Fooney

I play primarily NL at the 1/2 ($200 max) level and have for a couple years. It used to be that sets were my most profitable hands. For the most part I slow played them when I could (depending on the texture of the flop) and did not have a whole lot of problem getting paid off by people holding TPTK and the like. In the course of the last year or so it seems that the average on-line player has become more aware of the patterns that go along with a slow played set and I have had a tougher time getting paid off with my sets (who knows, maybe everybody has stats on me in PT). Don't get me wrong,

I've got a serious reply regardless of the OP's pedigree as I believe this is a relevant question for anybody who plays large numbers of hands of poker.I am a winning player who has made ~ $40000 in the last year and a half (on-line) mainly at the $1/$2 NL ($200 max) tables. During the span of my 2.5 year career I have had multiple "bad runs" where no draws hit and my monsters always seem to be second best. During these down times I can find myself second guessing my play. I usually get to a point where I find myself making an adjustment to my play that I know to be wrong to compensate for my

LMFAO

I'll try one more time just because it's kind of amusing that you can't quite grasp this. You seem like a real bright guy you just seem to have a blind spot on this one.Let's say you ended up all-in pre-flop AKo vs 77 and at that point all the players and the muck cards were placed face up for everyone to see. And just as you predict, there is one A and one K (2 of your outs) shown to be dead.What does this do to your odds of hitting 1 of your outs?Nothing.Because you may only have 4 outs but there are now only 29 cards left for you to draw from. Whether it's 6 outs from 48 or 4 (3.72 by your

I suppose I was a bit terse there. My apologies, Silky. I'm having a rough day.

You're wrong and I would gladly take the bet. All's cool though. I tried to explain it and really don't feel like going any farther with it. You just can't remove 2 outs from the equation without removing the 19 cards that correlate to those 2 outs.

A more interesting question along these lines is:Your holding AKo and Player A is first to act and raises (something like 2x or 3x BB) and 2 tight players call before it gets to you. Let's say you put player A on a small pocket pair and want to isolate. Is a push/rearaise a good idea after the 2 tight players called? Even if you successfully isolate against player A what are the chances that the 2 tight players are taking some of your outs with them and should it influence your decision?

Slight flaw in your logic.If you remove the 2 outs because they're contained in the 16 cards dealt to players than you must remove them from the cards you can potentially get. It may reduce your outs to 4, but that's 4 out of the remaining 32, not 48. So you either have a 4/32 or a 6/48 which is equivalent.So yes, it is a brain fart, but an understandable one in the middle of the night.

What I want to know is why on-line poker tables have to ... well... look like tables. Why do I have to buy a second monitor or an expensive monitor or graphics card if i want to play more than 4 tables.Why can't they just give us an option to reduce the table to column format or something similar. The information actually needed to play could be reduced to fit in 1/16 the size of a standard monitor.My .02.

If the auction goes:Hero: raiseVillain: raiseHero: raiseVillain: pushYou can throw the math out the window and bet he has AA about 90% of the time.IMO

??????You got me on this one.

Yeah, the stakes were kind of a joke but it was kind of a tutorial seesion for me so i wasn't interested in risking any serious coin yet.I did enjoy the HORSE format though and I think I'll continue playing it from time to time.The $300 for taking 2nd will cover the loss of a buy-in and a half at my regular game, too.

I'm a frequent browser seldom poster here at the site. I've been a grinder at the $200 NL tables for a year and a half now at various sites. I've recently gotten a little bored with the straight HE thing so I decided it was time to branch out a little. I've played some O8 and played allot of 7 card stud when I was younger so I figured I'd give this HORSE thing a try. The only game I had never played was Razz.So I logged into Full Tilt last night a half hour before a $10+$1 HORSE tourney started and jumped on a couple Razz tables to get a quick feel for the game before the tourney.To make a lon

Let's do some math:What is the entry fee for a $200 SNG at UB? $10?So you guys are paying $840 a game.1st - $10002nd - $6003rd - $400So you would need to either take a first or a 2nd and 3rd each time to make any money and in those cases you only make $160.Even colluding (in the manner you mention) there's just no way you can make any money doing this.But at least you kept me entertained for a few minutes with your BS and for that I thank you.Back to the day job.**** Sorry, looks like I was a little late on this one ***********

One of the easiest thing for the poker sites to monitor is how often people play together. If the same four people play the same SNG's all the time they would get nailed.Don't sweat it. He's just a bored 14 year old WHO TALKS REAL LOUD.