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Haha, I'm glad you won. I'm not sure what it would take to lose that hand as nothing can possibly beat it in two cards. If you find a site where it's possible to lose that hand (short of you folding) please tell me so I can avoid it.And yeah, I know you were joking, I just felt like joking back.Btw GRATS on your royal! I don't think I've ever FLOPPED one actually. I've only had like 7-8 in my online life.----------------------------------------------------------------How distressing, I just looked in tracker and I apparently only have 4 royals in ring games. Though I only started using tracker when I went to party so I think I have one more on pokerroom.com. And yeah, I have NEVER flopped a royal. In fact, in all 4 cases I turned a royal. Never flopped, never rivered it.4 Royals and 7 SFs in 55k of ring hands at various limits. Anybody know what the typical proportions are?UTG, I have KQ of diamonds in a .25-.50 NL game. I accidently raised to 1 dollar by hitting the wrong button (I'm on a new site). Four callers.The flop comes: A-10-J of diamonds.I won the hand, by the way.Peace,Jay(First flopped royal!) -
I second the post by Jordan. I've been loaned and loaned money. Obviously you shouldn't be loaning money you can't afford to lose. That should always be the case, in real life or live. I don't care if he's your best friend in the world, if you will be screwed if you loan him and he defaults, you probably shouldn't loan. But if have talked to somebody and like them, it's your money if you want to loan or give it, shrug.I knew this guy I played chess with on ICC and he was down on his luck, so I gave him 250 bucks to build himself back up. Oh, a chessplaying friend who also played poker I mean.Why would you ever loan money to someone over the internet!?!?!?
He paid me back with a cut in his profits. It's not like every single person is the scum of the earth.If you don't feel comfortable ever loaning money out, that's utterly and totally fine. But it's also fine if some people DO want to loan money to someone they have talked to over a period of time and like.
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As far as I know it hasn't been moved to PM because their MTT don't work yet, or don't work well. That's per a post Daniel put up. The plan is to move it there eventually. Which means another site I'll have to put money on.Why don't we move this open over to PokerMountain?Seems only right.
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Dude, come on. Are you trying to tell me one size fits all? I mean in Harrington's book which I just started (because of all the rave reviews) I've already read that he says typically 3ish, but sometimes as low as 2x and sometimes as high as 5x. For example I tend to raise higher if there is a limper, since they usually will call a normal 3x. I mean basically if you have something like QQ/JJ that you don't mind at all taking down preflop (when blinds are huge). Also I'd do this if I'm stealing too, since you try to play the same regardless preflop as to not give stuff away.I just dislike people saying you have to do an exact action, every time. It's not like you can't vary or SHOULDN'T ever vary. The reason I like poker so much is that there isn't always one single best or only answer.Id say Q 10, or a set.....also, dont raise 5xBB, at max raise 3.5xBB -
I read about half to 2/3rds of the hands and it looked like good play from you.I just felt like pointing out he didn't get a runner runner,jmreagles: shows [Jc Kc] (a flush, King high)Roebe: mucks handjack24bauer said, "nice runner runner"jack24bauer: mucks handjmreagles collected $27.50 from pot*** SUMMARY ***Total pot $28.50 | Rake $1Board [2c 7c 6d Jh 5c]Seat 1: migliano folded before Flop (didn't bet)Seat 2: conrad1212 folded before Flop (didn't bet)Seat 3: jmreagles showed [Jc Kc] and won ($27.50) with a flush, King highSeat 4: corndog27 folded before Flop (didn't bet)Seat 5: diggerdahl (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)Seat 6: BosGeorge (small blind) folded before FlopSeat 7: Hugo Cowboy (big blind) folded before FlopSeat 8: Roebe mucked [5d Jd]Seat 9: Zeus1221 folded before Flop (didn't bet)Seat 10: jack24bauer mucked [Qd Qh]This was a tough beat, but what can you do.. He flopped a flush draw. You can diss his preflop coldcall with KJc for sure, but he flopped a flush draw with 2 overcards, then thought his J pair was best on the turn when he raised, plus he still has his original flush draw he flopped. Which of course he rivered. 
