srblan
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My sincere apologies, I had not received the memo. Turd's not going to beat my door down and pistol whip me, is he?
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Starting to get towards the bubble, the guy to my immediate right has just lost an all-in race with the guy to my left. Average stack was about 12k at that point, I believe. The following hand comes up:Full Tilt PokerNo Limit Holdem TournamentBlinds: t250/t500(Ante: t50)8 playersConverterStack sizes:UTG: t25728UTG+1: t3024MP1: t18428MP2: t7840CO: t14497Hero: t20380SB: t10520BB: t6280Pre-flop: (8 players) Hero is Button with Q
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4 folds, CO raises all-in t14447, Hero calls t14447, 2 folds.My question is, based on the current situation, do I have a fold here? I don't think he always has to have AK (a smaller pair wouldn't have surprised me), but should I have gotten involved? -
9+ to anything involving Howard.Fantastic show, and I like the commentary except for Benza hyping the pot sizes.http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=145102 cashes over 200k since July '04. Gabe knows what he's talking about on the felt.I would take these 2 guys over the ESPN WSOP crew and the WPT guys in a heartbeat. On a Scale of 1 to 10Hi-stakes commentary 7ESPN WSOP 6WPT duo 2I wouldn't mind seeing Gabe go back to the WSOP broadcasts and replace Norm Chad. I think that would be the best pairing. -
Matt Savage is rigged. Did anyone notice the hand where Katie rivered a straight but her opponent was given the pot? Matusow noticed, but the dealer and TD didn't...The show IS broccoli.Totally staged at every chance they get. I mean, it's worse than the Real World! -
I think they only showed 10 hands. I'm sure (not positive, but pretty sure) there was more play than they showed. I seem to remember the chip lead changing at commercial occasionally.I very well may be mistaken, but didn't they only play about ten hands per game? This whole series seemed like a great idea, except the short length made everything seem like a crap shoot. Might as well have been a WPT final table. -
Brings new meaning to the term "bad beat", eh?Have you been looking through my window at night? -
To cope with boredom, I ponder all of the different ways one might kill a spammer. There's more than one way to skin a scumbag.
I knew a chick that would do that to you for 25 bucks.Teehee. Lambasted. -
Kaplan has a very dry sense of humor. Some get him, some don't.
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Touche Costmart.Ummm... Ghostbusters? -
He was playing Pai Gow 3 handed with Mike Matusow and Evelyn. Evelyn suggested that Mike should make a minimum bet because it would assure that David couldn't win. She phrased it like, "If I was you, I'd bet $100." David accused them of collusion (which it sorta was) and got pretty heated.He thought the show was broccoli. -
Your English is better than a high percentage of the posters hereI usually play LHE and i started playing limit omaha high this week.I can't figure out which hands should i play and which hands i shouldnt.I think flop and river are very important in this game(i usually see %25 of flops in HE) so i usually try to see the flop unless i am dealed something like 2-4-7-j rainbow.am i making a mistake by trying to see the flop most of the time?and which hands should i play preflop?Thanks for your help and excuse my bad English..Don't see as many flops as you are seeing. Try to avoid small pairs, especially out of position. Small pairs make small full houses, and those are death. I see a lot of flops in PLO, but in position. It is much harder to control the pot size out of position. The hands that I prefer preflop are connecting cards and double-suited big cards. Connecting cards (like j-10-9-8, q-j-10-9, etc.) are nice because they have a lot of possibilities. Big pairs are the most overrated hands in omaha. I almost never raise with them so that when I hit a hand with them, it is easier to get paid off. Also, keeping the pot relatively small with big pairs makes it less profitable for your opponents if they have a big draw against you.
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Hand one I play because most of the monkeys that I play with have a bug in their software that prevents the fold button from displaying when they have a pair of aces in their hand. It will cost you money if you get oversetted, but if you are deep enough, you should be able to get information without committing all of your chips.Hand 2, I hate a raise on the river with an underfull unless you are sure it's for value (and I don't really know how you can be sure here). Based on the line shown, it could be, but you are likely just raising out a bluff. You aren't getting a better hand to fold, but a worse one often will.
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Well, I couldn't think of anything that would have made a play like this that could beat me, at this level, I think kings full usually waits till the river to raise (correctly or otherwise), which is why I decided to call. Once P1 started thinking I was almost positive I was not up against kings full, since that leaves the case king (if it's a tough decision, I'm almost positive P1 has a king), and one of 4 other cards that must be in villain's hand to beat me. It turns out that villain had flopped a set of fives and was vastly overplaying them. P1 had A K J 10, I believe (no suits, of course), and the river was a brick. It's nice to be in games this good, but it's really bad for my play at higher limits because sometimes I forget that you can't make calls like this often and expect to get away with it.
