[So Howd You Come Up With Your Nickname?]

When rolling to a party like 6 dudes deep, my friend from high school mentioned that we were packing a "Dude Surprise." That became a well worn inside joke for years, almost spawning a hit rap song, and became my handle during the gold mine years of Party Poker.

[Qq In The Blinds]

I'm raising to about 500 here, and calling a push from either player. Neither player "should" flat call your raise with their stacks and you might induce a push from UTG with 88-JJ hoping you have AK. Sometimes you run into an idiot that just doesn't want to fold AJ/AQ. Even better, I see CO flat call and then shove over a 3-bet with a small pair in this situation occasionally. Obviously AA and KK are in UTG's range, but a lot of players raise at least AJ+ and 99+ UTG nowadays making it a pretty standard raise/call situation. Although UTG raising 4x sort of makes me raise an eyebrow, as some players like to raise 4x with hands they're scared to play (1010-QQ) and others do it with KK and AA trying to build a bigger pot. With almost double the chips of each stack, I'm rarely folding QQ to a 4-bet by UTG...I guess I just see so many retarded plays that I don't think it's a profitable fold in a lot of situations. Especially early on. AK and JJ are almost never folding, so with those in the range it's hard to fold after you invest 1/3 of their stack. If one of them flat calls the raise, I might check call a push from either stack. I guess some villains will check behind with missed overs, but people are so bluff happy now that most push just about anything in a big pot if you check. Obviously if an A flops it sucks, but I still might check call a push. If we push into an A high flop, were only getting called by the A...so check calling actually lets villain try to push us off our hand when he thinks we don't have the ace. Obv c/c a A high flop isn't always wise, it's just better than pushing.

[88 In Position]

I agree with the majority of the replies.I'm always raising this PF, as it defines villain's hands a little better for spots like this. Turn check is standard when the obvious draw hits as betting is basically turning your hand into a semi bluff and you're never calling a raise...you may be losing value to a lesser two pair, but this is such a marginal situation that getting to show down cheaply seems like the priority. I'm never calling this bet on the river without a good read that villain overbet bluffs. It could be a slow played 4 trying to make up value or a flush hoping you have the 4 and checked because of the flush. Could even be something like K5 that just improved. Missed straight draws might bluff the river and sometimes dude is on some equally retarded play, but I don't think it's a profitable call against most villains.

[This Is What Happens When The Deck Slaps You In The Face]

I'm calling the reraise on Hand #20.Good call on #25. You had some crazy odds there.#31 - lol#33 - Yeah, lots of missed value on that one. I reraise the turn to $3000...make him pay for chasing.#37 - Getting a little loose on the steals here, but the table is supertight...so justifiable.#40 - Very tight table...might check this on the button to let one of the blinds catch something. Nothing wrong with collecting 2100 though. #43 - You in love with Q3? Good move though with BB M < 3.#55 - Nice. Your agressive play has just paid off and Dereks pays you off with Ace rag.#90 - Pretty weak fold by Cyrus here.#98 - Luckbox!

