Royal Holdem on UB

[Ulysses]

This really is the greatest game ever. I have mainly dominated, except for one rough HU session vs JV.

[bicyclekick]

I was confused at first but did some investigation to figure out wtf this is...

it's holdem with only TT-AA in the deck...you can find the games by going to the main texas holdem tab and on the right side tab there is like a more info or something and some of them say royal by them.

[sfer]

Dr Savage told me he rocked everyone in this game.

[DMBFan23]

this game sucks, they always suck out on my flopped TPTK

[Justin A]

I'm beating the play money games for like 3 figures bb/100.

[tonypaladino]

I was doing great, then played a drunken 1/2 session and dropped 100 BBs.

[MEbenhoe]

am i retarded that it took me two hands before i realized that straights have zero value in this game? there i was capping the flop with my flopped straight, when it suddenly hit me i had no chance of winning that hand /images/graemlins/frown.gif

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am i retarded that it took me two hands before i realized that straights have zero value in this game? there i was capping the flop with my flopped straight, when it suddenly hit me i had no chance of winning that hand /images/graemlins/frown.gif

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hahaahhhahha

yeah I played my bro in law heads up royal once, no limit, and laughed in his face when I got my top set all in on the flop against his straight

[jedi]

The funniest thing is when people come into the game not knowing that it's Royal.

"Wow, I'm getting premium hands every time!"

"This site is rigged. Straight beat by full house every time same thing."

It's even funnier when the others keep "encouraging him."

- "Don't worry, you'll get all the money in the long run."

[Yeti]

I just tried it and am not really a fan. I just can't seem to catch a piece of the flop.

I like it so far and is easier to me than the regular game. Haven't had a lot of variance but only played about 2k hands. BR requirement should be less. All of this is assuming you are a winning player. As for straights they can be ok but your not playing the hand with that intention. Position matters some UTG vs. Late so be aware of the strength of your starting hands. Flop % should be approx. the same as a short handed regular game say 40-50%. Any other input would be great.

[Ulysses]

Perhaps tonight we can get some 2+2 RH tables going.

[toss]

I'd play that.

[chuddo]

i will play anyone headsup up to 1000-2000 royal holdem.

or a 2+2 1-2 game.

[Ulysses]

Talk about domination. What a turn check. From earlier today:

kriststanley is at seat 0 with $166.
redsamurai is at seat 1 with $102.75.
SchneidyBoy is at seat 2 with $75.
akshawnd is at seat 3 with $49986.
BootBoy is at seat 4 with $111.
Bluff_McPuff is at seat 5 with $43.
The button is at seat 5.

kriststanley posts the small blind of $.50.
redsamurai posts the big blind of $1.

kriststanley: -- --
redsamurai: -- --
SchneidyBoy: -- --
akshawnd: Jc Ad
BootBoy: -- --
Bluff_McPuff: -- --

Pre-flop:

SchneidyBoy calls. akshawnd raises to $2. BootBoy
folds. Bluff_McPuff calls. kriststanley re-raises
to $3. redsamurai calls. SchneidyBoy calls.
akshawnd calls. Bluff_McPuff calls.

Flop (board: Jd Tc Jh):

kriststanley checks. redsamurai checks.
SchneidyBoy bets $1. akshawnd raises to $2.
Bluff_McPuff folds. kriststanley folds. redsamurai
folds. SchneidyBoy re-raises to $3. akshawnd
re-raises to $4. SchneidyBoy calls.

Turn (board: Jd Tc Jh Qh):

SchneidyBoy checks. akshawnd checks.

River (board: Jd Tc Jh Qh Ac):

SchneidyBoy bets $2. akshawnd raises to $4.
SchneidyBoy calls.



Showdown:

akshawnd shows Jc Ad.
akshawnd has Jc Ad Jd Jh Ac: full house, jacks full of aces.
SchneidyBoy mucks cards.
(SchneidyBoy has Td Th.)



$1 is raked from a pot of $31.
akshawnd wins $30 with full house, jacks full of aces.
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[baronzeus]

im down 55BB in 200 hands /images/graemlins/frown.gif

[Schneids]

One of us left the table +$10, and one of us -$25. I'm pretty sure I wasn't the one in the hole.

[Ulysses]

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One of us left the table +$10, and one of us -$25. I'm pretty sure I wasn't the one in the hole.

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Schneids won this round, no question about that.

[waffle]

What kind of fish plays TT?

[Ulysses]

HU match going on right now for anyone who wants to join in.

beaumont 1/2. I currently have Evan outchipped.

[Sponger15SB]

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beaumont 1/2. I currently have Evan outchipped.

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How much is Evan stuck? Like $49,000?

[Ulysses]

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beaumont 1/2. I currently have Evan outchipped.

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How much is Evan stuck? Like $49,000?

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Nah, started $25k each, so Jake Jr. is only stuck 24990 or so.

[Ulysses]

DeathDonkey joined the game as well.

akshawnd? winner.
DeathDonkey? winner.
Evan? busto.

[Justin A]

mike l. and I discussed the strategy on this for like an hour and a half on the way up to LA yesterday. I'm surely an expert now.