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Yeah, you can't really compare NL or limit here, it's apples/oranges.I'm not sure exactly what good numbers are. I'm at went to SD% of 38.71 and won money at showdown 51.90 percent.Here's my stats for 15/30 lifetime. I used to be like 27.5 vp$ip but I'm cutting back and brought my lifetime stats to a percent point+ less. Oh and remember sb is 10 bucks of 15 big blind in looking at the SB stats.Level:15/30Hands:20949vp$ip:26.24vp$ in sb:58.67Folded BB to steal:35.14Att. to steal blinds:25.22Won $ WSF%:33.14BB/100 hands:1.98Went to SD%:38.71Won $ at SD%:51.90PF Raise%:7.5
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Scoff! They have their place. 6 limpers and you're on the button? SURE!74 suited is the hand I won my biggest 2/4 pot with ever back in the day. Like 132 bucks!8 9 and 7 
4 are pretty nasty
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Heh, that was my favorite hand for a while too. I like suited connectors anyway, and I had like a few lucky hands with it. Sadly, I apparently played it too much or overplayed it. I checked, and in 21k hands of 15/30 it's my biggest money loser. Sadly I'm serious. I guess I have to give up my favorite hand.Q9 suited (ideally spades).First time I ever flopped a straight flush was playing those cards. :)
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They both work with PokerTracker databases and give you live-tracking stats based on people are your table. The beauty of them is that it puts the stats over the actual table, usually right next to the person's name. Very key when you multi-table. So you can have a players various stats given in (near) realtime so you have them available while multi-tabling.PlayerView works only with party and skins. It's the one I use at the moment. I'm pretty new to these things, but I really really like it.What is GT+ and PlayerView? Stat programs I can deduce, but for what poker rooms, and how indepth do they get?http://www.playerview.net/Check out the layouts link on the left to see what it can look like.GameTime+ is the other big option, and I haven't tried it yet, because I heard some good things about PlayerView so I did that first. It appears you get GT+ at:http://download.pokerdominion.com/GameTimePlus.exeand the forum for it is at:http://www.pokerdominion.com/I think GT+ works with many more clients than PV, but as I said, I haven't used it. I do all my ring at Party and skins so it hasn't been an issue for me thus far.
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Hah, his stances at various points have changed on this issue from what I've read. But you can feel safe that his current stance is more on line with your "I don't drink" position than it has been in the past. Then again, he wasn't neceesarily a christian (or a devout one) at those times in the past, so hey!The reason Daniel is such an interesting person is because he isn't one dimensional, and he's shared so much of himself with the online community over the years. His trials and tribulations ALONG with all the good stuff too. So don't think he's only an angel-boy, that'd be far too boring, even if he's found religion and a stabling fiance. :)These are some of his cardplayer articles from the past which I imagine you haven't read.Alcohol … the Early Years — Part I through IIIhttp://tinyurl.com/6ymo8http://tinyurl.com/45mkahttp://tinyurl.com/5nolk
I was wondering that too....b/c Daniel mentioned he was a christian and I'm a christian and I don't drink so I was wondering what his stance on drinking was.What were you drinking? Emily -
The only good strat sheets I've seen were on 2+2 or people on 2+2 who linked other strat sheets they had created. My links are all old but lemme look.Well sheeit, this is ancient. Back from when I was first perusing 2+2. Like May of last year, but it links to some other stuff. And the original thread guy hasn't given a link yet, so I'll give you this. It's not like SnG strategy (if blind structure whatnot hasn't changed) is going to change hugely. Though depends obviously on if opponents skills/proclivities changes too. Anyway:http://tinyurl.com/6mlqz
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What sxz18 can work just fine too, but I don't think you have to drop down to multi-table. All you have to do is understand you have to play a bit more ABC (especially if you're talking 3-4 or more tables). You can't get as tricky, or make as many plays based on your "reads".The thing I'd ask Uah, when do you have a single online table last for 5-6 hours and not have the table break or have entire new players come on?As far as your question of losing valuable info -- first let me say, obviously your BB/hour goes down when you multi-table, goes down PER table, but since you're doing 3-4 times as many tables you still win more actual money if you are ok at multi-tabling.Example being you destroy the limit normally at 3.5 BB/100, but while multitabling you go down to 2 BB/100. So if you 3table you're doing 6 BB/100 now, which is bigger than 3.5BB/100. *shrug*And the other answer to your question is that if you use GT+ or Playerview you don't lose nearly as much as you'd think in info. You still lose some obviously, but if you're getting real-time stats updated every 2 mins on people's vp$ip, pfr%, or whatever other stats you want hovering near their name, you still can make pretty informed decisions.In online poker, what's more important, learning the players then breaking the game or getting lots of table hours in? I can understand how you will make more profit, by playing more table hours, thus more hands, thus more money, but is it more profitable than picking a game, sitting for 5 or 6 hours and breaking the game? I guess my question is, when multitabling do you not lose valuable information about the players at your table? -
If it was a crazy-nice fish, then sure, I'm always sorry to see him go. But in my experience most true fish don't leave the table right after they win. They try to "ride the wave" of their luck some. In my online experience usually fish leave for 2 reasons, 3 if you count table starting to break. The two reasons are 1) they bust out and don't rebuy, a very sad thing; 2) someone yells and whines and tells them how horrible a player they are after they suck out.Most fish I see are happy as hell to keep playing when they get suckouts, they're obviously running HOT!
