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Nice ****ing pickup. I wonder what sb had there that couldn't call getting 5:1

+$530, keep it up

He also folded in the sb getting like 9:1 on his money.

haha, nice. Usually when I try to steal blinds, it's with better than 27o

Good luck, looks like you're really doing well.

Play money?

FYP.Plus, the rake. Holy crap, we need to set up a poker site. Like printing money.he meant 2.5% per year interest, not 2.5% per day. If you find some place paying 2.5% per day, let me know.

I'd probably fold the river myself, unless I had reason to believe I'm up against 2 complete morons (which isn't too far a stretch to assume of the average .5/1 PP player). I suppose absent reads, calling down isn't real bad at this level.As far as your downswing, I really wouldn't worry about it. Especially at PP at that level, the variance is ****ing wild. I only cleared bonuses there, so I'd only play 1200-1500 hands at a time, but I'd always end up either down about 50BB, or up like 150BB. If you're playing a strong aggressive style to maximize your winnings, the variance is going to b

It would rock to see DN come here and make fun of you for complaining about losing 2k. It's such a small amount of money to him and all. Alas, he isn't a douche , so he won't, but it would be a humorous way to teach you a lesson about relativity.As long as the bad beats stay in the bad beat forum, I don't see the issue. You don't need to visit that area if you don't like reading about bad beats.

This is more of a general question and the situation comes up frequently enough that I think I might be leaking. KQo is a loser for me and it really shouldn't be..I'm MP or maybe LP with KQo.Preflop: A limper or 2, I raise, maybe 1 person behind me calls, along with 1 blind and a couple limpers.This is an easy raise for value, right?4 or 5 people to the flop -- Axx (not the same rags), no real draws for me.Should I be check/folding this? If I get checked to, should I bet?I really feel lost on these hands. Sometimes I'll bet, representing the ace, but it doesn't seem to work enough to be pro

We need to know button's chip stack to have any input at all on this.And I assume the others in front of him folded? How many players are left?

There's no way you can fold on the river here I don't think. I might bet/call or check/call this, depending on his past aggression.

That was pretty much the worst possible situation that could happen and is exceedingly rare. More often than not, you are 50%+ to beat both players here. Bad luck for you this time.As far as preflop, all-in isn't a real bad play, as UTG+1 is likely to call with many dominated hands if he's as donkish as you say, and it increases your chance to win with the bigstacked CO out of the hand. I'd probably move all in here myself, but I can certainly see an argument for a small raise like you did to get some value out of the hand. I might do the same if I had good reads on my opponents' postflop

What hand do you think CO has that worries you? He called a minraise preflop, and you said he's LAG. Is it even possible for a player like this to let the blinds see the flop cheap if he has AA/KK? Doubtful.And that's a ridiculously easy call on the flop. Worst case, you're up against a set, which is rare, and you're still only about a 70/30 underdog, and you're getting about 3:1 on your money.

Home game last night, I've won 6 of the past 7 weeks, so I'm not really pissed about losing, I'm just befuddled by his play.Average stack at 10k, I'm at 13k, bb is at 11k. Blinds at 50/100I'm in MP somewhere with 9:spade: T:spade:Preflop: limp, I limp, button (very aggressive player) raises to 300, 4 calls.Flop (5 players, pot = 1500): J:diamond: Q:club: K:club:sb checks, bb bets 500, I call 500 (button will likely raise), button raises to 1000, 2 people call that, bb just calls, I push all in.Now, everyone else folds, while bb sits there staring at me going "hmm, you could already have the

Absolute Poker sucks. Don't play there. Stay away. If you don't play at Absolute Poker, all of your wildest dreams will come true.

Isn't that true even if you have a big stack though? I forget who, but the old saying "I can beat pros with any cards, but I need good cards to beat fish" is true. I guess if you're at a table of all pros, you don't need the cards, but then you probably aren't too profitable at those tables anyway.No. when i say u need the hands and u need the calls. its because at a table with 1,2 blinds and you have 50.00 u arent going to be able to last very long paying blinds, and or min. raises to see hands that could turn profitable if they hit.do you understand that when you are at 30.00 after paying

Maybe it's because he doesn't generalize an entire population of people with very loose ties such as a forum community. Or perhaps it's because he doesn't make homophobic remarks like some distraught juvenile. Or perhaps the Hello Kitty avatar triggers some subconcious desire to give fellatio to people with the suffix of "roo" in their alias. I'm thinking this might really be the reason, but you're still a douche.

Isn't that true even if you have a big stack though? I forget who, but the old saying "I can beat pros with any cards, but I need good cards to beat fish" is true. I guess if you're at a table of all pros, you don't need the cards, but then you probably aren't too profitable at those tables anyway.

Why did you bet the river? Please give me a rational explaination and not just "I can't win the pot without betting". We both know poker is about winning money, not pots.Let's pull out pokerstove to see how dumb or retarded I'd be to call you down from the turn. With 16% pfr, we must assume you are raising pretty much any 2 broadway (let's discount JTo, QTo, and KTo, to be generous) and any pp 66 and up. Let's even add in any suited ace to bump up the odds of you having that nut boat. With that range of hands, Actuary was about 60/40 favorite on the turn, so folding here would actually be

There's 2 lines you can take from the flop.1) Push all in. He most definately is not getting the correct odds to call you if you go all in here. He'd be getting 1.5-1 by my math. And if he does fold, you gain 5400 chips on the hand, which is a lot at this point.2) Smooth call and push any non spade non pair turn, folding to a large bet if it is a spade or the board pairs. This is certainly more dangerous as 1/3 of the deck will scare you, but if you're looking for a big score, this is the way to go. He'll likely bet big on the turn and you can pick up a shitload of chips.Personally, I'd d

You're not serious are you? Do you really think he is going to fold on the river after calling a raise on the turn on this board? I think the chance of that happening is less than 5%. And if he does fold, you were ahead anyway. Betting this river loses you more money than you already lost. If you're going to be as aggressive as you are, you gotta expect to get called down with a less than perfect hand. I know if I play against someone who raises pf 1/6 of the time and has your kind of agg factor, I'm seeing a lot of showdowns.Well played Actuary.

That's about where I stopped reading. Learn the definition of nutbar.I knew I should have stopped when the OP had it set up so that all the players had 500bb and the "pro" had 12500bb on a NL table.

You guys had some deep ****ing stacks. By my calculations you started the hand with 167bb at the minimum. That's pretty wild for late in a tourney. With that in mind, I think you need to reraise more on the flop than just minraise, then you definately need to just push the turn. He's a donk for getting all his chips in with a 6 kicker, but it happens.

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