[spydog]

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mike l. and I discussed the strategy on this for like an hour and a half on the way up to LA yesterday. I'm surely an expert now.

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yeah...it's called flop a set or 2-pair, otherwise check-fold, unless you have an overpair to the board, then you can call. Oh, and don't play JT/QJ/QT/KT/KJ. TT is borderline, also. Just look what happened to Schneids. Oh, and suited connectors aren't as good as they look. Am I oversimplifying? Any DERB secrets on how to play?

[jedi]

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mike l. and I discussed the strategy on this for like an hour and a half on the way up to LA yesterday. I'm surely an expert now.

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How the hell did it take you so long to discuss RHE strategy?

[fnord_too]

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mike l. and I discussed the strategy on this for like an hour and a half on the way up to LA yesterday. I'm surely an expert now.

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How the hell did it take you so long to discuss RHE strategy?

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There was a thread in other poker when it was still play money only, and another there now.

I've played once and sponger came by to heckle me, I have so arrived!

[Schneids]

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mike l. and I discussed the strategy on this for like an hour and a half on the way up to LA yesterday. I'm surely an expert now.

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yeah...it's called flop a set or 2-pair, otherwise check-fold, unless you have an overpair to the board, then you can call. Oh, and don't play JT/QJ/QT/KT/KJ. TT is borderline, also. Just look what happened to Schneids. Oh, and suited connectors aren't as good as they look. Am I oversimplifying? Any DERB secrets on how to play?

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Us experts can get away with adding a few extra hands up front. Agreed TT is borderline.

[kevc4]

anyone playing royal now

[astroglide]

is it a 20 card deck?

[kevc4]

yes

[jman220]

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mike l. and I discussed the strategy on this for like an hour and a half on the way up to LA yesterday. I'm surely an expert now.

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yeah...it's called flop a set or 2-pair, otherwise check-fold, unless you have an overpair to the board, then you can call. Oh, and don't play JT/QJ/QT/KT/KJ. TT is borderline, also. Just look what happened to Schneids. Oh, and suited connectors aren't as good as they look. Am I oversimplifying? Any DERB secrets on how to play?

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Am I the only one who feels that 10/10 AND J/J just aren't worth playing? You're making sucker boats just too often... I'm doing just fine playing AA/KK/QQ/AK/AQ/KQ. (Up 250 BB's since Saturday, I'm obviously running hot as I've only got maybe 8k hands) .Oh, and flopping a set of aces is awesome. I love it when the turn is four cards to the straight, and I get to cap it with some donk who already made the straight knowing I pretty much can't lose.

[Schneids]

It seems like this would be an easy game to create a bot for, or to collude with a couple other people at the table.

[jman220]

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It seems like this would be an easy game to create a bot for, or to collude with a couple other people at the table.

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Yeah this game has a very short shelf life.

[Ulysses]

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It seems like this would be an easy game to create a bot for, or to collude with a couple other people at the table.

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Yeah this game has a very short shelf life.

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If by "has a very short shelf life" you mean "will be popular for ages" then I agree completely.

WTF, man. You make full houses left and right. How can you not love a game like that?

[Sponger15SB]

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Yeah this game has a very short shelf life.

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If by "has a very short shelf life" you mean "will be popular for ages" then I agree completely.

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Yeah, that is what he meant. GEEZE U R DUM!

[Justin A]

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mike l. and I discussed the strategy on this for like an hour and a half on the way up to LA yesterday. I'm surely an expert now.

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yeah...it's called flop a set or 2-pair, otherwise check-fold, unless you have an overpair to the board, then you can call. Oh, and don't play JT/QJ/QT/KT/KJ. TT is borderline, also. Just look what happened to Schneids. Oh, and suited connectors aren't as good as they look. Am I oversimplifying? Any DERB secrets on how to play?

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Us experts can get away with adding a few extra hands up front. Agreed TT is borderline.

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TT is trash. I can't believe you haven't realized this by now.

[fnord_too]

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It seems like this would be an easy game to create a bot for, or to collude with a couple other people at the table.

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Yeah this game has a very short shelf life.

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If by "has a very short shelf life" you mean "will be popular for ages" then I agree completely.

WTF, man. You make full houses left and right. How can you not love a game like that?

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I dream of the day they spread this NL.

[Sponger15SB]

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I dream of the day they spread this NL.

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You could probably win at this just by picking up top set and open pushing the flop.

[fnord_too]

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I dream of the day they spread this NL.

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You could probably win at this just by picking up top set and open pushing the flop.

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What's beautiful is a straight on the flop (without royal potential) is drawing dead to a chop against a flopped set.

[jman220]

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It seems like this would be an easy game to create a bot for, or to collude with a couple other people at the table.

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Yeah this game has a very short shelf life.

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If by "has a very short shelf life" you mean "will be popular for ages" then I agree completely.

WTF, man. You make full houses left and right. How can you not love a game like that?