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Screen size (how physically big your monitor is) makes no difference to how many tables will fit with no overlap. That's resolution. As long as your video card will do 1600/1200 you can fit 4 windows perfectly with no overlap. BUT you obviously need a physically large enough monitor so that you can actually READ what's on all 4 screens when you have it at such a resolution. :)I have a 21 inch and it's easy to read while at 1600/1200 res. I'd think a 19 was doable if not FUN. You also have the option that many more people are doing now - getting two monitors and putting them on the same video card. But you need a reasonably good video card that has two places to plug in on it. That's what people who 8-table or more do. But even if you just wanted to 4table you could do that if you wanted.The final thing to remember when putting it at a res like 1600/1200 is you need to play with the windows font sizes and other crap, or you won't be able to read your normal stuff easily. Like web browsing and whatever else you do. But once you play with them some you can do everything normally.thinking of buying a larger monitor to make multi tabling easier...does anyone know what screen size will fit 4 tables at once...thanks -
Screen size (how physically big your monitor is) makes no difference to how many tables will fit with no overlap. That's resolution. As long as your video card will do 1600/1200 you can fit 4 windows perfectly with no overlap. BUT you obviously need a physically large enough monitor so that you can actually READ what's on all 4 screens when you have it at such a resolution. :)I have a 21 inch and it's easy to read while at 1600/1200 res. I'd think a 19 was doable if not FUN. You also have the option that many more people are doing now - getting two monitors and putting them on the same video card. But you need a reasonably good video card that has two places to plug in on it. That's what people who 8-table or more do. But even if you just wanted to 4table you could do that if you wanted.The final thing to remember when putting it at a res like 1600/1200 is you need to play with the windows font sizes and other crap, or you won't be able to read your normal stuff easily. Like web browsing and whatever else you do. But once you play with them some you can do everything normally.thinking of buying a larger monitor to make multi tabling easier...does anyone know what screen size will fit 4 tables at once...thanks -
This is a funny story. I especially like your "one thing in life I hate, its losing money to a fish" statement.*snip*I was praying full a split more than anything, cause ifthere is one thing in life I hate, its losing my money to a fish, and this time, I had didnt have the excuse, "You hit running cards to beat me. You Fcking suck balls!!!", because he did make the right play (this time). Ok, turn card comes off is the last K in the deck, giving me 2 cards to draw for the full house, and one card to draw for the A high split straight. I ask everyone at the table if they had folded a 10. Sure enough, somebody had laid down 4-10, leaving my remaining winning outs at one!!! So I had to hit the last card in the deck, a 10, to win the hand, or the last ace in the deck to tie. Seeing as had alreadyb hit the last king in the deck, I thought there was no possible way I could runner runner the only 2 cards in the deck that could give me a win. Sure enough, the river is the 10d!!!!!!!!!! I jumped out of my chair. the odds were 2500-1 that i would win and I did it. It was my turn to be the lucky fish and in all honesty, it felt pretty good. The player I beat out was descimated, his face was pale and he looked like he was going to throw up, but hey thats poker. While I pride myself on never getting into these situations, it couldn't have turned out any betterfor me, and from that point, I ran the table as planned, buying pots and trapping noobs with style and grace. I had dodges a monster bullet, but I lived to tell about it. But you had more outs than you thought, especially after the turn. Any Q or J also gave you a boat.We've all given beats of course, most often when you thought your kinda good hand was best, but the other guy had a great hand and you drew out. So when you get toasted by the fish do you say your "hey thats poker" comment? Some people still do, but most don't, not then.
