hexag1

the strategy works for most low stakes NL games [full ring games]. you can draw to hands after the flop, but its harder to get action when you call the flop and hit the flush on the turn.sometimes you will also make a wheel or broadway straight [A-5, 10-A] and these hands are profitable, but vulnerable as well. also, try to play in fresh games with players just bought in. these games are plentiful on UB, PP and FT.you have to try to pick up pots when you hit TPTK as well. oh and its sssllllloooooooowwwww.

that %87 flush draw hit rate.thats just the ones that get shown down and recorded into poker tracker.the ones arent shown down arent included here.youre opponents are NOT hitting %87 of their flush draws. the drawing odds to a flush draw on the flop are about %35 [which will almost certainly bear out over 10K hands]your being shown %87 made flushes and %13 missed flush draws [that are otherwise shown down].35 ~= %87 of 40so your opponents are foling their flush draws by the river about %60 percent of the time.sounds to me like they are laying down correctly.

ummm... He called on the river. UB lists the losing hand in the hand history at showdown. did you edit it out and -then- forget it?

he didnt choke in the WSOP $5k PLO even this year.well maybe he did in the ME...

DN is right. heres why.your in a heads up pot that was 4 bet preflop.you cant even beat top pair, and top pair is A, the most magnetic card in the deck [and the 1 card that your opponent is the *most likely* to have in a preflop 4 bet hand such as this]with the added weight of being out of position, you must check/call [if the pot is big enough for you to call]remember your OUT OF POSITION and therefore you are on the defense. you must do everything you can to lose the min. in this spot. and you cant win much more by betting than you can by check/calling.

what other sites give out money? [without deposit]does royal vegas still give out the $10?

you realize that on the major poker forums [2+2 and RGP] they post the hands without showing opponents' hole cards? this is standard, not a new idea.

if youre going to play, buy in for more than 40. at least 60 if not 80.that rake [%10 of the pot, $10max] is outrageous for a $1/2 game.

Is it just me or does TV poker need more information displays onscreen?They should give these big-big tournament final tables the same TV treatment as the NBA or NFL.Seems like the whole WPT and WSOP experience would be better if they had more graphs etc showing everyones bet size relative to their stacks and the pot. maybe viewers who are unfamiliar with poker would have an easier time of understanding whatl is going on. I would like to see things like who was winning money from what positions, and who was playing the most pots. perhaps and overhead view of the table [like on partypoker] with

umm are you forgetting the allin with KK vs victor ramdens AK at the USPC????

Im a huge fan of DN. honestly i never thought i would be a fan of a card player like i am of some basketball and football players, but i think Daniel is now among my favorite competitors/gamesmen.

yeah i play limit too, but im just talking about my NL problems.

Ill admit up front that im not a very strong NL player.But what skillz i do have are much stronger in tournaments that they are in cash games. im well aware that it takes more skill to beat cash games than it does tournaments. im just terrible at the NL cash games on UB, but i can beat tournaments. i play micro .25/50 and i just tread water. i feel like i fall for traps in NL cash games more than i do in NL tourneys. and i have trouble reading hands. i find it much harder in cash games to know where someone is at in the hand. especially preflop, because it seems that players think of the size

this is old news and has been discussed on other threads.

maybe he was bluffing [see "you know your playing a fish..." threa]

cuz hes a smug beeyatch with artificially whitened teeth.

I hate Rick Fox. He sucks and he won.BTW there are so many FANTASTIC card players named Nguyen, somehow I dont think that this one is really going to affect the state of the poker world more than the others have.

yeah i just watched the WPT shooting star event, what a suckout artist that Danny N is :wink: and that guy martens wasnt helping either, calling off all his chips with AQ hi no pair no draw [flop 9 hi] against Gus ****ing Hansen.but hey, Nguyen probably figured that it was his one shot to make a million bucks, and that he wasnt going to outplay Gus or anyone else at the table, so he might as well try to outgamble them and play very aggressively [and he was ineed the most aggressive one at the table]. and he threw gus for a loop, getting gus to call him with K-5 when he had KK. after the hand

we should publish a collection of this stuff 2+2 style.we'll call it "Deuce on the River"

this was worse. at least in PSI2 you have 5 minutes of show before the blinds go crazy, and the banter sometimes makes it almost worth watching. tonight it was ALL-IN, player profile, ALL-IN, player profile, Tilt promo, player profile, ALL-IN, player profile, Tilt promo, ALL-IN, player profile, stupid ALL-IN by amateur on final hand, great read and call by E-Dog, mandatory suckout.aaaaarg!no poker superstars invitational is worse. at least tonight they actually have reads. superstars is : ALLIN, chipcount, ALLIN, profile, chipcount.....

At the lower levels its because there is a button for the minraise. it takes more effort/thinking to click the bet amout slider, drag it to the desired amount and then clicking -bet-.usually in online tournaments, there is an earlier period of foolish play, that includes a lot of minraising preflop. later when the blinds increase, there can be brief periods of where the minraise can be successful in stealing the blinds from shorter stacks. its funny to see those players who will always min bet post-flop a flush/str8 draw from up front, in hopes that no-one acting later will raise. actually th

TJ got his share of lucky draws too. This year, he won the WSOP $5K NL no rebuy tournament. on his final hand heads up he got it all in with A5 vs AK and won.

if youre having trouble at fulltilt go to UltimateBetthe 30 player $5 and $10 sit and gos are very soft.my tight-agressive style gets me in the money [top 3] 4/5 times.

the first thing i would tell her is that skill is what pays in poker not luck.you should also be sure that she understands that poker is all about what you do with your chips, and that the cards are to poker what the chessboard is to chess.be sure to explain the difference between calling and raising, and how you must have a much stronger hand to call with than to raise with.

i dont think that the criticisms of Matusows play on this thread are correct.sure he could have played slower, but thats not his style. he was correct to stick with the style that got him there in the first place. As for him busting out early, what could he do? his KK ran into AA, nothing he could have done about that, and then he got knocked out by a gutshot straight draw. just bad luck..If you read the cardplayer interview with John Phan he says something like this"you will never see me laydown KK before the flop, I would rather go home early than play like a miser" and hes the current card