I'm not sure why I didn't take a flop on #20, as it was a small 3-bet and obviously I had position. I'm pretty sure my line of thinking was that I didn't need to play a big pot because I knew I could run the table over and take pots without showdown. In hindsight it was a nitty fold.Hand 31 is total spew, but I have an inability to fold at times and this was one of those times. It did establish a super image for me though, and hopefully limits the people that try to play back at me with marginal hands later on. Or at least that's how I rationalized it to myself later. I guess knowing someone might shove over a 3-bet with Q3 sort of limits people's 3-bet range and lets me fold my marginal and even semi-decent hands to them. Hand 33 still bugs me...I have to build a pot after gin on the turn. Check raising the turn is probably folding another 10, maybe even a jack. Checking the river was terrible because people don't value bet very thin at this level and all 10s and some Js are checking behind. I guess check/call on the turn and 1/2 to 3/4 pot lead on 5th looks like a weird enough line to get action from a 10 and all jacks, maybe even induce a bluff shove from idiots. These lower buy in Full Tilt tournies feature so many nits clenching their butt cheeks once the antes kick in that I'm almost always raising 1/2 to 3/4 of the hands (depending on the players in the blinds). Both times I've won these, I started raping the bubble to continue to build my stack. The antes on FT are so huge that M's go down drastically and you have to be pretty aggro in order to have a decent stack at the final table. Higher buy in tournies are obv different, and it's harder to run over the table without getting restole on a lot. The AQ vs. A5 hand was definitely the biggest hand of the tourny....I made a point to try and avoid the big stacks at the table and definitely didn't want to play big pots with them. However, there was definitely a timing tell on this hand that made the call on the turn easy. I was so aggro that most pairs and AK were definitely 3-betting me PF, especially with this villain. Also, I've found that most players misapply the check raise at these stakes, and on a board like this Ax is almost always the most likely holding. 22 and A2 could be possible, but he took the entire time bank to push the turn and I snap called. I'm almost never 3-betting all in on the flop either, as it's folding every single hand I'm beating.Cyrus folding a Jack on hand 90 is absolutely ridiculous...I mean he can't automatically put me on the draw, but my range is so wide there that a jack is probably good. I was ready to gamboooool that hand, as it's about as good a flop as I can realistically hope for after raising 83s. Gotta love running good and sucking out on the Queens. I don't care how fishy the open limp on the button was, I'm always pushing AQ there with that low of an M.

[This Is What Happens When The Deck Slaps You In The Face]

Haven't posted here much lately, but I've been running pretty hot and playing a little more than usual. Just wanted to post a Hand History from the FTP $10 tourny I took down last night, the second one in the last month.Sorry for the low stakes brag of sorts, but definitely intended to spark conversation about certain hands and situations. I've gone over it a bit, but I'd like people to ask about or criticize hands of interest so that I have to actually type out my thought process.No PokerXFactor account, so it's trimmed using the FTR trimmer. If someone with PXF can upload it, I'll PM the full hand history. http://www.flopturnriver.com/Online-Poker-...nament-295.htmlCouple of questionable hands I noticed early: Hand 11) Probably should have value bet or checked to induce bluff....the fake missed flush draw push was probably misused and screamed of a big hand. Hand 12) Pretty big shove...didn't seem like a set, I thought a 76 or 66 combo draw was more likely. Turns out he was just making a move with air basically. Hand 13) Didn't have proper odds to call for set value. Contemplated limp re raising, but called and intended on shoving over a c-bet on any innocuous flop. Hit gin because I am a luck box.Edit: And yeah, Hand 31 is retarded...I was in gambooooool mode and thought I was invincibleWhoa, 33 is awful as well...talk about missing value

[Hands That You Butchered So Badly]

So I was cruising through some of my hand histories, looking for leaks....and I'm pretty sure I found a big one. Everything looks like it's going smoothly, grinding out that PTBB/100 then....WHAMMOAppparently I "occassionally" get this disease that causes me try to take down every pot I enter no matter what the action tells me. Somehow the other dude is "trying to to put one over on me," and BY GOD I am the SHERIFF and I am here to do the SHERIFF's workThis one is pretty good:Full Tilt PokerNo Limit Holdem Ring gameBlinds: $0.25/$0.503 playersStack sizes:Button: $37.85SB: $26.50Hero: $61.70Pre-flop: (3 players) Hero is BB with 5 4 Button folds, SB calls, Hero raises to $1.5, SB calls.Flop: A K 3 ($3, 2 players)SB bets $4, Hero raises to $12, SB raises to $24, Hero folds.Uncalled bets: $12 returned to SB.Results:Final pot: $27--------------This may be my crown jewel though:Full Tilt PokerNo Limit Holdem Ring gameBlinds: $0.25/$0.509 playersStack sizes:MP3: $122.50Hero: $50.25Pre-flop: (9 players) Hero is BB with 9 9 4 folds, MP3 raises to $1.5, 3 folds, Hero raises to $4.75, MP3 calls.Yeah, so let's 3-bet 99 OOP...fine, widening my 3-bet range was part of my goal that session. Not terrible, though OOP all hand is no fun.Flop: Q 3 Q ($9.75, 2 players)Hero bets $9.75, Flop comes paired with a card that is well within villian's range and we lead for the ENTIRE pot on a dry board that I already don't like....hmmmm, the wheels are rattling.MP3 raises to $20Villain then raises my PSB...saying, "Hey Bud, I got a Q, let's party!" Insta-muck right?Hero calls.Whoops. Wheels are falling off. Surely I'm going to check the turn and see villian's action and fold to any further aggression, right? RIGHT?Turn: 8 ($49.75, 2 players)Hero is all-in $25.5Hero open PUSHES. ZOMG WTF? Instead of the wheels falling off I think I just drove the god damn car into oncoming traffic. MP3 calls.GG me [tuff_fish]HYACHACHACHA[/tuff_fish].River: 8 ($100.75, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: $100.75)Results:Final pot: $100.75MP3 showed Qh JhHero showed 9c 9h

