Cole333

This "duct tape training" is actually suggested in a few poker books. Of course, it should only be done on cheap cash tables or more realistically micro limits. I have not heard of anyone trying it in a tourny, but good for you. It will improve your position play and reads. I recommend it for anyone. I did it for a week straight at .01/.02. I lost, but I learned form the experience.

I am looking for something along the lines of Poker Tracker, that will also give me live updates on the players at the table.Poker Office and Poker Edge seem to be offering what I am looking for. DOes anyone have any experience with either of these or any other software that tracks the players I am playing, makes automatic live updates on their play and analyzes my hand histories?Best Regards,Cole333 (party poker)

I think Gabe does an excellent job as a commentator and obviously is a capable poker player. I just wish he would shave and get a well pressed suit. He looks like an E True Hollywood story right now. I keep waiting for him to pull a crack pipe out of his pocket.

Dan Harrington is the same odds as Dutch Boyd....who handicapped this?Dan made 3 final tables and is 66/1...but DN is 25/1 and has not been to one yet (I like DN chances in any tourny).Besides are they not projecting 5k players?I will take 1/2 the list....the bottom half plus DN and a few others.

1-2 nl gameseems like 9 maniacs at the table (this is the month after Moneymaker wins WSOP on tv) so I feel I will earn enough to buy a house or lose enough to have to refinance the one I have already:)UTG I pick up AAI make it 75 to go, because I know someone will call me:)Sure enough middle position goes all in over me for 300ish. I call and show AA v. his AK I win, but he complains and I quote:"my AK had more outs preflop." Bluefin crazy"HUH?!" hero"Sure AK has 6 outs preflop and AA only has 2" Bluefin crazyObviously I can barely count all the things wrong with his statement so I do the sm

Not quite. On the first card you have two chance to catch either of your two previous cards so it's 52*51/2 or 1325 to 1 against.ZaraThis is my take on the "question"You have a 2 in 52 on the first card and a 1 in 51 on the second cardor a 3.846% X 1.961%= .0706% chance of any two exact cards coming up.1 in 1416The odds of this hand coming up twice in a row or even 100 times in a row is still 1 in 1416 as cards have no memory.Well that is my quick math.ColeAnd of course I rounded my percentages and screwed up the final answer. The real answer is:1 in 1325. A fast way to figure it out (now th

Not quite. On the first card you have two chance to catch either of your two previous cards so it's 52*51/2 or 1325 to 1 against.ZaraThis is my take on the "question"You have a 2 in 52 on the first card and a 1 in 51 on the second cardor a 3.846% X 1.961%= .0706% chance of any two exact cards coming up.1 in 1416The odds of this hand coming up twice in a row or even 100 times in a row is still 1 in 1416 as cards have no memory.Well that is my quick math.Cole

Anyone else having problems getting the 5th step multi-table tournamenst to go off. I register for 5+ hours a day and never get more then 4 or 5 of the required 20 people to register. This is very frustrating since I spent a great deal of time and money winning a bunch of freerolls to the 5th step only to find that they don't go off during the hours I play anymore.I blame the addition of many other step style tournaments (ie single table, mini step, WSOP step, and step higher) for ruining all the action on the multi-table steps.Currently I have been waiting 2 months to play my step 5s and have

Thanks Amarillo. I will get HOH.

I would only bankroll share or partner with someone equal to or better then myself...otherwise you are obviously caring their dead weight. If you really want a partner to help cover the swings but can only find someone with inferior skills then offer them a smaller percentage of the wins something like 60/40 split instead of the 50/50 that is common.I don't partner with people that can't play at my level so I have no experience with a 60/40 70/30 kind of arrangement, but a friend of mine was teaching another guy the ropes and entered into one of those deals and it worked out alright for both

I taught my 10 year old how to play. He is getting pretty good although he is still too weak/passive and therefore loses his allowance to me each week:)He does beat his older cousins on a regular basis though. Best Regards,Cole

It is more common then you think. Not usually as obvious as actually setting chips aside after each pot (what if he loses big in the next pot, does he take some of the chips away?). Playing partners or playing off the same bankroll is acceptable and could be a good way to help limit some of the varience (especially in nl or pl games). As long as these two are not working together at the table (ie collusion, best hand, protecting each others hands or to a lesser extent bet saving) I would not have a problem with it. As a matter of fact I have a part time partner that I profit share with wh

I am sure plenty of people have posted an answer similar to this, but here is my take on it.The BB is a player capable of playing into you with any pair or no pair. It seems likely that if he had a legitimate check raising hand he would have hit you on the turn and not the flop. This screams weak to me. I would raise his turn and bet the river. If he reraises me on the turn then I call him down unless I improve and can raise him on the river. Best Regards,Cole

Anyone else read "Championship No-Limit &Pot-Limit Hold'em" By T.J. Cloutier & Tom McEvoy?I bought it a couple weeks ago. It seems like a very basic very tight strategy. Not a whole lot of tough decisions need to be made at the table if you play this style. I liked it and have started trying this style in the larger filed tournys. Coincidentially I have place 20 in both the 1200+ filed tournys I have entered since reading the book.I am assuming T.J. and Dan have written very similar books since their play is very similar. Anyone read both books? I would like to know if there is

I play 100 or 200 PL O8B. It is mindnumbingly boring, but I wait for a nut hand and pound the shite out of it. A lot of weak players who don't understand O8B will call and I usually only get called on one good hand every few hours, but it is enough to show nice profits.