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I meant that this game in its current, easily beatable state can't last very long. It seems that a bot for this would be ridiculously easy to make. Put that together with the fact that this is probably the easiest poker game to play close to perfect strategy, and I don't see these games remaining playable for any reasonable bb/100. There's a reason why online chess for money, and online backgammon for money are pretty much dead. Right now, the only live money really comes from people who dont' realize they're playing RHE, but the number of people who don't know what it is will get smaller. Plus, I've seen plenty of fish who were absolutely livid after realizing that they had just dropped $100 at a game they didin't realize they were playing RHE. Some of these people will complain. I can imagine that eventually, UB might update its software so its clearer that the RHE games are not normal holdem games. All of these factors put together will make this game a lot less fun.

[Justin A]

Some interesting situations come up. HU I have AK, opponent has JT on AKJT board, we are exactly even money. Same goes for me AK, opponent JJ on AKQJ board.

[astroglide]

st joseph .50/1.00

bring it

[timprov]

Everybody hasn't moved on to playing Badugi yet?

Royal Holdem is so last week.

[Justin A]

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st joseph .50/1.00

bring it

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I'm on the waiting list.

[Justin A]

My worst beat so far: AT beats QQ on QJT flop.

[astroglide]

open seats

[Justin A]

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open seats

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i'm jallred

[Ulysses]

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It seems like this would be an easy game to create a bot for, or to collude with a couple other people at the table.

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Yeah this game has a very short shelf life.

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If by "has a very short shelf life" you mean "will be popular for ages" then I agree completely.

WTF, man. You make full houses left and right. How can you not love a game like that?

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I meant that this game in its current, easily beatable state can't last very long. It seems that a bot for this would be ridiculously easy to make. Put that together with the fact that this is probably the easiest poker game to play close to perfect strategy, and I don't see these games remaining playable for any reasonable bb/100. There's a reason why online chess for money, and online backgammon for money are pretty much dead. Right now, the only live money really comes from people who dont' realize they're playing RHE, but the number of people who don't know what it is will get smaller. Plus, I've seen plenty of fish who were absolutely livid after realizing that they had just dropped $100 at a game they didin't realize they were playing RHE. Some of these people will complain. I can imagine that eventually, UB might update its software so its clearer that the RHE games are not normal holdem games. All of these factors put together will make this game a lot less fun.

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I guess my point was that there are plenty of people who think it's really fun to make lots of full houses and don't really care about losing $100.

[Ulysses]

Who wants some? Linden. Now.

[NLSoldier]

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Who wants some? Linden. Now.

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dammit i want in. somebody plz PM me your UB acct info so i can play. Thx in advance.

[turnipmonster]

I am seriously considering going home sick today.

[astroglide]

Getting Hand History Information...
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Hand #9571130-679 at Oak Hill ($.50/$1 Royal Hold'em)
Powered by UltimateBet
Started at 12/Nov/05 15:35:05

wiley999 is at seat 0 with $78.75.
Spencer83 is at seat 1 with $46.50.
ideal4u10 is at seat 2 with $31.20.
johnmatzke is at seat 3 with $55.75.
Claghole is at seat 4 with $51.80.
astroglide is at seat 5 with $101.05.
The button is at seat 5.

wiley999 posts the small blind of $.25.
Spencer83 posts the big blind of $.50.

wiley999: -- --
Spencer83: -- --
ideal4u10: -- --
johnmatzke: -- --
Claghole: -- --
astroglide: Kh Kc

Pre-flop:

ideal4u10 calls. johnmatzke calls. Claghole folds.
astroglide calls. wiley999 calls. Spencer83
checks.

Flop (board: Td Ks Qh):

wiley999 checks. Spencer83 checks. ideal4u10 bets
$.50. johnmatzke calls. astroglide calls.
wiley999 calls. Spencer83 raises to $1. ideal4u10
re-raises to $1.50. johnmatzke calls. astroglide
calls. wiley999 calls. Spencer83 calls.

Turn (board: Td Ks Qh Ad):

wiley999 checks. Spencer83 bets $1. ideal4u10
raises to $2. johnmatzke calls. astroglide
re-raises to $3. wiley999 folds. Spencer83 calls.
ideal4u10 re-raises to $4. johnmatzke calls.
astroglide calls. Spencer83 calls.

River (board: Td Ks Qh Ad Jh):

Spencer83 bets $1. ideal4u10 calls. johnmatzke
calls. astroglide calls.



Showdown:

Spencer83 shows Jc Ah.
Spencer83 has Jc Ah Td Ks Qh: straight, ace high.
ideal4u10 shows As Js.
ideal4u10 has As Js Td Ks Qh: straight, ace high.
johnmatzke shows Kd Qc.
johnmatzke has Kd Qc Td Ad Jh: straight, ace high.
astroglide shows Kh Kc.
astroglide has Kh Td Qh Ad Jh: straight, ace high.


Hand #9571130-679 Summary:

$1 is raked from a pot of $30.
Spencer83 wins $7.25 of a $29 pot with straight, ace high.
ideal4u10 wins $7.25 of a $29 pot with straight, ace high.
johnmatzke wins $7.25 of a $29 pot with straight, ace high.
astroglide wins $7.25 of a $29 pot with straight, ace high.
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