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  1. 4) Although AAxx is an underdog heads-up against a low hand, it becomes a favorite if any low potential is added to the hand (e.g., AAKT with a suited Ace is a dog against 2356 but AAT5 rainbow is a fav over the same hand)Thoughts? What I'm trying to do is figure out how these numbers might affect preflop play at low stakes LO8.
    http://twodimes.net/h/?z=5505100pokenum -mc 500000 -o8 2c 3h 5s 6d - ah ad kh ts Omaha Hi/Low 8-or-better: 500000 sampled boardscards scoop HIwin HIlos HItie LOwin LOlos LOtie EV5s 2c 6d 3h 186091 186091 313909 0 270367 0 0 0.497Ts Ad Ah Kh 189553 313909 186091 0 0 0 0 0.503The observation about high versus low hands doesn't always hold true... There are many permutations where the high hand has a slight edge. Your observation makes more sense when you assume at least two of the cards in the low hand are of the same suit:http://twodimes.net/h/?z=5505106pokenum -mc 500000 -o8 2c 3h 5s 6s - ah ad kh ts Omaha Hi/Low 8-or-better: 500000 sampled boardscards scoop HIwin HIlos HItie LOwin LOlos LOtie EV6s 5s 2c 3h 203166 203166 296834 0 270171 0 0 0.524Ts Ad Ah Kh 179473 296834 203166 0 0 0 0 0.476But if you make the aces double suited, and find the right arrangement of low cards, it's almost even:http://twodimes.net/h/?z=5505130pokenum -mc 500000 -o8 2c 3d 4s 6s - ah ad kh td Omaha Hi/Low 8-or-better: 500000 sampled boardscards scoop HIwin HIlos HItie LOwin LOlos LOtie EV6s 4s 2c 3d 182074 182074 317926 0 269920 0 0 0.501Ad Td Ah Kh 180749 317926 182074 0 0 0 0 0.499Make it a double pair (double-suited or single-suited), and the edge swings back to the high:http://twodimes.net/h/?z=5505136pokenum -mc 500000 -o8 2c 3d 4s 6s - ah ad th td Omaha Hi/Low 8-or-better: 500000 sampled boardscards scoop HIwin HIlos HItie LOwin LOlos LOtie EV6s 4s 2c 3d 166806 166806 333194 0 270049 0 0 0.478Ad Td Ah Th 188668 333194 166806 0 0 0 0 0.522http://twodimes.net/h/?z=5505138pokenum -mc 500000 -o8 2c 3d 4s 6s - ah ad th ts Omaha Hi/Low 8-or-better: 500000 sampled boardscards scoop HIwin HIlos HItie LOwin LOlos LOtie EV6s 4s 2c 3d 173590 173590 326410 0 270128 0 0 0.483Ts Ad Ah Th 190261 326410 173590 0 0 0 0 0.517
  2. Ah yes the noodle bar. I never remember the name either, is it actually noodles? Either way, it's pretty good stuff. Oh, I think it's Noodle Asia. That sounds right.
    Correct. Noodle Asia really hit the spot on Sunday when I woke up from my afternoon nap at 1:00a and hadn't eaten in 24 hours.
  3. You're an idiot. That was a misclick. He's a winning 5/10 6 max player, how the hell can you make a comment like that?
    K, let me 2+2ify for the benefit of your comprehension. If 24-tabling and lack of sleep results in misclicks in situations like that, it becomes an integral part of your game that must be compensated for by running good in other situations, or by stepping up your game to a level that does not include days of breaking even or losing. DUCY?Furthermore, winning at $5/10 6-max does not equal winning $10K in a calendar month while 24-tabling $25NL 6-max and full-ring for 16 hours per day. DUCY?Finally, I can (and did) make a comment like that because I am not an awestruck ballwasher who refuses to comment critically on those who put themselves out there for public consumption.Good luck?
  4. In every game I've ever played in live, anyone agonizing over the call would have made it perfectly clear that he had a straight flush and have been trying to get some sort of validation for his suspicions by chattering. Meanwhile, the crotchety old regulars at the table would be chattering about the prospects for the bad beat jackpot as soon as the flop came out, so both players remaining in the pot would be keenly aware of what was at stake. At that point, the player with the bottom end would say, "Do you have it?" and the player with the top end would say something to the effect of: "I think there's about to be a jackpot."Then there would be high-fives all around.

  5. shipppppppppp itFull Tilt Poker Game #6268380066: Table Flag (heads up) - $3/$6 - Limit Hold'em - 3:50:39 ET - 2008/05/03Seat 1: FistingAmy ($261.50)Seat 2: scotyno ($38.50)scotyno posts the small blind of $1.50FistingAmy posts the big blind of $3The button is in seat #2*** HOLE CARDS ***Dealt to scotyno [Kh Th]scotyno raises to $6FistingAmy calls $3*** FLOP *** [3s Ah 6s]FistingAmy checksscotyno bets $3FistingAmy raises to $6scotyno raises to $9FistingAmy raises to $12scotyno calls $3*** TURN *** [3s Ah 6s] [6h]FistingAmy bets $6scotyno calls $6*** RIVER *** [3s Ah 6s 6h] [Jh]FistingAmy bets $6scotyno raises to $12FistingAmy calls $6*** SHOW DOWN ***scotyno shows [Kh Th] a flush, Ace highFistingAmy mucksscotyno wins the pot ($71.50) with a flush, Ace high*** SUMMARY ***Total pot $72 | Rake $0.50Board: [3s Ah 6s 6h Jh]Seat 1: FistingAmy (big blind) mucked [2s Ad] - two pair, Aces and SixesSeat 2: scotyno (small blind) showed [Kh Th] and won ($71.50) with a flush, Ace high
    Starting a drunken brag thread with an epic title and then posting a fixed-limit hand is like rallying everyone to go streaking and then just taking off your shirt, spinning it around a few times over your head, and yelling "woo woo."
