Mondo300816

Cobalt, I agree with you. Let's get a few things straight:"LOOSE" = the opposite of "tight." As in, "That guy who calls with Q-4 sure is a LOOSE player.""LOSE" = the opposite of "win." As in, "When you flop the top pair, and my pocket pair flops a three of a kind, I'm going to win, and you're going to LOSE."The past tense of "lose" is "LOST," not "lossed." There's even a TV show by that name. That should make it easy.Seriously, can we at least correctly spell simple words that we use quite often? It would be much easier to discuss the poker if we can get simple things like this worked out.Ugh.

Much thanks to all who took the time to reply with suggested readings and formulae. I am very appreciative of all your help.- Mondo300816300 (March 1993, November 1999, September 2003, October 2003)816 (December 2004)

I have what may be an odd and math-heavy question. What I'm really looking for is whether anyone has addressed this particular question in a book or well-thought-out discussion. So I suppose that the answer I'm looking for is either "No, I've never seen this discussed," or "Yes, you'd enjoy <book> by <author>." OK, here goes....Is there a discussion of how to properly evaluate your chip stack in a tournament, as opposed to a ring game, and how that affects certain "pot odds" types of decisions? Here is an example of what I mean:Suppose you are playing at a NL table with $1-$2 blind