[New To The Forum]

Herrooooo

Sup bro

[Pwnage At Micro Stakes!]

Congrats sir on your win of one pot...you went in the dog though:Board: Qd As Ts Dead: equity (%) win (%) tie (%) Hand 1: 43.5671 % 43.29% 00.27% { KsQs }Hand 2: 37.5915 % 37.07% 00.52% { AcQh }Hand 3: 17.9573 % 17.68% 00.27% { Js9h }Hand 4: 00.8841 % 00.37% 00.52% { Ah6d }

[The Official "i Hate Jamie Gold" Wsop Final Table Thread]

Oh and btw, if your opponent has a bigger flush draw (which either of them could very easily have had), you're going to be making a terrrrrrrrrrible decision by calling.

Which Wasicka said he put Gold on while discussing the hand on The Circuit. I mean, I still move my stack in there...but I wasn't looking 2 million more dollars in the face. Wasicka is still one of the most profitable LAGgy 2000NL cash players on the net, so I trust he had his motives even if they were -EV. On an aside, I don't see how anyone can say Cunningham played anything less than great during the final table. I loved his river check with the straight and I don't mind soft playing TP against someone like Gold that has shown a propensity to bet out a lot. As people have previously mentioned, the hands I remembered Gold getting one up on him during the webcast turned out to be good laydowns by Allen. Not to mention the 2 levels of Cunningham constantly raising and picking up every pot that ESPN didn't show.

[What Would Your Player Notes Say?]

I'm pretty sure some players have some great notes on me. Probably looks a bit like this:"Will raise and reraise in position with anything pretty and low""Can't lay down 64s""Saw him raise Q5 UTG!""Will isolate with stupid hands if the pot is big enough""Loves to raise enough to pot commit himself with awful hands""Plays extremely poorly in the blinds"And finally"Will frequently fold to turn check raises"

[Who Here Has A Problem Going To Bed Early And Has A Hard Time Waking Up?]

This tread is the complete story of my life. I try to force myself to pass out early, but it's never going to happen.It's especially true when trying to wake up for those NFL games....I go back and forth on whether this is a good or bad sign.Edit: Oh but I do coke...and by coke I mean O8

[World Series Rape]

Rape is nothing to laugh about......except tonight.

[Need New Awesome Pot Winning Term!]

My favorite, courtesy of sirch1:I'm 12

[Fcp_info Must Answer For This]

comeon, dead hooker and blow...just insert joke aroudn it and you have an awsome poker jopke

Steve Dannenmann says there is nothing funny about dead hookers.

[you know you're playing a fish when he says...]

Darko goes in a 20/80 dog on the turn...DARKO D wins ($21.15) with (Flush, queen high).BOD1955:ouchDARKO D:yea rockets suckDARKO D:especially out of positionDUDESURPRISE:hahaha I had position on youDUDESURPRISE:Position is last to actDARKO D:i raised firstDUDESURPRISE:That doesn't matterDARKO D:when you only call preflopDUDESURPRISE:But, uh, I raised PFDUDESURPRISE:*reraisedDARKO D:call me crazy but i always thought having position is havingDARKO D:the ablility to raise firstBOD1955:just first to actDARKO D:yea exactlyBOD1955:not positionedBOD1955:u have it wrong darkoDARKO D:okiMicro limits are fun.

