rogermarks

OK, these people are all suggesting that you read "books" or study "statistics." But newsflash, man, reading and studying takes TIME. Save yourself some time and transfer 100 bucks to rw marks. I've already read the books and studied them! You'll be getting paid for doing nothing but investing 100 dollars in me! That takes practically no time at all! If I lose, I'll apologize profusely.

doubt it.

I think raising a bluff and calling a bluff here is the same play. I can't imagine someone calling a raise on the river with no hand. I'm thinking the only call i'm gonna get with a raise has me beat i.e a set of 2s, a set of 6s, AQ. KQ, etc. etc. Safer to just call here. WIth a hand bigger than 2nd pair, I think you're right and a raise would be correct, but in this situation I like the check/call.

it will catch on FROM NOW ON 88 is the DOC OC. Forget "Snowmen."

If they are bluffing they are going to fold to a raise anyway, so if you really believe you have the best hand here, better to get that extra call in there from the third guy than raise and get rid of him. IMO. Plus you'd be in a position where you'd have to call more raises with 2nd pair. Not to mention you might get THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST turned over on you. Personally, I'd prefer to play it safe here and get paid well/lose the least i can with 2nd pair.

nevermind. misread.

i hear that's the title of Chapter One in Super System 3

I remember this one home game with my friends. We were eating those miniature hot dogs (pigs in a blanket, if you will). Right before one hand, my firend told me that he had eaten the last of the mini hot dogs out of the microwave-oven. On the button i was dealt Qh 4d I folded and went to the kitchen, where I found one more mini hot dog in the microwave-oven! Turns out my friend was wrong and I was lucky.

hand 1you had Qh 6h. Fold this because, well, because it's a Q6. There simply isn't much this hand is going to do for you. Even if you do hit your flush, because the best thing you have going seems to be 2 hearts in your hand, you're still behind to an A or K high flush. With a flop of A 7 5, you completely missed. You're marginal-at-best starting hand has been decimated by an ace on the board. If anyone, the bettor or any of the callers in front of you, hit that A, you're going to need runner runner trips, a runner runner straight or a runner runner flush just to have a shot at this pot

i'm confused by "it was worth the pot"

I hope someone takes a big pot off Toby Macguire with 8 8 and the hand goes down in history as the "Dr. Octopus."

You all have it all wrong.Here's is the real story.Livingston showed up this afternoon. After playing about a dozen hands, he gets dealt an 9h Th in the CO. He calls into an unraised pot. The flop comes out 8h Jh Qc. Dan Harrington raises to 6000. Livingston figures Harrington for a overcard flush-draw and makes it 18000 to go. Table folds around to Harrington. After studying Livingston for three full minutes, Harrington says, "I believe you have my stapler," at which point Livingston jumps up from the table and screams "GOD DAMN IT STOP QUOTING THAT STUPID ****ING MOVIE WHY AM I RELEGA

If Chan did that to me I think I would have at least thought about it and maybe layed down the KK. I mean, I can't imagine being like "ohhhh he doesn't have ANYTHING! HE JUST TRIED TO TAKE HIS BET BACK! JOHNNY CHAN JUST MADE A GIANT MISTAKE, AND AGAINST ME!" Maybe the tournement pressure got to this guy, but it seems like a "too good to be true" situation. Top pros will probably have a good laugh about this in a big game a week from now. They're so sick of amatures by now they probably wouldn't lose any respect for Chan if he somehow marked a deck

I predict this forum splitting into two warring factions after Suited_Up busts DN on day 2.

i imagined something like "ok, i'm manipulate bet/call size to make it look like i'm on a draw when actually i have a made hand" or "i'm gonna call this bet to make it look like i'm calling based on pot odds here so daniel thinks that i'm trying to make it look like i'm calling based on pot odds here with a flush draw and deduce that i flopped a set when actually i am calling based on pot odds because i am on a flush draw. "

bring a laptop and play Sit and Go's during the main event. People won't know what to think

Wear a crazy outfit and act as a wacky character so you get lots of TV time. Then maybe you'll get your buy-in back when you do a late night Pokerstars.net commercial.

I like to think that when I miss the flop and someone bets at me like that, they are saying "hey, i got this one, get out of the way." Can't hate on him for trying to get rid of the overcards and getting the chips.

nine of those dogs from that painting

honestly he had pulled a delayed bluff a couple times and had showed the hand. i wanted to take it away from him, which is actually what i would have been doing if he didn't catch an 8. He didn't have a whole lot of chips, and I did, so I took a shot at crippling him.

I hate to complain about cards and I'm not one to complain about people hitting their flush or straight on the river against me. However, today I saw a play that left me honestly stunned and, quite frankly, feeling almost cheated. Here it is:4 handed 5.50 Sng on Pokerstars, blinds are 75/150on the button, I'm dealt AQh I raise to 450, one call from BB.Flop is 4h Kd TsAt this point I believe I still have the best hand, as I'm playing against a very loose player who was raising and reraising with any paint in any position. I bet 450. He calls. Now I'm not sure if I have the best hand. Tur

Just keep playing smart. Don't let these chasers make you re-evaluate your game, even if they do seem to suck out on you every single time. Remember that you play poker better than they do, so there is no reason for you to freak out and throw chips away trying to outplay them every hand. Also, try not to start assuming that a player is chasing every time. I've had days when I would check/fold the river when a third flush-card fell, because I honestly started believing everyone was chasing flushes just to undermine my years of work on my game.If all else fails, try suggesting to these player

I'm gonna put this fish on AQh. He hit TPTK and three cards to his flush on the flop and hasn't given a thought to other possibilities since. Also, I bet he wasn't able to shake the feeling that his AQ sooooted was fantastic since it was dealt to him. All he needed was a little confirmation on the flop and he was already prepared to push it all in.

anyone see him get pushed around like a poor little kid on Poker By the Book? That was hilarious.

I used to never show my hands, whether i had the best hand or I just bluffed someone off a pot, I would muck the cards right away, online and live. I just figured it was better for people to not know whether I had it or not. After reading and talking strategy with some people, I started showing some hands. If I bluffed someone off their hand, I'd show. If I had it and was folded to, I'd show. The reason I started doing this was, as my friend put it, to "keep them scared." I've found that, by showing my hands, I can get people to do what I want much more often. I'll often find myself be