MikeBauer26

Please note:I normally only play 10c/25c or 25c/50c Blinds real money.The following advice stems from my experience at the Full Tilt Playmoney tables (Blinds: 1000/2000 Full-Ring, Blinds 3000/6000 6max) which seem to play equivalently in terms of players seeing flops. But which are still miles away in terms of playing quality from the lowest play money tables (5/10).There may be more insights to this and probably a lot of good players from this forum will advocate you to value-raise preflop and strong with your normal range here. The reasoning would be to make them pay for there loose selectio

The following happens to me to often on 50 NL on stars recently and I am starting to wonder who is really making the most worse plays in this hand....Let's put ourselves in my opponents shoes during the hand... we are at a fullring table...effective stacks of 100 BB...our stats would suggest, that we are fairly tight.... we have an agression factor of 2.Villain in this hand is Mikebauer. He is fairly new to us and currently has stats of 17/6/2.5 over the last 50-100 hands.We are UTG+1 and limp with . (We probably don't read in forums)Mikebauer raises 4 BB from MP. Everybody folds. We call.The

Bluntly spoken:owned...I am putting my agony in a strat post....I was gonna post it here, but now that I write about it I am unsure if there is some more depth to it...

Previously on "24" The following hands take place on the 1st day of the second approach to the 25ct/50ct Blind tables of Jack (Mike) Bauer.All hands oocur withing 45 minutes, while only 4tabling Fullring tables.#1:3 players Multiwaypot, not raised.Hero get's in 75 US$ with on a -Flop.But it is only the second best hand as someone who was sitting there with 100$ slowplayed KK preflop.Hero looses chips.#2:3 players Multiwaypot, UTG raised, MP caller, Hero called on button with .Flop: Hero get's all-in 60 US$ on the Flop. (UTG got lost, MP came along)The board comes :7dMP shows...... (slow

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You "effed" yourself by not betting enough on the flop. Your bet looks like you missed with overcards.Now you are rewarded with a guessing game on the river.Did villain read your play as weekness and is trying to bluff you of your overcards?I'd say at least the SB stuck around for that reason. But he then folds to what seems to be a "Jx" from the big blind.If you wanted to get BB to bluff you in order to maximise your value in the hand well... it worked.The only question is... is he bluffing? Often enough?@dizzle:Raising the turn is terrible IMO. You cant get to a "free showdown" at the river

This is a fold.Even retarded minraise-players show up with the nuts or better hands every now and then. Which leads me to writing the following essay: He minraised pre-flop. This has become a widespread play in cash-games ever since DN's video about "smallballing" was available on youtube.Minraising preflop is mostly AJ at this level. Which is exactely why it sucks soooo hard as a preflop-play because the players seem to be under the impression that they can't put in a real raise with AJ but find limping to weak at the same time. Sometimes I have seen small pairs being played this way. -&g

Ok... so I run bad... and question everything I know about this game.So we re-raise preflop from the SB here. And we reraise a rather hand defining amount.Our Flop bet looks either weak or trappy to villain and he choses to call.He's not raising or anything. He just calls.Draws? JT? AQ?How many drawing hands can he have?What are we representing when shoving the turn?Why souldnt we C/F the turn despite it being very exploitable.I probably encountered to many monsters recently.But if check and villain bets the ace I dont think it is ever a bluff. Also I really can't see him paying us if we shove

It's time I post this. Im gonna express it in Full 100 BB buyins because it hurts lessBrag:Winning consistently at 10c/25c since last year.Thus getting BR up to 20 full buyins for 25c/50c.Giving 25c/50c a shot.Running over 25c/50c tables in "NSU"-mode ("Near-Super-user") mode.If there ever was such a thing as "the zone" I was so totally in it. I could nearly see my opponents cards and made hero-calls with AK high on the river when I knew I was good.And I was right just about everytime.Getting my BR up to 30 full buyins for 25c/50c within three days (!)Beat:Got busted in the most akward spots s

I am gonna give this a try:Based on villains stack size I would assume he knows what he is doing. One still should think he would have check-raised this kind of flop with a set. (Would he also c-raise here with a draw?) Every now and then I can see a drawing hand being played this way in which case NonZeroPossibilities approach "ship" makes the most sense.Let's just assume he will not open raise 87 and then call a reraise oop with the hand... then you should still be good most of the times...Let's also assume he would be dying to reraise you with AA pre...Then you should still be good most of

I was referring to slowrolled overpairs with the "two outer" although I realize that those hands will benefit if another 7 or 4 hits as well.

I call... it's not a snap because I am weak tight and afraid he could have a set. It cant be the AJsooted-flushdraw because you have that :jsI sometimes was dumb enough to play QQ, KK, and AA that way when I played 10 NL.And I always got snap called by two pairs here obviously.I dont think he had a gutshot on the flop or drawing hand now.Sets, "tricky" played overpairs or two pair hands make up the largest part of his range. you should have all of his reasonably two pair hands beat. (But perhaps Poker is all about playing trash hands and getting paid by thinking players)I call and watch him c

Against mostly unkown players at fullring games this is an easy fold. (at least one level below) I used to call here every now and then only to get shown retard two pairs (they were soooted) and sets.Straight draws could be a possibilty as well... if he calls with T8 why won't he do it with J9?I also play the playmoney tables on full tilt every now and then (I am currently getting owned at the 3000/6000 6 max games which IMO are harder to beat then the 25c/50c real money tables) where it might a villain bluffing all his stack betting you'd never call with overs. But I think these players shoul

The table has been playing totally totally totally rock tight. It's dead boring and obvious as players are just trying to slowroll and trap each other.My stack is up mostly because I banged heads with a shortstacker three times (and much to my surprise actually held up each time with the better hand... yesterday it was different... but that belongs to BBF - shorties suck!).I meant to leave this table because I find these slowrollers hard to play when I multitabe.They will slow-call preflop with KK and QQ and then slowcall my contibets with those hands then check the flop and let me value-own/b

No. Im doing this just for fonsies and out of couriosity. I normally play 10/25 and 25/50.I thought that stronger preflop value betting might be applicable here but it turns out you get an equal amount of callers each flop and have still no idea what kind of hands your facing because you cant possibly make up these nutty ranges in your mind. Which also seems to be a problem of your home game. I actually find it helps my (admittably underdeveloped) reading skills to play these games. Also it's interesting to try and discover particular types of mistakes in players.Frankly I just wanted to see h