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  1. I completely agree with this you are going to make your money with the nuts. Unless a raise gets some respect, which is highly unlikely in these games, you will drive yourself bonkers with TPTK getting outdrawn on the river. Also Banner17 may be right, everything is NL now, but once upon a time most homegames were limit. 10/10 sound more like a limit structure, that will play like 5/10. If it is limit then you'll never get paid off on your nuts unless you have top straight v. bottom straight. Better to play limit uber tight. Jam Big Pairs, AK, AQ, KQs, play enough other hand to the flop
  2. Well first don't take all their money. If this is a regular game the only goal you should have the first game or two is to get invited back. You show up with a "You all suck and would go broke playing REAL poker", you will just piss everybody off. These guys are there to have a good time with some friends. Buy in for the minimum play wild and loose until you loose it all. Re-buy and just play like everybody else for a while. Fit in. Make somebody feel like a hero because they called you down to the river and their A9o beat your A3s on a king high board. Make sure they do not see you as
  3. If you got yelled at for 30 minutes it was definitely the right play, that means your "Implied Tilt Odds" were huge. Any time you can make a slightly -ev call and know you are going to set your opponent off that is a money maker move.
  4. I agree this was poorly played. There certianly is a place to play big draws like made hands, but at this level (5-10 cent games) you are just looking for opportuntities to make the best hand and then get the suckers to call your shoves. This is a bad call because there is going to be a better spot next orbit to get it all in with the nuts. I make the most money at this level when I have been agressive, but folding to moves like his on the turn. I'll bet raised pots like this in position with air, until I start to get called and re-raised, then I wait for trips or when I hit the straight a
  5. Really?I am no Omaha expert, but this hand will play well in a non-split pot and don't about 1/2 of all hands fail to qualify on the board? 9h Ah Qd TdDouble suited, 4 connected cards, why isn't this is a good hand to take a flop with. I agree with folding in every other spot, but I'd see a flop for 1 or 2 bets the way this played. The teaching moment for me is that even though the flush and straight draws are there, you are way behind on the flop and too often drawing dead in that spot to keep chasing.
  6. Thanks for the detailed thought process on natural gas, but it raises a few questions for me. I have just started playing with options and am admittedly overwhelmed by all the different choices when setting up a trade. My questions really have nothing to do with natural gas, but in how do you decide how to capitalize on a forcasted move up in any assest. What is the advantage of selling deep in the money puts? These have almost no intrinsic value so you get very little value for time decay and your profit is entirely derived from the stock going up, but as the stock goes up you actually ga
  7. If you are going to play deepstack NL you need to be able to lay some hands down. Sure if you are 50-100bb you should be willing to get it all in here, but if you have no reads, the better move is to gather information and look for a spot when you are sure you have the best of it. Our Hero has over 200BBs you don't want to stack that off in your first orbit just because you have a reasonable draw. Sure the villiam may be overplaying his hand, but do you still need help to beat 33. Yeah you are a slight favorite to any hand, but why risk getting all in the middle on this hand? Wait for h
  8. Fold, unless this guy has made plays before or is betting too often and you need to slow him down or look him up. A bet here should induce a Call check on the turn from him giving you a potential free card on the turn. This doubles your chances of hitting your hand with only a 1/2 the price of calling him on the turn. Also a good spot to shake off that tight image you have been building for yourself and stimulate some calls when you hit that set of 8's 10 hands from now.
  9. I'm not sure what i do here. It seems obvious villain has a really strong hand. I don't have anything on him, he had just joined the table. Calling seems weak. If i don't hit my flush on the turn, he will surely bet at it again and i won't have the pot odds nor the implied odds to see the river. But would it still be half-decent if i can get him to commit all of his chips if i hit?Check-raising seems like viable option but it would probably commit me to the pot and do i want to stick in a pot i'm only second best? Should i even call preflop if i am not ready to go all the way on this flop?Shou
  10. You raise pre-flop in early position and get 3 callers as the tourney nears the bubble. My guess is that you have the table image that screams, "I play WAY too many pots and can't get away from anything ". That is harsher than I mean to be, but how many hands did you play in the previous 2 orbits? How many times did you push after the flop in those two orbits? Your hand selection, and post flop analysis indicate you don't have a good sense for what is a strong hand in Omaha. Omaha is a game of the nuts. They don't happen every hand, but they happen often enough that the best way to coun
  11. It is really not that complicated.....Call, Check, CallUnless you can peg him as one to never bluff, and to never raise with top pair, top kicker, I think you have to pay him off here. He probably has 76s, but if he would play 76 or 45 for a raise from the BB, he would play A7 too. My guess is that you have been taking advantage of his passive play and have been raising him out of pots. So he may finally be pushing back with toppair. If you didn't have the overpair, you'd have to fold say a 65, but you will win in this spot enough to make it profitable.
  12. WOW!!!!!I know it has been said, but I just watched the PH meltdown, and then watched it again, and as soon as I finish the rest of the show, I'm going to watch it again. The most entertaining poker TV I have ever seen. I don't know if we learn as much as we do on HSP, but as long as Phil is playing this is MUST SEE TV.No better TV than Phil getting ripped by 4 of poker's finest.Poor Annie, if they had left Phil alone he probably would have called her down, he was dying to meltdown over something, if Shieky didn't basically say "You are a complete moron if you don't fold" I think he would ha
  13. Don't feel too bad you just got your stereotype wrong. The tattoo parlors are basically convienience stores. His is a riches to rags to riches story. His family had to flee Iran when the Shaw got taken down and his Dad bought a gas station in California, and then eventually moved to Las Vegas. There is a good bio/story on him at All In. http://www.allinmag.com/article.php?article=612
  14. This is the first decent reason to check here. For me since I don't get to play many final tables on the WPT it is all about what people do in these situations. It seems that there is alot of naked aggression at the final tables and you really don't want to get in a situation where you are opening the door to let someone take a stab at your pot. I've been at small tournament final tables that would let you get by with checking it down from here, but he could still be on a draw or an underpair. I don't think we want those hands getting a free card. If we bet and get called we have more in
  15. This is the worst take I have seen. NL is all about trapping and chopping, check raising in this situation is about digging holes for your opponents and then walking into them. Top pair should be the best hand here, but you need to get away from it if it is not. If he raises what 1/2 the pot or more, you are going to have to come over the top of that. Doubling or trippling the size of the pot and the size of your mistake. If he checks behind me I'm even more worried that he has a set and is hoping I will take a stab at the river.
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