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And, of course, you have evidence of this, right? Pls link to the database.

I would say you played it smart. Facing nothing but aggression throughout that whole hand even if you're up against a supertight player I think you need to be respectful of the possibility that you might be up against A:diamond:K:diamond:. Now, at a low limit B&M casino this might be a prime opportunity to pick up a tell, i.e. if he checks his cards or seems tense at the suited flop, you can be pretty sure he didn't flop the nut flush and can play as aggressive as you want until another diamond hits. But online, I probably play this exactly as you did.

I don't think you can make that compelling a case that the proliferation of online poker is hurting B&M casinos - I believe I could make a more compelling case that it is helping them by building an interet in poker, helping to remove some of the stigma associated with gambling, etc. Most B&M casinos pull a paltry percentage of their winnings from poker, anyway.Regardless, I don't see how criminalization is a rational response to the emergence of companies that have figured out a very efficient business model. Making laws specifically to target such an industry is just plain stupid.

Easy fold. AQ starts looking pretty wimpy in the face of that kind of action, and I see no way the BB makes that kind of raise unless he's sitting on an absolute monster -- AA, KK, QQ, or AK, all of which have you severely beaten. At best you're a coin flip. Maybe if you've got a strong read on the big blind ... but ... no, no way do I make that call.

I have actually never been in the red, net, playing poker. I won my first $10 home game tourney and haven't looked back since. I only started about a year ago, and only started playing online for real money about 6 months ago. I've actually lost about $100 online net, so far (though I just won a $20+2 sit-n-go, woohoo!), but I've got a weekly home game that's usually good for a nice little profit ($20 NL tourney with 10-15 players), where I'm up over $250. I know I'm still just getting started, but I feel like I'm getting better.The key for me, I think, was reading up on strategy, buying a

In one unbelievable night of poker at my home game, I wound up having four-of-a-kind no fewer than THREE hands over the course of a single $20 buy-in tournament with ~15 players. Two of these times, it was quad aces. Most incredible poker night of my life.The first one happened early, about the 8th hand of the night, the first hand I played, and I'm sitting in the small blind staring at a pair of red aces. It's been raised once already, 3xbb, by the guy two seats to my left, a very loose cannon who has already doubled up, knocking out one of the weaker players. A middle position player (al

Amusing to me that so many experienced poker players can be so witless when it comes to Internet discussion. Simple advice to serve most people well:Don't feed the trolls. Here or there.

I have folded QQ in a SnG Pre-flop, but I don't know that I've ever folded it when it was an overpair post-flop without an obvious draw on the board. The situation to fold them is more like:Dealt QQ, first to act, raise 3-4xbbMiddle position player (tight) raises all-inButton re-raises all-in, covering meBig blind (tight) calls"Okay, then, never mind"I still vividly remember doing that not too long ago ... when, much to my delight, the middle position player and the big blind turned over KK and AA, respectively, and the button turned over AK.Then the flop comes out QQx and I feel like I'm gon

The math described by mgross is correct ... your odds with 15 outs and 2 cards remaining, against a hand that cannot improve (or has an extremely minimal chance of improving, such as hitting your flush with runner-runner aces) are roughly 0.8 to 1 in favor, or roughly 56%. IMO this is an automatic call even for all-in unless you are a very substantially better player than your table. At my home game, I will occasionally shy away from calling all-ins with powerful drawing hands, particularly if I'm up against a weaker player where I won't have a problem taking their money when I've got a made

As far as I can tell online sites are not rigged. I've been playing online for about six months now and have seen every complaint, heard every gripe, experienced every bad beat that there is to experience. Of course I know there is no way to convince the full-fledged conspiracy theorists, but I offer the following salient points nonetheless:1. You play hands much faster online than you do at a physical table.1a. You still remember every bad beat and lucky draw1b. Even if you only only experience bad beats at the same rate, per hand, that you do at a real table, it's going to seem like you s

2:1 pot odds, and your opponent is pushing you all in for 4000 with the blinds at 200-400 - that's a pretty short stack, but hardly desperation time. I see no possible way that the SB finds it necessary to push all in with a low pocket pair, ace-rag, or two random face cards. Maybe if I knew more about them, and had seen them making big moves a lot in the past, I would put them on a steal and call, but without direct evidence I err on the side of caution.My best-guess read is probably AJ or better, or TT-AA. Either way you're much more than a 2:1 dog. Save your chips for when you have a be