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Maybe I'm an idiot, but there's a big part of this that doesn't make sense to me. Why the hell didn't you raise on the turn if you were so sure of this read? If you're willing to call 150 on the river, how about raising 180 more on the turn and making it too expensive for the naked ace or A6 to call? I certainly don't think you want to just let that blank club or ace hit the river, you really can't rule out the x hitting in A-x hitting. And you don't know if he's going to fire again on the river, especially if a scare card hits. If you have a read strong enough to call 30% of your stack,

When raising the minimum you are doing it for one reason: you want a read here. You are doing this for information not only as to what he'll do, but the facial and other tells you're getting from your opponent.If you get the read, do the math, and figure it out. Raising the minimum can be justified if you get a good quality read. But that requires getting that read. without a strong read, easy fold. But heck, if you got a read you can call with 10-3 here too most of the time...

Instead of A5, you have AK. You raise and they move in. Your read is that they are looking for a call. Is it really viable to fold? Aren't a lot of people begging for a call with AQ or AJ too?It's pretty rough when people don't know what they have, especially..

The best player who never won a WSOP but finished second? How about Erik Seidel? How can Seidel not be on that list?Pretty bad list, CardPlayer...

Pokerghost wrote: hmmm 4k an hr huh? or put another way .5 of a big bet an hr. exactly what i thoughtDaniel wrote:April 29 80-160 5 + 5,200 May 1 40-80 1 + 1,400 May 4 80-160 .5 + 700 That's part of the problem. These don't really count. I'm not sure how well Daniel's actually focusing at these levels either, but Daniel's not gonna make a big chunk of change per hour at these stakes. And at these levels it's a lot more than .5BB/hr.I'll also note that the losses came two days in a row, and I can't think that's a coincidence. And I see quite a few +s in a row there.Still, they're pros he's

First, I apologize to Paul by misunderstanding what you meant by strategy Paul. Let me make sure I understand this correctly...There is a perfect strategy that is theoretically possible that the play involves making a certain play a random percentage of the time. For example, it is very conceivable (I'm not making any claims because I don't UNDERSTAND poker right now, but I am interested) that A10 suited UTG 8 handed could be a play that it would be correct to fold 25% of the time, call 50% of the time, and raise 25% of the time. This is what you're saying rather than: "There is a correct p

I'm not saying poker is in any way, shape, or form my forte.But isn't it possible that "the math" can be exploited by someone using a higher, more complex order of math? For example, if the math says that you need to call an all in with any two cards both ten or higher, and any pocket pairs, and fold the rest of your hands, then can't someone exploit you by not moving in with J10 anymore but instead moving in with 9-8 suited and getting the fold equity to trump that mathematical system?, and of course get other big hands like AQ to offset that evaluation? In other words, if someone has that

Actually, Paul doesn't play high stakes Scrabble, in fact such a thing doesn't exist. Paul's playing with the recreational players (rating is somewhere around 12-1300 I think) as mostly a hobby because he never took the time to either learn all the words or the strategy of the game.I'm not claiming that Scrabble is understood as well theoretically as poker, but it's still understood pretty well. Maybe all of Daniel's "math guys" should move over to Scrabble, and if enough of them move over we can get some reasonable cash games going...

A9 is a better hand if you know how to get away from it. But I think there is a general point: the higher cards don't matter. I'd rather have A4 suited than A6 suited. As to these people who are saying that you should compare them preflop, that's ridiculous. K10 suited is a slight favorite over 55 preflop. I don't know about you, but I'd rather have 5-5 preflop than K10 suited. And I'd much rather have AKo than 66.

9-7 is still a possibility to me, albeit a pretty silly one.10-x suited is a possibility I guess, but I kind of doubt it. J10 is a possibility as well.Trips is also another realistic possibility, as is two pairs on the flop.However, the most likely hand to me is A8 and A5, unless you got some sort of huge read that he was drawing somewhere on the turn, or AK/AQ/AJ and trying to steal.He could also be getting way out of line with J9 and QJ and is putting you on a 10 correctly. Poker is not only about what you have, and what you think he has, but what he thinks you think he has. Also, maybe h

Okay, so raise to 4BB, call $BB, raise to 11 BB, call, fold. 20.5 BB in the pot, you have 21BB left.I like pushing in here. I want KQ and AQ out. If you raise, you're basically committed to this pot in a tournament format like this. I can't see calling, you have to reraise. Why not apply a little bit of extra pressure and forcing hands like KQ and AQ out? If your opponent has AA/KK/QQ you're almost certainly not getting away from it anyway, so I would lean towards pushing your entire stack in.Mind you, you want to see fold-fold. You wouldn't get to this time, because I think AK is call

So what ARE the chances that I've got the best hand here? I honestly thought that adding all the variables together it was greater than 5-1.

And what's a good sort of rule in this situation (big hand with draws short handed) to know how much to raise it to?Would a raise to 2.00 be enough? Do I even NEED to raise?Draws go away on the turn if they miss, Ax doesn't. I feel like I could use that somehow. Maybe I'm trying to be too fancy.