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    playing a mid pair with trips on the board

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    I think I would have raised the flop. You said that MP was a very loose player, so he would be betting here regardless of his cards, I assume. Do you have a better read on him, like does he bet a lot (maniac), but then fold when he faces aggression? If so, raise the flop. He will re-raise with the four, and probably only the four. If he had a higher pair than yours he probably would have raised preflop. If you raise the flop and he calls, you have to go back to your read on him. If he bets again on the turn after you raised the flop, I would probably raise again.What is your table image? How does he think that you play? If you have a tight image, keep raising, because he might fold the hands that beat you (possible but unlikely over pair, queen), and he will raise back with the hands that have you crushed.

    off topic gambling thread.

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    Does he get a running start for momentum, or does he have to stand still? Did he specify the size of the football? Did you set a place that doesn't have much wind, or schedule it for a day that isn't windy? Don't make bets without going through every detail, or someone will screw you on the little things to gain a big edge.A friend of mine bet another friend that he couldn't eat a spoonful of brown sugar because he heard that it was extremely difficult to do (because of how brown sugar sticks to your mouth and throat when it gets wet). He thought the bet was a lock, seeing as it is difficult to do, but my other friend won the bet after he decided to just take the spoonful one pinch at a time and drop it down his throat instead of trying to swallow the whole spoonful. The losing friend still hasn't paid the bet, and I am still mad at him for it. I hate people that don't pay their bets.

    too many wsop events?

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    I say a perfect lineup would be this:A $1000 event w/ rebuys, a $1500 event, 2 $2500 events, a $5000 event, and a $10,000 World Championship Event.This would be the same for NLHE, LHE, PLO, and Stud. (maybe PLO8 or LO8)The $1000 events would be good for the more new "dead money" players, plus it would satisfy DN's need for action. The $1500 event would be the lowest buy-in event w/o rebuys, and would also be good for rookies. The 2 $2500 events would be good preliminary events that would not be too expensive for new players, but would still provide enough play and prestige for the better players. The $5000 event would be a good warm-up for the Championship event, because not as many no-name players would put up $5000, and the Championship would be as presigious as it is now.You would also add at least one event for each of the following games:Horse, Shoe, Razz, NL A-5, and NL 2-7. If I am missing any of the more unique games, let me know. You would also need all of the Hi/Lo games in here (Stud, Omaha)I figure this schedule would be a 35-40 event schedule, and would provide a good amount of ALL games to prevent it from becoming the "World Series of Holdem" that is is now turning towards.I haven't really thought about this, this is just the first idea I came up with after reading this thread, so it could use some tweaking.

    weird question

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    Wasn't my idea to play the game. It was late and we needed something to do. No one else wanted to play a real game, so we played this.How did you calculate it? I assumed that he was about a 1.5-2 to 1 underdog to make a better hand.

    weird question

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    I was playing this weird game called 7-card no-peek a couple nights ago, and this hand came up...The point of the game is complicated, so I won't explain it, but this was the situation. I had a pair of eights showing after five of my seven cards were exposed. My opponent didn't have any of his cards showing yet. The point of the game is to bet on whether or not his random seven cards were going to beat my seven cards, which at that point had a pair of eights. I went all-in, thinking that it couldn't be mathematically correct for him to call knowing that he had to beat a pair of eights with seven random cards. He called, and ended up making a straight on the first five cards he showed.What I am asking is: What are the odds of seven random cards making a five card poker hand that is better than a pair of eights? I assumed that the odds were against it, but I may be wrong and I want to know the exact odds on it.

    help a struggling player out.

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    I am ready to be flamed.I have been playing poker seriously for about a year. I have read many books (HOH, SS1, WLLHE, TOP, Caro's Book of Tells, Psychology of Poker, etc.), studied countless hours of video (Old WSOP episodes, WPT episodes, Instructional Videos), and I have read advice from FCP members in the strategy section of the site. In live tournaments, I am clearly a winning player (I play tournaments and have an 80% cash average, meaning I cash in 80% of the tournaments I have played in), but when it comes to playing online, I have consistently lost all of my deposits ($50 here, $100 there). I can't explain how frustrating it is for me, seeing as I am definitely the best player in my regular game or in any live tournament I have entered, to deposit money online and continue to lose it.I must add that I am 17 years old, and have been around poker and other mind-related games since I was about 6. I believe that my strongest asset is my ability to read opponents when they are sitting across the table from me, and I think that I definitely have an instinct that allows me to make calls/lay downs that not many people I know could. My problem is that when I log in to an online account, the money just doesn't want to increase. I play the same game that I would play if I were in a live tournament, but I never seem to get anything going. I consistently read on forums how people take their $100 deposits and turn it into $2000, $4000, etc., but no one ever really explains how long it takes them or how they did it.I think that my problem is that I am impatient with my success. In the same vein as Phil Hellmuth, almost, I expect myself to win. I was always a winning player until I deposited on the internet, and now I am a consistent "supplier" to crap low-stakes players. Every time I sit at the table I expect to win, and when I don't win, I always think back to every hand that I played that contributed to my downfall. It seems as if I don't have any MAJOR leaks in my NL game, except a few times where I might overbet a good hand and lose my player, or underbet a good hand and get drawn out on, etc, but those are easy to fix and they are not continual.What I am asking is...How many of you find it easier to play online instead of live, and why?How many of you have deposited, say, $50 into an account and turned it into a great roll of over $1000?How did you do it?I play almost every game around, and I consider myself to be at least above average in all games. (NLHE, LHE, Stud, Omaha, O8B, Draw)Stud 8OB is my worst game, just because I have only played it about twice. My pot-limit Omaha game is ok, but not great, and I consider my NLHE, O8B, and Draw poker skills to be well above any other 17 year old I have ever met of heard of.If anyone has any advice for me on how to become a better online player, please reply and give me some help. I am thinking that maybe I rely too much on my reading ability and that hinders my online game, but I don't know. Please, any advice will be great. If you need to know anything else about me, please ask, I am an open book as long as I am getting some good advice.

    fcp vs nwp tournament

    in General Poker Forum

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    I don't think that the Negreanu Open standings should matter, either. I have never played in them because I don't have a PokerStars account, but I would like to play for FCP if this tournament goes down. I say we play it at FullTilt because I have an account there. I will play it anywhere else as long as it is a freeroll, and I say we organize some kind of heads-up tournament like the NHUPC.

    shortstacked with 44 in mp late in mtt

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    I would push here. You are running out of cash late in the tournament, and you said that only the top few get decent money. If you only care about lasting and making more money, you might as well fold, but if you care about winning (and you should), you should push here and see what you can do. The blinds wouldn't be bad to pick up here if you get them.

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