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I totally and utterly agree with the bolded stuff. Bad beats by calling stations don't even phase me at all anymore (unless I have like literally 7 in 7 mins, and even then it's not THAT bad). What pisses the HELL out of me are people who checkraise, raise, or cap improbable draws and then hit.Flop was 568, I have 66, this guy leads out (with what turns out to be A9o). I'm FINE with him leading out, semi-bluff sure. I raise, he calls. Turn is a K, he checks, I bet, he checkraises me, I 3bet him, he calls. River is a 7. Joy. He bets I flat call and I lose to his 1 card straight.Even this I shouldn't complain because he's just trying to push me off the hand he THOUGHT I had, but still it grates a bit. But I don't yell and scream and call him horrible.I occasionally say "Amazing" like today when I had 55, flopped T5T and someone with TK capped every street and hit his K on the river.More often I just say "lol" when someone with 55 hit's a 5 on the river to beat my top two pair or whatnot.I don't really get frustrated by bad beats anymore, what I get frustrated by is bad beats where the villian is way behind and capping with crap on the flop and the turn and then hitting on the river and it's heads up.That's the annoying part. Being way ahead multiway and having one of three people make a better hand on the river isn't annoying to me at all anymore. -
I hadn't read rpg more than a couple times before this, so much random spam and flaming it's hard to get to any real info.This Georgiev does seem to have a clue about poker, but also seems like such a crank. Nobody appears to take him seriously, not that that proves anything. I have a hard time believing much of what he wrote about online poker, but obviously you can't DISPROVE it either, haha, as always.The Doyle/Reese stuff and Baldwin stuff, I dunno. Again it would be quite worrying if it were true, how can one know? It all seems like Tilt turned real life. But without quite so much bad drama.
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That seems typical with what I've seen outside of vegas. 5-6 bucks max rake seems the norm sadly. Vegas is usually 4 dollars max (or occasionally, but rarely, 3), is this correct you vegas-people?And as others said, this doesn't include the almost necessary toking when you win big pots (or win any pots depending).The lower rake and no toking is one of the advantages of online play, along of course with easier table selection, player notes/stats, more hands per hour, and multi-tabling. The obvious downside is lack of social interaction, no free booze, and no COMPARABLE tells (for those live-poker purists). Sure you have some online tells, but not on the same magnitude.What is a typical rake at a B&M casino? I've only been to Harrahs in Lake Charles and the rake there is 10% with a maximum of $5 (I play at the 3/6/12 tables). Is this high or average? I'm just curious as to if I should look for a casino with a more favorable rake or if this is as good as it gets. Thanks. -
You should basically always be betting. First off giving free cards is stupid, second it's really fishy (suspicious I mean) to raise preflop, and then not bet the flop when it comes like that. To me that SCREAMS you nailed the flop. If they expect you to bet, you should oglige them, maybe they'll think you have AQ and their KJo they called 2 cold with is good and will raise you. :)But anyway, TPTK is not something you should even remotely slowplay. Even on a rainbow flop. I mean ok, if you know for SURE some crazy-LAG/Maniac is in late position, you could check-raise him, but if you know he's there, why not bet, he raises and you get to 3bet now?Btw, I was speaking more for limit, but even in NL this will mostly apply. Though if Mr. Maniac is in late and will ALWAYS bluff, then in NL you could knowingly trap him. But normally don't.My question is that I rarely ever slowplay any hands that I get into. For example if im in a pot with 2 other people and lets say I have AK and the flop comes something like K-2-6 rainbow, should I be betting at this every time as I usually do in first position, or should i be checking this hoping for someone to bet into me. this is just a hypthetical situation in which i raised preflop and got 2 other callers -
What crack are you on, can I have some?Flop:A24Hero: 53 for a straight on the flopSB: A4 for two pair on the flopOther guy: AJ for top pair ok kickerMr. A4 has 3 outs to boat up. Not 4 and surely not 6. You'd ASSUME he'd have 4, but when the cards were turned over one of his aces was gone. He has only 1 ace and 2 4s to boat up. Our hero has a made straight, remember? So yeah, after the turn where they hit the case ace, now mr. AJ has 3 outs to get a higher boat, but shrug.