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Good idea that you changed your mind, especially if you have become friendly with a lot of the people. You don't want to lose a friend because you decided not to give some of HIS money back, too.Well, I found out the next day that he was ok with it, but man, the way he reacted that night was brutal! He was playing on a marker (well, 2 in fact, $100 each) and I actually considered paying it off for him. Well, I considered paying off $100, not $200. That's how badly he took it. In the end, I thought about it and said to myself that it would be a nice gesture, but I'm sure he would have given me back the $100 anyway, so why bother. -
I got excited when I thought you guys were talking about a videogame version of the Pamela Anderson TV show. Ahh, dare to dream. Wait, I never watched that show, I have no idea what a library would be doing in a video game.
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You have to learn to separate the game from the people, to the extent that you can. Inevitably, if you play at the same place a lot, you will start to become friendly with the people in the game. However, you can't feel bad when you beat them, even if you consider them a friend. Rest assured that they won't be giving you any refunds when they beat you. If you feel bad for the guy you stacked off, it might be a good idea to talk to him about playing with money he can't afford to lose.I started playing at an underground club about 2 months ago and at first I didn't really know anyone. I play to have fun and to make money, with the 2nd being my primary reason.At first it was nice to bust a guy for his entire stack, but now that I know some of these guys pretty well, I'm starting to regret it a little. I busted a guy (who I consider a friend) Friday night for his entire $380 when I hit a set of Kings to his set of Queens. He reacted like he just lost his rent. I got no satisfaction out of it as I truly felt bad for him.Now, I know poker is about taking other people's money, and I most certainly took his money after that hand, but I'm just wondering if anyone here has found it difficult to play with people you consider your "friends"?I much prefer to play with asssholes and strangers. -
I look young too, and I've only been carded playing pit games, and only in a few casinos (Harrah's carded me when I went to cash out my chips... I have no idea why). But, poop occurs.MGM doesnt card. I look 16. -
I actually enjoy Gabe Kaplan's commentary. The main reason that he's not playing is that he's mostly a limit hold 'em player, so he'd be out of his element playing here. Kaplan has been a poker commentator for years, he used to do the WSOP...
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Don't ever play in a casino with any kind of jackpot (bad beat or high hand) if you decide that you are going to play there underage (note, I do not recommend this, you can wait, lots of us have). A guy I played with had to fold a royal flush because they have a high hand one place where I play. Oh, and if a bad beat jackpot hits, your table share will get divided up among the rest of the people at the table.
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well played, tough to get too far without much action on your big hands. nicely done though. I'll try to stay off of sympathy tilt since you turned out okay.
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I think there's one guy that plays 10-20ish, not sure though.There isn't one dealer at the Aladdin that plays 40/80. Pretty much everyone of the dealers there are huge donks. Which is good when they are playing on the clock -
I'd prefer a medium raise over all in. I don't see any reason for that big an overbet. You don't really want to give the minraiser all of your chips in an attempt to isolate a small stack. It's okay to make a sizeable raise, though this might be a flat call, check it down situation. BTW, minraiser's call is terrible.
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If he had anything other than a bigger flush draw, I'm all for the gambool, but 76 is a dog according to my numbers here.OK, first I'm guessing that this is a home game, since you're playing micro stakes, and chopping a cash game pot.Second, why the hell would you chop here? Don't you usually multi-table 2/4 and 3/6? I mean is $30 that big of a risk that you can't afford to play the hand out normally? If anything, I'd think at a home game, you'd want to try to push people around a little who aren't as comfortable with the money, and make them know that they'll have to play for the "whole $30" if they're going to call you.Even if you did want to "defray your risk" a little bit, I'd think that you'd choose to run it twice so you can be cool like DN, and pretend you're playing at the big game.I don't know, maybe I just have more "gambol" than some people. If I combine my live and online bankrolls, I have a little over $3000, but I'll still make an occasional $5 straddle or $10 re-straddle in a 1/2 NL game to keep my table image loose and to keep the game going strong. I certainly won't shy away from repotting preflop in PL Omaha if I have double-suited kings. I mean obviously you want to win, but didn't we all start playing poker at some point because we liked to gamble? -
I understand that you can't fold, but I hate the bet and I really wish the guy with the queen had bet the turn so he could have folded then.KK-TT could easily be thinking that they must be good when the river queen comes. No way you can fold this. Anyone with an elementary understanding of pot odds should realize that this is a call.
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