NEtwowilldo

Where are these girls going wild you speak of?

Am I reading this right? Did everyone seriously limp for $2 then fold for $4 more?

I'd probably call with the three's and fold the A 5.

I find that this almost always means they have a monster. I would assume the villain has 99, or A 9. If you don't like folding to the minraise, I would call, then check/call the last two streets if he makes it cheap enough. Proceed very cautiously in these check/minraise situations. It's usually a donkey's way of getting maximum value.

I understand I'm not the greatest, and $500 pales in comparison to $97,000 or whatever, but I think the purest element of the game is getting a read on someone and acting accordingly, which is why I don't play for considerable stakes online. I had to back up my play somehow, and those were the only recordings I got. I've started keeping records of my live cash game play, and over ~35 hours of 1-2 NL games, I average a profit of over $11 per hour. (modest, I know, but I'm becoming more and more of a winning player of the past few years)I realize that there is always room to improve in this ga

The answer to your question is very situational. It all depends on table dynamics. In a turbo, you need to play more hands when the blinds are high so you don't get anted off. If it's the first two levels of a sit n go, I hardly play any hands at all. Four handed in a sit n go with high blinds, and being the chip leader, I'll play anywhere up to 65% of the hands. If the table is loose play tight, if they are tight, be aggressive. The amount of hands you are playing always depends on your M (stack size to blind ratio) and the tendencies of your opponents.

The overbet really looks like a steal to me. If you wanna get brave and push you can, but I think we are likely going to face the same tough decision on the turn by just flat calling. No shame in folding either.

Certainly don't push, you're only getting called by a hand that beats you. Fold and wait for a better spot, preferable in position.

You're obviously an all or nothing player. I don't think you're putting enough value on tournament life.My stars name is southrnctowl. I've played 74 real money tournaments, with buy-ins ranging from 25 cents to $15. Needless to say I prefer live play, but I just don't like people telling me I have huge flaws in my game when I obviously have very respectable statistics against recreational players.

1. 2005 NLHE Final Table at the World Series of Poker:Three Handed between Joe Awada, Scott Fischman, and Kent WashingtonFischman Raises with JJ, Kent Washington goes all-in with AK.Fischman folds JJ face up, then proceeds to tell his friend that he knew Washington had AK, but that Washington is a sitting duck.2006 Main Event of the World Series of Poker:Player A (Dustin Wolfe maybe??) raises with A K. Humberto Brenes (with a stack around average) reraises with JJ. Folds back to Player A who goes all in, and has Humberto covered. Humberto stands up and says that he knows he has the best h

Ugh. Agree to Disagree.I guess I'll keep playing like a weaktight ***** and that will keep me stuck at this atrocious 17.5% ITM and 2.7% win rate for MTTs with an average field size of 890. Lock it up.

Don't be a sarcastic prick. We're all here to help each other. Look me up on the pokerdb and tell me what percentage of times I have been in the money compared to the best online players in the world. Like I said granted I play for smaller stakes, but I still like my approach.Answer me this question.You have played your friend heads up 1,000 times. You have beat him 780 of those times. The 1,001st time you play him, with 5,000 chips to start, 25,50 blinds that never go up, he moves all in on preflop the first hand, and you look at AKo/s. Based on his range, you know are a 55% favorite to

I would raise however much you would raise with any other hand with one limper.

http://philivey.com/phil-ivey-tips.php?learntips=67"There were also factors beyond the math that I should have considered. For instance, given the table dynamics, there was no need for me to risk one-third of my chips on this hand. If I had folded, I could have gone back to stealing, padding my stack while risking only a fraction of my chips. What's more is that, after I lost, I had to become more conservative, as I no longer had a big chip advantage over the other players. "Read this article.Is this not a similar situation? Granted we are not the big stack at our table in this situation but

Not quite, not with 35x the BB and no antes. And the reward when that situation does come pays you off with someone's entire stack.

One thing all you math people are forgetting is the chances we have of stealing pots later on. This is a 45/55 situation or whatever. But what are the odds we are going to be able to steal several rounds of blinds from late postion when they double from 100-200/25 to 200-400/50? Pretty good, better than 50% considering that most people tighten up during this jump.The best tournament players in the world absolutely do not look for marginal situations to play for their tournament life. This is an extremely marginal situation.

I don't use all of these fancy programs.Basically what you're saying is we need to win 42.66% of the time to make this an EVEN MONEY situation.And that we're going to win 48.61% of the time given his range? Meaning that in the long run, we're going to increase our stack by 6% (210 chips in this situation, ~1.7x the BB) every time we are in this spot. First tell me if that is the correct interpretation of your presentation thing.Because that seems pretty close to me.If this was for less than a third of my stack it's an insta call. Cash game, instacall. But if you lose in this ever-so-slight

He could have K J.I really don't think he line looks like a flush, though everyone else seems to.I push.

Ask Hellmuth which one of his ten Hold 'Em bracelets he won by continuously putting his entire stack at risk in even money situations. T.J. Cloutier advocates that the only hand worth going broke with before the flop is two aces. He also advocates slowly chippping up, and not trying to double your chips all the time. I realize that this is a faster paced tournament than a WSOP event but, FT has a pretty gradual structure, and I know you can find a better spot to bust some donkey who overvalues top pair later on.The bottomline is if you keep putting your tournament life on the line with AK v

Checking aces in the BB is basically the same as limping with them, which some people like to do, to try and trap, but It's just not my style.

I'm still strongly against putting an entire average stack in the middle preflop without a made hand. Totally not worth it when the SB has probably just gotten a big stack by getting lucky making plays like this up until this point. He's going to donk off his chips later when we have an ever more +EV opportunity. (Plus we don't even know if it is coinflip, he could have KK)You don't have to take every +EV opportunity if you can always take the ones where you have the biggest edge (like at least 70/30).If you continuously put all your money in the middle against a bigger stack preflop with a

Ehhh I don't like it.He's the one trying to see a cheap flop and outdraw you with whatever his modest holding is. Make him pay to do it.Bet the flop, if you get raised, proceed with caution.

I don't think so.

Please explain to me how we are positive that we have a big edge here. AK does not have a big edge over 99. It does have a big edge over AQ or A J, but until you can tell me how you are sure that that's what we are up against I stand by my decision.And idk about you, but I am positive that I have a better chance of stealing, valuebetting, and reading weakness after the flop than the vast majority of the field in a ten dollar donkament online. This is my style of playing tournaments, which has lead to me to some pretty respectable stats on the pokerdb on bluffmagazine.com (southrnctowl on st

Jack Strauss was down to 500 on day one of the WSOP main event, came back and won, hence the legend of a "chip and a chair"Sammy Farha was down to 5,000 on day 2 of the 2003 main event, came back to finish second.