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  1. Just curious if anyone thought buying in for $1M is a little high for Daniels bankroll. Daniel plays mostly tourneys and his career earnings are about 6.5M. Add a few million to that and I would think DN is worth maybe 9 or 10 million tops. -Mark
    As I understand it, DN plays mostly cash games, not mostly tournaments.
  2. think about it ...who are the 5 best rappers?Dylon, Dylon, Dylon, Dylon, and Dylondo these completely 'best ever' subjective topics get old for anyone else?
    i spit hot fire....
    Well, now I feel dumb that I didn't finish reading the thread before I replied. Feel free to chastize me appropriately.
  3. AK MUST improve to beat 22..........22 doesn't need to improve to beat AK.
    board 77377, I still have A high 33889, I still have A high
    No, you have 4 7s with an ace kicker and 8s and 3s with an ace kicker. Your hand has definitely improved in the first case, and improved quite a bit in the second case.
  4. If this is a tourney situation, raise. In a limit game, raise. In a no-limit cash game, raise if you think it will knock people out, if not call sometimes, and raise sometimes. Realize that if you don't raise and pair on the flop, that in a multiway pot you could often be against two pair or better. You are out of position, so your raise will have to be bigger than normal. Bet out the flop as often as you would check if you missed the flop. If you only bet when you hit the flop, I'd call your raise every single time, with the hope that no ace or king showed up and I could take it away. If the board is raggedy, I'd often continuation bet, hoping that people would think I had a big pair and go away. It's important to remember that TPTK is very dangerous in NL, so don't get too married to it.

  5. I'd bet the pot on the flop. A raise at this level probably means top set. I don't think that Jd 9d is as likely as something like Q J 10 9 or J 10 9 8, or some other type of big wrap, possibly with a flush draw. It didn't have to be specifically a straight flush draw, it could be a wrap straight draw and a flush draw. You'd be in much tougher shape then.

  6. i think you need to let the hand go to showdown so the props can be collected. So sometimes if you will lose more to stay in than you will collect on props, its just didnt work out for you.
    I don't think that's the case, since it would be hugely -ev in a game like triple draw. I thought about how they would do it myself, but I'm not sure I came up with an answer. In games like 5 card draw jacks or better, you had to have a pair of jacks or better to open the pot. If you had a pair of aces, for instance, that you split to draw to something like a straight or a flush, you had to show the ace as you drew, to prove that you had the hand that you needed to open. I'm guessing that the props are collected in a similar manner. You expose only the cards that you need to expose in order to collect your prop. That is only my guess, someone who has the real answer should correct me :club:.
  7. In cash games, adequately bankrolled players play to maximize small advantages. In this case, the point was to maximize a large advantage. I am not sure why Farha or BG decided to make these calls. As an outsider, they seem like crazy gambles to me. Barry must have decided that Daniel either had a flush or nothing and figured that he didn't really want to be bluffed in front of the cameras (this is pure speculation, apologies if I am off base). In Farha's case, I really have no clue what he could have put Daniel on that he was in good shape against. If Daniel was semi-bluffing with a big diamond, Farha was in terrible shape. If he had a flush, bad shape. If he had a set, again, pretty terrible shape. I don't see how he found a call here except that he has a ton of gamble by nature. It's possible that he thought his overcards were still live, and that with the flush draw that gave him enough outs to continue. I just can't see how he did it.As far as Daniel's plays, I'd have played it the same way hoping to get the calls that he did. That's generally the way that I'd play a flopped flush against someone who has shown strength preflop. The logic is simple: they'll either call with a draw, or fold a hand that didn't have much of a chance, but that could have taken the pot from me if another flush card appeared. You maximize the chances that you'll get your big hand paid off, avoid having the pot taken from you if a bluffing situation appears, and you'll give your opponent the best chance to make a mistake (which is how you make money).

  8. Okay, here's a question...Why does the casino allow props to be played w/o a rake?and if the answer to that is... "because it's the high profile, high limit players", then...Could a lawsuit possibly arise from disallowing props to be played at lower limit tables?Maybe it's a dumb question, I dunno... but I'm curious.
    Im pretty sure props are a bet against the players it would be like betting your friend on a hockey game. You wouldnt owe anyone else money if its your own money your betting with. But casinos do not allow you to give other players at the table chips, so Daniel do you give the payouts to eachother later? Or do the casino's just turn their head the other way? Im no lawyer but i dont think you could sue a casino over props lol
    They ignore it. There is a Bellagio dealer who has a blog and describes the prop payoffs as big chips flying across the table. I don't think that the big game has the same restriction on chip passing since loans and other types of passing are so common. I could be wrong, but that's just my impression. I don't think that there would be a lawsuit about the casino disallowing props, and I'm not sure that the casino even disallows props at low limits. They just aren't very common.
    I play props all the time with anyone who wants to at my low- to mid-limit / small buy-in NL games. But yes, they are much much less common.Ultimately, the casino justs wants people to play in the games, and keep them happy, as long as they can. The longer people happy people keep the game going and sit there, the more rake they collect. You ever notice that dealers and floor people rarely say anything about anything unless there is a complaint?BTW - What is the address of the dealer blog?
    http://table-tango.pokerworks.com/
  9. I don't think that Perry really considers himself a pro. He is a college buddy of Phil Gordon's and you can read about a lot of their antics on the tiltboys website. I met him a couple years ago at BARGE (which I stumbled upon accidentally) and he was a nice guy who just enjoys poker.

  10. Okay, here's a question...Why does the casino allow props to be played w/o a rake?and if the answer to that is... "because it's the high profile, high limit players", then...Could a lawsuit possibly arise from disallowing props to be played at lower limit tables?Maybe it's a dumb question, I dunno... but I'm curious.
    Im pretty sure props are a bet against the players it would be like betting your friend on a hockey game. You wouldnt owe anyone else money if its your own money your betting with. But casinos do not allow you to give other players at the table chips, so Daniel do you give the payouts to eachother later? Or do the casino's just turn their head the other way? Im no lawyer but i dont think you could sue a casino over props lol
    They ignore it. There is a Bellagio dealer who has a blog and describes the prop payoffs as big chips flying across the table. I don't think that the big game has the same restriction on chip passing since loans and other types of passing are so common. I could be wrong, but that's just my impression. I don't think that there would be a lawsuit about the casino disallowing props, and I'm not sure that the casino even disallows props at low limits. They just aren't very common.
  11. I haven't played at foxwoods, but I find this game to be similar almost everywhere. People often buy in for the minimum and just try to gamble. If they get lucky, they'll play off that money for a while and eventually give it back most of the time. If not, off to another minimum buy. A lot of patience and these games are generally easy to beat.

  12. To answer your question about tipping, in Vegas players are not that good about tipping dealers. I generally tip every few hands that I've won if the dealer is running a good game. I will usually tip a dollar, unless I'm playing no limit and I win a big pot, then I tip a bit better. If I'm stuck, I wait until I catch back up to tip.

  13. Dealers hate their time in the big game as a group, because very few of the top pros tip a lot, as I understand it. The way that time is paid is that whoever wins the first pot pays for time (called a time pot). The time that they pay is $10 per player per dealer down (which is a half hour). If the game that the dealer moves into is a split pot game (like Omaha/8) and the pot ends up split, then the winners split the time payment.

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