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what's the deal, can you have an account with both or not?
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thanks guys for your advice. Sounds like I'm just being too aggressive after I get called on the flop. I need to slow down there I guess. Because I'll do it again (another 3/4 to full pot bet) and get called on it.
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What do you do?Twice this weekend playing no-limit I seem to have made horrible mistakes trying to take the pot with it.Typical scenario (50c bb NL) : holding A
K 
I raise to $2, and get one caller.Typical Flop is Q 7 
10 , so I have a straight draw as well, So I definitely feel like I have to chase.Other times it's 5 8 2 or something low end like that.... I end up chasing these all the time, and betting aggressively (3/4 to full pot) on them only to end up busted.Should I just be check/calling when it doesn't hit? Or should I try to chase people off the pot by trying to represent pocket Aces or Kings like I have been? The last couple of times have REALLY not worked out well with it, and I'm very confused. -
I've been waiting for more traffic there until I deposit money. I'll admit, I'm not that great, so I'd like a few more fishies there before I lose all my money. :)On a side note, I have been playing backgammon at Gamesgrid on and off since 1999, and they were fantastic with that. I really hope that their poker section takes off.
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Yeah, but then whoever opposes it will just raise the number minimum posts because of that, and keep doing it, until it ends up being that only people that have been here for a year, post 20 times a day, and who's username starts with the letters P-T can enter the contest.No use fighting this fight.well if you limited it to people with 100 posts wont those damn newbies (hmmm hmmm hmmm) just post ridiculous amounts of crap just to pad their numbers? -
thank you Jist, that was very helpful! :clap:
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In this situation I can understand that. I too have a hard time throwing away big slick.Let me ask then, what about if there was just one face card, not two?
there is a difference between three undercards and a board with a J and a Q on it... betting there would be bleeding money... especially with 5 callers preflop... I see someone with QJ here often smoke you.i'm also a fish, and this is probably really wrong, but in NL, if I've been the pre-flop raiser with big slick and I get three undercards, I bet the flop as to represent an overpair. Often everybody folds. -
i'm also a fish, and this is probably really wrong, but in NL, if I've been the pre-flop raiser with big slick and I get three undercards, I bet the flop as to represent an overpair. Often everybody folds.
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well, I'm a newbie. I signed up about a month ago I guess, because I truly enjoy watching DN play, and saw that this was an active forum.I don't post much anywhere, and won't post much on hands and/or theory because I'm a little fish right now, and I do some stupid things at the poker table. I posted something over at 2+2 a couple weeks ago and the OP made me feel like I belong on the short bus because of what I posted, which made sense to me, but obviously not to him.I understand message board seniority BS, and it's usually pretty laughable. People will complain that the newbies that come in have nothing to contribute, but as soon as n00bs start posting, those with seniority get mad about whatever it is that they post.Anyway, I for one, plan on sticking around for a while. And while I might not have anything super meaningful to contribute for a while, I'm still going to be here.
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congrats owise.Love to hear when somebody actually wins these things!!! Especially then when you say you're going to put it toward a mortgage.
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Congrats OP!I was think about coming here and posting that I won my first SNG the other day, but didn't want to get laughed at since it was one of the $2 ones at Absolute. Glad to see that most of the FCP community is supportive of one another regardless of our bankrolls and what limits we play!
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until you have kids.Drawing from my experience, being engaged is perhaps the most stressful time of a guy's life. -
Actually the safari is pretty fun. You drive through and all these animals come up to your car looking for food. They tell ya to keep your windows shut, but everybody's always got them open. I saw a monkey snatch a sandwich out of a kid's hand once.Giraffe slobber doesn't come off your windows as easy as you might think though!has anyone been to this?i am gonna go next month when i'm in the states.i see it is like 3 parks in one... i won't bother with the safari but is it worth using 2 days to go to the theme and water element on seperate days?some of the rides look incredible.
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You can be 18 and gamble at the turning stone in Upstate NYhttp://www.turning-stone.com
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What I ended up doing to make myself feel a little better about giving them my password is just to change it immediately afterward.
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Somebody in a PP game I was playing last night started spouting off to some idiot who kept going all-in every hand that "you're not usually this loose" and of course, somebody asks how he knew that, and he tells them about this program. Then others ask him to "tell me about me".Which all I can figure out seems to be a PokerTracker-ish kind of prog, except the DB isn't just your DB, it's a large that somebdy else maintains. But what I am wondering is, is this something where it's only information that people are uploading through a big DB that people contribute to, or are they getting stats from PP? I would assume the former. Can PP give out your hand histories to other people?I don't mean to sound all "tin foil hat"ish about this. It sounds logical that this would be a smart way to identify others weak games. Really no difference between this and PT except it's not just you collecting the info, right?
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he's who they based the Fez charachter on "that 70's show", isn't he?
