BuzzWorthy
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Saw this in Card Player online, their most recent magazine has an article on Paul Darden, who had this to say:“I weathered the storm, and now I am the storm. The cream is going to rise to the top, and this cream is dark.”I can just hear it now at Starbucks - "This is light cream - I ordered dark!"
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I saw an advertisement for a DVD package on carospokersecrets.com ...2 DVD's for $19.95 plus Caro's poker tells for and additional $9.95.Anyone seen this yet? Any feedback?
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I was playing a hand at Bellagio 2/5 no limit game. I was completely card-dead for a while, so I had this very tight table image.I finally get AQs in late position and open for a raise, I get called by this guy in about 4th position. I recognized him from the last time I was there, and he seemed to have a slighly larger stack than normal, but not outrageous. Flop is rags, I bet out, about pot-sized, hoping to take it with my tight image, and partially thinking I might have the best hand. He calls, and I put him on a draw. Again, turn is nothing, he checks, and I move in, putting him on a stright draw, as there is no flush draw on the board. He calls. River is nothing, and I wait for him to claim the pot, but he is just holding his cards waiting for me to show.Turns out he called all these bets and raises with 87o, and called an all-in bet with only a pair of sevens, 4th high on the board! Never had a straight draw either - he was just looking me up!Now, I know my play was questionable moving in on the turn, but my read was right - he was not strong. What irked me was that his stack was much larger than I thought - it turns out he had QUITE A FEW black chips hidden under his stack of reds, behind a front row of all reds. Had I known his stack was that large, I might not have bluffed him, knowing he had won enough to afford to 'look me up'!My question is this - Are you allowed to hide chips at the table like that?
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sorry... got it. never mind
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what's the password? I'll be playing as VeroTony...
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I'll play...
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I re-raised thinking he was trying to bully me because I was new to the table. I see now that perhaps it was a mistake. Thanks for the input.
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OK, playing at the Wynn 2/5 no limit hold'em game, bought in for $400. Only a few hands in, I get TT in 7th position. Folded to me, I raise 15, guy on the button raises to 30. I re-raise to 60, and he pushes all in. We have about the same amount of chips, he might have me covered.I know this guy is tight - I had already witnessed a crazy hand involving a $2000+ pot. I may post the details of that pot in another post, but I could tell from his endless comments on how he would've played it that he was a tight player.If this is early in a tournament, it seems like an easy laydown. However, it's a cash game, so the situation is slightly different. Since I re-raised him and then he pushed all-in, I put him on JJ QQ KK or AA, and figured even if he has AK, i'm 50-50 at best, so I laid it down. Was this the right move?Thanks.p.s. - Wynn was very nice, but given all the hype, I expected more...
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Funny vision, but I was talking about Friday. You can read my response to Vade, made about 1/2 hour before you posted... you must have missed it.And skip the 'happy go lucky fan' crap... sounds pretentious.
LOL I about spit my coke out at that. I just had this image of this happy go lucky fan jumping on a jet plane to go watch this heads up match only to arrive and realize he missed it.Too bad it's going on today in less then six hours
Good thing for the 'happy go lucky fan' that there is not only the match today, but one on Friday as well. -
So.. obviously you didn't read the part about Friday at 7:00 PM... because then you wouldn't have posted this dumb flaming response.Too bad it's going on today in less then six hours -
YES!!! I'm leaving for Vegas tomorrow night. I am going to come check this out for SURE!!!Anyone interested in a report?
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QQ, at Bellagio. Strangest thing... guy CALLED me all the way down for $600 with nothing, not even a reasonable draw...
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Early in a $10+1 PartyNL Hold'em SNG. I get AA, 4 limpers to me. I raise 4x BB, BB calls, MP player calls, all others fold.Flop comes 368 rainbow. BB bets 180, MP calls, i raise all in to protect against the draw. I'm fairly certain I have the best hand. BB folds, MP calls. Turns oput that I do have the best hand - I got called all in by KRABLAR!You know the rest of this story... 3 falls on the river to crack my Aces.The part that REALLY ticked me off however, was after I lost, I typed:"Krablar fan, eh?"No answer...So now I'm really angry - clearly he did not call because he understands the power of Krablar, but because he is a FOOL!
