 royals in less than a year of online limit play. And like 8 SFs. Obviously you also get more hands in online.[edit]Oh after reading the rest of the posts, I didn't know we were counting Omaha. I have like 1-2 more royal and 2 more SFs there, and 1 more SF in stud. :)If you play thousands of hands a week they come after a while. And you'll get them a lot more in limit because you're able to chase.

Many people play that style - but I prefer to use all the weapons at my disposal. I know Daniel likes to chat it up with opponents at a table, and learn all kinds of things off the reads he gets from their answers. Also, Daniel has often used techniques to force people to fold when they had the superior hand. So aren't you limiting yourself to 'playing the cards' instead of playing the players?DevLaugh. By playing online you're "limiting" yourself to largely playing the cards. At least in limit. In NL not so much, but you can't have the same degree of "tells" to go off of, or the same ab

Yeah a lot of what the other guy said above me.If you multi-table you do have to play a lot more ABC even if not JUST that. You do tend to have to be tighter than your normal preference, unless you're already crazytight. Most people do have to work their way slowly up to 4. Some people are naturals, but I did have to slowly add 1 table at a time. I spent months on just 1, then a long time on 2, and so on up to 4 now.My advice for multitabling: Make SURE you have enough monitor space for all your tables with no overlap. This usually means 1600/1200 if you want to do 3/4 ever. That is unl

I'd have released on the turn. Perhaps not if it was HU but you still have people behind you. The guy betting plays like he has A7, A8, or perhaps a nut flush draw and turned top pair. The fact that it's still multiway on turn makes it (to me) an easy fold. You have a possible made straight, a straight draw, a flush draw, and now an ace on the board. Time to run imo.

Yeah, if that's all of your poker bankroll, for .25/.5 you should have between 100-150, 200-300 BB. And most people think it's more the 300 BB. If you have money from a normal job and poker is just fun, you don't have to stick to it quite as hard, but playing within your theoretical bankroll is still always best. Not move up limits when you have 1-2 days in a row running hot.Once you move up in limits, you can get away with only having 150-200 BB in the new limit, _IF_ you are willing to move back down to the prior limit if you lose 50-75 BB at the new limit. It's really all about what ris

Yeah, from what I hear from lots of people I know, the thread poster isn't weird at all. That's supposed to be quite normal. I'm kinda like AceOfSpaiDs though. I basically just smoke and whatnot, like a chimney. I didnt play ANY live until I'd already played a lot online, and while I do have a set of chips like 5 feet behind me in the corner, I just never got into the habit of doing any chiptricks or riffling them.Maybe I'll have to so I can look "cool" when I do more live. :)And I know that's not why most of you do it, I'm just saying that's why I'd _start_ doing it, hah.

The thing is, few people say nh ever when there was a nice play. They tend to say it for anything they think is a "nice hand". Which can mean anything from two pair or better to a straight or better usually. They don't care if you hit a runner runner backdoor straight or whatever ridiculous hand, if the end hand is a "nice hand" in their mind, they are gonna say it. Or even vnh!I mean come on Aseem! He had nut flush! :twisted: But yeah, I've gotten irritated occasionally by other people saying "vnh" or "nh" to a fish who sucked out hard, but usually just internally irritated.I had your

Other than that, it was a good article.I agree. In the same article, the journalist describes Daniel's ego as "canyon-sized." So what he means by "egotistical," new smear word, I dunno. And to say Annie Duke is overrated is absolutely ridiculous and very laughable. She just happens to be a measly 15th on the all-time money list. :roll: Yeah, it definitely includes her 2 mil cash there, which is basically the bulk of all her tourney winnings (not to say she hasn't cashed other times, the link you gave clearly shows many other things, but they're a candle in the bonfire compared to 2 mil from

Hmm, that's right up there for my favs, though I think I like Desire slightly more. But yeah, from everything I've read most people seem to agree with you.

Wow, nice to see some Dylan fans. I'm rather a newcomer. A polled some friends years ago as to a few of their favorite songs and one gave me a Dylan song. I really liked it but never got around to getting more until about 6-9 months ago. Then I went crazy. I have like 12 albums or something now.So some of my current favs:Desolation Row (this is probably my overall total favorite, nobody else even mentioned it at all, I _LOVE_ the lyrics, anybody else even like this one?Hurricane (I didn't know a lot of the facts are false in this, another poster said that, any good webpages that tell more

Hah, I dunno about no question. If you don't have a large roll, do you go for a one shot deal and try to score huge, or do you play in a large number of $10-$50 or even $100 events? Sure the big one shot deal seems to have more glory, but if you miss you're back to your tiny roll and scrounging.There's certainly a question, though I can see people wanting to do the big tourney. /shrug

That was an interesting article, all of it. It wasn't MUCH I hadn't read before, but a few of the quotes were interesting. The slant the reporter gave was also interesting. I do wonder if DN knew it was going to be written quite like that.

SorryFugu's idea of shorthanded SnGs sounded like a good one. But it doesn't sound overall like you're playing at all bad or suboptimally, from what you've said, in tourneys. Depending on how much you're calling draws anyway. As others said semi-bluffing them is better, and the one example you gave, with a nut flush draw AND mid pair, you're at least equal to most holdings there. In the exact one you gave you're like 50.1 favorite, haha. That "draw" example you gave was an extremely strong one for you. Plus you did semi-bluff that one, you just didn't semi-bluff allin. :)Actually cashin

I sometimes only do 2 to 2.5 hour sessions when 4-tabling. When I only did 1 or 2 tables I'd put in at least 5-6 hours, but sometimes I feel drained enough after 2-3 hours. I mean you really are getting a lot of hands in.I like to put in more like 4 or more, but *shrug*.[edit]Like sometimes I have a great 1 hour start and am up like 30-40BB, but I still try to put in at least 1-2 more hours past that. It just seems so hit and run-ish to stop after just that. Like I should try to earn even more, I'm obviously playing well you'd assume, why not keep it up a bit.

You cant raise 5xBB ESPECIALLY when you have AK, maybe <AYBE with a 4 2 but if your opponent does not have apremium hand you will not be payed offI didn't read the forum for a bit, sorry to respond to this late, but I saw the thread again when somebody posted.No you don't vary your bet totally off what hand you have, but you can and should vary it at times. As far as never raising 5x (with AK) because you have AK and want to be paid off... I dunno about that. You're 66 percent chance to miss the flop anyway, and blinds were a solid size, what's so wrong with taking it down now? I like

Yeah I utterly agree with your final paragraph. Talking about hands you would have had when you intelligently folded preflop is kind of pointless. How many times can you fold 72o and see the flop of 772 or 22J. Those don't mean a lot.I have friends that act all bitter when they would have flopped something strong after folding trash preflop, it's like who cares? I tend to forget what I had preflop and just watch the hand for the way others play it.