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http://www.partypoker.com/news/events/mini...i-steps-05.htmlThat doesn't really say anything about WHEN they get played. I assumed since they were SNG's that you could just sit and the next available step 2.I have not participated in any yet, so I can't say from experience.
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So, if standard raise is 2-4 times the big blind, what is a beginner to assume when somebody raises more than that. say 8-10X the BB.Are we to assume that the player has a huge hand? Are we to assume they are bluffing? Or are we to assume they have no clue what they're doing?And if we assume they have no clue what they are doing, and raise that much, what would be a beginners plan of action if they had a raisable hand?Sorry to pull this off topic, but I know I play alot of freerolls where lots of people like to go all-in or bet high amounts early on preflop and I just would like some advice.
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Hi, hoping maybe some of you could give me some words of wisdom.I'm a very new player to playing for real money. I'm extremely frugal, and I can't really justify to my wife why I should be able to plunk $100 or so down on a poker site or for poker analysis software. Anyway, I signed up for the instantbankroll offer to play at PP, and that's how I got started. I played the 500 hands to clear the bonus, and was at $95 after that. I reloaded to get 30% and by the time I cleared that I was at $110. I signed up for one SNG and the rest I played .50/1.00 and my bankoll has been shrinking. When it got to $45 I said, "OK, lets try $25 NL", since on other sites I did well in NL freerolls.Since that point, I'm back up to $105, earning a small steady amount daily.I know since there's no limit to what I can bet, when I have a strong hand, I bet fairly aggressively. With limit, obviously, there's only so much you can do. Maybe I truly don't understand the nuances of limit holdem, and it's what's making me lose every time. I tried to never go in with junk hands, and wouldn't even go in with suited connectors unless they were 9 or above, but I was losing so many showdowns it wasn't funny.I seem to do better with NL, and I'm not sure if it's just because of my more aggressive play, the fishier players (I saw a guy the other night go all in with any Ace), or if it's something else. Or maybe the .15/.25 blind means I can withstand more "orbits" of junk hands and wait for the good ones?I've ordered Ed Miller's Getting started in Holdem, and it should be here in a week or so, and I'm sure that will help me immensely, but something just seems odd about me having a much easier time playing NL rather than limit.Why do I feel I'm better at NL? Anything you can advise me? I feel really confused at this point.
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BigD, I just want to say thank you for the entertaining read (including the Bill and Ted quotes), and nice advice too actually.
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Hi. I am one of the thousands of players that have caught on with the poker craze sweeping the US. Until the past month or so I've really had no experience playing poker. But I managed to win a couple freerolls on a backgammon site that also has poker, and decided to transfer my miniscule amounts I made with BG to poker. I had played with play money for a week or so before that, but decided people were too 'loose' with their play money, and the constant all-ins were getting annoying.So I played about 12 hands of NL holdem and was done. But I managed to win a few more $$ in bg, and entered a $1 entry fee tourney with $500 added, and somehow managed to place 9th. I've entered this tournament once a week since then and haven't placed higher than 40th (of about 170-180 entrants each time). Obviously my first time was beginners luck. Anyway, I've probably had about 8-10 hours playing experience (not counting play money games).Sorry for the boring background... just wanted to get that out before I started my lame questions. :oops: But from what I see here, it seems that more people play fixed bet, rather than NL? Can somebody explain why?I'm also unfamilar with alot of the terms and acronyms, but those seem to be coming along slowly. Like I think I've learned that I am what you call a fish :lol:Which online sites would be well suited for a noob to learn and hone his/her game?Are there any books that are considered 'bible', that could help me improve? Are there some spreadsheets out there that tell me what my pre-flop winning percentages are?I apologize if these questions are quite lame and noobish, but we all had to start somewhere, right?
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I played backgammon there for quite some time. They must not have sent me the open for business email that they were supposed to.And yes, it is for certain the top bg site.
getting late in tourneys... suggestions?
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I was in a super-sattelite yesterday, and it was getting toward the end. This was a pretty small one. Was 26 players total, and they gave a seat to the WSOP Sattelite for every 12 entries, so basically only the top two paid. 3-5 got a piece of their entry fee back.Got down to the final table, and there were 8 of us left. I think I was UTG+2. My stack was around 2100, and was 2nd lowest. The rest of the stacks were in the 4-6k range. The lowest stack was before me. The blinds just went up to 300/600 on that hand. The lowest stack went all in, ended up being 900 or so. I have J
Q 
. Assuming that he'd have to play a "ehhh" hand, I called him. Somebody raised behind me for all but 140 of my chips. I ended up calling (why not all in, I have no idea) Flop came down Q K 10 rainbow. So of course, I dumped the rest of my chips in. Not like they mattered anyway.Obviously, I wouldn't be posting about this if I didn't get knocked out, but was calling the raise a bad idea? I just assumed that having the blinds coming down the line, that this was a pretty good hand to 'make a stand' with. If I folded the raise, the blinds would pretty much wipe me out.What do you guys think?