Forum: Other Poker Games
12-04-2005, 07:12 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 946
Re: 5 Card Draw Maniac
I think you have to 3-bet it. If he's open-raising with that kind of garbage then with QQ you're going to have a better hand than he has the great majority of the time. If you 3-bet you have a...
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Forum: Other Poker Games
12-03-2005, 04:32 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 189
Re: Soko; anyone play?
I've played in 4 low buy-in soko tournaments at 24h and have managed to make the final table twice, and get close to the money one other time. (There are usually somewhere in the neighborhood of 100...
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Forum: Stud
11-06-2005, 06:48 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 98
Simple Razz 3rd street situation
From a Full Tilt Razz Sit-N-Go the other day - a pretty basic situation but one I wasn't sure about:
Dealt to Seat 1 [Kd]
Dealt to Seat 2 [9s]
Dealt to Seat 3 [2s]
Dealt to Seat 4 [Tc]
Dealt...
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Forum: Stud
10-31-2005, 08:23 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 153
Re: A couple of Razz hands
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I don't really like the check on 5th in hand #2 - you're ahead and give him a free card with a king and open pair when you will probably win the pot with a bet there
edit: I don't get...
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Forum: Stud
10-30-2005, 04:51 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 153
Re: A couple of Razz hands
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1st Hand: Seems fine. I fold this on fourth like you did.
2nd Hand: Fold when he completes it on you on third, you don't have a good hand. Since you made it to the river, it is an...
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Forum: Stud
10-30-2005, 03:28 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 153
A couple of Razz hands
I just started playing Razz a few weeks ago. I've been doing reasonably well at the very low limit games and small tournaments on FullTilt but I know I'm making a fair number of bad plays.
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Forum: Other Poker Games
10-16-2005, 10:53 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 84
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Forum: Other Poker Games
10-09-2005, 10:45 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 95
Re: Did I take a bad beat? (Draw Hand)
I would agree with you; the fact that he limped in would lead me to believe he had quads from the start. I think most people are so afraid of wasting a true monster hand like that that if they're...
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Forum: Stud
09-25-2005, 04:31 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 126
Re: 5 card stud
24h has a game called Soko, which is 5-card stud with the addition of "four-straight" and "four-flush" as hands whose value is between a pair and two-pair. Apparently this is a very popular game in...
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Forum: Other Poker Games
09-13-2005, 06:53 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 83
Re: A few 5 Card Draw Questions
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I'm not going to do out the math specifically, but the ability to value-bet after the draw strongly suggests drawing to the flush, presuming they'll pay you off when you hit it. If you...
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Forum: Other Poker Games
09-12-2005, 12:42 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 105
Re: Damnit!
I just noticed that the Tuesday afternoon TD tournament at 24h is back on the schedule for this week (9/13) at 4:45pm eastern time.
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Forum: Other Poker Games
09-11-2005, 08:59 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 100
Re: Learning 5 card draw
"Winning Poker Systems" by Norman Zadeh is very good, though you'll have to find a used copy I think. Only part of the book covers draw but that section is, IMO, excellent. Malmuth's "Winning...
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Forum: Other Poker Games
08-26-2005, 06:30 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 85
Re: TD Bustout Hand
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I didn't run into anyone who didn't know it was lowball today. A few people with kind of weird standards, but mostly solid play.
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The first hand at my table featured...
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Forum: Other Poker Games
08-16-2005, 09:47 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 81
Re: Another 24h Triple Draw Tourney Report
I played in the 1-euro buy-in TD tournament at 24h last Friday (think it was Friday...). My entire experience of TD before that consisted of 20 minutes reading Negreanu's section in SS2, so I...
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Forum: Other Poker Games
08-02-2005, 08:57 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 80
Re: The Good and Bad of 24h Triple Draw
Tom,
I was observing the end of this tournament and saw the hand you're talking about, with your pair of 7's. That must have been incredibly frustrating. About the same time I was watching the...
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Forum: Other Poker Games
07-21-2005, 08:19 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 87
Re: KKKxx pre-draw question. draw hi
Trying to disguise your hand by drawing something other than the optimal number of cards is called false-carding. There's no point to it unless you're trying to influence your opponent's betting...
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Forum: Stud
07-20-2005, 10:41 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 134
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Forum: Stud
07-20-2005, 12:41 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 83
Wilson\'s Turbo Stud and Stud/8
I've seen quite a few posts in the forums about Turbo Hold'em (which I have), but very little about the Stud simulators from Wilson software. Has anybody used the most recent versions of Turbo Stud...
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Forum: Probability
07-06-2005, 06:10 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 127
Re: Optimal \"Price is Right\" strategy
Thanks - I should have known somebody had already looked at it.
I wrote a Java program to simulate this and (generalizing that the wheel could stop anywhere from 0 to 1.00, not just on multiples...
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Forum: Probability
07-05-2005, 07:34 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 127
Optimal \"Price is Right\" strategy
I was sitting in a deli the other day waiting for my sandwich to be made and "The Price is Right" was playing on the TV. It was the part at the end of the first half where they see which one of...
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Forum: One-table Tournaments
07-05-2005, 07:03 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 36
open limp from SB?
This hand is from a Stars $10+$1 SnG. It's a situation that I'm not sure I play correctly: mid to mid-late in a tournament, my stack is big enough that I'm not pressed to act immediately, everyone...
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Forum: Other Poker Games
06-21-2005, 12:21 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 96
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Forum: Other Poker Games
06-20-2005, 09:44 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 173
Re: Royal Hold\'em
I haven't played this, but I was in a very long and very boring meeting at work today in which I had nothing whatsoever to contribute, so I thought I'd pass the time by trying to work out some of the...
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Forum: One-table Tournaments
06-19-2005, 10:47 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 67
Re: Hand from my first 109. Risk vs. reward.
I just ran this scenario through eastbay's SnG Power Tools analyzer. Putting the MP on pushing any pair, any ace, or any two face cards (and assuming that he'll call your all-in reraise, so this is...
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Forum: One-table Tournaments
06-16-2005, 09:30 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 45
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