6 actually, and an extra 3 more assuming a jack didnt come out nextSame thing you did. You got unlucky. He hit one of his 4 outs. -
Yeah going out on the bubble really sucks. That said, I really don't think there's any reason not to go allin preflop here. The only reason not to IMO is if you ARE going to bail with an ace on the flop. Otherwise there is absolutely no real reason not to reraise allin preflop imo.You said it yourself, you're not going to get away from the hand anyway because you'd have no chips, so what's the point of flat calling, and check-calling the ace-high flop.
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Geez I amuse myself. I yelled at somebody for talking about pot odds in terms of 2 cards instead of 1 a week or two ago, and now I'm about to (not yell) talk about if you're JAMMING on the flop, you need to figure your chance to win over 2 cards. It applies primarily to flush and OESDs of course.First, if you're jamming, you want to talk about pot equity, the chance you will win vs your "fair share" percent compared to how many are still in active in the hand. So flush draw on the turn you're roughly 1/5th, so if 5 other people are in the hand, you will win more than your fair share (fair share with 6 in is 16.67 percent). And if it's on the flop, you're roughly 1/3rd, so if 3 others are in, you are winning more than your fair share of 25 percent. (As a side note to this example, if you don't hit on the turn you likely will stop jamming because you no longer will win more than your fare share vs 3 others on the turn. But of course you're calling on the turn based on pot odds.) The thing to remember is not to go crazy-stupid and do what a lot of people do and cap a flush draw HU. A lone flush draw is never the favorite HU unless he has literally nothing to your ace high or something.So don't look at the pot at all if you're talking about jamming. Pot odds is for calling. Jamming is about talking about bet odds along with pot equity. If the pot was ZERO on the flop, first to act bets, 5 people call, you should raise if you have a nut flush draw. You will win more than your fair share. Another thing to take note of, is you should only be jamming if you think people will still be calling. So if 7 people see the flop, you flop nut flush draw (and nothing else), if first to act bets, and you're next, here you typically shouldn't raise. I say typically because many many people won't be calling 2 cold, whereas if you don't raise half the time 4 of the 5 people left to act will call 1 more bet. If the people are your table WILL call 2 cold by all means raise immediately here. But if you're on the button, somebody in early bets, lots call, here you for sure raise because if they called one, they're going to call another. Unless you're certain the initial better will 3bet and make them call 2 cold, and even then in general you should be raising here.SSHE talks about this kinda thing some, and Gary Carson talks about it even more in The Complete Book of Hold'em Poker.I'm bored...so I post of forums. When to pump it? That truely is the question. With a flush draw, you will win 18% of the time. Let's say 20% for simplicities sake. Pot is 10 small bets. Someone bets and 3 players call (14 small bets), 20% or 1/5 of 14 is roughly 3...and anytime that number is equal to or larger than 2 you should raise.Good luck! -
Haha, you must only play vs good people. I've been limp-reraised by utter trash a number of times.Don't get me wrong, I know what you're saying, but if you have no reads on the people, it can really depend. And if you have no reads you do almost have to go on the assumption they aren't yahoos, but man, I see some of the most ridiculous sh1t being limp-reraised. Usually of course when I have AA/KK so I don't have to worry as much about it.87 suited, 33, T9 os, the list goes on and on. A7 of hearts? I mean hah!But again, I do hear what you're saying, and unless you know they're a yahoo/bad player, you usually have to assume the AA/KK/QQ thing.The only non-stupid excuse I can think of for these people is they're putting me on a steal so they're restealing with a hand they'd hoped to see a cheap flop with.That's if I'm being nice.
I would think the JJ would be a pretty easy hand to let go of. Any hand that's limp-raising you, you're at best going to have a 50% shot at. AK or an overpair.Your AQo you could have easily been gotten away from. The JJ not so much.
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