  6. You guys should look into dallas/fort worth area.. Here you can get a 300,000 dollar house for what a 1-1.3 million dollar house cost in cali... and it will be much nicer in quality. The nightlife is top notch, especially when you turn 21... There are dozens of golf courses within an hour of anywhere in dfw. Thanks to the barnett shale, our local economy is in much better shape than the rest of the U.S. (i.e. Gas,housing,food.) It's a great place to live with a ton to do... and although the closest casino (winstar) is about an hour north, it has an extremely nice poker room that is really big.
    But why would they want to pay $1-1.3M for a $300K house?
  7. i've played there a couple times, definitely better than the canadian casinos for most games--better selection, more action, etc.it'll probably be my regular haunt when i move to buffalo (no, this was not a conscious choice--i'm tagging along with my girlfriend) at the end of the summer.
    What is your girlfriend planning on doing in Buffalo? My fiancee is from there and keeps suggesting we move there, but the job market looks sketchy...
  8. About the email, not sure if this will help and it sounds like you dont care either, but for future reference. If you have a gmail account, they only recognise @googlemail.com and not gmail.com so you need to validate your email again with googlemail.com instead of gmail.comFTP sounds bad, its a pity Titanpoker doesnt do the american market, I told online chat I was pretty confused about withdrawing and my phone rang straight away so they could explain in person
    This is because you're their only customer. This is kind of like IMing your Dungeons & Dragons buddies on a Friday night asking to set up a game and being surprised when your doorbell rings a few seconds letter.
  9. I got an email from them friday saying they were closing my account because I have an earlier account on the site. In the email they ask me what I want to do with the $ (there is like 2500 in the account) and I reply saturday morning and say please transfer it to my original account.it's now TUESDAY AFTERNOON and I have no money in my account. I also never got a response to my email, and wrote again yesterday with no response. does anyone have any thoughts of how to remedy this? If anyone posts a phone # where I can talk to fulltilt support directly (not 1-888-TILT-PAY; that is only for deposit qs apparently) I'll transfer you $5 once I get my money transfered.
    Patience, my fellow Ithacan. I, too, was a cheater, and my money was transferred to my existing account after four business days.Pokerstars does support. Full Tilt does rakeback. You can't have both.
  10. Obviously poker is a skill game, but I do not believe this study is great evidence for that. I could improve a novice's results at blackjack by giving some basic instruction as well. They would lose less over a period of time (which is what happened here -- if you look at the data these players did not become profitable).
    Good point. If we measure improvement in terms of diminishing losses, I could technically improve at blackjack over the longrun if you told me to lower my bets from $500 a hand to $5 a hand.
  11. I really dont know why you feel like youll be looked down upon by your peers for playing poker professionally imo.
    Most people I've met think poker is fine as a hobby, much in the same way they can rationalize bringing a few hundred bucks to a casino to play blackjack. To them, gambling is gambling, and it's fine in moderation. Those same people think that any attempt to make a living at poker is a sign that an innocent hobby has crossed the boundary into full-fledged degeneracy.Honestly, I have made a nice chunk of change playing poker on the side, and I still consider myself a degenerate. The fact remains that online poker pros are not contributing measurably to society... so the rationale goes. They're not working at GM, making useful products for consumers. They're not out on highway patrol, keeping the roads safe. They're not working in labs, curing cancer. Instead, they're part of a pseudo-underground entertainment industry. And quite frankly, recreational players will be just as entertained if they're allowed to keep their money (less rake) in a zero-sum game as they will be if Joe the Pro takes their money. Poker players are more like leeches who making their living by glomming onto an entertainment service and exploiting inequities in its clientele. I think a couple years ago we had an argument on this forum over whether professional poker was a "noble" pursuit. I still maintain that by prevailing standards, it is not. It's a means to an end that enables those with the chops to avoid toiling away in a cubicle working for "the Man." I think many would be jealous of the lifestyle, but I'm not sure how many people actually respect it.Bottom line: if you're going to tell people what you do for a living, be prepared to justify it (or at least state defensively that you don't feel like justifying it).
    I would simply say that you play poker for a living, it has allowed you some degree of financial freedom and you are beginning to explore other ideas such as real estate investment...etc..
    The "every player goes bust at some point" credo does not help poker's cause. It's a tall order convincing people in the business of risk assessment that you have found the secret to harnessing variance. Perhaps a select few who have been initiated to the mathematics of poker understand how buzzwords like "expected value," "optimal play," and "discipline" can apply to give someone an edge in what is legally still considered a game of chance... but I don't think this progressive understanding has crept into the conservative world of banking yet.
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