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OK, so there seems to be two schools of thought when it comes to strategy early in tourneys:1. Accept some additional risk and try to build a big chip stack you can use to pound players later. I call this going for the win.2. Play really tight and try to build your chip stack slowly. I call this going for the money.Each one has advantages and disadvantages. Higher risk early means more chips and a better shot at a win, but at the risk of busting out early. Going for the money often results in making the money, and is therefor more consistently profitable, but often times you don't have enough chips to really make a run for the title.What does everyone else think?
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I don't know the exact details, but I assume there is a strong financial benefit to him playing exclusively at Wynn.So, for the moment, he is receiving compensation to play at a casino when a lot of the really tough players are at another casino... seems like a good idea to me!Not to mention the marketing adavantages Daniel brought up in his response...
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I don't know, i can't think of anything while I am looking at your avatar...I always think trouble when I see something like A9s in late position when itis folded to me. Whenever I try to steal, seems someone wakes up with AJ or AQ...
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Perhaps there needs to be some ultra-high buy in event, like 50K or 100K, with no satellite entries. You have to wire the money from your own account. This might lock out the 6,000 online qualifiers. Then the pros can buy in and see who's best. No amateur would pony up that kind of dough.However, I don't think the WSOP should be changed. The saying associated with it is 'anyone can win', so why try to change that?Side note: what if the buy-in had been adjusted for inflation every year? What would it be now? That might've slowed down the number of entrants...
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That is an outstanding tournament strategy question that I have been struggling with. I try to avoid coin flips early, and usually make the money, but don't have enough chips to really make a run at the title.So, what is the better strategy - going for a huge chip lead early and taking some additional risk, or taking a tight approach to make the money, hoping a huge hand will give you the chips you need?I thought that this was a fold situation also but...On the 2+2 forum where I found this hand, the overwhelming consensus was to "call".Arguments for the call included: "Rather accept variance early to mitigate risk later""Build it up early to punish later rather than being in a survival mode""Take slight edge now to get chips to pound people later""Accumulate big stack early to reduce variance later by keeping the ability to withstand future bad beats" -
Hamilton Porter, The Sandlot:'You're killing me, Smalls!"And, continuing the SpaceBalls thread:"Funny, she doesn't look Druish..."
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Without a doubt Turning Stone.
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I can see your point, but he is looking for a consistent raising amount. 8BB seems too high, as he is only going to get called by strong hands, or someone is going to push all in. The point of being consistent is that you can sometimes raise on a speculative hand, such as 56s, or a strong hand such as a high PP, and no one can tell what you have. If are consistent, then you would raise 8BB with a 56s or a bluff. If you get called, you have thrown away your money. You will also not get enough callers over time to make this a profitable play. You may steal a lot, but you won't win many big pots. For every time your raise fails, you need to steal/win 8 bets.I'm sure there are some games where you could play extremely tight, always raise 8BB and very rarely bluff. I just don't think this is profitable long-term.The reason I recommended 4BB is that it makes them more LIKELY to fold - but if they don't - you have charged them more for this mistake.
I disagree with the statement about weaker players - you need a much larger raise to force them to fold. I regularly play in lower stakes S&Gs, and NL$25 tables, and a raise of 4xBB isnt near enough. At the NL$25 tables, a raise from the BB of .25 to $1 does next to nothing. A $2 leaves only the strongest hands.DevDepends on who you're playing against. If you're against good players, a 3BB bet will cause most players with bad hands to fold. Against a weak table, players may defend/call with weaker hands, so you may want to raise to 4BB. This will make it more likely that they fold, or at least you are getting a better price if they make the mistake of calling. -
Depends on who you're playing against. If you're against good players, a 3BB bet will cause most players with bad hands to fold. Against a weak table, players may defend/call with weaker hands, so you may want to raise to 4BB. This will make it more likely that they fold, or at least you are getting a better price if they make the mistake of calling.
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This might be the best advice ever given in this forum...Bad call preflop. Nice play after.For future reference, when you post a hand like this, say "I accidentally misclicked and called a preflop raise OOP with low suited connectors. Then look what happened! I misclicks!". It'll keep the more abrasive sorts from calling you names, or from stating the obvious about bad calls preflop. -
Re-raise. You have the nuts (Except for him holding 33, but that is unlikely).There are a few hands he could be playing - 10-10 for example. He could have also made the flush, and is trying to represent the full boat (not real bright, but you never know...).Your reasoning makes sense - he probably does have the K to split the pot, but the chance that he is playing something like 3's full is worth the minimal extra rake, IMHO.
shaq needed kobe, period
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