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Of course I'm going to buy the book - anything good enough to read while playing heads-up against one of the best poker players in the world is worth a read! lol

Would this be called a hook? Curve maybe? Because it's clearly not straight. Hey just like Absolute!! hehehehe

TobeyTobey - you win a big fat kiss on the lips - from Absolute. Thanks for your constructive input to my question, and if i've learned one thing from this post - it is that min-raising someone is a hell-worthy trespass, and possibly a mortal sin.

Alright- i get the point - min raise=stupid. I posted the hand for advice, so thanks for it. And tobytobey got the hand - he flopped top 2 pair with his AT. Smasharoo - I puhed there cuz I AM a tuna - that is what I'm trying to combat. As far as not playing your strat. (which, iirc is play only suited A's and pocket pairs then wait for flopped flushes and sets), while I'm sure that works, I do like to play for fun, and knee jerk poker doesn't sound fun, nor does it sound like it would maximize my profits (I know, I know, what profits atm! - but you do know what I mean)So, I'm thinking the c

Ever so helpful absolute - and I agree- a weak raise there. thanks for the opinion. btw- if you stop scratching down there it'll heal faster....Allinbluff- you picked 3.25 since it is pot sized again I assume? Honestly I didn't think of that at the time - and i'll think of you on my re-raises now lol (how romantic! lol)bdc30 - a good guess - but not the right one...

Just a noob looking for some analysis. I'll post what he had before I go to bed tonight. Sorry I don't have much in the way of posts before putting up a hand but, in truth I don't have much to add to intellegent poker conversation yet. Mostly I lurk, and hope to learn as much as I can so I can be of use to the forum later.Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $ BB (8 handed) converterMP2 ($23.05)CO ($8.25)Hero ($25.6)SB ($24.15)BB ($14.4)UTG ($18.75)UTG+1 ($5.8)MP1 ($17.68)Preflop: Hero is Button with A:spade:, 9:spade:. SB posts a blind of $0.1. 1 fold, Hero calls $0.25, SB (poster) completes,

Well, "pop"-culture is a bit a stretch, but he is definately a fad. Kinda like calling The Krabler pop-culture (Sorry McD lol) - I mean WE know what it is, but we are hardly numerous enough to catapult anything into general pop-culture. "I value call my nuts!!" - marginally funny stuff, even if it is nothing more than infantile shots at Hellmuth.

The site I was mostly curious about was Party.

stupid question too, in all likelihood. Does the rake include the final bet if no one calls it? Meaning, if the pot is $5 and hit all-in and no one calls, is the rake calculated off the $5 pot or do they include my final all-in as well?

I did mean an individual player QWithATray, so you chart should be exactly what I'm looking for, thanks. If you are wrong, I certainly can't think of why - 7 cards to make the best 5 card hand - should be the same odds no matter how you deal them.

Ok, I KNOW I saw this somewhere on the forum, but I can't find it anywhere. It was with regards to a question about judging whether or not you where actually getting bad cards or just feel like it. Is there an average % that each of the ranking hands should have to be considered a 'normal distribution'. I'm not sure if I'm being very clear in what I'm asking so I'll give give an example:High card: XX%One pair: XX%Two pair: X%Three-of-a-kind: X%Straight:X%Flush:X%Full house: X%Four-of-a-kind: X%Straight flush: X%Someone with a decent database of hands in PT, or a far better working knowledge

Ok, I've been lurking here for a month or two, and I realize that most of you think freemoney poker doesn't count; and in many ways, I'd tend to agree. Having said that, I was hoping for some opinions of its value as a training aid. In SSHE, Sklansky says 'be glad you opponents never fold, or else you'd go broke - or something to that effect. Well, in free money poker people definately don't fold! Anyway, the way I see it, playmoney poker can teach disicpline, odds counting, and using pot and implied odds. Am I completely insane?? Also, if you can resist the urge to flame, I'd like some