[Acjc Tptk On All Spade Board]

Just for some perspective.If I'm the villain there, I'm raising:Any jack, the As, sometimes even the Ks, especially if it has a pair with it, 9T, again, especially with a spade, any two pair (not that I'm playing J8, 83, J3 in the first place), etc.So we are ahead of a lot here, hence why we should not fold :DI'd probably fold to a 4th spade though.- Zach

After posting, I did just that...put myself in the villain's shoes. I raise all the same hands, so again, not sure why I talked myself into folding here. Stupid on the spot decision making me costing me BBs.

[Acjc Tptk On All Spade Board]

My limit hold em game is awful, so I really appreciate the replies.I really don't know why I called the check raise only to fold to a turn bet, I guess I got a little fold happy and gave too much credit. At the time it seemed like a reasonable fold, but looking at it posted here it definitely seems quite absurd. I'm so out of my comfort zone in limit that I'm apparently looking for the monsters under the bed every hand.

[Acjc Tptk On All Spade Board]

Absolute PokerLimit Holdem Ring gameLimit: $0.25/$0.59 playersConverterPre-flop: (9 players) DudeSurprise is MP2 with J A UTG folds, UTG+1 calls, MP1 calls, DudeSurprise raises, 5 folds, UTG+1 calls, MP1 calls.Flop: 8 J 3 (7.4SB, 3 players)UTG+1 checks, MP1 checks, DudeSurprise bets, UTG+1 raises, MP1 folds, DudeSurprise calls.Turn: T (5.7BB, 2 players)UTG+1 bets, DudeSurprise folds.Uncalled bets: 1BB returned to UTG+1.Results:Final pot: 5.7BBI have to be behind with the check raise and the lead on the turn...I mean people at this level aren't that tricky, are they?

[Ughhh, I Hate Playing With Short Stacks In Nl]

C-bet? define that for me please.

Continuation bet, aka following a preflop raise with a bet on the flop.

[Ughhh, I Hate Playing With Short Stacks In Nl]

I swear the biggest leak in my game is donking off money to short stacks in NL ring games. It's like I just hand them money every single time. I raise with something decent, they call for a third of their stack then when I go to C-bet I somehow convince myself to just put them in since they barely cover the pot. I don't think it's ever worked...Anybody have any advice on playing with a few shortstacks at the table?

[K10s Short Handed (absolute)]

Alright, so I'm grindin at the micro limits on Absolute in order to clear my PSO instant bankroll. Apparently I can't get a full ring game there to save my life, so shorthanded it is. I'm just wondering if this is a little too aggressive, even for a shorthanded game.Absolute PokerLimit Holdem Ring gameLimit: $0.25/$0.55 playersConverterPre-flop: (5 players) DudeSurprise is UTG with K T DudeSurprise raises, CO calls, Button calls, SB raises all-in $0.55, BB calls, DudeSurprise calls, CO calls, Button calls.Flop: 7 K 5 (11SB, 4 players + 1 all-in - Main pot: 11SB)BB bets, DudeSurprise raises, CO calls, Button calls, BB calls.Turn: 4 (9.5BB, 4 players + 1 all-in - Main pot: 5.5BB, Sidepot 1: 4BB)BB checks, DudeSurprise bets, CO calls, Button calls, BB calls.River: 9 (13.5BB, 4 players + 1 all-in - Main pot: 5.5BB, Sidepot 1: 8BB)BB checks, DudeSurprise bets, 2 folds, BB calls.Results:Final pot: 15.5BB

[Big Hand From The 5/10nl Game Was Iplaying On Ub Today V. Mike4president]

god damnit

[***official Espn Main Event Pay Per View Thread***]

Gold is a flat out clown, but lets be real...Wasicka, Binger and Lee basically handed him 12 million dollars. I don't think they could have played any worse against Gold in almost every single friggin pot. I'll take Gold being an LAGGY luckbox over either of the pussies that got 3-handed.All of a sudden I feel really, really strong about my tourny play after watching this.

[Best Gossip Thread Period]

I don't think anyone would object to another picture of Haralabos' girl.In fact, I say we make this the official Bob's girlfriend picture thread from now on.

[Best Gossip Thread Period]

Good god, man, don't just toss that out there with no pictures or links. That would be like starting a thread here by suggesting that DN did something unethical, but failing to defend it every five minutes with increasingly garbled and puerile insults. Oh wait, that could never happen...